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ISA announces shortlist for awards 
Thursday, October 25 2001
by Louise Carroll


The Irish Software Association has published a shortlist for its annual awards,
including well-known names like SmartForce, Riverdeep and Cape Clear. 

The ISA shortlist for "Company of the Year" includes banking software company
Eontec, CRM provider Fineos, enterprise compliance management software company
Qumas and e-learning companies Riverdeep and SmartForce. 



Meanwhile, the list for "Young Company of the Year" includes Web services
company Cape Clear, CRM company eWare, m-commerce software provider Macalla,
location-based services software company Mapflow and telecoms software company
Openet Telecom. 



The Tanaiste, Mary Harney TD will announce the winners on Friday 09 November. The
awards ceremony will be held 7 pm at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin. Tickets for
the event will cost EUR100. 



"We now have new awards," Kathryn Raleigh, director of the ISA, told
ElectricNews.Net. "In addition to company of the year and young company of the
year, we have awards for marketing innovation and technical innovation." 



The "Technical Innovation" award shortlist is Automsoft, Eontec, Headway
Software, Network 365 and Openet Telecom. The companies short-listed for the
marketing innovation award are Fineos, Globogift, New World Commerce, Qumas and
Vordel. 





The ISA has an executive council of 24 companies that act as the short-listing
committee for the awards. The council draws up the short-list from all the
nominated companies in the four categories. The committee then interviews the
short-listed companies and decides the winners. 





Raleigh said, "You don't have to be a member of the ISA to nominate yourself or
other companies for an award. It is open to everyone in the Irish software
industry." The awards have been running since 1998. 





Past winners for "Company of the Year" include Baltimore, Iona and Trintech.
In 2000, Performix Technologies scooped up the young company of the year award.
The ISA Awards are sponsored by Davy Stockbrokers, Enterprise Ireland and Logica.






Founded in 1978, the ISA is primarily a lobby organisation for Irish software
companies that aims to influence national policy on software in order to enable
the sector to grow. The organisation has over 200 members. The ISA addresses the
major concerns and developments in the Irish software industry at its national
annual conference, which is usually held in the late spring. 



The ISA can be found at HREF="http://www.software.ie">http://www.software.ie.