TechWeb's Intelligent Enterprise Announces 2010 Editors' Choice Winners Showing Exceptional Vision, Innovation and Leadership

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TechWeb's Intelligent Enterprise (www.intelligententerprise.com) today announced the results of its 2010 Editors' Choice Awards. In its eleventh year, the Intelligent Enterprise Editors' Choice Awards guide enterprise IT professionals to technology providers that lead the way in innovation and business optimization. The Intelligent Enterprise Editors' Choice Awards consist of two categories: The Dozen and The Companies To Watch.

Intelligent Enterprise named an elite 12 companies, proclaiming them "The Dozen" most influential companies for intelligent enterprises in 2010, as well as 36 "Companies To Watch" across three categories: business intelligence, enterprise applications and information management.

"Intelligent enterprises aren't just surviving in challenging times, they are optimizing, innovating and thriving with the help of the technology and service providers highlighted in this year's Editors' Choice awards," said Editor in Chief, Doug Henschen.

A complete list of this year's honorees appears on IntelligentEnterprise.com at http://intelligent-enterprise.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222900034.

This year's Intelligent Enterprise Dozen are:

1. Amazon
2. Apache
3. Google
4. IBM
5. Informatica
6. Microsoft
7. Netezza
8. Oracle
9. Salesforce.com
10. SAS
11. Sybase
12. Teradata

The companies selected as leading "Companies to Watch" are:

Business Intelligence

1. Acorn Systems
2. Actuate
3. Adaptive Planning
4. Attensity
5. Clarabridge
6. Host Analytics
7. Information Builders
8. Jaspersoft
9. MicroStrategy
10. Oco
11. PivotLink
12. QlikTech
13. R Project
14. Tableau
15. TIBCO

Enterprise Applications

1. Adobe
2. Eclipse Foundation
3. Pegasystems
4. Progress Software
5. RightNow
6. SAP
7. SoftwareAG
8. Workday

Information Management

1. Aster Data
2. Autonomy
3. Cloudera
4. Greenplum
5. HP
6. InfoBright
7. InterSystems
8. Kalido
9. Kapow Technologies
10. Nuxeo
11. OpenCalais
12. Talend
13. Vertica

The selection process involved a tremendous amount of research and assessment of the past year's coverage and reader feedback by the Intelligent Enterprise editorial staff. The award selection was a collaborative endeavor, with extensive input from seven Intelligent Enterprise contributors. Intelligent Enterprise Editor-in-Chief Doug Henschen was responsible for the final selection of award winners. Award nomination collaborators included:

• Rajan Chandras, integration expert and author
• Cindi Howson, BI Scorecard
• Seth Grimes, Alta Plana
• David Linthicum, data integration and Enterprise 2.0 expert
• Curt Monash, Monash Research
• Alan Pelz-Sharpe, CMS Watch
• David Stodder, information management and BI expert

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