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We use a consensus based Borda Count voting system where voters can make up to 5 choices per single vote in order of preference. The overall winner in each category is whoever gets the most total points in two rounds. Round 1 voting is open until November 23, 2012. Final round is scheduled on December 12, 2012 during UP 2012 conference.

Update: First round is used to select top 5 candidates to participate in the final and decisive round. Points collected in first round do not count towards final round. The entry that gets most votes in the final round will be the winner in category.

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Best Industry Application 2012

Dell Healthcare & Life Sciences

34% (10270 points)

clearCi

11% (3463 points)

zync pty ltd

8% (2561 points)

VajraSoft Inc.

7% (2359 points)

Parasoft, Abiquo

4% (1349 points)

Cloudwords, AIRWare Technology Ltd. UK , Central Desktop

3% (1135 points)

RightScale

2% (684 points)

Civil Air Patrol New Jersey Wing, TargetRecruit, DICOM Grid, Nulogy Corporation, InSync Software Inc, AppNeta

1% (389 points)

DSS Systems & Software Technologies Ltd., Auxilion, VirtualSharp Software, Fulcrum Worldwide Softwares Pvt. Ltd., Nipplus Systems LLC, NetNow, PAN Software, Cloud|AG's Solution ServicePoint365, FinQloud LLC, SumoScheduler, Ipes, Xpertdoc Technologies Inc

0% (109 points)

Total votes: 1071

Nominees

Abiquo

Abiquo delivers the industry’s most advanced Enterprise Cloud software solution, enabling enterprises and service providers to rapidly build and manage a fully automated and governed, self-service, multi-hypervisor cloud from globally deployed resources. Abiquo’s award-winning solution has been highly rated in independent market and vendor reports by leading industry analyst firms, and its customer base includes many Global 2000 enterprises, government contractors and leading MSPs. Abiquo is privately held, and operates from headquarters in the UK with offices in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific, and through its extensive global partner network.
AIRWare Technology Ltd. UK

Our software was designed to make securing and shipping simple or complex data easy. Virtually 100% automated, AIRShip has also been designed to work elegantly with any cloud provider. With AIRShip, users can push to any local or distant cloud location and store there for future uses including authenticated access or push. All using AES-256 encryption while in transit and while at rest in cloud. The user controls security and access from a simple, secure web portal. Local "Cargo" at a user location can also be "LiveSynced" with the matching Cargo in cloud. Changes to local Cargo are automatically synced with cloud copies by securely moving the diffs only. Users can grant secure access rights to specific Cargo for subsequent “pulls”. Beyond encryption, AIRShip also optimizes transport speed with “zero overhead” on complex directories of 1,000s of individual files plus multi-threaded, stable shipping acceleration along with lossless data compression to make best use of bandwidth. Combine this with auto-recovery from network, power or system outages for completely dependable delivery with no human intervention. All designed in a user friendly interface with all complexity under the hood for simple operation and interfacing with cloud services.
AppNeta

AppNeta is revolutionizing IT Performance Management with the first cloud-delivered service for integrated, end-to-end visibility across networks and applications. AppNeta delivers an industry-first SaaS portfolio of End User Experience monitoring services with broad, cross application performance visibility and unprecedented network performance insight, which helps to successfully deploy cloud services. AppNeta arms network and application engineers with the end-to-end visibility needed to drive exceptional application performance across all data center, cloud, remote office and mobile environments.
AppNeta

AppNeta is revolutionizing IT Performance Management with the first cloud-delivered service for integrated, end-to-end visibility across networks and applications. AppNeta delivers an industry-first SaaS portfolio of End User Experience monitoring services with broad, cross application performance visibility and unprecedented network performance insight, which helps to successfully deploy cloud services. AppNeta arms network and application engineers with the end-to-end visibility needed to drive exceptional application performance across all data center, cloud, remote office and mobile environments.
Auxilion

