Blackberry maker RIM has announced the winners of its EMEA
partner developer awards.
The Blackberry
EMEA Alliance Program Innovation Awards 2008 were announced in
Monte Carlo last night.
The Driving Innovation in the Public Sector award went to Astute
Mobile Data Solutions for its scalable mobile data access solution.
It provides NDUC (Northern Doctors Urgent Care) doctors with
real-time access to patient information through their Blackberry
smartphones.
The Transforming Business Performance award went to Intuition
Publishing for its Go Learn mobile solution, which provides
training and development tools directly to employees' Blackberry
smartphones.
The other three awards:
Accelerating Innovation for Entrepreneurs: TrackTech for eMerit,
which provides secure credit card processing from any location
using a Blackberry smartphone
Life on Blackberry Award: Telmap for the Telmap Navigator that
provides clear, accurate and informed routing navigation to
Blackberry smartphone users throughout the world
Delivering Service Excellence: Offshore Tech for the
implementation and smooth running of a highly scalable banking
application for Blackberry smartphone users in Spain
Jeff McDowell, vice-president of global alliances at RIM, said,
"There are currently over 1,000 independent software vendors (ISVs)
signed up to the Blackberry Alliance Program, who are focused on
developing innovative applications for the Blackberry platform.
"The winners of the first Blackberry EMEA Innovation Awards all
clearly demonstrate how mobile applications can benefit large and
small organisations, both in the public and private sectors, as
well as consumers."