The top 100 IT projects of 2009
2009 InfoWorld 100 Awards: IT remains the lifeblood of forward-thinking organizations, as this year's recipients of InfoWorld's highest honor attest
City of Richland www.ci.richland.wa.us
Enterprise Content Management Initiative
Project lead: Jon Amundson, Assistant City Manager
Project description: The City of Richland, Wash., streamlined its operations, launching an ECM initiative in partnership with ImageSource, integrating technology from Oracle, ABBYY, Cardiff, and ILINX to automate workflow and transitioning the city away from paper-based processes.
Industry: Government
Clearent www.clearent.com
Cloud-Based Development Project
Project lead: Mark Peck, Senior Vice President of Technical Operations
Project description: Clearent built a .Net-based credit card payment processing system tapping high-performance cloud-based services from Appistry.
Industry: Financial services
Cleveland Indians www.indians.com
Video Capture and Archiving Platform
Project lead: Whitney Kuszmaul, Network Manager
Project description: The Cleveland Indians established an advanced video capture and archiving platform to serve at-bat video clips of nearly 2,600 games per year via touch-screen systems, expanding the system to its spring training facility, while upgrading its datacenter and adding a disaster recovery site, leveraging technology from Microsoft, VMware, CommVault, and NetApp.
Industry: Entertainment
Cognizant www.cognizant.com
Web 2.0 Collaboration Platform
Project lead: Sukumar Rajagopal, Senior Vice President/Chief Knowledge Officer
Project description: Cognizant developed a Web 2.0-based collaboration and knowledge management platform based on Microsoft SharePoint, combining structured and unstructured data in the form of blogs and wikis to service more than 5,000 projects among its 64,000-plus employees, clients, and business partners.
Industry: Services
Con-way www.con-way.com
Freight Network Rationalization Using Network Simulation Tool
Project lead: Jackie Barretta, VP/CIO
Project description: Con-way developed a Web-based simulation tool for analyzing the effects of proposed changes to its existing linehaul network, based on C++, PL/SQL, and Access.
Industry: Transportation
ConvergEx www.bnyconvergex.com
Complex Event Processing for Trading Intelligence
Project lead: Joseph Weisbord, Managing Director
Project description: ConvergEx launched a complex event processing initiative for its financial trading operations centered around technology from StreamBase.
Industry: Financial services
Credit Solutions www.creditsolutions.com
Enterprise CRM Project
Project lead: David Janecek, Vice President of IT
Project description: Credit Solutions developed a customized CRM solution using .Net technologies such as DevExpress, Plinqo, and ASP.Net, as well as Cisco VoIP integration, SQL Server, and Faxcore.
Industry: Financial services
Cricket Communications www.mycricket.com
Datacenter Infrastructure Initiative
Project lead: Doug Bird, VP of IT Operations and Security
Project description: Cricket Communications overhauled its datacenter infrasctructure to provide high-speed switching, 10Gbps throughput, and disaster recovery, tapping technology from Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, and F5.
Industry: Service provider
Culpeper County of Virginia web.culpepercounty.gov
Cybersecurity Initiative
Project lead: Todd Frazier, Systems Administrator
Project description: Culpeper County shored up its Net-based and wireless operations, integrating technology from ForeScout, Panda, McAfee, and Cisco into its security infrastructure.
Industry: Government
CUNA Mutual Group www.cunamutual.com
Voice Signature Initiative
Project lead: Rick Roy, CIO
Project description: CUNA Mutual launched a voice signature initiative, developing the Web services necessary to integrate in-house data with third-party voice signature technology, as well as a wide array of legacy apps, such as sales and marketing, order fulfillment, and policy administration.
Industry: Insurancey
