Best Practices in Mobile & Wireless Award Winners

Mobile and Wireless World, in conjunction with Computerworld, honors these IT user-organizations with its Mobile and Wireless World"Best Practices in Mobile and Wireless" Awards. Two awards were presented for each of the five categories. Below are the winners for 2004, who were honored at the 2004 Mobile and Wireless World conference.

Business-critical Applications
Winner: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Winner: Continental Airlines
Honorable Mention: Universal Health Services

Expanding Wireless Mobility to Achieve Better ROI on Technology Investments
Winner: Fidelity Investments
Winner: UNICCO Services Company
Honorable Mention: San Antonio Metro Health District

Business Transformation
Winner: CSX Transportation
Winner: Honeywell - ACS Service
Honorable Mention: Union Pacific Railroad

Wireless as a Competitive Advantage for SMB and/or Companies in Emerging Markets
Winner: OrthoRehab, Inc.
Winner: Shared P.E.T. Imaging
Honorable Mention: Air Technologies

Office of the Future
Winner: Allstate Insurance
Winner: NYK Logistics
Honorable Mention: MBSi

Judging Criteria

Judges evaluated and ranked the finalists in each category according to their substantiated Mobile/Wireless solution attributes and achievements against this set of criteria:

• Financial return and measurable payback (returns on investment, assets, resources) through created/protected revenue opportunities or cost savings.
• Strategic importance to the business.
• Substantive customer impact (service, retention, acquisition).
• Positive impact on other business/organization units.
• Addresses system and department interoperability issues and heterogeneous platform integration challenges.
• Provides a strategic advantage to the business/organization while anticipating and accommodating the deployment of future Mobile/Wireless solution initiatives.
• Supports the efficient and reliable data, information and application sharing/access between personnel, departments, divisions, etc.
• Addresses challenges of data, information and application security, recovery, business continuity, etc.

<< back