Finalists Selected for 2009 CompTIA SoftwareCEO Software Innovation Awards

Annual awards recognize software industry innovators

Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. (Vocus) May 28, 2009 -- CompTIA (http://www.comptia.org/), the leading trade association for the world's information technology (IT) industry, today announced the finalists for the third annual CompTIA SoftwareCEO (http://www.softwareceo.com/default.aspx) Software Innovation Awards.

The awards recognize innovative software products and new business models in eight different categories. Award winners will be announced in June. Finalists by category are:

Company Achievement in Innovation - Next IT Corporation, Spokane, Wash.; INTEGRITY Global Security, Santa Barbara, Calif.; and Blue Vector, Mountain View, Calif.

Most Innovative Enterprise Software - Zenoss, Inc., Annapolis, Md.; Intermine, Inc., Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Noetix Corp., Redmond, Wash.; Knoa Software, New York, N.Y.; ClickFox, Atlanta; Permessa Corporation, Waltham, Mass.; Bomgar Corporation, Ridgeland, Miss.; and Market2Lead, Inc., Santa Clara, Calif.

Most Innovative General Business Software - Tableau Software, Seattle; Contextware, Inc., Annandale, Va.; and Xactly Corporation, San Jose, Calif.

Most Innovative Service/Business Model - W3i, Sartell, Minn.; iSeatz, New Orleans; and Cast Iron Systems, Inc., Mountain View, Calif.

Most Innovative Small and Medium-Sized Infrastructure Software - Qtask, Inc., Burbank, Calif.; SurePayroll, Glenview, Ill.; HubSpot, Inc., Cambridge, Mass.; and Central Desktop Inc., Pasadena, Calif.

Most Innovative Software for the Software Industry - ByteShield, Inc., San Francisco; Aladdin Knowledge Systems, Ltd., Kiryat Arye, Petach Tikva, Israel; and OpSource, Santa Clara, Calif.

Most Innovative Software Idea - Yukon Learning, Richmond, Va.; Amitive Inc., San Mateo, Calif.; and eEye Digital Security, Irvine, Calif.

Most Innovative Vertical Industry Software - DUX Soft Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, India; Bullhorn, Inc., Boston; Bit9, Inc., Waltham, Mass.; and NetSuite Inc., San Mateo, Calif.

Criteria for the CompTIA SoftwareCEO Software Innovation Awards included:

•    Scope - What business problem or opportunity does the software innovation address? What is the size of the problem/opportunity?

•    Impact - What practical results, such as sales, users or profits, has the innovation had on a software product or on the software industry? The innovation must be new and have both a current and future impact.

•    Novel - How does the innovation break with traditional ideas or processes?

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Contact:

Steven Ostrowski

Director, Corporate Communications

CompTIA

630-678-8468

sostrowski@comptia.org

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