iAwards Demonstrates Australian Technology Innovations Are Alive and Well

Thursday, 16 April 2009

The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has announced its state and territory winners and national finalists for the prestigious 2009 iAwards. The iAwards recognises Australia’s most outstanding information and communications technology (ICT) innovators.

AIIA CEO Ian Birks said, “Australian companies continue to demonstrate a high level of innovation in developing products and services that drive productivity growth across all industries. This bodes very well for the wider business community.

“The AIIA continues to see a strong interest from the industry in this year’s iAwards. These finalists are not only solving problems in clever ways but they are also tackling problems on a broad scale through the use of ICT to address the challenges faced by businesses in Australia and around the world.”

iAwards state and territory winners will now enter the national competition and winners in each category will be announced at a gala dinner announcing the iAward winners in Melbourne on 27 May 2009. For full details of the winners and ticketing information, visit www.iawards.com.au

This year’s iAwards finalists are (state finalists are indicated in brackets):

Communication

Winner: Atlassian (NSW) for JIRA, an application designed for software development and project management with a focus on task achievement. Used by more than 10,000 organisations, JIRA features customisable workflows and user interfaces as well as role and user-based security, giving businesses the ability to map JIRA to local processes.
Winner: Komosion (VIC) with Komodo CMS, which is the only mid-market content management system delivered via the Software-as-a-Service business model in Australia.
Winner: HealthTrack Medical Systems (QLD) for Communications Manager, an application designed specifically for medical specialists combining clinical reporting, administration and extensive medical research capabilities in a single tool.
Winner: Lotterywest (WA) for the Lottterywest Matrix Project which involved the replacement of its gaming system and installation of new terminals at 492 retailers along with the entire state-wide network and core management information systems to provide a single platform for business process management and reporting.
Merit Award: Mobile IP (QLD) for Free2move, an intelligent router that simultaneously accesses multiple uplink technologies while maintaining a static IP address. Free2move seamlessly transitions between prioritised uplinks to create a single, roaming point of connectivity for multiple applications and users.
Merit Award: True North International (VIC) for its 3D View Visualisation Software, an innovative visual communication solution for solving complex business problems, identifying sales opportunities and making decisions.

eGovernment

Winner: Integeo (NSW) for Map Intelligence, a ‘spatial hub’ used by federal and state government departments to improve the depth and quality of information at all levels of an organisation.
Winner: Hammond Street Developments (VIC) for its PRMS application, an innovative auditing solution comprising Front Line (a Data Collection Tool), Project Central (Centralised Audit Control) and custom interoperability components to provide seamless integration with Facility Management systems.
Winner: Mobile IP (QLD) for Free2Move.
Winner: ISA Technologies (WA) for its Internet Starter Kit for Government initiative, a comprehensive, easily adjustable and extendable application framework that provides website developers with a template for developing publicly accessible Government websites that comply with the Website Governance Framework (WGF) standards, while significantly reducing costs and development time.
Winner: Partnership between the KAZ Group and the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACT) with the Australian Maritime Identification System (AMIS), a powerful new capability that combines technology and operators collecting maritime data to analyse threats and risks. By presenting detailed, complex information in a single view for rapid decision-making, AMIS significantly enhances Government’s ability to respond proactively to maritime threats as far from Australia's shores as possible.
Merit Award: KAZ Group (NSW) for JusticeLink, an innovative, web-based court-management system that delivers management of cases, court resources and schedules to the people and courts of NSW.
Merit Award: HealthTrack Systems (QLD) for Communications Manager, as above.
Merit Award: Intellidox (ACT) for its automated document creation and output management system Intelledox.

eHealth

Winner: Patientrack Pty Ltd (NSW) for the Patientrack application, which provides a means of detecting and prioritising hospital patients if their condition deteriorates.

