Boston, MA – February 11, 2010 -  High Tech Views,  a premier publication dedicated to highlighting top tier technology articles and industry trends, and sponsor of the 2010 Kinetic Process Innovation Awards, announces the five award  winners whose technology has made a significant difference in supporting business growth and achievement for their customers.  Also, the coveted Vision Award is presented for a technology achievement that exhibits the greatest potential for transforming a business or social process.

The 2010 recipient of the Vision Award is Grass Roots, a global company recognized for its performance improvement solutions that support customers in achieving business goals through recognition, incentive and awards programs.  Grass Roots developed an ‘out-of-box’ employee motivation program for Phones 4u. 

2010 Winners of the Process Innovation Award Categories are:

• Agilepath, Newburyport, MA – IT Architecture - for its innovation in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services and work with Appistry, Inc. to support cloud computing.
• Quanticate, Boston, MA and London, UK – Data Management - for its clinical data management, clinical trial services, statistical programming and analysis, and superior  medical writing that created an electronic submission for two placebo-controlled clinical trials.  
• NovoDynamics, Ann Arbor, MI – Data Capture -for its VERUS™ optical character recognition technology being used by Yale University’s Project AMEEL to create a scholarly Web-based portal for the study of the Middle East.   
• Project Consulting Group, Minneapolis, MN – IT Consulting – for its project portfolio management  and unique “shared risk” approach that  maximizes performance, quality and business growth.
• PCVue, (a subsidiary of ARC Informatique) Woburn, MA, - Manufacturing Technology  - for its automation solutions and Iberdrola Renewables use of their SCADA software to supervise and control modern wind power systems.  

“It was difficult for our judges to make the final choices for these awards,” said Drew Barrows, deputy editor of High Tech  Views.  “The entries reflected a wide range of technology innovation as well as indications that vendors are working arduously  to help their customers increase efficiencies and maintain competitiveness in this tough economy. These award recipients  demonstrate a corporate culture that goes beyond the obvious to really make a difference in their industries.” 

About Kinetic Process Innovation Awards:

The awards program was founded by Kinetic Information LLC more than 10 years ago and is sponsored by various technology publications.  The 2010 awards, sponsored by High Tech Views, recognize innovation in the application of information technology. Awards focus on the business benefits user organizations derive from their technology systems. Winners are selected by a panel of experts consisting of independent professional consultants who are recognized authorities in their fields. The judging process is free of any vendor or other bias so the emphasis remains on the business benefits provided by each winning implementation.