Auxilion is a revolutionary cloud-enabled Virtual Contact and Support Centre that provides call management support services, 24x7 support services and cloud-transformation services for organisations. Born as a result of a Research & Development initiative, Auxilion combines the latest in the cloud and Microsoft technology with a Virtual Workforce model. The net effect is that we can provide better management of data, information and interactions for our clients across various support functions including customer support services, project support services and remote IT support services. The Auxilion Virtual Contact Centre can support practically any aspect of the modern organisation's operations in a highly cost-effective and efficient manner
Central Desktop

Since being founded in 2005, Central Desktop has made it its mission to help teams and companies of all sizes work together in ways never imagined possible. As one of the first cloud-based collaboration platforms on the market to deliver flexible solutions at a time when the cloud is more important than ever, Central Desktop is literally transforming the ways that businesses are and should be collaborating. With its SocialBridge collaboration platform, Central Desktop has helped more than half a million users worldwide connect people and information in the cloud. From running Alzheimer's clinical trials to tracking dairy cow inventory and rebuilding collapsed mines, Central Desktop’s SocialBridge has made it possible for users to share files, combine knowledge, inspire ideas, manage projects and more, centralizing the way people work, teams collaborate and managers lead all through the power of the cloud. And with the fast growth of interactive and digital media assets that businesses deal with on a daily basis – including everything from regular Word and Excel files to video and other large media files – cloud-based platforms will be the preferred method of collaboration and management for digital assets, projects and campaigns with Central Desktop leading the way for the industry.
Civil Air Patrol New Jersey Wing

Overcame the time, distance and economic factors impacting the ability of more than 1,300 volunteers to collaborate, communicate and provide professional services at the community, county and state level. The deployment of a private domain GoogleApps infrastructure enabled Civil Air Patrol's New Jersey Wing to deliver almost 500,000 hours of service in 2012, ranging from disaster relief during Hurricane Irene to youths in the Cadet Program and in safety and support of the general aviation community throughout New Jersey.
clearCi

clearCi is an enterprise intelligence (SaaS) application that works as an automated CI informant to collect insightful data about competitors from the web and distribute it to decision makers across the enterprise. Started in Europe in 2010, by two young military business men, the patent-pending technology centralizes organization-wide thinking into an online portal that monitors any competitor webpage or data source related to products, industries, markets, customers, vendors and key partners. Users of the clearCi platform report to spend more time using actionable Internet data to plan, analyze and immediately respond to critical issues that directly impact their businesses. Each account is serviced by internal CI consultants who understand the tremendous challenges that come with today's Internet data explosion. These professionals perform ongoing technical configurations for each account so that the information automatically collected is more accurate, timely and complete to make confident business decisions. Today, some of the most recognized global brands use the technology to effectively monitor global markets, follow competitor strategic moves, watch emerging industries launch competitive products, and create differentiated sales offers, among many confidential uses. The company has a defined mission to change the way companies collect, analyze, manage, and share intelligence across the enterprise so they can effectively compete in today's digital era.
Cloudwords

Cloudwords is the first cloud-based application to manage translation and localization projects. It help its customers get materials into multiple regions quicker. Cloudwords is the only translation management solution that brings true cloud benefits to this $30+ billion industry including: • Anywhere, anytime, on any device • Near zero implementation cost • Near zero IT involvement • Multi-tenant benefits • Instant provisioning • Low TOC
Cloud|AG's solution ServicePoint365

ServicePoint365 is a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application designed to maximize the collaboration and content management capabilities of Microsoft Office 365 specifically for Professional Services organizations. The solution consists of a number of “Centers” that are preconfigured to help companies better organize, collaborate and manage their client, project and resource related information. ServicePoint365 helps Office 365 be even more relevant for a professional services organization or operation while enhancing the overall user experience and IT governance.
Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences

Dell is committed to funding and supporting pediatric cancer research, and has partnered with the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) to create an innovative 'genomics cloud' that is leading the way to personalized medicine. The initiative marries high performance computing and cloud technology to investigate new ways of accelerating genetic analysis and identification of targeted treatments for children with one of the deadliest forms of pediatric cancer –Neuroblastoma. The end result: Patients garner quicker access to a personalized treatment plan backed by more solid, collective research that is facilitated by cloud technology. To see how Dell's cloud technology is accelerating pediatric cancer treatment, visit: http://i.dell.com/sites/content/shared-content/campaigns/en/Documents/info_concepts_R8.pdf
DICOM Grid

