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Innovation Awards

The JBoss Innovation Awards were created to recognize and congratulate the developers worldwide who are pushing the boundaries and deploying JEMS in innovative ways. The inaugural JBoss Innovation Awards drew nearly 100 nominations from JBoss users, customers and partners worldwide. We are proud to highlight our winners selected in 11 categories based on their use of JEMS to improve business processes, overcome technology challenges and enhance their organizations’ bottom lines.

At JBoss World Las Vegas (June 12-15, 2006) the JBoss community voted on the overall Innovator of the Year from the 11 category winners. The community selected RLPTechnologies as the JBoss Innovator of the Year for their use of JBoss Application Server and Hibernate as the foundation for their SOA-based platform (read the press release). As JBoss Innovator of the year, RLPTechnologies will receive complimentary passes to JBoss World 2007 (tbd Fall 2007) and Marc Fleury made a trip to their office in Detroit, Michigan in October 2006 to take the team to a congratulatory dinner.

Read the press release, "JBoss Innovation Award Winners Announced" April 25, 2005

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Winners and Honorable Mentions for the 2006 JBoss Innovation Awards







Kroger

Category winner: Return on Investment (ROI)

Company: Kroger -
Entry Summary PDF

Winner: Kroger Team

Vertical: Retail

Location: Cincinnati, Ohio

JBoss ROI Innovation: Selected for building out a shared infrastructure (grid) system on JBoss AS that deploys the majority of their mission-critical applications, boosting overall capacity by 40% and saving Kroger over $100,000 in licensing costs and $400 per CPU in yearly maintenance costs.

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ROI Honorable Mentions:


Appear Networks AB - Entry Summary PDF
Sarah Meck - Kista, Sweden

La Petite Academy
- Entry Summary PDF
Sherwin Lu - Chicago, Illinois

Kroger
Category Winner: Migration

Company: Stanislaus County Partnership with Atomogy Corporation -
Entry Summary PDF

Winners: Allen Gates, Hemang Vyas, Peter Araujo and Mike Baliel of Atomogy Corporation and Stanislaus County.

Vertical: Government

JBoss Migration Innovation: Selected for their successful migration of mission-critical law enforcement and public safety applications from COBOL on mainframe terminal-based systems to EJBs on JBoss AS, resulting in improved responsiveness and functionality, increased reliance on industry standards, reduced development and operational costs, and improved architectural flexibility and integration with other government agencies.

JBoss World Las Vegas Presentation PDF

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Migration Honorable Mentions:


Vodafone - Entry
Summary
PDF
Frankie Ahrens, Olga Maas, Roger Stoffers - Maastricht, Netherlands

Daiwa Securities America
- Entry Summary PDF
Steve Dunstan - New York, NY

University of Utah Healthcare - Entry Summary PDF
Kris Lundell - Salt Lake City, Utah

RLPT

Category Winner: Service-Oriented Architecture

Company: RLPTechnologies - Entry SummaryPDF
Winners: RLPTechnologies Team (see below)

Vertical: Technology

Location: Farmington Hills, Michigan

JBoss SOA Innovation: Selected for their use of JBoss AS and Hibernate as the foundation for their SOA-based platform that has revolutionized how data is collected, enhanced and compiled to increase data-file processing performance by 70%, increase scalability by 400%, and enrich the timeliness, accuracy and quality of R.L. Polk’s data for the automotive industry.

