NEW YORK, NY, October 23, 2008 — Alexander Interactive, a leading ecommerce strategy, design and development agency, today announced that it won first place along with one of its clients in the Technology Managers Forum 2008 Best Practice Awards technology innovation category, which recognizes emerging technologies that solve business problems.
The Standard of Excellence
TechForum, the professional association for enterprise IT managers, gave Ai and its client top honors for achieving excellence with an enterprise-level ecommerce application that streamlines the client's internal procurement process, resulting in significant cost savings across the company. The client partnered with Ai to create this easy-to-use, ecommerce-style system, which enables employees around the world to access the products and services they need to do their jobs, quickly and easily, while reducing the administrative burdens associated with procurement.
"The solution we developed with our client is unique because it brings a user-centric simplicity to a complex internal system at the enterprise level," says Alex Schmelkin, co-founder and president of Alexander Interactive. "The entire team at Alexander Interactive is honored both to serve as our client’s ecommerce partner on this groundbreaking project and to receive this distinguished award as a result of our work together."
About TechForum's Best Practice Awards
TechForum's Best Practice Awards program was founded in 1996 to recognize and promote excellence in the business management of technology. The term "best practices" refers to processes proved to be the most effective means of implementing a project and which are significant in that they are innovative and can be replicated. This year’s winners were chosen from nominations from organizations in the United States, Europe and Asia. The Best Practice Awards program is particularly distinguished by the caliber of its judging panel, which features practicing Fortune 500 technology managers.
About Technology Managers Forum
Technology Managers Forum (TechForum) is a professional association for IT managers at mid- to large-sized corporations in the New York area. Technology Managers Forum's goal is to provide a venue for effective, informative communication between Fortune 1000 technology managers and technology providers. TechForum events bring together IT customers and IT vendors in an interactive atmosphere (conferences and smaller meetings) of unedited debate and non-commercial dialogue focusing on the most current and compelling enterprise IT issues. For more information, visit www.techforum.com.