Winner: eRx Script Exchange (VIC) for the eRx Script Exchange application, the first national platform for electronic prescriptions, which allows medical specialists to send prescriptions electronically via a secure, fully encrypted gateway for later retrieval at a patient’s pharmacy of choice anywhere in Australia.
Winner: Australian e-Health Research Centre (QLD) for the Patient Admissions Prediction Tool (PAPT), a solution to overcrowding in hospital emergency departments that forecasts patient admissions and appropriately schedules elective surgeries for the quieter times. PAPT delivers a higher forecast accuracy than any previous published studies.
Winner: Alcidion Corporation (SA) for the Miya ED Suite, a decision-support solution for hospitals looking to create high performing Emergency Departments.
Winner: CSIRO ICT Centre (ACT) for the Remote Immersive Diagnostic Examination System (RIDES) product, a remote medical consultation and examination system that allows medical specialists to interact over a network with remote medical staff examining a patient.

Merit Award: Mobilise IT (VIC) for Service Outlook Mobile Care, a unique application that enables Nurses, Carers, Therapists, Doctors and other medical specialties and practices to access and update key client/patient information via a PDA or Smartphone.
Merit Award: Productiv (QLD) for iCare, a solution for the automation of patient incident tracking across the health sector that captures patient incidents and interrogates the data collected to provide clients with real-time demographics allowing the continual improvement of patient care.
Merit Award: HealthCube (ACT) for the Aged Care Medical Assessment Service which supports the efficient compilation of needs-driven, comprehensive medical assessments for Aged Care residents.

eInclusions & ecommunity

Winner: Infoxchange Australia, ThoughtWorks Australia and Victorian Government Neighbourhood Renewal (VIC) for the Wired Community @ Collingwood initiative, Australia’s largest digital inclusion project to date.
Winner: Admin Bandit (ACT) for web-based accounting software package, Admin Bandit Online which is designed to meet the specific needs of volunteer treasurers in Australia’s non-profit and community sector, empowering volunteers and making the organisations they serve stronger and more effective.

eLearning

Winner: Redapple Education Limited (NSW) for Skwirk, an interactive schooling website that covers the core curriculum in each State and Territory of Australia from years 1 to 10. The website offers curriculum-aligned content and includes text, animations, interactive games, learning objects, quizzes, exams and podcasts at one secure online destination.
Winner: True Blue News Show Pty Ltd (VIC) for The True Blue News Network, a network of Internet TV channels provided to schools and sports clubs that allows them to broadcast their own news and events through their own TV channel. Designed specifically to extol the achievements of young people throughout the world, The True Blue News Network is aimed at a 9-15 year age group, though it draws in a much broader demographic because of the inclusiveness in the production of the news.
Winner: Partnership between the CyberInstitute and NQX Freight System (QLD) for NQX College, which delivers a truly blended learning solution to each business and its entire workforce, allowing a sustainable, measurable and engaging approach to vocational training that is aligned to nationally recognised qualifications.
Winner: Catapult eLearning (SA) for tools that allow organisations deliver fast, flexible and easy training online.
Winner: Fujitsu Australia & New Zealand (NT) for Electronic Student Profile (ESP), which creates a single point of contact for all student records and associated data, providing a secure space for students, teachers and parents to share information, establish learning strategies, track progress, record achievements and qualifications, and address any issues that arise throughout their schooling. ESP follows the student from school to school, providing a permanent record of their progress for the NT Department of Education & Training.
Winner: DPM Consulting (ACT) for the Capabiliti Learning Management System, a modular, flexible, scalable and customisable application that enhances organisational human capital through e-learning.
Winner: The Learning Edge International (TAS) for the EQUELLA application, a centralised digital repository for sharing, managing and creating online content that has been implemented within universities, TAFEs, community colleges, K-12 departments and corporations worldwide.
Merit award: The Centre for Learning Innovation at the NSW Dept of Education and Training for Learning Activity Wizards, a set of online applications designed for teachers and students that allow users to create reusable, interactive and accessible multimedia activities.

eLogistics and supply chain

Winner: TransLogix (NSW) for the OPAL application, a new generation end-to-end transport and logistics solution that delivers accurate and real-time fleet utilisation with an innovative combination of usability, functionality and customisation for transport operators in a demanding business environment.
Winner: Business Driven Systems (VIC) for BDSSync – Supplier Direct, a pre-configured middleware application that enables SME suppliers to link their accounting system directly into customer supply chains, reducing the costs associated with implementing EDI integration software and electronic trading for SME businesses.
Winner: 2ic Software Pty Ltd (SA) for 2ic Pallets, a software tool offering an innovative, cost-effective solution to the problem of pallet loss within the transport & logistics industry.
Merit Award: Infocomm Software (VIC) for icsLogistics, a unique and innovative application that transforms dynamically from single language use to a fully multi-lingual solution.

