Nearly 90 candidates representing innovative companies from around the world responded to Computerworld’s call for nominations.

A panel of Computerworld editors and industry professionals reviewed and considered case study submissions that profiled the nominated company, Its business model and business intelligence challenges as well as BI and analytics deployment details, summaries of key technologies used and measurable business value derived from its use of BI and analytics. Following are the results:

Driving Process Change with BI
Nominations in this category have used BI to streamline business processes and achieve operational efficiencies.

Improving Results through Cloud-Based BI
Nominations in this category demonstrate successful applications of cloud or software-as-a-service-based BI solutions to achieve more measurable business value, better return and/or faster deployment than on-premise alternatives.

Integrating BI Across the Organization
Nominations in this category use Web 2.0 data streams or tools, self-service portals, analytics and/or open source tools to drive insights across a wide range of data stores and applications.

Honoree: Life Technologies Corporation, Carlsbad, California
Sabre Airlines Solutions, Southlake, Texas
TRA Inc., New York, New York

Running the Business on BI
Nominations in this category use predictive analytics to pinpoint opportunities and have enabled broad information access and delivery for strategic decision-making.

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