DICOM Grid is all about shaking up the status quo in the health IT industry. Most of you reading this nomination have had experience with the health industry at some point in your lives. What you may be less familiar with is the concept of health IT. What exactly do we mean by health IT? Answering this question is no easy task. For that reason we’ve reviewed responses from a forum of health leaders, providers, and specialists from all around the world. Below are some of their explanations. “Health IT is ‘I will see the doctor NOW” “I think of Health IT as being the tools to enable effective care systems.” “Health IT means to make healthcare "Bigger, Better, Cheaper"” “As a consumer, Health IT means that any doctor I may see has instant access to ALL of my records. As a healthcare provider, it means that I have access to ALL of my patient’s records.” “Healthcare IT allows "quick retrieval" and "secure exchange" of patient’s health record during treatment and later and that is really important for improving patient care.” Ultimately, I believe health IT is about improving healthcare through technology. Health IT enables both patients and healthcare providers with access to necessary information in a timely and confidential manner. What better way to enable access to necessary information than by utilizing the cloud? DICOM Grid powers real-time medical image exchange. The DG Suite is a global, cloud-based solution is transforming the way studies are managed, shared, and stored. It instantly connects patients, doctors, and facilities through an online image exchange platform. In order to fully understand the disruptive and innovative nature of the DICOM Grid solution, consider a few examples of how images are sometimes managed today: 1. Images are exchanged via courier services, also known as snail mail. Images are burned onto CDs and mailed to outside facilities. 2. Images are printed and then archived into filing cabinets in physical rooms. 3. Images are stored on vendor-specific machines. Meaning facilities that do not use the same vendor have difficulty transferring images. The traditional way of managing and exchanging images results in lost data, wasted time and wasted money for health facilities and patients. With DICOM Grid, images can be shared securely in real time. They can be stored in the cloud and accessed anytime, anywhere and on any device. The DG medical image exchange puts all the necessary information into the hands of the people who need it, when they need it. All this and more make DICOM Grid more than qualified to receive the Best Industry Application for improving healthcare and health IT.
DSS Systems & Software Technologies Ltd.

“iSuggestNow” facilitates the successful implementation of the ‘Whistle Blower’ (Speak-up) scheme(s). Some of the features are: • Cloud based software as a service model that can be implemented without any capital investment. • Ability to anonymously and confidentially speak-up anytime from anywhere through an internet enabled PC, laptop or a tablet. • There is a rule based workflow facility for auto monitoring the progress of each speak-up. • The submitted speak-up is forwarded to an administrator (who may be the Chief Vigilance Officer) for preliminary assessment and assignment for further analysis. • A reward system can be configured to award points for submitting a speak-up and acceptance of submission. This goes a long way in motivating the employees to speak-up.
FinQloud LLC

NASDAQ OMX and Amazon Web Services (AWS) teamed up to launch FinQloud, a cloud computing platform exclusively designed for the financial services industry. FinQloud is a platform for financial services applications that provides efficient management and storage of financial data in order to help market participants streamline operations and meet regulatory compliance requirements without making costly capital expenditures for underlying infrastructure. Below is a link to the press release announcing the launch of the platform, and the other to a Bloomberg Businessweek article that discusses the platform and NASDAQ OMX’s partnership with AWS. http://www.nasdaq.com/article/nasdaq-omx-launches-finqloud-powered-by-amazon-web-services-aws-20120925-00006 http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-09-25/nasdaq-omx-amazon-to-partner-on-cloud-storage-of-data
Fulcrum Worldwide Softwares Pvt. Ltd.

