On behalf of the Council, Fellows and members of the Hong Kong Computer Society, I am delighted to preface this website with a sincere word of welcome and thanks.

This year, more enterprises and their teams than ever before have been honoured by the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2007: Best Business Award. I am delighted that our Society has taken on the task of organising this category for the second year running. The volume of work that this entails is considerable, but we are fortunate in having a very experienced and able Organising Committee, and I congratulate them on their dedication and flair.

The judges and assessors have spent untold hours sifting their way through some very weighty entries, also visiting sites all over the territory to see products and applications at work. It is evident from the number and level of the awards they have decided on that the quality of entries is also at an all time high. Hong Kong must never take its undoubted skills, talent and entrepreneurship for granted, and it is thus important that these Awards should continue to provide an annual opportunity to reflect critically on the strengths and competitiveness of its ICT industry. The descriptions and comments relating to the winning products and applications in this booklet are necessarily succinct, but they well reveal the different ways in which our robust and innovative industry is helping to generate business and increase customer value. The impact on Hong Kong is indeed great, and our global reach is also becoming stronger and surer.

The staying power that the Awards have shown in their various guises over the years has depended very much on supporting organisations, and I am deeply grateful for the assistance they rendered in 2007.

Finally, I offer my warmest congratulations to this year's recipients of awards and certificates. I am sure they would wish to join me in applauding all the other entrants for being such worthy rivals.

My renewed thanks to each individual and organisation for their many and varied contributions.

Sunny W K Lee
President, Hong Kong Computer Society

My expert colleagues and I are honoured to have been asked to judge these awards, which over the years have gained such prestige in Hong Kong and elsewhere, and we hope that our deliberations and decisions will do much to further stimulate the industry.

The highly condensed selections from comments by judges that have been included for each winning entry profiled in this souvenir booklet make up the tip of the iceberg, of course, but I hope that they will show something of the scope and the spirit of our enquiries. Chief among the qualities assessed were functionality, effectiveness and efficiency, competitiveness, cost performance, and societal impact.

Long-time supporters of the awards will see that, not merely because of the increased number of awards, we have found more worthy winners than in any previous year. This surely bodes well for the industry as it seeks to live up to its ever higher reputation.

Prof Ng Ching Fai
Chairman, Panel of Judges & President & Vice Chancellor, Hong Kong Baptist University

If there is one word to describe our work in organising the Hong Kong ICT Award for Best Business Applications and Products, it would be "Passion".

It was the passion to recognise home-grown excellence in IT applications and products by the Hong Kong Computer Society that the Award was first instigated in 1998 when it took the form of the IT Excellence Awards.

It was the passion in making a difference by IT professionals and enterprises that resulted in a record high number of entries this year of quality applications and products in various industry areas including, financial services, e-logistics, trading services, tourism services, retail services, information security, open sources application, e-learning, industrial support and SME support.

It was the passion to contribute to the IT industry and the Hong Kong community by many supporting organisations and voluntary experts, including the Office of the Government CIO, our panel of judges, advisor, assessors and Society members, that the most outstanding entries are selected.

The selected or, more aptly said, distilled outstanding applications and products, subsisted through a meticulous and established examination of their functionality, effectiveness/efficiency, competitiveness, cost-performance, societal impact and innovative use of IT, are well-deserved winners of the Award in their respective industry areas.

As the Chairman of the Organising Committee, I am most privileged to have shared this passion. It is this passion that makes Hong Kong unique and staying ahead in the global competition.

Let me express my sincere gratitude to all Award applicants, the Panel of Judges, the supporting organisations and all Organising Committee members for their hard work and support. Last but not least, my congratulations to all the winners and wish them and their products and applications continued success.

Peter Yan
Chairman of the Organising Committee

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