Dow Jones Newswires' ''Dow Jones Wealth Manager,'' ''Dow Jones CommentaryPlus'' and ''VentureSource'' Named Codie Awards Finalists.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Dow Jones Newswires Dow Jones Newswires is the real-time financial news organization owned by Dow Jones. Founded in 1882, its primary competitors are Bloomberg L.P. and Reuters. The company reports more than 420,000 subscribers -- including brokers, traders, analysts and fund managers -- as of July , the leading provider of real-time news and information solutions for financial professionals, today announced that its "Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance Wealth Manager," "Dow Jones CommentaryPlus" and "VentureSource" solutions have been selected as finalists for the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association, Washington, DC, www.siia.net) A trade organization devoted to the health and welfare of the software and digital content industry by providing support in government relations, business development, education and intellectual property ) 21st Annual Codie Awards. "We are delighted that the judges have recognized the value of our 'Dow Jones Wealth Manager,' 'Dow Jones CommentaryPlus' and 'VentureSource' solutions," said Paul Ingrassia Paul Ingrassia is president of Dow Jones Newswires, a unit of Dow Jones & Company. Ingrassia was awarded the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting along with Joseph B. , president, Dow Jones Newswires. "These products are the latest results of a century of investment in innovation and we're proud of the important role they're playing in our customers' businesses." The Codie Awards are given in recognition of outstanding achievement and vision in the software, digital content and education technology industries. The SIIA chose from more than 1,026 nominations submitted by more than 500 companies before naming its finalists. Dow Jones Newswires products were nominated in the following categories: Best Solution Integrating Content Into an Application --"Dow Jones Wealth Manager"--is a relationship-building application that links two parts of adviser workflow--the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. and client interaction--by mapping Dow Jones content to valuable client information, sparking the personalized client contact that builds a wealth manager's practice. Best Online Professional Financial Information Service --"Dow Jones CommentaryPlus"--is a real-time service that provides original, sophisticated and independent trading ideas across the fixed-income and foreign-exchange markets. The tool is aimed at those in the Asia-Pacific swaps and options markets who want advanced analysis, comprehensive market intelligence and trading ideas that will keep them a step ahead of market trends and help generate business. Best Online Business Information Service: Non-News --"VentureSource"--is a comprehensive, feature-rich database that provides instant access to venture capital intelligence. The solution provides detailed company, partner and investor profiles, analytical tools to identify trends in the market, and a free, daily newsletter that covers deal flow, liquidity events, upcoming financings, and management changes. "The 21st Annual Codie Awards continues the tradition of honoring the best of the software, information and education technology industries," said Ken Wasch, president, SIIA. "When one considers the number of outstanding companies that competed this year, being named a Codie Awards finalist is a significant achievement." The 2006 Codie Awards will be presented at a gala event on May 16 at the Westin St. Francis Hotel The Westin St. Francis is a luxury hotel in the Union Square district of San Francisco, California. The hotel opened on March 21, 1904. The interior was destroyed in the 1906 Earthquake but the structure survived and the hotel re-opened in late 1907. , San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . For more information about the Codie awards, please visit: http://www.siia.net/codies/2006/. About SIIA The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to more than 800 leading software and information companies. For further information, visit www.siia.net. About Dow Jones Newswires Dow Jones Newswires (djnewswires.com) offers real-time news and information solutions for financial professionals providing investment, advice and institutional services, and focused information services See Information Systems. for corporate and communications executives. The division also includes the database, newsletter and event businesses of Dow Jones Financial Information Services. In addition to Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones & Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : DJ; www.dowjones.com) publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international and online editions, Barron's and the Far Eastern Economic Review, Dow Jones Indexes, MarketWatch, and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner with Reuters Group of Factiva and with Hearst of SmartMoney. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. and radio stations in the U.S. |
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