Vision Award claimed by Phillips Fox
Phillips Fox claimed the 1999 Process Innovation Vision Award last week at KMWorld’99. The Vision Award, presented by Kinetic Information, was created to honor a superior solution regardless of application or industry.
Phillips Fox was nominated by Hummingbird Communications, whose DocsFulcrum technology was part of the solution.
The annual Process Innovation Awards focus on the business benefits user organizations derive from their technology systems. The awards focus on the superior application of information technology to solve business problems, not on any one specific technology.
The awards address innovative solutions in specific vertical markets, recognizing that users in each industry are eager to learn how their colleagues have successfully addressed their particular challenges.
“The Process Innovation Awards have become one of the industry’s most coveted honors because they concentrate on what counts--excellence in business performance,” said Andy Moore, KMWorld’99 conference chair and editor-in-chief of KMWorld Magazine. “These are not like the so-called ‘product of the year’ awards that exist merely to satisfy a vendor’s marketing plan. These are chosen by industry experts with competence, which is what makes them both different and better.”
Winners were selected based on process improvements that led to gains in at least one of these areas: productivity, profitability, ability to adapt to market conditions, or competitive standing/market share. Judging was performed by an independent panel of industry analysts that included Stowe Boyd of Running Light, Paula Boyle of Kinetic Information, Tom Elliott of Strategy Analytics, Arthur Gingrande of Imerge Consulting, Bruce Silver of Bruce Silver Associates, and Lee Velker of KMWorld Magazine.
“The organizations honored this year represent the best and brightest examples of the art and science of process automation,” said Steve Weissman, Kinetic Information president. “They certainly earned the honor they received, and deserve congratulations all the way around.”
Other winners this year were (nominating companies in parenthesis): Education: Southern University and A&M College (Westbrook Technologies); second place, Penn State University (Optical Image Technology).Financial Services: United Companies Financial Corp. (Optika); second place, Green Tree Financial Corp. (Filenet).Government: New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records (ManTech Advanced Systems International); second place, State of Wisconsin Forms & Records Department (JetForm).Health care: McKessonHBOC (ACS Integrated Document Solutions); second place, Towers Perrin (Filenet).Manufacturing: Rhone-Poulenc Rorer (Documentum); second place, General Electric Gas Turbine (Radian Systems).Utilities: BellSouth Telecommunications (Treev); second place, Yorkshire Water (Tower Technology).The second place winner for the Vision award was the New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records.
Organizations supporting this year’s Awards program included Documentum, Hummingbird Communications, Lotus Development, Standard Register and Treev, all of which sponsored the reception that followed the Awards reception.