SAN FRANCISCO—IDG’s InfoWorld today announced the winners of the InfoWorld 100 awards. The InfoWorld 100 awards honor companies for IT projects that exemplify intelligent, creative uses of technology to meet business and technical objectives.

Nominations were submitted by InfoWorld readers, technology partners, and end-user companies in late-summer. To be considered, projects must use multiple technologies in innovative ways to serve well-defined business goals. Profiles of winners, along with InfoWorld’s editorial analysis and insight, are available at www.InfoWorld.com.

"Breathing new life into outdated operations, advancing business goals with inventive use of technology — this year's winners demonstrate, once again, that innovative, business-minded IT is the lifeblood of successful organizations," said Jason Snyder, Senior Editor for InfoWorld.

The 2008 InfoWorld 100 winners (listed alphabetically by category):

Aerospace
Boeing, IPAC

Agriculture
Anthony Marano Co., Monsanto

Distribution
Con-way

Education
The Apollo Group, Broward County Public School, Earth Rangers, Management Council - Ohio Education Computer Network, Miami-Dade County Public School District, The New England School of Law, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Warrington College of Business Administration at the University of Florida

Energy
BlueStar Energy Services, Direct Energy (two projects), GE Energy

Entertainment
Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Financial Services
Dresdner Kleinwort, Elavon, ETrade Financial, Fannie Mae, Interactive Data Corp., Lehman Brothers, MasterCard Worldwide, Morgan Keegan, Wells Fargo & Co.

Government
City of Jacksonville, German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Indiana Office of Technology, Oklahoma City IT Services, U.S. Army, U.S. Postal Service

Health Care
Bosley, Canadian Cancer Society, CSL Behring, Healthways, Inverness Medical Innovations, Kansas Spine Hospital, Midland Memorial Hospital, Moses Taylor Hospital, OhioHealth, Parkview Adventist Medical Center, Redlands Community Hospital, Singapore Health (National Health Center), St. Jude Medical

Hospitality
HomeAway

Insurance
Aflac, Colonial Life & Accident, Nationwide Insurance (two projects)

Manufacturing
Eaton, Schneider Electric, Smead Manufacturing

Research and Development
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Scientific Division of Thomson Reuters

Resources
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA, Geokinetics, Tidewater Marine

Retail
Borders Group, Brinker International, iRobot, JasperSoft, Propel, Ross Stores, Zappos.com

Service Providers
AT&T Services, CallPlus, Cox Enterprises, Tele2 Netherlands, UKFast

Services
Accenture, ADP, Hire A Hero, Infosys Technologies, InnerWorkings, Raytheon, Swiss Railway, Tata Consultancy Services, TLC Companies, Unisys, Willis

Technology
Avnet, Borland Software, BSNL, Concur Technologies, GXS, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Macadamian Technologies, Malin, Pitney Bowes Canada, Polycom, Qualcomm, Red Bull Technology

Transportation
New Jersey Transit, Orient Overseas Container Line

Travel
Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, British Airports Authority

Utilities
Tri-State Generation & Transmission Association

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