|
|
Wanted: Innovation and Creativity - Collaboration Award 2011
DNUG invites you again to enter the competition for the Collaboration Award. The prize is awarded for solutions that especially shine by their innovative character and which can be described as trend-setting for a collaboration 2011. Apart from the idea and its professional realization, especially those solutions shall be honored, that use state-of-the-art implementation techniques, that boost the idea of open standards and that - as far as possible - represent an integration of different products of the Lotus portfolio.
All interested user companies can apply for the award by March 31, 2011, using the form on the DNUG website.
It always pays! In 2011 too, there will be valuable prizes for the two first-place leaders. The winner will be given a free ticket to Lotusphere 2012 by IBM Lotus. DNUG grants 1,000 Euro for travel expenses to Orlando. The second prize is a free ticket to one of the two DNUG Conferences 2011.
The best applications will be nominated by the jury for presentation of their solution to a knowledgeable audience at the DNUG Spring Conference 2011. The conference attendees will have the chance to vote for one of the presented solutions.
Terms of Participation:
For the Collaboration Award, collaboration applications can be submitted, that are deployed in a company or an public organization. The user company or user organization should preferably participate in the competition is very welcome.
To get preselected, the application has to meet the following requirements:
The application has to be:
- essentially based on the messaging and collaboration products of the IBM Lotus product family (e.g. Notes/Domino, SameTime, Quickr, Connections, mobility solutions, mashups, WebSphere Portal)
- submitted by the user organization, the business partner or an external consultant
- original. It must not be an application/solution that is marketed as product. But it can be based on a product, if the user organization has recognizably customized the solution thus generating to a specific surplus value for the user organization. Customization and surplus value have to be explicitly pointed out.
- deployed in an organization, that should be DNUG member.
In addition, the solution should meet as many as possible of the following criteria or some of the criteria in an outstanding way
- The application should:
be innovative or creative in a special way, e.g. with regard to architecture, integration complexity, design or functionality at the front-end and/or back-end
- be integrated into the infrastructure of information and communication of the user organization. It should represent or support internal and/or external business processes
- offer a special qualitative use beyond the solution of routine work and/or feature clearly communicable quantitative business advantages (cost reduction, sales increase, ROI, time-to-market, etc.)
- have proved outstanding competitive potential, e.g. by eliminating a hitherto comprehensible legacy solution or a collaboration solution not based on Lotus technologies
- present a strategic milestone in setting-up or improving the collaboration infrastructure, which was initiated e.g. by the CIO, the IT department or the specialist department
- have exemplary character
- provide other distinctive features that are not listed here
People are the focus of collaboration applications. Therefore, it can be highlighted, whether the far above-average initiative and commitment of an individual employee (e.g. developer, CIO) or a team (e.g. of the IT department, of the specialist department) of the user organization is of paramount importance for the success of the application.
For more information please contact us!
The winners of the DNUG Award, conferred until 2010, were:
- "AixPort" Portal of the StädteRegion Aachen (June 2010)
- AI-X AG with Alternative Investment Exchange - „Schon heute Zukunft handeln“ (June 2008)
- ecoville gmbh and its desktop with VoIP integration everywhere@home (June 2007)
- Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH with its electronic spare part catalogue (May 2006)
- Amway GmbH for the Amway EIP - Enterprise Information Portal (June 2005)
- Lack- und Farbenfabrik Karl Wörwag and its information portal „Unternehmensweite Informationsportal Wörhoo“ (May 2004)
- VR Kreditwerk AG with the solution "Project Management and Order Management with Lotus Notes" (November 2003)
- Der Schweizerische Beobachter for its consultation website "HelpOnline, (May 2003)
|
|
|
|
|
Your Application for the Collaboration Award 2011
|
|
| Jury Members 2011:
Prof. Dr. Ludwig Nastansky (Leitung)
Universität Paderborn
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hasenkamp
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Jörg Allmann
holistic-net GmbH
Volker Schoratti
Martin Weyrauch
Merck KGaA
Peter von Bechen
Dr. Martin Kabath
CONET Solutions GmbH
|
|
