Congratulations to all 2008 iAward winners, the best of Australian ICT, announced at the gala dinner in Melbourne on Wednesday 28 May, especially overall winners Etech Group, Peter Kazacos, TrendCare and NTICED.

Photographs from the gala dinner will be available soon.

Overall Winners

Victorian Government Inspiration Award
Etech Group – Studywiz (TAS)

Etech Group specialises in developing online learning technology for schools, higher education and businesses. Etech’s online learning platform, Studywiz, has become an international success story: it has been accredited by the British Government for use in 29,000 UK schools and implemented by the State of Maine in the USA as a state-wide learning solution to support the world’s largest one-to-one laptop deployment. Studywiz is currently deployed in 20 countries and is available in German, English, Korean, Japanese and Chinese language versions.

CSIRO Tony Benson Award for Individual Achievement in ICT
Peter Kazacos

This year's winner of the CSIRO Tony Benson iAward for lifetime achievement in the ICT industry is Peter Kazacos, Managing Director of PK Business Advantage.

IBW ICT Exporter of the Year Award
TrendCare Systems – TrendCare (QLD)

TrendCare is a clinical information system that provides health care managers with the necessary information to identify and manage patient risks, monitor patient outcomes, develop realistic targets, set nurse/patient ratios and budgets, distribute fair workloads, and monitor costs. TrendCare seamlessly integrates with other solutions providing managers with timely and comprehensive data in a format that is practical and facilitates improved patient care and organisational outcomes.

ZDNet Community Award
Northern Territory Institute for Community Engagement & Development (NTICED) - NTICED Microsoft MARVIN Partners in Learning Project - Bringing Animation to Communication and Learning to Life (NT)

NTICED's flagship software MARVIN empowers students to overcome language, literacy, digital and cultural diversity challenges. MARVIN is now the fastest growing 3D animation, infotainment and authoring system in the world, with in-country access agreements in place across 14 countries. Over the next five years MARVIN will be exported to over 100 countries and more than one hundred million students and teachers.

• Merit Award: Curtin University of Technology School of Information Systems and Cisco Academy for the Vision Impaired (CAVI) (WA)
  For the past four years, Curtin University has partnered with Cisco Systems and the Association for the Blind WA to establish the first Cisco Academy for the Vision Impaired (CAVI) in the world. CAVI provides advanced information technology education and employment opportunities for people who are totally or partially blind. Additional academies have now opened in India, Sri Lanka and the USA, all remotely linked to the national academy in Western Australia, with more than 100 vision-impaired students enrolled.

Category Winners

Howorth Start-Up Company Award
IP Payments – Accounts Receivables Portal (VIC)

IP Payments is a Melbourne-based developer of industry-specific Accounts Receivables Portal software that is sold to customers as a web-based service. With a focus on quality product and old-fashioned customer service, all for a fair price, the business has experienced considerable success since its inception in 2004. The business now collects over $1 billion in receipts per year for more than 2000 business customers. IP Payments is profitable and has started to expand overseas.

Fujitsu Australia Applications and Infrastructure Tools iAward
nMetrics – nMetrics Application Monitor (NSW)

nMetrics’ Application Monitors address key network performance issues such as the effects of latencies, repetitive data transfers and protocol inefficiencies, as well as providing users with a real-time window into the entire network. The nMetrics Application Monitor helps solve issues without escalation, aids future capacity planning through historical data, and translates network usage into a dollar-value equivalent.

Spruson & Ferguson Communications Applications iAward
Fujitsu Australia and Western Australia Police – Police Metropolitan Radio Network (WA)

Fujitsu Australia and the Western Australia Police have joined forces to create an innovative solution to the problems presented by the Western Australia Police’s 30-year-old UHF communication network. The project delivered voice and data radio networks spanning 9000km sq. Police now have access to leading edge systems, which provide officers with the tools and operational data needed for a safe working environment that better serves the Western Australian community.

Australian Computer Society e-Government and Services iAward
CrimTrac – National Police Reference System (ACT)

Through an innovative combination of software and technology, the National Police Reference System delivers rapid access to national information about people of interest to law enforcement. It provides the ability to make decisions based on the collective knowledge of police within Australia - regardless of where that information is held.

Microsoft e-Health iAward
Trend Care Systems – TrendCare (QLD)

TrendCare is a clinical information system that provides healthcare managers with the necessary information to identify and manage patient risks, monitor patient outcomes, develop realistic targets, set nurse/patient ratios and budgets, distribute fair workloads, and monitor costs. TrendCare seamlessly integrates with other solutions providing managers with timely and comprehensive data in a format that is practical and facilitates improved patient care and organisational outcomes.

La Trobe University e-Logistics Applications iAward
JOINT WINNERS
Advanta Software and Markitforce

Advanta’s ATLAS 3PL is a comprehensive suite of applications designed for the third-party logistics market. ATLAS (Advanced Total Logistics Application Suite) is a robust, feature-rich platform that includes 33 integrated modules to manage all facets of order processing, freight and distribution management, warehouse management and contract warehousing, inventory and supply chain management, e-fulfillment and sales analysis, customer relationship management, business intelligence and more.

Markitforce is a leading third-party logistics provider (3PL) specialising in the warehousing, packaging and distribution of sales, merchandising, point-of-sale and promotional material and is now expanding its operations internationally. Advanta’s Atlas 3PL Logistics system was adopted by Markitforce because of its scalability and capacity for handling the high volume/fast turnaround demands that characterise point-of-sale campaigns. ATLAS allows Markitforce to offer its blue-chip clients software-as-a-service applications like MarkitEzy, an online portal that lets clients order POS material online through a client-branded web catalogue.

