ebizQ will award the first round of the Buyer’s Choice Awards for Application Integration (EAI), Enterprise Information Integration (EII) and SOA and Composite Applications. The criteria for the awards was developed with the help of hundreds of ebizQ Gold Club members who participated in both a live Webinar and an online survey to define what characteristics they consider most important when buying integration technologies. While preliminary standings being reporting on the ebizQ website were based solely on number of submissions for each vendors, the actual awards will be based on the average raw scores each vendor receives in each category, multiplied by the weight ebizQ members gave to each criterion.

Judging criteria includes ease of use, technical excellence, flexibility and reuse, maintenance and support, security, support for standards, skills required to implement the solution and ROI. For EAI and EII, ebizQ members stated the most important criteria are ease of use, technical excellence, flexibility and reuse, skills required, and ROI. For SOA, ebizQ members most important criteria were technical excellence, flexibility and reuse, and ROI. ebizQ has defined an objective judging method that gives a weighted score to each criterion to reflect these selection priorities, so this is truly a Buyer’s Choice awards.

However, to make these awards truly reflect buyer’s experience, we need to hear from more of you, and about more vendor solutions. Please cast your vote today at http://www.ebizq.net/buyers_choice.html.