Hummingbird Announces Winners of 2005 Customer Innovation Awards11 February 2006
r> HUMMINGBIRD SUMMIT 2006, MIAMI, FL, Feb. 8 - Hummingbird Ltd. (NASDAQ: HUMC, TSX: HUM), a leading global provider of integrated enterprise content management (ECM) and network connectivity solutions, today announced the winners of its 2005 Customer Innovation Awards and the RedDot Customer ACE Awards for Achievement in Content Management Excellence, part of Hummingbird's Customer Innovation Award program honoring customers for their innovative use of RedDot.
The winners were presented with their awards at a special ceremony held on February 7th at Summit 2006, Hummingbird's sixth annual worldwide user conference in Miami, Florida.
"We are very pleased with the diversity of innovative solutions represented by the award winners this year. It provides clear validation of the substantial benefits that Hummingbird Enterprise and RedDot solutions bring to our customers in solving critical business challenges and improving internal processes," said Barry Litwin, President and Chief Executive Officer, Hummingbird Ltd. "This year's winners are prime examples of organizations that have improved overall efficiencies and gained significant competitive advantage with Hummingbird solutions."
Following are the winners of Hummingbird's Customer Innovation Awards 2005:
Baker & McKenzie, one of the world's leading global law firms, is a long standing Hummingbird Enterprise for Legal customer with 8,500 users across more than 70 offices around the globe. In addition to using Hummingbird Enterprise as its work-in-process document management platform, the firm has also implemented a central 'Global Practice Library' as the foundation for its global knowledge management (KM) initiatives, enabling users to manage, share and re-use firm know-how and best practices. By leveraging the Hummingbird repository and architecture, the firm has been able to maximize its investment in Hummingbird solutions and deliver increased functionality to Attorneys around the Globe.
Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) supports Canadians abroad, works towards a more peaceful and secure world, and promotes Canadian culture and values internationally.
The Government of Canada has adopted Hummingbird Enterprise as the standard platform for its Records, Document and Information Management System (RDIMS) initiative. FAC's RDIMS implementation, InfoBank, is more than just technology. InfoBank is comprised of information management policies, practices, tools and support. InfoBank is designed to help employees store documents and emails in one integrated place, so they meet their Legislative and Administrative requirements and find and share the information in a timely and secure fashion.
InfoBank has been instrumental in moving FAC forward in its Information Management revitalization mandate by addressing the needs of a wide spectrum of government workers in two official languages around the world.
Intel Corporation, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Intel's worldwide Legal and Government Affairs department maintains corporate records in Hummingbird Enterprise RM, and has several Hummingbird Enterprise DM libraries to preserve information as part of its internal knowledge management initiatives. Additional information about Intel is available at http://www.intel.com/pressroom. Intel is a trademark or registered trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries
The SCOOTER Store is America's leading supplier of power chairs for people with limited mobility. It is a highly successful national enterprise with more than 1,100 employee-owners located in over 70 locations nationwide.
With Hummingbird Enterprise, The SCOOTER Store has installed one central repository for managing all customer records and subsequent documentation, simplifying the search and retrieval process. Since deploying the system, The SCOOTER Store has calculated its investment in Hummingbird Enterprise has delivered a payback period of only seven months. The system has improved access to documents and records; increased employee productivity across different departments; and reduced costs associated with customer support and content storage.
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. - With 29 offices worldwide, Squire Sanders has a global client base that encompasses both public and private sectors. Squires Sanders is deploying Hummingbird Enterprise(TM) for Legal, including Hummingbird DM, LegalKEY(R) New Business Intake, Records Management and Conflicts Management, to help streamline the matter lifecycle management process and simplify the lawyer interface. The Firm's legal services teams will soon have an automated workflow from the point of initial client intake to the point at which a matter is closed. Squires Sanders is one of the first global law firms to deploy a matter-centric environment that gives knowledge workers from any office a consistent view to matter-based information.
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP - With 700 attorneys in nine U.S. offices and a global reach throughout Asia, Europe and Latin America, Sonnenschein serves many of the world's largest and best-known businesses, nonprofit organizations and individuals. Hummingbird Enterprise for Legal and its matter-centric framework enables the Firm to meet its risk management requirements and helps ensure compliance with the multiple legislations, laws and policies that may affect the firm. The new Hummingbird Enterprise Client for Microsoft Outlook allows users to conduct their business entirely from within the familiar Outlook interface, from the creation of a new client-matter and a conflicts check, through to records management and final disposition.