Financial Industry Application

Winner: Commonwealth Bank (NSW) for Finest Online, a project that provides customers with a simple, consistent and integrated environment to complete their financial activities.
Winner: A partnership between ThoughtWorks and Swann Insurance (VIC) for the Swann Online Insurance Portal which offers internet-based real time quotes, online purchasing, renewals and claims featuring straight-through processing without human intervention.
Winner: Intelligent Software Development (SA) for SimulAIt, a powerful AI-based decision support tool used by business and Government for financial and environmental sustainability.
Merit award: Commonwealth Bank (NSW) for CommBiz, a ‘thin client’ online transactional banking channel developed especially to meet the needs of business customers, from small organisations right through to corporate and institutional customers.
Merit Award: ANZ Bank (VIC) for its Online Investment Account, a simple investment product that seamlessly integrates with the bank’s internet banking platform.
Merit Award: Scan Conversion Services (SA) for its AP Complete, a solution that improves productivity and job satisfaction and decreases costs by automating invoice and remittance processing.

Industrial Applications

Winner: Aconex (VIC) for the Aconex tool, an innovative solution designed for the global construction market that reduces the cost, inefficiency and risk of using paper documents.
Winner: Stochastic Simulation Limited (WA) for the Stochastic Reservoir Engine, which reduces potential over- and under-investment in oil and gas reserves and production projects, generating increases in value worth up to $40b per annum to the industry.
Merit Award: Micromine (WA) for PITRAM, a mine production control system which manages and controls all functions within a mine site, including tracking and reconciling delivery and quality of mineral as well as delivering real-time production and activity reports.
Merit Award: Ennoble Consultancy (VIC) for CiMAS, (Computerised Information Management Auditing Solution), a total wireless solution that allows inspectors to capture and transfer important data efficiently, economically and accurately via user-friendly PDA and web tools.

Media and Entertainment

Winner: Media & Gaming (NSW) for the Typhoon wagering and gaming platform, an innovative and highly advanced pari-mutuel online betting system accommodating unlimited contestants, currencies and geographies.
Winner: miRoamer (VIC) for the miRoamer Internet Car Radio Service, which delivers the first seamless internet car radio solution, allowing users to tune into the football in England, news from Washington or a favourite local music station in India – all from their own car.
Merit award: QMCODES (VIC) for the Interactive Print Platform, a content mobilisation, distribution and monetisation platform that allows media publishers to deliver rich digital content via mobile internet, directly from the printed article.
Winner: ekidnaworld.com (QLD) for the ekidnaworld.com online virtual world, created for children aged eight to 12 as a safe, age appropriate, Australian-themed, virtual world that offers unique safety features for social networking in an advertising free environment controlled by the parent.

Research & Development

Winner: Southern Innovation (VIC) for SITORO, an innovative radiation detection technology that delivers faster, more accurate and more efficient scanning across a wide range of industries.
Winner: CSIRO (QLD) for Autonomous Virtual Fencing, a solution comprised of GPS-enabled collars worn around the necks of animals, allowing them to be kept behind any arbitrarily defined line through a combination of auditory and tactile stimuli applied by the collar device to control the animal.
Winner: Innovation Science Pty Ltd (SA) for Rapid Passenger Tracking software, which quickly identifies the set of passengers relevant to any incident that occurs on highly interconnected, mass-transit rail networks.
Merit Award: PHM Technology (VIC) for the Maintenance Aware Design environment (MADe) suite which enables the user to model, assess, minimise and manage the impact of failures in complex systems using automated analysis and reporting tools.
Merit Award: RareShirt Technologies (QLD) for Near Duplication Detection and Information Discovery, a tool that groups, highlights, reports on, and removes duplicate and near-duplicate information in large-scale document collections.

