2009 BeyeNETWORK Vision Award for Business Impact

The BeyeNETWORK is on the lookout for uses of business intelligence software which positively impact an organization. The Vision Award for Business Impact recognizes companies that use technology innovatively to solve business and technical challenges. We want to hear about the software deployments that give the biggest bang for the buck and provide measurable business value to their department, enterprise or industry.

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2009 Vision Award for Business Impact. Download the submission forms at www.beyenetwork.com/visionaward and return them by June 15, 2009. The winners will be announced November 2, 2009.

Who is eligible to submit? We're looking for successful implementations of BI software solutions. Software vendors, system integrators and consultants may submit on behalf of customers. IT users/implementers may nominate their own in-house deployment. PR may submit on behalf of software vendors or implementation site.

Deadline: Please download the online submission form found at www.beyenetwork.com/visionaward. Send the complete form via email to Mary Jo Nott, mnott@b-eye-network.com by June 15, 2009.

Contact Information: For more information, please contact
Mary Jo Nott, Executive Editor
BeyeNETWORK
mnott@b-eye-network.com
(262) 780-0202

Categories: Please choose a category from the following list that best fits your implementation. The same implementation may not be submitted in multiple categories. One vendor submission per category.

• Analytics
  Moving beyond reporting, analytics is the new green field. Organizations using analytics to set themselves apart from their competitors should submit their unique implementation of an analytics solution.
• Architecture
  Has instituting service-oriented architectures been a point of cost reduction or revenue enhancement within your organization? What infrastructure advances have you deployed to accommodate your organization's rapidly changing, flexible strategic goals?
• Business Intelligence
  Share how your business has been able to benefit from affordable business intelligence solutions. This category encompasses SMB applications as well as open source solutions.
• Data Access, Integration and Executability
  As BI spreads to more end users, how are your BI tools helping you grant this access in a timely manner to information that the end users want and to deliver it in the way they want to see it.
• Data Governance
  How is the institution of data governance principles changing the way your business units work together to impact bottom-line improvement?
• Operational BI
  The complexities of combining real-time data streams with historical information for analysis can provide cutting edge-results. Share the impact that operational BI has made on your organization.
• Performance Management/Executive Dashboards
  Being able to measure your business is just one part of monitoring the business and making it align with business objectives. It is imperative that you are able to take quick corrective action if necessary. How are you analyzing the underlying information and presenting it to your decision makers?
• Software as a Service BI
  Business intelligence tools and even platforms are moving to the software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery model. Organizations that are using this SaaS model in unexpected ways should enter their leading-edge deployments.
• Text Analytics/Unstructured Data
  Is your organization mining and analyzing the wealth of information in non-relational sources? How has your organization benefited from text analytics?

Judging: Each submission will be judged by a panel of BeyeNETWORK industry experts, and their joint decisions are final. Because of the large number of submissions, judges' scores for non-winning entries will not be released.

Judging Criteria: Judges will evaluate and rank the entrants in each category on a scale of 1-5 based on the substantiated business impact and strategic advantage gained by implementation of this software solution:

• Is the solution groundbreaking (i.e., a new way to approach a problem, a transfer of information to a new industry, etc.)?
• What is the ratio of cost to return on investment?
• What was the impact on the business or organization?
• Was the solution adopted throughout the organization?
• Will the solution make it easier for the company to deploy future BI solutions?

Award notification. The winners will be notified by October 1 with official announcement on November 2. We will make every effort to notify those who submitted non-winning entries. The award winners will be featured on BeyeNETWORK.com in a podcast series of executive interviews highlighting the successful case study. No physical award will be given, but marketing materials will be available.

Use of Submission and Confidentiality of Information. All information gathered is for the exclusive use of the BeyeNETWORK and the judges. The judges' use will be solely for purposes of this awards program. BeyeNETWORK may profile winners in a special web feature, using excerpts and information from the winning submissions. The company representative must be available to talk to judges if more information is needed. Winners will be notified via email to the person who submitted the entry.