NEW YORK, May 24 /PRNewswire/ -- eWEEK, "the enterprise newsweekly" and a Ziff Davis Media publication, announced today the winners in its sixth annual Excellence Awards program. The awards honor the most innovative and relevant enterprise hardware, software and services announced in 2005 and available by the end of the first quarter of 2006. The winners were announced at a special ceremony on May 23rd in Boston, Mass. A detailed report on the winning products and the finalist field from which they were chosen will appear in the June 19th issue of eWEEK and at http://www.eweek.com/.

"This is our sixth annual Excellence Awards program, and as the years have gone by we've seen the field of products grow more compelling and on target with enterprise IT needs, in terms of both traditional and emerging technology categories," said Eric Lundquist, eWEEK Editorial Director. "The products that were chosen as the winners in each of our Excellence Awards categories represent the best the industry has to offer."

The Excellence Awards program provides enterprise technology decision- makers -- from CIOs to IT managers -- with a comprehensive benchmark for assessing products and services. eWEEK received hundreds of entries this year. Evaluating the entries was a panel of experts including eWEEK Labs analysts and eWEEK Corporate Partners -- senior enterprise IT professionals who act as reader representatives for eWEEK's editorial staff.

The winners in the sixth annual eWEEK Excellence Awards program are: * Analytics & Reporting - Cognos' Cognos 8 Business Intelligence 8.11 * Application Development - Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Team System * Business Integration Systems - BEA's AquaLogic Service Bus 2.1 * Business Relationship Management - Salesforce.com's Salesforce Winter '06 * Desktop & Mobile Hardware - Lenovo's ThinkPad Z60t * E-Business Foundations - TeaLeaf Technology's RealiTea 4.5 * E-Mail Management & Security - Orchestria's Orchestria 4.0 * Enterprise Collaboration - Antepo's OPN System XT * Enterprise Storage Hardware - Isilon Systems' Isilon IQ * Enterprise Storage Software - Onaro's SANscreen Business Continuity 2 * IT Quality Assurance Tools - Compuware's Vantage 9.8 * Productivity Applications - Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 8 * Server Hardware - Fujitsu Computer Systems' PrimeQuest 480 * Networking & Management Tools - Opsware's Network Automation System 4.5 * Networking Infrastructure - Riverbed Technology's Riverbed Steelhead appliances * System & Application Management - Telelogic's System Architect 10.3 * Authentication & User Management - BMC Software's Identity Management Suite 5.0 * Network Data-stream Protection - Imperva's SecureSphere 4.2 * Vulnerability Assessment & Remediation - Core Security Technologies' Core Impact 5.0 About eWEEK

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