iAwards winners 2004

Honouring the ICT industry's finest

Implementation

These awards are open to Australian ICT companies and their clients that have effectively used ICT to improve business outcomes.

IT Services

<e.law>, Australian Electronic Courtrooms
<e.law> has developed and oversees the operational management of electronic courtrooms for the HIH Royal Commission in Sydney and for the Building and Construction Industry Royal Commission in Melbourne.

Software

The Smith Family, ENCORE
ENCORE is a web-enabled client management system used by over 300 staff and volunteers in 50 locations dispersed across the country, which provides detailed case management and real-time transaction processing functionality to support The Smith Family's community programs.

Telecommunications

CSIRO ICT Centre, The Virtual Critical Care Unit
The Virtual Critical Care Unit is a broadband telepresence that allows an expert located in a major centre to be part of a team taking part in a critical care episode.

e-Business & Internet

Health Insurance Commission, HIC Online
HIC Online enables the migration of Medicare claiming to a seamless electronic commerce environment, while delivering improved customer service to both providers and their patients.

Innovation

These awards are open to Australian ICT companies that have designed outstanding and innovative products that will revolutionise the ICT marketplace.

IT Services

The ANU Centre for Mental Health Research, MoodGym
MoodGYM, an innovative, self-help web program designed to prevent and decrease depressive symptoms in users by teaching the principles of cognitive behaviour therapy, which has proven effective for people with depression.

Software

myinternet, myclasses
myclasses, a virtual learning environment which delivers tools to teachers allowing them to access online resources from other teachers, other education departments and other content repositories and tailor and deliver these resources to classes of students.

eBusiness & Internet

CSIRO ICT Centre, Panoptic

Telecommunications

Telstra Research Laboratories, Lyrebird
Lyrebird, a state-of-the-art development environment for building speech recognition applications.

International

This award is open to Australian ICT companies that have demonstrated excellent export performance.

ICT Exporter Award

ManageSoft Corporation
Founded in Melbourne in 1990, ManageSoft has maintained steady growth over the past 13 years and has grown its revenue by 85% in FY2003.

Investment

This iAward is open to Australian-registered ICT companies with annual revenues of under $5 million dollars. Outstanding product innovation by an SME includes products in the categories of hardware; software; e-business and internet; software; and IT services.

Product Innovation by an SME

River Dynamics, smartAlloc
smartAlloc is a web-based system that uses a patented process to intelligently allocate work to service suppliers based on their historical performance in the areas of cost, quality, timeliness, and impact on outcomes.

Best Implementation of an ICT Solution by an Australian Local Industry Company

Axe Group, Insurance eBusiness Solution
Axe Group has built an eBusiness solution that allows insurers and their agents to comply with new industry regulations required by the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA)

Outstanding Partnership between a Local Industry Company and a Multi-National Corporation

Exinda Networks, End-to-End Quality of Service
Exinda Networks, in conjunction with MCI, one of the world's largest ISPs, have partnered to provide End-to-End Quality of Service for IP traffic across private and public internet links.

Involvement

This award recognises excellence in Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate Social Responsibility

Inspire Foundation, Beanbag Net Centres
Beanbag aims to ensure that young Australians living on the margins of our wealthiest and largest cities have the same learning, education and social opportunities that most young people take for granted through easy access to the Internet and its associated technologies.

IP

This award recognises excellence in commercialisation of Intellectual Property

Commercialisation of Intellectual Property

Tenix Investments, Crossbow
Crossbow, the computer application created to solve engineering and technical data problems associated with a contract to build ten ANZAC Class Frigates at Williamstown, Victoria.

Inspiration

This Minister's award is presented to the overall iAward winner.

ICT Exporter Award ManageSoft Corporation
Founded in Melbourne in 1990, ManageSoft has maintained steady growth over the past 13 years and has grown its revenue by 85% in FY2003.