JBoss Innovation Award Winners Announced; Inaugural Awards Drew Nearly 100 Nominations from JBoss Users, Customers and Partners Worldwide on their Creative Use of JEMS to Solve Business Challenges.ATLANTA -- JBoss(R), Inc., the Professional Open Source company, today announced winners of the inaugural JBoss Innovation Awards. Winners were selected in 11 categories based upon their use of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS JEMS Journal of Emergency Medical Services JEMS Judicial Enforcement Management System JEMS Joint Embedded Messaging System (Operator configurable message translation device) JEMS Jenks East Middle School JEMS Joint Effects Management System (TM)) to improve business processes, overcome technology challenges and enhance their organizations' bottom lines. Nominees for the award included JBoss users, customers and partners from around the world. Category winners will be recognized at a ceremony during JBoss World 2006 in Las Vegas on June 15 and will present overviews of their projects. During the conference, attendees will vote among category winners for the JBoss Innovator of the Year, who will be revealed live at the ceremony. The winning JBoss Innovator of the Year development team will receive complimentary passes to JBoss World 2007 and a dinner at the restaurant of their choice with JBoss CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Marc Fleury. Additional information about the JBoss Innovation Award is available at www.jboss.com/innovationawards. "This year's nominees demonstrated creative solutions to tough business challenges. We were impressed by the high caliber of projects from which we had to select," said JBoss Innovation Award judge, Rick Watson, J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Chair for Internet Strategy, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia Organization The President of the University of Georgia (as of 2007, Michael F. Adams) is the head administrator and is appointed and overseen by the Georgia Board of Regents. . "The JBoss Innovation Awards highlight a few of the best. We recognize and congratulate the individuals behind these projects for their remarkable skill and technical achievements." Winners and Honorable Mentions of the 2006 JBoss Innovation Award in 11 categories are: --Return on Investment: Kroger (Cincinnati, Ohio), selected for building out a shared infrastructure (grid) system on JBoss Application Server For the JBoss company itself, see . JBoss Application Server (or JBoss AS) is a free software / open source Java EE-based application server. Because it is Java-based, JBoss AS is cross-platform, usable on any operating system that Java supports. (AS) that deploys the majority of their mission-critical applications, boosting overall capacity by 40 percent and saving Kroger over $100,000 in licensing costs and $400 per CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. in yearly maintenance costs. Honorable Mention: Appear Networks AB (Kista, Sweden) and La Petite Academy (Chicago, Ill.) --Migration: Stanislaus County Partnership with Atomogy Corporation (Modesto, Calif.), selected for their successful migration of mission-critical law enforcement and public safety applications from COBOL COBOL: see programming language. COBOL in full Common Business-Oriented Language. High-level computer programming language, one of the first widely used languages and for many years the most popular language in the business community. on mainframe terminal-based systems to Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) on JBoss AS, resulting in improved responsiveness and functionality, increased reliance on industry standards, reduced development and operational costs, and improved architectural flexibility and integration with other government agencies. Honorable Mention: Vodafone (Maastricht, Netherlands), Daiwa Securities America (New York, N.Y.), and University of Utah The University of Utah (also The U or the U of U or the UU), located in Salt Lake City, is the flagship public research university in the state of Utah, and one of 10 institutions that make up the Utah System of Higher Education. Healthcare (Salt Lake City, Utah For ships of the United States Navy of the same name, see . Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake, or its initials, S.L.C. ) --Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ): RLP RLP Rheinland-Pfalz (state in Germany) RLP Resource Location Protocol (Cisco) RLP Radio Link Protocol RLP Remote Line Printer RLP Revolving Loan Program RLP Rotatable Log Periodic Technologies (Farmington Hills, Mich.), selected for their use of JBoss AS and Hibernate as the foundation for their SOA-based platform that has revolutionized how data is collected, enhanced and compiled to increase data-file processing performance by 70%, increase scalability by 400%, and enrich the timeliness, accuracy and quality of R.L. Polk's data for the automotive industry. Honorable Mention: Compucredit Corporation (Atlanta, Ga.) and Fiserv, Inc. - GalaxyPlus Credit Union Systems (Troy, Mich.) --Business Process Management: Met@logo project "in cooperation with OpenPELGO" (Eschborn, Germany), selected for using JBoss jBPM to aid local government agencies in Latin America to create eGovernment solutions that automate complex business processes and improve service to their constituents. Honorable Mention: RUNA Consulting Group (Moscow, Russian Federation) and Smartmatic Corp. (Boca Raton, Fla.) --Portal: Orbitz - Cendant Distribution Travel Services Group, Inc. (Chicago, Ill.), selected for use of JBoss Portal to improve user experience, reduce transactions and reporting times, and reduce costs and overall development time in building myaccount.galileo.com, Cendant