RLPTechnologies Team: Manoj Bansal, Celeste Castello, Kiran Dattani, Mike Davis, Darrin Deeter, Louis Devaney, Rick Draper, Cornell Furtuna, Bill Frost, Indira Harracksingh, Kusunam Srinivas, Joe LaFeir, Norm Marks, Sergey Melnichenko, Kris Musial, Hans Mosher, Kunnummal Naheed, Kathy Northcutt, Prabakhar Ojha, Ivan Provalov, Lawrence Rama, Mike Reed, Gary Rosteck, Clara Sagan, Scott Thibodeau, Kathy Northcutt, Kevin Vasconi, Geoff Volpe, Lisa Wagner, Pei Zheng, Michelle Eissele, Gordon Watson

JBoss World Las Vegas Presentation PDF

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SOA Honorable Mentions:


Fiserv, CIR.  GalaxyPlus Credit Union Systems
- Entry SummaryPDF
Jim Spicer, Sandeep Mohan – Troy, Michigan

Compucredit Corporation - Entry SummaryPDF
Cindy Hayden – Atlanta, GA

Met@Logo

Category Winner: Business Process Management

Company: Met@logo project “in cooperation with OpenPELGO” - Entry Summary PDF

Winners: Benjamin Schmit, Ilka Buss and Hannes Karkowski, Nima Heschmat

Vertical: Government

Location: Eschborn, Germany

JBoss jBPM Innovation: Selected for using JBoss jBPM to aid local government agencies in Latin America to create eGovernment solutions that automate complex business processes and improve service to their constituents. 

JBoss World Las Vegas Presentation PDF

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Business Process Management Honorable Mentions:


RUNA Consulting Group - Entry SummaryPDF
Employees: Andrei Mikheev, Orlov Mikhail, Maxim Gordienko, Sergei Gritsenko, Vitaliy Semochkin - Moscow, Russian Federation

Open source community members: John van der Pol, Delkant, Ivan Florentin, Mikhail Golovanov, Miguel Koren, Martin Gaido - Worldwide

Smartmatic Corp. - Entry Summary PDF
Eduardo Correia - Boca Raton, Florida

Lexicon

Category: New Generation Technology

Company: Lexicon Genetics - Entry Summary PDF
Winners: Buckley Kohlhauff, Mark Ma, Jason Williams

Vertical: Biotechnology

Location: The Woodlands, Texas

JBoss New Generation Technology Innovation: Selected for their use of JBoss Seam to glue together Hibernate, JSF, EJB3, and JBoss jBPM to dramatically simplify their development process and create a robust platform that can deploy mission-critical applications for the Texas Institute of Genomic Medicine.

JBoss World Las Vegas Presentation PDF

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New Generation Honorable Mentions:


MIRO Technologies - Entry SummaryPDF
Paul Extance - La Jolla, California

Ready Technology Limited - Entry SummaryPDF
Daniel Pocock - London, United Kingdom

Galileo

Category: Portal

Company: Cendant Distribution Travel Services Group, Inc. - Entry Summary PDF
Winners: Brad Lindow & Jason Cohen

Vertical: Travel

Location: Chicago, IL

JBoss Portal Innovation: Selected for use of JBoss Portal to improve user experience, reduce transactions and reporting times, and reduce costs and overall development time in building myaccount.galileo.com, Cendant Travel Distribution Services’ portal was built to provide self service capabilities to thousands of travel agents and suppliers

JBoss World Las Vegas Presentation

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Portal Honorable Mentions:


ADP - Entry SummaryPDF
Neeraj Tiwari & Bala Nagaraj - Roseland, New Jersey

Jahnvi Consultants - Entry SummaryPDF
Pushpendra N. Rawal - Ahmedabad, India

amentra_logo

Category: Clustering

Company: J. Craig Venter Institute - Entry SummaryPDF
Winners: Winners: Pete Davies, Indresh Singh, Scott Collins, Tom Dolafi, Chris Lemieux, Sean Murphy, Adam Resnick, Angelo Trivelli, Bryan Yu, and Saul Kravitz

Vertical: Bio Engineering

Location: Rockville, MD

JBoss Clustering Innovation: Selected for use of JBoss messaging and clustering to provide the stability and scalability necessary to process in excess of 40 million traces in batch across an eight node cluster that supports over 100 DNA sequencers while also saving the not-for-profit genomic research center over $500,000 per year in licensing and maintenance costs.

