The Siemens Business Innovation of the Year Award

Winner: CoreMedia AG
Hamburg , GERMANY

Dr Klemens Kleiminger (left) with Dr Ralph Gündling of category sponsor Seimens

 

As technology leader for content technology and digital rights management, CoreMedia specialises in the high-end market for demanding content. CoreMedia, offering convergent solutions that reach customers anywhere whether mobile or PC based, holds a strong vision of the future. A mobile information society which is not only free, it is also secure. www.coremedia.com

 

The Finalists

Airbus S.A.S
Toulouse - FRANCE

The Airbus Technical AOG Centre has drastically reduced expensive delays for airlines as in-flight technical faults on any of the Airbus fleet are detected remotely by the Centre. www.airbus.com

 

Akzo Nobel NV
Arnham - THE NETHERLANDS

Akzo Nobel is a multicultural organisation serving customers throughout the world with industrial coatings and a chemicals portfolio focused on five core platforms. www.akzonobel.com

 

Atlas Copco Surface Drilling Equipment
Örebro - SWEDEN

Atlas Copco, is a world leader in industrial productivity solutions in civil engineering, quarries and open pit mines. www.atlascopco.com

 

BP plc
Aberdeen - UNITED KINGDOM

Energy giant BP developed a world class solution to win a contract to pipe and process 550,000 barrels a year from the Buzzard oil field. www.bp.com

 

DaimlerChrysler AG
Stuttgart - Germany

DaimlerChrysler’s engineers invented and developed ‘co-operating robots’ that work around the static vehicle in production. www.daimlerchrysler.com

 

DeLaval International AB
Tumba - SWEDEN

Voluntary Milking Systems lets cows decide when to be milked in a fast, quiet, robust yet gentle automatic process that is liberating dairy farmers everywhere. www.delaval.com

 

Honeywell-CentraLine
Amsterdam - The Netherlands

CentraLine provides energy efficient, customer-oriented products to meet the requirements of small and medium sized buildings with easy-to-use heating, ventilation and climate controls. www.centraline.com

 

HP Corporation EMEA
Boeblingen – GERMANY

HP’s Microactivities Acceleration Programme maximises the impact of IT philanthropy for the benefit of local communities around the world and introduces IT innovation to people around the globe. www.hp.com

 

innocent drinks
London - UNITED KINGDOM

innocent - makers of natural, tasty, healthy drinks from 100 per cent crushed fruit and pure juice, and nothing else - developed the first 100 per cent natural drink for children - ‘Smoothies For Kids’. www.innocentdrinks.co.uk