NMITSA Announces IT Excellence Awards Finalist
The New Mexico Information Technology and Software Association (NMITSA), the state’s largest advocacy group for IT & software related business, announced today the finalists for this year’s IT Excellence Awards. Companies from across New Mexico took part in this year’s competition, which seeks the best and most successful implementation of an IT or software product, across several categories, produced by a New Mexico based company or organization. Solution Awards will be presented in six categories: Custom Software, Commercial Software, Integrated Systems, IT Infrastructure, IT Support, and Innovative Research. Awards in Achievement, on behalf of the industry will be announced on October 6th.
Sponsored in part by the New Mexico Business Weekly, the second annual IT Excellence Awards will be held in Albuquerque on October 19th, 2006 at the Hyatt Regency downtown, from 6 to 10pm. The leaders of New Mexico’s information technology community will join for a gala evening to recognize and celebrate excellence and technical achievement in the New Mexico IT industry. Senator Jeff Bingaman will keynote the event. NMITSA has made tickets available on its website, purchasable through Acteva: www.nmitsa.org.
Custom Software
Apogen Technologies/Sandia National Laboratories, for ATLAS - Adversary Time-Line Analysis System
Avistar Inc., for Hardware Simulator for Complex Embedded Test Tool
SolutionWerx, Inc., for IDEAs
Commercial Software*
Asset Performance Technologies, Inc., for Economic Risk Calculator and Task Optimization Engine
Figaro Systems, Inc., for In-Ovation
GigaBlast Inc., for Gigablast Search Engine
Sandia National Labs/Computational Modeling Sciences, for CUBIT
Science & Technology Corporation at UNM, for foliodirect.net: Access to University Technology
Integrated Systems
INX, Inc., for ABQ Rapid Ride Wireless Internet
Iteam Consulting, for Istar integration and Support of claims management systems
Lumidigm, Inc., for Standards Adopted Biometric Performance: Enhanced Fingerprint Quality Using Multispectral Data
IT Infrastructure
Blue Jay Enterprises, for Santa Fe Public Schools Infrastructure Redesign Implementation
INX, Inc., for ABQ Rapid Ride Wireless Internet
State of New Mexico General Services Department Office of Communications, for Wireless Metropolitan Area Network
IT Support
Blue Jay Enterprises, for Santa Fe Public Schools Infrastructure Redesign Implementation
TIG, for Thunderbird Cluster – Startup Support Services
TIG, for Thunderbird Expansion
Innovative Research
Avistar Inc., for Hardware Simulator for Complex Embedded Test Tool
Sandia National Labs/Computational Modeling Sciences, for CUBIT
Triton Technology Systems, Inc. for KoldLok Raised-Floor Grommets
*Commercial Software has a four-way tie for finalists
