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News ReleaseEditorial Contact: Tricia Ritterbusch
Open Systems Advisors Announces the Winners of the Crossroads A-List Awards 2005 Hitachi Data Systems, Interwise, Model N, Noosh and Omniture Recognized for the Best Newly-Proven Solutions and Services that Deliver Results for Business Today BOSTON, Mass. - June 21, 2005 - Open Systems Advisors, Inc. (OSA), an independent research firm that advises clients on leading technologies for business, today announced the winners of the Crossroads A-List Awards 2005 Program. For 12 years, the Crossroads A-List Awards have identified the best new technology solutions proven to deliver business results. This year, OSA found five companies that delivered remarkable business return through enabling profitable growth, boosting user productivity, or driving down infrastructure costs. Thousands of in-depth research interviews over more than a decade put this year's Crossroads A-List Awards into perspective. "I see a new management climate for IT," said Nina Lytton, president and principal analyst of OSA. "Businesses have emerged from the recession far more adept at the art of doing more with less. For example, this year's field of winners demonstrated that regulatory compliance isn't necessarily an onerous burden. The best new business and infrastructure solutions provide a new level of expense control and financial visibility right from the outset. The new, fiscally responsible solutions epitomized by Crossroads 2005 A-List Award winning products and services enable companies to achieve business goals at the same time as they improved audit preparedness and financial predictability. The 2005 winners delivered double benefits." In 2005, the Crossroads A-List Awards identified companies that have successfully combined the three elements essential to mainstream adoption: focusing on an important problem or opportunity; providing a viable solution or service offering; and, most importantly, delivering consistent business results for early reference accounts. Full-page briefs on each Crossroads A-List Awards 2005 winner can be found at http://www.crossroads-osa.com. Crossroads A-List Awards 2005 Winners
The Crossroads A-List Awards program considers all types of commercially available IT solutions and services for the enterprise as long as they deliver value in line with today's business priorities. To be considered for a Crossroads A-List Award, a vendor must offer a new or significantly enhanced solution or service that is proven through four established customer implementations. Interviews with these early adopters are key in determining measurable results and qualifications for success. Past Crossroads A-List Award winners include: Access360 (acquired by IBM), BEA Systems, Citrix Systems, Inc., Cybermation, Inc., DASCOM (acquired by IBM), Emerald Group (acquired by Nortel Networks Corporation), Guardent (acquired by Verisign), Hewlett-Packard, IQNavigator, Inc., IMlogic, Inc., Informatica Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, NativeMinds, Inc. (acquired by Verity), Oracle Corporation, Plumtree Software, SalesNet, Staffware (acquired by TIBCO), Sun Microsystems, Unica Corporation, and ZANTAZ. A complete list of recent winners is available at www.crossroads-osa.com. About Open Systems Advisors News Archive
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