Sustainability & Green IT

Winner: Ideas International Limited (NSW) for Server CAR & Carbon Calculator. Server CAR is a unique server consolidation tool useful to any large corporate wishing to reduce its server footprint, electricity costs and carbon footprint. The integrated Carbon Calculator ensures that environmental aspects of such consolidations are modeled to ensure an optimal outcome.
Winner: Tradeslot (VIC) for CarbonNavigator, a web-based Software-as-a-Service offering that allows organisations to easily navigate through the maze of compliance, audits, carbon reduction management, financial forecasting and strategic planning.
Winner: Intelligent Software Development (SA) for SimulAlt.
Winner: SRA Information Technology (NT) for EnviroSys, a comprehensive, web-enabled enterprise software platform for corporate sustainability management and reporting. The solution integrates environmental management, energy control, greenhouse gas, water, weather and all pollutant and emission information and provides integrated reporting at a corporate governance level.
Winner: Canberra Data Centres (ACT) for unique technology driven solutions that deliver energy (and power bill) cuts of up to 65 percent, carbon footprint reductions of at least 50 per cent and a saving of up to 50,000 litres of drinking water a day.

Merit Award: Macquarie Hosting (NSW) for its Green IT Package, which delivers the ideal combination of energy efficiencies across multiple hardware and software platforms used to support customers’ mission critical applications in its data centre.

Merit Award: WSP Environmental Australia (VIC) for EIATRACK, a subscription based web service that delivers comprehensive intelligence on product-oriented environmental compliance for the electronics sector.
Merit Award: Scan Conversion Services Pty Ltd (QLD) for AP Complete, a solution that improves productivity and job satisfaction and decreases costs by automating invoice and remittance processing.

Tertiary Student Project

Winner: James and Xharmagne from University of Canberra (ACT) for eGreen
Winner: Min’an Tan and Andrew Clayphan from the University of New South Wales (NSW) for Mechanism Simulation Framework for Large Distributed Systems
Winner: Mohsen Bazgaleh et al from University of Adelaide (SA) for Robotic Concertina
Winner: Team Red from LaTrobe University (VIC) for Biomedical Asset Management System
Merit Award: Gaurav Mitra from Australian National University (ACT) for Linux Robotics Framework

Tools and Infrastructure

Winner: Atlassian (NSW), for JIRA.
Winner: REMASYS (VIC) for the Performance Management solution EAGLE-I, which provides relevant information to all stakeholders about the availability and performance of IT-based services and their delivery systems resulting in informed decision making, improved customer experience and operational efficiency gains.
Winner: Fundi Software (WA) for IMS Performance Anlayzer which is distributed worldwide by IBM and is installed in more than 240 Global 2000 enterprises in over 50 countries.
Winner: Memory Box Backup (SA) for Memory Box, a simple, secure, automated backup solution for work and home that utilises the spare disk space of a community of to lower cost and minimise the effect of natural disasters, theft, and spilled coffee.
Winner: Intelledox Pty Ltd (ACT) for Intellidox.
Merit Award: NICTA (NSW) for the Goanna Project, a fully automatic tool that debugs software in real-time during software development, eliminating as much as 20 percent of development time and enabling higher quality software products to come to market sooner.
Merit Award: Clarinox Technologies (VIC) for the ClarinoxSoftFrame suite which provides software developers with the complete infrastructure to develop wireless electronic devices quickly, with fewer R&D risks and faster debugging.

Tourism & Hospitality

Winner: ThoughtWorks and the Lonely Planet (VIC) for Lonely Planet Online, a new website that offers a rich, multimedia user experience, tapping 35 years of travel guide authors’ and editors’ knowledge, interactive communities, online shopping and travel bookings and user generated content.
Winner: Proactive Technology Group and PK Business Advantage (SA) for Proactive Tours and eBook Tourism Marketing Software. The software significantly boosts booking rates for tourism operators by providing prospective tourists and venue hire organisations with a dynamic, life-like tour of accommodation, locations and facilities.

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