BOULDER, CO, Oct. 22, 2009 (Marketwire) --

BOULDER, CO -- (Marketwire) -- 10/22/09 -- The BeyeNETWORK is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2009 Vision Award for Business Impact. More than four dozen submissions across six categories exemplified the variety of ways that businesses are using software to improve decision making and provide true strategic and tactical value to their organizations.

The winning submissions covered a range of industries from web analytics to healthcare to manufacturing. All showed that the effective application of business intelligence and analytics is important to a company's bottom line and that good strategic decision making is key in this challenging economic environment.

2009 Vision Award for Business Impact Winners

Analytics: Kognitio for TRA, Inc.
Business Intelligence: Hitachi Consulting for Schumacher Group
Business Intelligence: Teradata Corporation for Freescale Semiconductor
Data Access, Integration and Executability: Initiate Systems for Ochsner
 Health System
Operational BI: MicroStrategy for Nygård International
Performance Management: Actuate for St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital
Software-as-a-Service BI: Adaptive Planning for Pep Boys

"Congratulations to all the recipients of this award," states Ron Powell, cofounder of the BeyeNETWORK. "In this time of limited budgets and stretched IT resources, it is reassuring to know that successful companies are taking the necessary steps to improve the way their organizations derive business value from the wealth of data available to them. Special kudos to Teradata and Actuate who won this award in their respective categories for the second consecutive year."

Many of the BeyeNETWORK's channel experts participated as judges. They did a wonderful job, bringing objectivity and a breadth of expertise to the judging process. Special thanks to judges Merv Adrian, Lou Agosta, Leslie Ament, Michael Brooks, Larry Goldman, Seth Grimes, Richard Hackathorn, Michael Jennings, Chuck Kelly, William McKnight, John Myers, Colin White, Nancy Williams, Lyndsay Wise and the editorial team of BeyeNETWORK.

Click here to read excerpts from the winning entries.

About BeyeNETWORK

The Network's flagship site BeyeNETWORK.com leads the industry with up-to-the-minute news, newsletters, articles, executive spotlights, podcasts, expert-hosted channels and blogs. Experts include Claudia Imhoff, Bill Inmon, Craig Schiff, Colin White, David Loshin and others. BeyeRESEARCH.com provides research and case studies from leading authors and experts in business intelligence. BeyeBLOGS.com is a business intelligence-specific community blogging site that provides an open forum about industry issues and challenges. BeyeSEARCH.com offers the first and only editor-driven directory and search engine specially built to serve this industry.

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