Webster Bank, N.A., a subsidiary of Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE: WBS), provides business banking, retail banking, consumer financing, mortgage banking, call center, trust and investment services through 157 banking offices, 304 ATMs and its Internet Web site (http://www.websteronline.com). Webster has implemented Hummingbird Enterprise(TM) for Contract Management to automate the contract lifecycle process in its Information Technology (IT) department, automating most of the contract management tasks and strengthening management of organizational contracts for stronger business controls and compliance.
The following RedDot ACE Award winners were selected based on the business value achieved through RedDot's content management software:
CHUM Television, a division of CHUM Limited, is one of Canada's leading media companies and content providers, which owns and operates 33 radio stations, 12 local television stations and 21 specialty channels. CHUM's original content is seen in over 120 countries worldwide and is distributed via new media platforms including interactive television, wireless services and exclusive CHUM-branded Internet properties.
CHUM Interactive selected RedDot CMS' Web content management software to extend its brands across its 33 Web sites. CHUM chose RedDot's user-friendly solution so that individual contributors could easily add, edit, manage and share this highly valued content across its online properties including its flagship station Citytv. CHUM was a new customer in spring 2005, and as of January 2006 has implemented RedDot CMS on 14 of its sites.
Kinetic Concepts, Inc. (KCI) is a global medical technology company with leadership positions in advanced wound care and therapeutic surfaces. KCI designs, manufactures, markets and services a wide range of proprietary products that can improve clinical outcomes while helping to reduce the overall cost of patient care.
KCI recently launched its new Web site, KCI1.com; the site was built in six months and uses RedDot CMS, LiveServer and XCMS. With the tools supplied by RedDot Solutions, KCI is now able to utilize global controls to increase content accountability, increase efficiency, and improve management of content throughout its lifecycle to allow business owners to leverage the Web site as part of an integrated channel to market. The new and improved KCI1.com introduces added benefits for the customer, bringing significant changes to the way visitors search, navigate and interact with KCI's comprehensive online content.
Tourism Australia - The events.australia.com site is the business and major events site for Tourism Australia, a government statutory authority. Built by RedDot implementation partner, EuroRSCG, the site was designed to inspire event organizers to consider Australia when they planned their next business event. It guides users through all the steps needed to choose, plan and on-sell an event. This extends from stunning imagery of destinations and experiences to sample itineraries, downloadable presentations, planners and postcards.
The site sets a high standard within the business and major events sectors for Web content and design. Not only does it manage to meet stringent Web guidelines, including usability and accessibility standards, it makes business travel planning an engaging and interactive experience.
"The entire RedDot team is proud of our customers' successes," said Detlef Kamps, President of RedDot Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hummingbird Ltd. "We are honored to present the winners with these awards, which gives us the opportunity to highlight customers who use our software to set new standards in content management and achieve great value for their organizations."
About Hummingbird Enterprise(TM)
Hummingbird Enterprise provides an integrated platform for enterprise content management that provides global organizations with solutions to manage business interaction information such as documents, records, virtual deal room exchanges, discussions, e-mail or financial data - linking business processes, information and people. Hummingbird solutions are designed as modular applications that are fully interoperable with each other, enabling customers to incrementally build an enterprise content management solution to meet their evolving information needs in a cost effective manner.
About RedDot Solutions
RedDot Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hummingbird Ltd, provides enterprise content management software to create and manage the content that drives business. Recognized throughout the industry as the fastest to implement and easiest to use, RedDot's software products XCMS (Extended Content Management System), CMS (Web Content Management Software) and LiveServer are scalable solutions for Web content and document management, business process workflow, personalization and collaboration. RedDot Solutions has more than 1,600 clients worldwide, including March of Dimes, Bank of New York, Honda, Starbucks, STA Travel, Triumph Motorcycles, The National Archives, O2 and London Fire Brigade who rely on RedDot to increase productivity, improve operational efficiency and reduce risk. Headquartered in New York and Germany, RedDot has offices in Santa Clara, Toronto, Sydney, Sao Paulo, London, and throughout Europe. For more information, please visit: http://www.reddot.com.
About Hummingbird
Hummingbird Ltd. (NASDAQ: HUMC, TSX: HUM) is a leading global provider of enterprise software solutions. The Company's enterprise software solutions fall into two principal categories: enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, and network connectivity solutions. Hummingbird's ECM solutions enable organizations to manage the lifecycle of enterprise content from creation to disposition, thereby enabling organizations to address critical business needs, such as information management, business continuity, compliance and risk mitigation. The network connectivity solutions provide a comprehensive set of core network technologies that enables the enterprise to connect to any type of legacy system.
Founded in 1984, Hummingbird employs over 1,400 people and serves more than 33,000 customers, including 90% of Fortune 100. Hummingbird solutions are sold directly from 40 offices worldwide and through an Alliance Network of partners and resellers. For more information, visit http://www.hummingbird.com
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