Cliftons Education and Training iAward
Etech Group – Studywiz (TAS)

Etech Group specialises in developing online learning technology for schools, higher education and businesses. Etech’s online learning platform, Studywiz, has become an international success story: it has been accredited by the British Government for use in 29,000 UK schools and implemented by the State of Maine in the USA as a state-wide learning solution to support the world’s largest one-to-one laptop employment. Studywiz is currently deployed in 20 countries and is available in German, English, Korean, Japanese and Chinese language versions.

MIS Financial Review Financial Applications iAward
ThoughtWorks Australia and BT Financial Group – BT Super for Life (NSW)

By linking BT Super for Life with internet banking, BT Financial Group and Westpac are providing customers with the ability to more easily engage with and manage their superannuation. BT Super for Life can take their customer from their first job through to retirement. The product offers a range of innovative features including an easy online application and the ability to convert Westpac credit card points into superannuation contributions.

• Merit Award: IP Payments – Accounts Receivables Portal (VIC)
  IP Payments is a Melbourne-based developer of industry-specific Accounts Receivables Portal software that is sold to customers as a web-based service. With a focus on quality product and old-fashioned customer service, all for a fair price, the business has experienced considerable success since its inception in 2004. The business now collects over $1 billion in receipts per year for more than 2000 business customers. IP Payments is profitable and has started to expand overseas.

ZDNet Australia General Applications iAward
iCare Solutions – iCare Clinical & Care Management Solution (VIC)

The iCare Clinical & Care Management Solution is a complete software solution for the administration and care of aged care residents. The product is a web-based solution with support for access by PCs, touch screens, kiosks and mobile-based devices such as PDAs and digital tablets. iCare’s program has reduced by a third the time taken to complete documentation while also enabling an improved level of clinical care as carers spend more time focused on face-to-face care.

• Merit Award: Mishme Enterprises – Mishme Animated Messaging Technologies (NT)
  Mishme Enterprises is the R&D arm of the Northern Territory Institute for Community Engagement & Development, specialising in the creation of innovative solutions that bring a human touch to technology and a face to digital communication. Mishme Animated Messaging Technologies allows users to create intelligent digital representations of themselves or other personalities that are multi-lingual, readily and easily customisable, capable of real-time lip-synching and interactive with multiple media and communication platforms.

Strategic Path Industrial Applications iAward
Snowden Mining Industry Consultants –Snowden Reconcilor (WA)

Reconcilor provides current information on demand in an industry driven by spreadsheets and manual compilation. Reconcilor’s ability to collect information from any data source and compile it ready for reporting makes it a leader in mining reconciliation. Reconcilor is a web-based application for the capture and reconciliation of information and data across the mining value chain. From resource/reserve estimates, grade control, truck dispatch, survey pickup and plant production systems through to final production processing, or shipping, Reconcilor accumulates, checks and reports on mining activities against budgeted plans and metrics.

Cubed Communications Media and Entertainment iAward
Stop Motion Pro – Stop Motion Pro (VIC)

Stop Motion Pro develops software for creating stop motion animation. Using a camera, a PC and Stop Motion Pro, it is possible to capture one frame of a puppet or object, make a small change and then capture another frame. After this is repeated several times the playback of the captured frames creates the illusion of movement. Stop Motion Pro is used worldwide in professional studios, including the creators of Wallace and Gromit, and schools at all levels.

IBM Research and Development iAward
Griffith University – Griffith University Network Management System (QLD)

The Griffith University Network Management System (NMS) provides detailed, near real-time information on a network providing services for over 37,000 students and 3,500 staff from a server and can scale to a distributed system model in the future as required. The NMS is a Web 2.0 mash-up that takes information from network devices directly as well as from commercial network management systems and displays this is a useful, timely and easy to read single web-based interface.

IBSA Security iAward
ContentKeeper Technologies – ContentKeeper Web (ACT)

ContentKeeper provides the tools to monitor, manage and control staff access to internet resources, resulting in the only scalable, enterprise-level solution worldwide. ContentKeeper allows organisations to take control and enforce their own acceptable internet usage policies. ContentKeeper is deployed as a transparent Ethernet bridge, which means the appliance can ‘sit’ on any network, in any location, using any operating system, with any combination of vendor hardware and provides significant differences of functionality.

Callista Tertiary Student Project iAward
University of NSW - Toby Rahilly – Experiments in Concurrent Implementations of TransLucid (NSW)

Toby Rahilly’s experiments with TransLucid – a low-level intensional programming language – resulted in an innovative bytecode implementation of the language that allows for self-clustering peer-to-peer distributed evaluation. The TransLucid bytecode delivers an efficient distribution of the program that yields effective peer-based evaluation with no requirement to change the original syntax.

• Merit Award: University of NSW - Yose Widjaja – Skyrails: entity visualisation and control system (NSW)
  Skyrails is a visualisation system based on the principle of viewing entities as social networks. The key to the flexibility is the built-in scripting engine, which was designed by the developer. Skyrails offers powerful attribute visualisation schemes for each entity, and the scripting engine allows customisations for these attributes to fit any domain-specific application.

KPMG Secondary Student Project iAward
Caulfield Grammar School – Zach Sengstock – ‘The Ziggies’ (VIC)

Zach Sengstock is a Year 12 student who has studied Year 11 and 12 multimedia, as well as visual communication and design, as VCE subjects. He was keen to further develop his skills in animation to create an engaging and interactive comic called ‘The Ziggies’.

State Winners

AIIA is proud to announce the state finalists for the prestigious 2008 iAwards, which recognise the most outstanding ICT innovators in each state. State awards were announced at awards ceremonies in each state between 16–22 April.

This year’s winners, listed below, range from emerging start-ups to established innovators.
 

Overall winners and special award recipients will be revealed at the iAwards gala dinner on Wednesday 28 May in Melbourne.