HP Software Awards of Excellence 2008

Award coverage

We'll present awards in three key areas addressed by the HP Software solution portfolio:

Business technology optimization (BTO)

Criteria: This award will go to the companies that best demonstrate how their IT organization has optimized business outcomes in the areas of IT strategy, IT applications and IT operations.

Examples of how HP software automates and optimizes business functions include:

• Automating the consolidation of service requests so that the CIO has one version of the truth about all the demands being made on IT
• Optimizing the utilization of IT resources—capital, people, and assets—through full alignment with business priorities
• Optimizing application quality and performance to reduce the time, cost and risk of application delivery

Business information optimization (BIO)

Criteria: This award will recognize the companies that best demonstrate exceptional achievement and measurable results in the areas of:

• Delivering the right information to the right people for sound decision-making
• Automating the storage, indexing, and consolidation of information so that it can be retrieved quickly for e-discovery and compliance
• Protecting vital business data against disaster to maintain business continuity

OpenCall

Criteria: This award will honor the companies that have achieved business outcomes such as lower costs, improved delivery time, reduced risk, and reduced subscriber churn by:

• Consolidating networks and platforms to reduce complexity and cost, streamline service introduction and simplify migration to next-generation infrastructures
• Converging network types and infrastructure elements to deliver a consistent user experience
• Innovating new and satisfying user experiences to differentiate your business

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What's in it for you?

The awards offer you the opportunity to be recognized for your accomplishments within your own IT organization, with your business leaders and with industry peers.

The selected honorees will receive:

• Spotlight recognition at HP Software Universe/HP Communications World 2008 in Vienna
• One complimentary pass to HP Software Universe/HP Communications World 2008 in Vienna, Austria (travel costs are the responsibility of the entering company).
• Several visual features of the company's story at HP Software Universe/HP Communications World 2008
• An HP Software Awards trophy.
• An award ceremony on the company site in the weeks following HP Software Universe/HP Communications World to recognize the success of the entire IT team that was part of the implementation.

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How are winners selected?

An independent panel of judges will evaluate submissions based on the following criteria:

• Measurable improvement in business outcomes delivered through IT/business alignment. Improved outcomes might include increased customer satisfaction, better application quality, expanded market share, regulatory compliance, lower cost of operations, faster delivery of revenue-generating services, etc.
• Demonstrated use of best practices
• Creative application of people, processes and technology to ensure successful project outcome
• Lessons learned that can be shared with other HP customers

We will also give consideration to project scale, heterogeneity of the IT/telephony environment, depth and breadth of HP Software solutions, and integration of functions and tools, including third-party technologies.

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Increase your chances of winning

Your submission should document and demonstrate measurable improvement in business and IT/solution performance. We recommend that you gather input from both business and IT/solution stakeholders and provide specific and detailed answers to all questions rather than a general summary in the project submission.

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Important dates

Accepting applications	April 15 – October 10
Status notification sent to winners	Week of November 3

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Award Rules

Each winning company must agree to:

• Allow HP to include the winning company's name and logo on a list of HP Software customers and in reference to the 2008 HP Software Awards of Excellence. This may be a list by industry, product, or geographic location. The company name or logo may appear on presentation slides, printed brochures, signage or websites.
• Allow HP to develop a customer success story and quote and to use them in the promotion of the HP Software Awards of Excellence, to be shared with other HP Software customers and prospects. The story or quote may appear on a presentation slide, printed brochure, signage or website.
• Allow HP to film a video testimonial at or prior to HP Software Universe/Communications World 2008 and to utilize it during the HP Software Universe/Communications World event and thereafter on the HP corporate website.

Note: In order to grant approval for usage of the above listed assets beyond the HP Software Universe event you will be asked to sign a corresponding release form which will be presented to you upon creation of these assets.

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Additional questions?

For questions regarding the HP Software Awards of Excellence and online application, please contact us.

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