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09 926 9112

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09 909 6802

Email
ryan@computerworld.co.nz
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6813, Wellesley Street, Auckland, NZ

Physical Address
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317-319 New North Road, Kingsland, Auckland, NZ

2003 Winners

CIO of the Year
- sponsored by Symantec
Iain Graham, Contact Energy Ltd, Wellington: Iain joined Contact at its formation in 1996 and is credited with helping integrate the people, processes and systems of 11 separate retail operations into one entity, and ensuring the linkages to the deregulated electricity market. The information team led by Iain has successfully implemented four large projects in the last twelve months.

e-Business of the Year
OnTap Information, Auckland, for Motorweb: The MotorWeb system aims to simplify motor-vehicle-related transactions between dealers and vaiour government departments, improve customer protection and reduce legal compliance costs. Transactions are conduted on-line and in real time, saving time and reducing human error.

Excellence in the Use of IT in Biotechnology
- sponsored by SolNet/Sun Microsystems
Auckland UniServices Limited for the Cardiac Image Modelling Project: The cardio image modelling system (CIM) improves the treatment for children with heart defects by sparing them an operation and is an essential ingredient in diagnosis, surgical planning and evaluation of the outcome.

Excellence in the Use of IT for Business Intelligence
Fonterra Co-operative Group, Hamilton for the Operations - Ingredients Data Warehouse Project: Fonterra has integrated and improved 18 disparate systems in the past two years. The weekly reports produced by the ingredients-operations data warehouse give the company solid management support with huge volumes of transactional data helping performance reports and decision making.

Excellence in the Use of IT for Customer Service
- sponsored by EDS
Auckland Art Gallery for their Collection Management and Access Programme: The programme gives on-line access to the 12,500 works held by the gallery that previously were available only by prior booking and on limited days. Traffic numbers in the tens of thousands each month and customer satisfaction is much improved with most people finding what they were looking for.

Excellence in the Use of IT in Education: Primary and Secondary Schools
- sponsored by Apple/Renaissance
Nayland College, Nelson: NayNet is a 'third-generation' intranet integrating four major databases and hundreds of related tables across an extensive fibre-optic network. It includes locally developed modules to enable access to all the resources at any time. The school's technology moves have eased administration, improved IT literacy, questioning and thinking skills, and created more student-centred teaching methods.

Overall Excellence in the Use of IT
- sponsored by IBM
Ministry of Economic Development, Wellington, for the Personal Property Securities Register: (see Government category)

Technology Innovator of the Year
Progressive Enterprises, Auckland, for iPRO: IPRO (internet-based promotional planning and management system) is a process innovation and was developed to link the company with around 99% of the company's suppliers so that they and PE's category managers could plan and manage time-based promotions. It has helped Progressive to manage retail space, available and sold, more effectively and has brought faster administration and payment of orders. The technology has generated exceptional dollar value with a 15-day payback.