In-Depth
ADT's 2000 Software Innovator Awards
What
do a moving company, a financial services organization, a marrow donor
program, an Internet media publisher, a bank and a health insurer all
have in common? They are all winners in Application Development Trends'
sixth annual Innovator Awards competition.
The ADT Innovator Awards honor IT managers, team leaders and team members
directly involved in important development projects that use as-yet unproven
products, technologies and/or methods to develop and deliver mission-critical
software for solving a crucial business problem.
We received numerous entries in each of the six contest categories —
E-business Application Development, Middleware/Application Integration,
Application Engineering, Component-based Development, Data Warehousing
and Extending Existing Systems. Each entry was judged by our editors and
a team of consultants from Keane Inc., a Boston consulting firm. After
much deliberation, we selected a winner and an honorable mention in each
category.
On the following pages, we profile each of these projects and detail
how the development teams approached and worked to build software to solve
the problem. The experiences of these companies can help other organizations
face pressing development problems. We at ADT would like to thank all
of the readers who took part in this year's competition. And we welcome
those now in the midst of innovative projects to take part in our seventh
annual competition, the 2001 Innovator Awards.
E-business Application Development
Winner: Bekins
Van Lines motors online
Honorable Mention:
Zurich U.S. Insurance
Middleware/Application
Integration
Winner: Citigroup
Inc.
Honorable Mention:
Virginia Community College System
(VCCS)
Application Engineering
Winner: National
Marrow Donor Program
Honorable Mention: Gerber
Products Company
Component-Based Development
Winner: Associated
New Media (ANM)
Honorable Mention: Silocaf
Data Warehousing
Winner: Bank
of Montreal
Honorable Mention: Orlando Sentinel Communications
(OSC)
Extending Existing Systems
Winner: Blue
Cross & Blue Shield
Honorable Mention: Fireman's Fund Insurance