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This category of awards is given to professionals or organizations
that have made a successful implementation of software
into its business operations. |
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Functionality and Design: |
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Understanding and addressing
user requirements of the operation |
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Easy to learn and use,
well designed screen layout |
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Well accepted by the
user, meet or exceed user required service level |
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Good quality of work,
reliable, efficient and adequate user support |
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Versatile in catering
to operational efficiency and providing a path for
work re-engineering |
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Good deployment of current
technologies to enhance the maintainability of the
system |
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Expandable to meet changing
business requirement without major modifications |
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Productivity: |
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Use of the software to
formulate productivity strategy |
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Productivity gain after
implementation |
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Competitive edge over
others in terms of efficiency and effectiveness |
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Implementation as measured
by cost versus effort |
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Competitiveness: |
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Improvement in business
performance |
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Enhancing the competitive
edge over others |
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Critical functional and
by feature comparison with similar applications |
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Cost
Performance: |
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Cost savings |
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Contribution to revenue |
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Return on investment |
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Social
Impact: |
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Discovering an under-served
sector and/or opening up a new service area |
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Direct benefit to the
target user sector |
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Enhancing the public
awareness of the uses of IT |
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Stimulating
the interest of innovation for similar applications |
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Transforming the industry |
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Innovative
use of IT: |
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Credit should be given
to company with sound, executable and proven business
model, in which IT is a key enabler (e.g. some eCommerce
companies). |
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This category is directed towards IT companies who have
produced products for the general market. |
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Functionality and Design: |
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Understanding and addressing
user requirements in the target industry |
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Easy to set up, learn
and use |
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Quality of
work, reliability, screen layout and presentation |
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Simple and
versatile in catering to operational efficiency
and in providing a path for work re-engineering |
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Scalable
enough to suit user organizations of various sizes |
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Interoperability with
other systems to provide an integrated service |
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Innovation: |
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First of its kind in
Hong Kong, the region, or the world |
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Effective
deployment and integration of available resources
or technologies |
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Appropriate cost/benefit
ratio in terms of the R & D expenditure |
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The possibility of a
breakthrough in an upgraded version or any plans
to develop an upgrade |
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Clear differentiation
vs. competitive products if any |
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Market Performance: |
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Reasonable sales figures
in the last 12 months, market share and penetration |
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Projected
sales figures for the coming 12 months and marketing
strategy |
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Sound marketing
plan with clear target segment, competitive analysis
and established sales channel |
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Cost Effectiveness: |
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Potential to improve
cost effectiveness of business processes |
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Generation
of higher added-value to business users |
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Social Impact: |
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Satisfying customer needs
that were previously not possible or had been unmet. |
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