The 2003 Editors' Choice Awards

Our annual list of 60 strategic IT solution providers leading the transformation of business organizations into intelligent enterprises

Strategic IT is not passive IT: The objectives are no less than to transform how an organization makes decisions, invents and communicates business objectives, and continuously improves business performance. Strategic IT must wake up sleeping data giants; it must compel order among complex business processes; and it must brighten the organization's vision as it searches for opportunity. Only an intelligent enterprise can make this happen.

Welcome to the fifth annual Intelligent Enterprise editors' selection of IT solution providers doing the most to enable the intelligent enterprise. Repairing to secret chambers, Intelligent Enterprise's editors dug deep into a year's worth of coverage, reviews, research, and dialog with the Intelligent Enterprise community. The selection process was tough — tougher than ever, given the turmoil in the IT industry and the economy. We made lists and made them again. The result was 60 companies — a mere five dozen. We present them in two articles:

The Dozen: The 12 most influential companies enabling the intelligent enterprise, distilled and extracted after great deliberation from our list of 60.

Companies to Watch: Four lists highlighting 12 leading companies in each, divided into Intelligence, Integration, Infrastructure, and Collaborative Commerce — what we see as the four vital pillars critical to an intelligent enterprise.

A tough economy demands that businesses do more with less. That takes intelligence — and it takes IT solution providers that can step up their technology to meet the requirements. Change creates opportunity, which IT must help their organizations seize.

One thing we know for sure: 2003 will be different from 2002. Who belongs in the Dozen for 2004? What companies should we be watching? Let the debate begin; we look forward to hearing which IT solution providers you think belong on the list.

The Intelligent Enterprise Dozen for 2003

1. Teradata, a division of NCR Corp.

2. SAS Institute Inc.

3. IBM Corp.

4. OutlookSoft Corp.

5. Business Objects SA

6. Microsoft Corp.

7. Manhattan Associates Inc.

8. PeopleSoft Inc.

9. Oracle Corp.

10. Ilog Inc.

11. Inxight Software Inc.

12. Open Source/Linux

Companies to Watch in 2003

Intelligence

Integration

Infrastructure

Collaborative Commerce

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