InterSystems' Ensemble Wins Product of the Year Award at Information Management Awards IM2004

InterSystems' Ensemble Wins Product of the Year Award at Information Management Awards IM2004

Recognized as Top Product in International Competition

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- InterSystems Corporation today announced that its Ensemble universal integration platform has won the prestigious Product of the Year Award at this year's Information Management Awards. The award was presented at a gala dinner in London. Ensemble enables exceptionally fast integration of existing applications, and extremely rapid composite application development.

InterSystems' Ensemble was selected over 49 other finalists in industry sectors ranging from mobile communications to software security and from telecommunications to document management.

Now in their ninth year, the Information Management Awards are the premier European recognition of excellence and innovation in the management of business information. The blue riband Product of the Year Award is given to the contender which, in the opinion of an independent judging panel of more than 40 leading industry observers, represents the best information management product overall.

Commenting on the award, Trevor Matz, InterSystems Managing Director of Application Integration says, "Dramatically reducing the time, cost and effort involved in addressing the wide range of complex integration challenges facing organizations today, continues to be the primary design goal of Ensemble." Matz continues, "We are honored and delighted that our efforts have received such important industry recognition."

Roger Gibbons, managing director of award organizers for Elan Conferences comments, "The outstanding overall quality of this year's entries demonstrates that many companies have achieved significant business benefits through the development and deployment of pioneering technological solutions. Award winners deserve all the accolades they will receive from being publicly acknowledged as industry leaders."

Launched in an integration market crowded with product suites and technology assemblies, Ensemble stands out as the only application integration platform to incorporate the functionality of integration and application servers, a high performance database, and a unified development and management environment in a single, architecturally consistent product. Ensemble's unique architecture enables it to address even the most complex integration projects far more rapidly and cost-effectively than is typical with other integration technologies. Complementing this top-tier technology is a business model predicated on partnering with system integrators, implementation partners and application partners -- a unique partner-centric approach that enables InterSystems to focus on technology innovation and customer service excellence exclusively.

As a result, InterSystems' Ensemble is rapidly increasing market share worldwide, with especially strong growth in healthcare, financial services and government sectors. "We're competing very effectively in scenarios where integration and development projects converge, especially those that result in new composite applications," according to Matz.

About InterSystems Corporation

Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, InterSystems Corporation ( http://www.intersystems.com/ ) has served the needs of IT organizations and independent software vendors for more than two decades. InterSystems' showcase products, the CACHE post-relational database and the Ensemble integration platform, enable the rapid creation and fast integration of high-performance applications. Over four million people use mission-critical applications based on InterSystems' software. Twenty regional offices serve application developers and integrators around the world, and 24 x 7 support is provided for all InterSystems products.

About the IM2004 Awards

The Information Management Awards are the premier European recognition of excellence and innovation in the management of business information. They are the showcase for success stories. Many organizations have demonstrated the vision and business skills to implement leading-edge technology projects to reap real business benefits, and to develop ground-breaking innovative products. They deserve the accolades of being publicly acknowledged as industry leaders and the accompanying extensive media coverage of their achievements. For more information about the winners and runners up of the IM2004 Awards see http://www.im2004.elanconf.co.uk/ .


Source: InterSystems Corporation

CONTACT: Tiffany Knight of Shoor & Company, +1-803-699-0710, or
tknight@shoorpr.com ; or Maureen Flaherty of InterSystems, +1-617-621-0600, or
flaherty@intersystems.com

Web site: http://www.intersystems.com/
http://www.im2004.elanconf.co.uk/


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