Travel Distribution Services' portal was built to provide self service capabilities to thousands of travel agents and suppliers. Honorable Mention: ADP (1) (Automatic Data Processing) Synonymous with data processing (DP), electronic data processing (EDP) and information processing. (2) (Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Roseland, NJ, www.adp. (Roseland, N.J.) and Jahnvi Consultants (Ahmedabad, India) --Clustering: J. Craig Venter Institute The J. Craig Venter Institute is a non-profit genomics research institute founded by J. Craig Venter, Ph.D. in October 2006. (Venter first announced the existence of the Institute on 29 September 2004. (Rockville, Md.), selected for use of JBoss Messaging and JBoss Clustering to provide the stability and scalability necessary to process in excess of 40 million traces in batch across a 2 node cluster that supports over 100 DNA sequencers (scaling to 8 nodes to process large collections of traces) while also saving the not-for-profit genomic research center over $500,000 per year in licensing and maintenance costs. Honorable Mention: Helsinki Institute of Physics The Helsinki Institute of Physics, or HIP, is a physics research institute operated by University of Helsinki, Helsinki University of Technology and University of Jyväskylä. The institute is responsible for the Finnish research collaboration with CERN. , Technology Programme (Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva. , Switzerland), Riptown.com Media (Vancouver, Canada) and Tieline Research (Malaga, Australia) --Persistence: ADP (Roseland, N.J.), selected for building an Ajax Adaptor for Hibernate that supplies Ajax clients with a rich and high performance data access API and for their use of Hibernate and other JEMS products to improve uptime and reduce cost of their EasyPayNet 5 and TeleNet 1.X Web-based payroll systems. Honorable Mention: RUNA Consulting Group (Moscow, Russian Federation) and Stefanini IT Solutions (Curitiba, Brazil) --New Generation: Lexicon Genetics (The Woodlands, Texas), selected for their use of JBoss Seam to glue together Hibernate, JavaServer Faces (JSF (JavaServerFaces) A standard framework of components for building rich user interfaces for Java applications. JavaServer Faces run on the server, but are displayed on the client. JSF - JavaServer Faces ), EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) A software component in Sun's J2EE platform, which provides a pure Java environment for developing and running distributed applications. EJBs are written as software modules that contain the business logic of the application. 3.0 and JBoss jBPM to dramatically simplify their development process and create a robust platform that can deploy mission-critical applications for the Texas Institute of Genomic Medicine. Honorable Mention: MIRO Technologies (La Jolla, Calif.) and Ready Technology Limited (London, United Kingdom) --Core Infrastructure: Cendant Distribution Travel Services Group, Inc. (Chicago, Ill.), selected for their use of JBoss AS and its JMX JMX Java Management Extensions JMX Air Jamaica Express (ICAO code) JMX Jumbogroup Multiplex capabilities as the foundation for their services container to allow provisioning of core travel services more quickly and efficiently to leading travel sites such as Orbitz.com and CheapTickets.com. Honorable Mention: AutoSkill International Inc. (Ottawa, Canada), Broadmedia Technology Ltd. (North Shields, United Kingdom), Harvard Medical School-Partners HealthCare Center for Genetics and Genomics (Cambridge, Mass.), Harte-Hanks (Austin, Texas) and Kroger (Cincinnati, Ohio) --Certified Service Provider: Amentra, Inc. (Richmond, Va.), selected for helping enterprises deploy mission-critical business systems on JEMS through a formal, experience-proven mentoring and software development program. --Certified Solution Provider: DataSynapse, Inc. (New York, N.Y.), selected for enabling enterprises to dynamically provision and execute virtual JBoss Application Server clusters resulting in maximized utilization capacity in the datacenter, improved application performance regardless of load, and alignment of business policy/SLAs (service level agreements) with application execution. Honorable Mention: DataDirect Technologies (Bedford, Mass.) and Quest Software, Inc. (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) JBoss World 2006 JBoss World 2006, the largest gathering of the JBoss community worldwide, will take place at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, June 12-15, 2006. Registration for JBoss World 2006 and additional information about the conference is available at www.jbossworld.com. About JBoss, Inc. JBoss, Inc., the global leader in open source middleware, offers simply the better way to transform businesses through a service-oriented architecture (SOA). As the leading open source platform for SOA, JEMS (JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite) delivers proven performance in mission-critical environments and is backed by world-class support and service--all at a dramatically lower cost structure than proprietary systems. Fortune 500 companies such as Continental Airlines, MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. and Starwood Hotels & Resorts rely on Professional Open Source from JBoss, Inc. Certified partners offering JEMS and JBoss Subscriptions include Dell, HP, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Novell, Sun Microsystems and Unisys. For more information, visit www.jboss.com. JBoss, JEMS and Hibernate are registered trademarks or trademarks of JBoss, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks herein are property of their respective owners. |
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