Science & Technology
Science and Technology
Science and Technology
Wed, September 16, 2009
Tue, September 15, 2009 Polycom, Inc.: Polycom Honored by Prestigious InformationWeek 500 List for Second Consecutive Year
MONARCH BEACH, CA and PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwire - September 15, 2009) - Polycom, Inc. (
"The goal of our project was to radically change the online experience for Polycom's customers, partners and employees," said Polycom CIO Glenn Noga. "Since launching the project, we've seen significant cost savings due to streamlined and improved globalization practices. Additionally, our employees, partners, and customers all benefit from the improved access to information and the time saved accessing that information online."
A collaborative effort between Polycom's IT and corporate marketing groups, the next-gen Web project aimed to better align the web and portal sites with Polycom's business objectives and offer the stability, scalability, improved content management, customer ease-of-use, access to back-office systems, and new functionality. In addition to making it easier for Polycom stakeholders to navigate the Web site and locate information, the team also wanted to change how Polycom customers and partners to do business with the company.
"The improved infrastructure has resulted in a better public Web site," added Noga. "This amount of time spent by customers on the site has increased. More partners have registered to use the new features and functions on the site, and what's more, the costs and effort required to keep the sites current have decreased dramatically. The project has been a tremendous success, and I'm proud of the team that helped implement it."
The 2009 InformationWeek 500 companies were revealed on September 14, 2009 at an awards ceremony held during the InformationWeek 500 Conference at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point, California.
"For more than 20 years, the InformationWeek 500 has honored the most innovative users of business technology," said InformationWeek Editor-in-Chief Rob Preston. "Year after year, InformationWeek 500 companies harness technology to improve efficiency, boost productivity, drive revenue, and establish a competitive advantage. We applaud this year's winners, including Polycom, and the CIOs and other executives whose ingenuity and risk taking are at the center of business technology innovation."
InformationWeek identifies and honors the nation's most innovative users of information technology with its annual 500 listing, now in its 21st year, and also tracks the technology, strategies, investments and administrative practices of America's best-known companies. Top winners have included: Conway, National Semiconductor, Kimberly-Clark, Hilton Hotels and Unum. The InformationWeek 500 rankings are unique among corporate rankings as it spotlights the power of innovation in information technology, rather than simply identifying the biggest IT spenders.
Additional details on the InformationWeek 500 can be found online at [ www.informationweek.com/iw500/ ].
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About InformationWeek Business Technology Network
The InformationWeek Business Technology Network provides IT executives with unique analysis and tools that parallel their work flow -- from the defining and framing of objectives through to the evaluation and recommendation of solutions. Anchored by InformationWeek, the multimedia powerhouse that looks across the enterprise, the network scales across the most critical technology categories with online properties like DarkReading.com (security), IntelligentEnterprise.com (application architecture), Network Computing (networking and communications) and PlugintotheCloud.com (cloud computing). The network also provides focused content for key IT targets such as CIOs, developers and SMBs with Dr. Dobb's InformationWeek Global CIO and bMighty.com, as well as vital vertical industries with InformationWeek Financial Services, Government and Healthcare. With content at the nucleus of our information distribution strategy, IT professionals turn to our network of expert voices, research and communities to stay informed, get advice, and research technologies to make strategic business decisions. [ www.informationweek.com ]
About TechWeb
TechWeb, the global leader in business technology media, is an innovative business focused on serving the needs of technology decision-makers and marketers worldwide. TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed media brands in the business technology market. Today, more than 13.3 million* business technology professionals actively engage in our communities created around our global face-to-face events Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat and VoiceCon; online resources such as the InformationWeek.com, Light Reading, Intelligent Enterprise, bMighty.com, and Advanced Trading; and the market leading, award-winning InformationWeek and Wall Street & Technology magazines. TechWeb also provides end-to-end services ranging from next-generation performance marketing, integrated media, market research, and analyst services. [ www.techweb.com/aboutus ]
TechWeb is a division of United Business Media, a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion.
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