Fulcrum Worldwide initiated the first implementation in the world on the A2 license of office 365 from Microsoft. We have established major customizations which are not available in the out of box to fit the solution in the cloud as per the client requirements. We have also integrated the on premises data with the cloud through a special architecture to overcome the limitations of data storage and query capabilities on the cloud. This is the first ever implementation in the UK education sector which is ready in production and being used by more than 14 thousand users and Fulcrum has been recommended highly for this initiative. Fulcrum Worldwide is helping the University connect other critical applications—course scheduling tools, its Capita student record-keeping system, and other applications—into this infrastructure so that students and faculty can connect with all the tools they need in one place.
InSync Software, Inc.

Over the past decade, dozens of young football players have died of heat-related injuries, and well over 10,000 have been rushed to emergency rooms for treatment of heat-related illness. InSync Software, together with its partner Hothead Technologies, has developed a life-saving application that combines the power of the cloud with the convenience of mobile devices, and runs on InSync’s award-winning iApp Application Cloud Platform. The iApp-powered Hothead Technologies solution mounts tiny wireless temperature sensors/transmitters inside football players’ helmets to monitor and report on players’ body temperature in real-time. Temperature data, along with the each player’s unique identity, is streamed in real-time to the cloud where several business rules are processed to establish if any player is "too hot" based on the player’s profile and medical history. Alerts are sent through push notifications to iPhone or iPad devices held by the coach or other responsible authorities when a player's temperature exceeds an established threshold. The coach can then pull the player off the field for evaluation and provide any needed medical attention immediately. Preemptive action can then be taken to avoid heat-related illness or even death. InSync has more recently expanded this solution to work on hardhats and to use other contact methods for the benefit of firefighters, public safety officers, oilfield and construction/industrial workers, and military personnel, and in sports such as auto racing, baseball, softball, basketball, and lacrosse.
Ipes

The CapitalTracker application is the first entirely web-based solution in the banking/equity industry to both a/ run all back-office functions and b/ give investors real-time views of valuations and transfer information, including SWIFT transfers. It removes the need for re-keying transaction data in 95% of cases and banks have reduced transaction charges in recognition of this. Ipes is ranked as one of the top five fund services providers globally, administering over $47bn of investments. Microsoft Gold Partner Ballard Chalmers were Ipes' IT partners in the development of the application.
KeyStone OnDemand

KeyStone OnDemand is a learning application that merges the best Learning Management System (LMS), Knowledge Base and Self-Service features into a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform to increase user adoption, loyalty and retention of custom applications through training. This enables administrators to easily create content and publish learning materials within days for their learners. Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HApLZ12RCKc
NetNow

Don’t drown in your stream. Take control. THE SITUATION Keeping in control of your messages was difficult enough when it was just your one email account. Now everyone has multiple email accounts, combined with social media feeds, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter – and the list just keeps on growing! Added to this, the lines between work and home life are blurring, meaning it is becoming more and more difficult to segregate and manage your data stream. Staying connected may be easy with today’s levels of mobility, but staying aware of critical information is becoming impossible with all the noise. THE SOLUTION NetNow is the answer. NetNow uses smart filters to organize your communication stream around your life. By consolidating, filtering and intelligently grouping your email and social media streams, NetNow leverages the cloud to deliver organized information to the web-based device of your choice. Now you can view your consolidated communications streams in a way that suits you. NetNow is also packaged to add value in business scenarios including systems and service management, CIO and top management, sales, marketing and finance.
Nipplus Systems LLC

Productivity and collaboration needs both financial and non-financial systems tightly integrated and eSeries5 delivers 5 web based accounting modules combined with CRM, eMail, calendar, HR, call recording and business documents uploads into a single business software to enhance user productivity and collaboration.
Nulogy Corporation

