On behalf of the entire Microsoft Business Intelligence team at Microsoft, we’d like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Winners of this year’s Microsoft Business Intelligence Customer Awards! Winners were announced at the Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference 2008 during the Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, October 8th. We received many compelling and worthy nominations this year; however the following customers and individuals were the most impressive.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING AWARD WINNERS:

Enterprise Insight Award
Quiznos

Pervasive BI & Performance Management
Intel Corporation

Business Value of BI
Pilot Travel Centers

Microsoft BI Pioneer Award
Stephen Wetzel, Maricopa County

We’d like to thank everyone who submitted nominations and congratulate all of the Award Finalists, listed below. We appreciate your hard work and the time it took to submit the requested information. Congratulations on the success of your BI projects!

BI Customer Award Finalists and Descriptions

Enterprise Insight
Finalists: Brit Insurance and Lockheed Martin Information Technology
Winner: Quiznos

The Enterprise Insight Award recognizes the outstanding achievement of those customers that have adopted Microsoft’s end-to-end business intelligence offering as an enterprise-class BI and performance management solution. These companies have recognized significant technology and business benefits by committing to the Microsoft BI platform, and achieved world-class performance management solutions while enabling pervasive business intelligence to be deployed throughout the organization.

Pervasive BI & Performance Management
Finalists: Chevron Corporation and University of Michigan
Winner: Intel Corporation

The Pervasive BI & Performance Management Award recognizes organizations that have been successful in driving widespread use of the Microsoft BI offering. The nominees for this award have excelled at empowering a broad user base with better information access and the ability to make better business decisions and thus positively impact the performance of the organization through the use of Microsoft technologies.

Business Value of Business Intelligence
Finalists: Eli Lilly & Company and Hewlett-Packard IPGA Marketing
Winner: Pilot Travel Centers

The Business Value of BI Award recognizes those organizations that have implemented Microsoft BI technologies to achieve outstanding financial and business results. The nominees for this award have demonstrated a significant, tangible return on investment from a Microsoft business intelligence solution.

BI Pioneer
Finalists: Christopher Bowman, Wells Fargo, and George Carlin, Merck & Co.
Winner: Stephen Wetzel, Maricopa County

The Microsoft BI Pioneer Award is designed to recognize an individual's excellence in proliferating business intelligence and commitment to championing Microsoft Business Intelligence.

Please contact askBIC@microsoft.com if you have any questions about the customer awards program.