The finalists in the Computerworld Excellence Awards for 2008 were announced last week at simultaneous events in Auckland and Wellington.
The awards, which celebrate excellence in the use of ICT in New Zealand organisations, will culminate at a gala event to be held at the SKYCITY Auckland Convention Centre on Friday, July 25.
The finalists are:
CIO of the Year – sponsored by Sun Microsystems
Tim Occleshaw, Ministry of Social Development
Nigel Beach, Compac Sorting Equipment
Owen McCall, The Warehouse Group
Simon Gould-Thorpe, Honda New Zealand
Young ICT Talent – sponsored by Eagle Technology
Craig and Shane Smith for Language Perfect
Pamela Minett and Adele Barlow for yMedia Group
Best Sustainable ICT Project – sponsored by HP
Airways New Zealand for Collaborative Arrivals Manager
New Zealand Defence Force for Project CRUSH
Manukau Institute of Technology for the MIT virtualisation project
Meridian Energy for ec3 project
Excellence in the Use of ICT for Customer Service – sponsored by Icon Recruitment
Airways New Zealand for Collaborative Arrivals Manager
New Zealand Blood Service for the Donor Relationship Management project
Royal New Zealand Plunket Society for PlunketLine
Excellence in the Use of ICT in Government – sponsored by EDS
Inland Revenue for KiwiSaver
Ministry of Social Development for Te Pākoro – The Storehouse
State Services Commission for the newzealand.govt.nz redevelopment
Excellence in the Use of ICT in Health – sponsored by Simpl
ProCare Health for Continuous Care Online (CCO)
Royal New Zealand Plunket Society for PlunketLine
Canterbury District Health Board for PowerScribe Speech Recognition implementation
Excellence in Infrastructure Innovation – sponsored by EMC
Foodstuffs (Auckland) for Collect project
Honda New Zealand for the Honda Information Systems web enablement
Trade Me for the Solid State Storage and Database Performance project
Excellence in the Use of ICT in a Small to Medium Enterprise
Animal Health Board for VectorNet
Bosco Connect for EzyBusiness
Lumberlink for ActionStep
Innovative Use of ICT
Animal Health Board for VectorNet
Air New Zealand for "How Far Can I Go"
SilverStripe for the SilverStripe content management system
Most Successful Project Implementation
Foodstuffs (Auckland) for Project Green
Ministry of Social Development for its client management system
Pumpkin Patch for Gift Cards
Overall Excellence in the Use of ICT
Airways New Zealand for Collaborative Arrivals Manager
Animal Health Board for VectorNet
NorthTec for the NorthTec Learning Gateway
Viscount Plastics for its Aspectpl implementation