search400.coms Iseries Products of the Year

search400.com:
"In October 2004, Search400.com invited companies in the iSeries/i5 market to nominate their products for the 2004 Products of the Year Awards. To be eligible for consideration, a product had to have been introduced or significantly upgraded between Sept. 30, 2003, and Oct. 1, 2004. For previously available products, the upgrade must have incorporated major new features, designed to meet new or evolving needs in the marketplace. Not all companies invited to participate submitted nominations.

Products were nominated for specific categories -- Security Software, High-Availability Products, Application Development Tools (includes application development for the Web), Document/Image Management software (includes printing and output), Business-to-Business Solutions, and Backup and Recovery Tools. Each category had its own set of judges, who rated the products on a scale of 1-5 (5 being the best) in six categories -- innovation, performance, ease of integration into environment, ease of use and manageability, functionality, and value. The judges ratings were tallied separately, then averaged with the other judges' ratings to come up with a single rating."


Application Development Tools
The top winners in this category are:
GOLD AWARD: Planet J's Web Object Wizard (WOW) 6.3
SILVER AWARD: Business Computer Design International's WebSmart Version 5.0
BRONZE AWARD: Linoma Sofware's Surveyor/400 Version 02908

Backup and Recovery Tools
The top winners in this category are:
GOLD AWARD: Lakeview Technology's EchoStream FS V1.1
SILVER AWARD: Help/Systems' Robot/SAVE
BRONZE AWARD: Mid-Range Systems Solutions' MSS-HA/DR Version 1

Business-to-Business Solutions
The top winners in this category are:
GOLD AWARD: TrailBlazer Systems' ZMOD Exchange Item Sync V1R3
SILVER AWARD: Curbstone's Curbstone Card
BRONZE AWARD: Stalker Software's CommuniGate Pro V4.2 Real-Time Communications

Document/Image Management Software
The top winners in this category are:
GOLD AWARD: Business Computer Design International's Catapult Version 5.1
SILVER AWARD: CYBRA's MarkMagic 5.1 Barcode Label, RFID Tag and SM@RT Forms Software
BRONZE AWARD: ACOM Solutions' EZeDocs, EZPayManager/400 with Selected Access Security Version 6.2.01

High-Availability Products
The top winners in this category are:
GOLD AWARD: iTera's Echo2 High Availability Version 4.0
SILVER AWARD: Lakeview Technology's H.A. Clusters for Linux on IBM iSeries

Security Software
The top winners in this category are:
GOLD AWARD: TriAWorks Identity Manager for Single Sign-On Version 1.0.0
SILVER AWARD: Business Computer Design International's Nexus Web/Report Portal
BRONZE AWARD: NetIQ Security Solution for iSeries 7.5