JBoss Innovation Awards

JBoss, a division of Red Hat is pleased to announce the results of the JBoss Innovation Awards 2008. In its second year, the awards program is designed to recognize individuals, project teams and companies for technical achievements that show both creative thinking and determined problem solving with JBoss and Red Hat solutions. JBoss customers and partners worldwide were invited to submit a nomination, or be nominated by a development team leader, business partner, or supplier.

A panel of judges selected one winner from each of the categories below to be an Innovation Award winner. Winners received a free pass to the JBoss World Orlando, where their their technological achievements were featured in a press release and at an awards ceremony. At JBoss World, the community was encouraged to vote for the Innovator of the Year - the person who forged new ground and used JBoss solutions in an inspiring way. The community selected, Rivet Logic for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions as the 2008 JBoss Innovator of the Year. Read the blog.

We would like to congratulate each of the category winners for their captivating stories of technical achievement and encourage you to read their submissions. It's not too early to begin thinking about your project to submit for 2009!

2008 Innovation Award Winners

Category: Certified Service Provider Winner: Amentra Submitted by: Amentra Team Industry: Amentra = Technology / La Petite Academy = Education Geography: Virginia Overview: Selected for helping enterprises deploy mission-critical business systems on JEMS through a formal, experience-proven mentoring and software development program. >> Read More

Winner: Helio/SK Telecom Category: Business Process Auotmation Submitted By: Junwon Lee, Manager, Convergence and Internet R&D Center, SK Telecom Industry: Helio = Telecommunications / SK Telecom = Technology Geography: Korea/USA Overview: SK Telecom (www.sktelecom.com), Korea's leading wireless telecommunications services provider, and Helio (www.helio.com), an advanced U.S. mobile service provider, were selected for their use of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss jBPM to build and streamline its wireless data portal (WDP). After deploying Red Hat solutions, Helio quickly experienced cost reductions. Operational savings amounted to 50 percent monthly and the company experienced a 90 percent reduction in commercial software and licensing costs. >> Read more

Winner: Vivat Category: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Implementation Submitted By: Max Yankelevich, Chief Architect Industry: Vivat = Technology Partner / US Trust = Government, Financial Geography: Bensalem, PA Overview: Vivat (www.vivatconsulting.com), a professional services organization focused on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Application Integration, was selected based on its work with US Trust, one of the oldest private banking firms in the U.S. Vivat successfully moved US Trust's main revenue stream, the Client Fee Calculator, from an antiquated legacy system to a new SOA system built on JBoss technologies, including JBoss Rules and JBoss Application Server. The solution is expected to bring in an additional $20 million over the next five years as well as maximize customer profits, thanks to newly transparent and manageable fee rules. >> Read more

Winner: Alintec Category: Increased Return on Investment Submitted By: Sanne Grinovero, Architect IT Industry: Technology and Government Geography: Milan, Italy Overview: Alintec (www.alintec.it) (previously Politecnico Innovazione), a non-profit consortium promoting technological innovation within SMEs and public institutions and technology transfer between academia and industry in Europe, was selected following the high return on investment (ROI) it achieved after the implementation of multiple JBoss technologies within its Internet-based Library Management System (LMS) for the Province of Bergamo. The JBoss-based solution increased library loan rates by more than 25 percent and the frequency of inter-library loans by over 30 percent. Overall, it has positively impacted the end-user experience in terms of speed and ease-of-use. >> Read more

Winners: Rivet Logic Corporation Category: Ecosystem Submitted By: Mike Vertal, CEO/President/Owner Industry: Rivet = Technology Partner / Kaplan = Education Geography: Reston, VA Overview: Rivet Logic, a provider of professional services focused on open source solutions, and Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, a premier provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools and businesses, were selected for their use of Alfresco's content management platform in support of the upgrade of Kaplan's online presence from a legacy system to a JBoss-centric solution. The teams employed JBoss Seam (and Facelets), JBoss Application Server, Hibernate and jBPM to create a next-generation platform for the www.kaptest.com site that can deliver personalized applications and dynamic, targeted content. The results include a 26x performance improvement over the legacy content authoring/delivery system, much faster page load times and a "fresher" web presence for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions. >> Read more

Winner: Daiwa Securities America Category: User Experience Submitted By: Steve Dunstan, Vice President / Enterprise Systems Architect Industry: Financial services Geography: New York, NY Overview: Migration of 120 separate applications running to JBoss Portal using a series of unified templates. This enabled rapid growth, increased productivity, faster service, and hundreds of thousand of dollars in cost-savings. >> Read more

Winner: Sakonnet Category: Migration Submitted By: David Renton, Vice President, Product Delivery at Sakonnet Industry: Oil and Gas Geography: New York, London, Rio de Janeiro Overview: Used JBoss Application Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux to develop a scalable, performance-driving, well-supported solution that provided ease-of-use, cost savings, and transparency for Sakonnet's energy-trading solutions. With JBoss Application Server, Sakonnet discovered a solution that combined low-cost, quality software and reliable support to fit into its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) strategy of frequent application upgrades and top-notch support. >> Read more

Winner: CompuCredit Corporation Category: Joint JBoss/Red Hat Deployment Submitted By: Guido F. Sacchi, CIO and SVP, Corporate Strategies, Cindy Hayden, Manager of Real-Time Integration Industry: Financial services Geography: Atlanta, GA Overview: Used JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to construct an XML Gateway that serves as the company's main real-time transaction hub-enabling rapid growth, increased productivity, faster service, and millions of dollars in cost-savings. >> Read more

Winner: Big Lots Category: Emerging and Leading Edge Technologies Winners: Bryan Harwood & Chuck Clark Submitted By: Big Lots Application Architecture Team Industry: Retail Geography: Columbus, OH Overview: Big Lots used the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Seam to develop and implement an interactive Inventory Management System usable across a variety of devices (Point-of-Sale, mobile handheld, and back-office server) in 705 retail stores across the US (rollout to its fleet of approximately 1,350 stores will complete in 2008). The Inventory Management System is part of a multi-year store technology refresh project. Thus far, the changes have resulted in increased productivity at the front end, improved customer experience, and improved ability to respond to future business initiatives. >> Read more

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