Supply-chain is one of the hottest areas of cloud-computing, and Nulogy is a world leading provider of specialized solutions for complex supply-chain challenges. Nulogy has been growing revenues by 100% over the last three years, with institutional investment backing and has won numerous awards including: • 2010 Food Logistics Top 100 Supplier • 2009 IDC Cloud Company to Watch • 2009 Recipient of Ontario Centres of Excellence Investment Accelerator Fund • 2008 Red Herring Global Winner • 2007 Supply and Demand Chain Executive 100 Company to Watch Nulogy is transforming the way Fortune 500 companies around the world engage their consumer customers. By allowing unprecedented responsiveness, automation, control, and collaboration, Nulogy's solutions enable the personalization of consumer products like never before. Nulogy’s customers include global brands like MARS, Kraft, L’Oreal, and Hershey, and the largest logistics companies in the world like DHL and Schenker. Nulogy also serves a multitude of other companies with revenues between $5 Million and $100 Million, which together process millions of dollars in consumer goods every day. Nulogy’s flagship cloud-based solution, PackManager, is used by the world’s premier contract manufacturers and packagers in one of the most complex parts of the supply-chain to reduce costs, gain real-time visibility, improve compliance, and increase customer loyalty through cloud-based integration, dashboards, and portals. PackManager is used in four continents, with customers in Canada, the United States, the UK, Australia, and Russia, with expansion planned in the next 12 months to four more European countries, and APAC.
PAN Software for riskcloud.NET

riskcloud.NET is an enterprise risk management system allowing companies to manage the full spectrum of risk facing the organisation. riskcloud.NET utilises the international standard ISO 31000 for managing risk. Since its launch in November 2011, many large enterprises are now subscribers to riskcloud.NET including the Australian Federal Parliament (www.aph.gov.au) and Msheireb Properties in Qatar (www.msheireb.com). On average we have 2 large enterprises signing up for 3 year subscriptions every month with this expected to increase. For further information please feel free to contact me or visit www.riskcloud.NET
Parasoft

Parasoft's solution reduces the complexity of testing today's cloud-based APIs and applications—where testers have limited visibility into (or control of) the myriad distributed components. Comprehensive Enterprise-Grade Testing for Cloud-Based Applications Parasoft's functional and load testing platform was designed from the ground up to simplify the testing of all the protocols and technologies that make cloud-based applications possible (HTTP/S, JMS, MQ, ESB, PoX, JDBC, RMI, Tibco, SMTP, .NET WCF, SOAP/WSDL, REST/WADL, etc.). You can rapidly define end-to-end tests that extend across the different layers and components of your cloud-based application. Tests can be automatically generated in a number of ways (including recording from HTTP/S, JMS, or MQ traffic). A single test scenario might validate: Server requests & responses at the service or API level. Intermediate messages and events within an ESB, JMS, or other application/system. Elements presented in the web UI. Values stored in the database. These tests can then be leveraged for low-noise regression testing, security testing, runtime error detection, and load & performance testing. All tests can be executed continuously to alert you to any problems or unexpected changes as soon as they are introduced.
RightScale

The RightScale "Cloud for the Holidays" solution will help companies architect, deploy and manage highly scalable websites and applications in the cloud to meet the large and often unpredictable surges in holiday traffic. The solution allows a company to launch their application in the cloud in 30 days and gain confidence in its ability to handle increases in demand throughout the holiday season. RightScale's seasoned cloud experts will review an application's architecture for scaling, set up staging and production environments and configure auto-scaling and auto-shrinking to optimize cloud resources. RightScale partner, Apica, will also conduct load testing to ensure applications can meet spikes in demand.
SumoScheduler.com

SUMO Scheduler is a "cloud-based" scheduling platform that companies use to automate the process of appointment scheduling. Among many innovative features, SUMO automates appointment scheduling with email, text message, and automated voice phone call reminders. SUMO Scheduler includes world class CRM functionality and a host of add-ons, integrations, and apps. SUMO Scheduler is built by ForceBrain.com, a professional services firm in Oakland, CA.
TargetRecruit

TargetRecruit is the first End-To-End Applicant Tracking System and CRM Solution for the Staffing and Recruiting Industry. Built on the Force.com platform, TargetRecruit enables staffing firms to manage every business process including recruiting, sales, marketing, project management, social media and accounting in ONE centralized system.
VajraSoft Inc.

