Epicentric Customers Sweep Enterprise Portal RealWare Awards
Autodesk and HP Portals Honored For Innovation And Real World Business Benefits
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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 2001--Epicentric Inc., the leading provider of next generation portal solutions, today announced Epicentric customer Autodesk, Inc.'s (Nasdaq:ADSK - news) Autodesk® Point A Web site (http://pointA.autodesk.com) has won the 2001 RealWare Awards in the Best B2B E-Business Enterprise Information Portal category, winning against a field of 50 contenders including Intuit and CoVia. The 9th Annual RealWare Awards, sponsored by CMP Media's Business Intelligence Group, recognize real-world solutions that offer innovative use of information technology and produce measurable business benefits in the enterprise. A team of distinguished industry editors and analysts also judged Epicentric customer HP as the Best Corporate Enterprise Information Portal, topping a range of contenders including Plumtree Software and Ford Motor Company.
``The RealWare Awards validate what Epicentric and its customers have known for some time - that our solution is the most effective, battle-tested portal platform for companies that need to put the power of personalized Web services at the fingertips of their customers, partners and employees,'' said Ed Anuff, co-founder and chief strategy officer for Epicentric. ``Epicentric has always been at the cutting-edge of portal technology, and we continue to innovate with next generation solutions like the Epicentric Foundation Server and Epicentric's Web Services Marketplace.''
Autodesk Point A, built using Epicentric technology, is the largest online community for design professionals, offering 200,000 worldwide Autodesk customers a central location to exchange ideas and work securely with colleagues. Point A also provides critical and easy-to-access resources, including third-party data and personalized services that provide work solutions for the general design and drafting; architecture, engineering and construction; land development; GIS; and manufacturing industries. One of the unique features that Epicentric empowers on Point A is the ability for customers to create their own home pages with the content and tools necessary for their specific businesses.
``By extending the functionality of Autodesk products to the Internet, and offering customers valuable, personalized resources through Point A, Autodesk has made its design software more attractive,'' said Bruce Polderman, Director of Autodesk Point A. ``This was made possible by the platform, tools and services provided by Epicentric. We are excited that the RealWare Awards judges see the value this brings in terms of increased customer retention and the potential for increased sales.''
The RealWare Awards join a number of other accolades for Epicentric including:
Named ``Editor's Choice'' among portal server software solutions by CRN magazine
Distinguished as a member of the 2001 Computerworld Honors Collection, a program created to search out and publicly honor organizations and individuals whose use of information technology produces positive social, economic and educational change
Cited by the Giga Group as one of the most favorably positioned portal companies to weather the market downturn and consolidation and remain independent
Named one of the ``100 Emerging Companies to Watch'' in 2001 by Computerworld magazine and
Named one of the top 50 companies to watch in San Francisco according to a poll of editors and reporters from dbusiness.com |