JBoss World Las Vegas Presentation PDF

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Clustering Honorable Mentions:

Helsinki Institute of Physics, Technology Programme - Entry Summary PDF
Mikko Pitkänen, Juho Karppinen - Geneva, Switzerland

Riptown.com Media - Entry Summary PDF
Carl Schmidt - Vancouver, Canada

Tieline Research - Entry Summary PDF
Leigh Carey, Joanne Church, Andy Clark,  Peter Fall, Luke Grose, Elester Johnson, Tobias Lauchenauer, Henry Lwin, Gareth Mahon, Alex Shaykevich, Anthony Sizer

ADP

Category: Persistence

Company: ADP- Entry Summary PDF
Winners: Patrick Urban & Nicholas Whitehead

Vertical: Financial Services

Location: Roseland, New Jersey

JBoss Persistence Innovation: Selected for building an AJAX Adaptor for Hibernate that supplies AJAX clients with a rich and high performance data access API and for their use of Hibernate and other JEMS products to improve uptime and reduce cost of their EasyPayNet 5 and TeleNet 1.X Web-based payroll systems.

JBoss World Las Vegas Presentation PDF

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Persistence Honorable Mentions:

RUNA Consulting Group - Entry Summary PDF
Employees: Andrei Mikheev, Orlov Mikhail, Maxim Gordienko, Sergei Gritsenko, Vitaliy Semochkin - Moscow, Russian Federation

Open source community members: John van der Pol, Delkant, Ivan Florentin, Mikhail Golovanov, Miguel Koren, Martin Gaido - Worldwide

Stefanini IT Solutions - Entry Summary PDF
Mário Marcelo Guimarães Ribeiro - Curitiba, Brazil

Cendant

Category: Core Infrastructure

Company: Cendant Distribution Travel Services Group, Inc. - Entry Summary PDF
Winners: Bryan Harwood & Chuck Clark

Vertical: Travel

Location: Chicago, Illinois

JBoss Core Infrastructure Innovation: Selected for their use of JBoss AS and its JMX capabilities as the foundation for their services container that allows them to provision core travel services more quickly and efficiently to a number of leading travel sites including Orbitz.com and Cheaptickets.com.

JBoss World Las Vegas Presentation PDF

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Core Infrastructure Honorable Mentions:

AutoSkill International Inc. - Entry Summary PDF
Ravi Ramsaran - Ottawa, Canada

Broadmedia Technology Ltd. - Entry Summary PDF
Matthew Planchant - North Shields, United Kingdom

Harvard Medical School-Partners HealthCare Center for Genetics and Genomics - Entry Summary PDF
Eugene Clark - Cambridge, Mass.

Harte-Hanks - Entry Summary PDF
Shell Sullivan - Austin, Texas

Kroger  - Entry SummaryPDF
Kroger team - Cincinnati, Ohio

Amentra

Category: Certified Service Provider

Company: Amentra - Entry SummaryPDF
Winners: Amentra Team

Vertical: Technology

Location: VA

JBoss Certified Service Innovation: Selected for helping enterprises deploy mission-critical business systems on JEMS through a formal, experience-proven mentoring and software development program.

JBoss World Las Vegas Presentation PDF

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Data Synapse

Category: Certified Solutions Provider

Company: DataSynapse, Inc. - Entry Summary PDF
Winner: Jamie Bernardin

Vertical: Technology

Location: NY

JBoss Certified Solution Innovation: Selected for enabling enterprises to dynamically provision and execute virtual JBoss AS clusters resulting in maximized utilization capacity in the datacenter, improved application performance regardless of load, and alignment of business policy/SLAs with application execution.

JBoss World Las Vegas Presentation

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Certified Solution Honorable Mentions:

DataDirect Technologies - Entry Summary PDF
DataDirect Technologies Team - Bedford, Mass.

Quest Software, Inc. - Entry Summary PDF
Nicole Tamms - Aliso Viejo, Calif.