PharmAnalytics application is critical to the success of generic drug manufacturers in Pharmaceutical Industry, as it allows Business Executives & Health care professionals to make informed decisions by knowing about competitive products with granularity and invest in new drugs of strategic value for their organization.
VirtualSharp Software

There are highly visible outages just about every month - not just Twitter, Salesforce and Blackberry, but also companies like the Royal Bank of Scotland who had to make a provision for over $200 million to pay compensation because of an outage in June. The outage was caused by a bad patch that reportedly went online without sufficient testing. This isn’t an isolated instance. With virtualization and the private cloud, applications are better protected than when they were physical, and it is possible to assure recovery across clouds. Most people don't realize how easy it has become. Replication is a mainstream technology that is now increasingly used by SMBs. Cloud providers see a huge opportunity here and position Recovery as a Service as a better, more robust solution than backup to tape - which is the DR technique of many or most SMB data centers. DR is a mandatory part of business that requires proper planning and execution. Most people know they should be DR testing frequently but very few do it more than once a year, and they follow a scripted procedure that has nothing to do with a real disaster. People also think that DR testing is expensive and cumbersome. They don't realize how easy and effective it has become. VirtualSharp, who pioneered the concept of Recovery Assurance, makes DR testing a mundane, boring and predictable task handled by software without human intervention. SLAs are tracked and enforced automatically, auditable anytime. And now VirtualSharp is helping customers take the first major step for free. At VMworld 2012, VirtualSharp released a free edition of ReliableDR that can be used to replicate manually as often as needed.
Xpertdoc Technologies Inc.

Xpertdoc-from-the-Cloud for Lease Generation Real estate developers and operators today are faced with an array of different challenges. In response to tough economic conditions, they need to be ever more efficient in order to accelerate business AND control costs. “Nothing kills a potential deal like time, which is why we need to get a lease in front of the customer as soon as possible,” says Jason Murphy, First Vice President and Corporate Counsel at Prologis, leading global provider of Industrial Real Estate. “Our goal was a three-day turnaround, whereas market officers would often hand us a term sheet and need a lease immediately. Having to spend scarce and expensive counsel time on all new leases slowed down larger, more complicated deals that could move the needle on revenue. We were doing the same thing over and over again, expending hundreds of hours per year of non-value-added effort.” Enters Xpertdoc and its ground-breaking, patent-pending offering for lease generation. The solution is provisioned in minutes over the cloud and provides a full set of features, including handling of complex rules governing property and state-specific clauses, letter and correspondence management, archives, web-to-print and secure electronic signature. “Market officers now can generate legally approved leases on their own for all but the most complicated deals, in a fraction of the time it used to take an attorney to perform the same task,” says Murphy. “This will help us close deals faster and, in cases where a client wants to move in immediately, to also accelerate revenues.” The solution has been the focus of a case study published by Microsoft (http://www.xpertdoc.com/en/business-value/white-paper.aspx) and it was the first to commercially support Microsoft Office 2007, 2010 and again this year with 2013. Interested parties can try it for free at https://trial.xpertdoc.com
YouSendIt

With millions of registered users in 193 countries and 98 percent of the Fortune 500, YouSendIt, Inc. is the go-to file collaboration service for both consumers and enterprise. The company‘s online services span from simple file sharing to complete collaboration services that allow users to securely share, sign and access content from any mobile device or PC.
zync pty ltd

We have taken a traditional enterprise business model of high operational expenses and restrictive capacity and revolutionised it via the cloud offering. One global platform offering business critical communication solutions that is future proof and profitable.

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Abiquo

AIRWare Technology Ltd. UK

AppNeta

AppNeta

Auxilion

Central Desktop

Civil Air Patrol New Jersey Wing

clearCi

Cloudwords

Cloud|AG's solution ServicePoint365

Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences

DICOM Grid

DSS Systems & Software Technologies Ltd.

FinQloud LLC

Fulcrum Worldwide Softwares Pvt. Ltd.

InSync Software, Inc.

Ipes

KeyStone OnDemand

NetNow

Nipplus Systems LLC

Nulogy Corporation

PAN Software for riskcloud.NET

Parasoft

RightScale

SumoScheduler.com

TargetRecruit

VajraSoft Inc.

VirtualSharp Software

Xpertdoc Technologies Inc.

YouSendIt

zync pty ltd