Finalists announced for 2009 PwC Hi-Tech Awards

The PricewaterhouseCoopers New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards finalists were announced at functions in Auckland and Christchurch yesterday.

Winners of the awards in each category will be announced in Christchurch on May 1.

The finalists are:

PricewaterhouseCoopers Supreme Award NZ Hi-Tech Company of the YearCompac Sorting Equipment www.compacsort.com
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare  www.fphcare.com
Orion Health www.orionhealth.com

IRL Emerging Company Award
BookIt   www.bookit.co.nz
Sentient Software   www.sentientsoftware.co.nz
Sonar6  www.sonar6.com

Enatel Innovative Hardware Product
INRO Technologies www.inro.co.nz
NextWindow  www.nextwindow.com
Times-7 www.times-7.com
Vesper Marine www.vespermarine.com

Recruit IT Innovative Software Product Award
Biomatters  www.biomatters.com
Massive Software www.massivesoftware.com
Mobile Commerce  www.mcom.co.nz
Orion Health  www.orionhealth.com
Sonar6  www.sonar6.com
Straker  www.shadocms.com

HiFX Innovative Service Product Award
Sonar6 www.sonar6.com
Truescape Visual Reality www.truescapevisualreality.co.nz|
Xero www.xero.com

Endace Young Achiever Award
Andrew Graham
Alain Richardt
John-Daniel Trask

SwayTech Hi-Tech Journalist Award
Anthony Doesburg
Keith Newman
Divina Paredes
Tom Pullar-Strecker

Outstanding Individual Contribution Award 
Milton Bloomfield
Scott Gilmour
Dr Claire McGowan

Outstanding Industry Initiative Award
DigitalNZ  www.digitalnz.org
eDay  www.eday.org.nz
The Distiller www.thedistiller.org