To: robbie who wrote (37257 ) 11/23/1998 5:45:00 PM From: Elwood P. Dowd Respond to of 97611
Intelligent Enterprise Editor-in-Chief, David Stodder, Identifies the 24 Most Influential Companies in IT SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Finalists for the 1999 Intelligent Enterprise Dozen Awards were announced today by Editor-in-Chief, David Stodder. These awards carry on the tradition of the DATABASE Programming & Design Database Dozen Awards, emphasizing companies shaping the ''intelligent enterprise.'' Winners will be announced in the December 15th issue of Intelligent Enterprise. Runners-up will be named ''Companies to Watch.'' Stodder stated, '''Better, faster, cheaper,' the mantra of technology vendors still drives product development and marketing. But now a new word must be added: integrated. This year's Intelligent Enterprise Dozen offers testament to the importance of application integration. Today, vendors find that customers have the parts; now they want the whole. Best-of-breed products must adhere to industry standards; packages must work together; and productivity tools, such as decision support, must become closed-loop solutions.'' The finalists for the 1999 Intelligent Enterprise Dozen Awards are (listed alphabetically): AlphaBlox Corp. BEA Systems, Inc. Brio Technology, Inc. Business Objects [Nasdaq:BOBJY - news] SA Cognos, Inc. Compaq Computer Corp [NYSE:CPQ - news]. Computer Associates International, Inc. EMC Corp [NYSE:EMC - news]. Hyperion Solutions Corp [Nasdaq:HYSL - news]. IBM Corp. Informatica Corp. Information Advantage, Inc. Intel Corp [Nasdaq:INTC - news]. Microsoft Corp [Nasdaq:MSFT - news]. MicroStrategy, Inc. NCR Corp [NYSE:NCR - news]. Oracle Corp [Nasdaq:ORCL - news]. PeopleSoft, Inc. Progress Software Corp [Nasdaq:PRGS - news]. SAP AG [NYSE:SAP - news] SAS Institute, Inc. Siebel Systems, Inc. SilverStream Software, Inc. Sun Microsystems, Inc About Intelligent Enterprise Intelligent Enterprise is a major technology publication specializing in business-critical applications such as business intelligence (data warehousing, data mining, and decision support), ERP (enterprise resource planning), scalable e-commerce, and enterprise information and knowledge management. These applications form the backbone of corporate information supply chains that deliver information to business decision makers. Intelligent Enterprise serves an audience of more than 100,000 IT and business leaders who create and manage the information supply chain. Visitintelligententerprise.com for more information. About Miller Freeman A wholly owned subsidiary of United News & Media plc, Miller Freeman is the world's largest trade show producer and a leading publisher of technical and industry-specific magazines. With divisions in Asia and Europe as well as the U.S., Miller Freeman produces more than 370 exhibitions and conferences and almost 400 publications, including 270 magazines and a growing portfolio of digital media services. For more information, visit the Miller Freeman Web site at mfi.com . All Miller Freeman product, service and program names, including Intelligent Enterprise are trademarks of Miller Freeman. SOURCE: Miller Freeman, Inc.