OFFICIAL INTEL PREMIER IT KNOWLEDGE AWARDS PROGRAM RULES
NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION FOR THIS AWARDS PROGRAM OR TO BE CONSIDERED AS AN AWARD WINNER.

By participating in this Awards program, entrants accept and agree to be bound by these Official Rules. Any violation of these rules may result in disqualification. All decisions of the judges regarding this Awards program are final and binding in all respects.

What is the Intel Premier IT Knowledge Awards Program?

Intel, in conjunction with CXO Media, Inc. (publisher of CIO), is seeking IT end-user organization case study submissions for its Premier IT Knowledge Awards program. This awards program will recognize organizations that have employed unique, progressive best practices in the area of data center management and client fleet management.

Three Awards will be given: 2 from our judges and one from your peers

• Data Center Management
• Client Fleet Management
• Intel Premier IT Professional Choice Award (winner will be chosen by your peers)

Recognition and Benefits to Award Recipients:

• A four-page Intel Premier IT Knowledge Awards supplement will be completed on August 1, 2009 showcasing the three award recipients. This piece will be sent to the entire circulation in the September 1, 2009 issue of CIO magazine.
• Each of the three individual award recipients will have the opportunity to attend their choice of one of the following exclusive CIO Executive Programs (This prize package includes all conference and workshop sessions, participation in the event golf tournament, all event scheduled meals and receptions, the CIO 100 awards ceremony and black tie dinner or the CIO Hall of Fame Honorees Dinner, access to the event post-conference site, all conference materials, any public sponsor hospitality events and 2 nights hotel accommodation for the winner and a significant other.):
  • ▪ CIO 100 Symposium and Awards (August 23-25, 2009 at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado) (prize value approx. $2,670)
  • -or-
  • ▪ CIO: The Year Ahead Summit (November 8-10, 2009 at the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort and Spa in Indian Wells, California) (prize value approx. $1,895)
  • Winners are responsible for their own travel expenses.
• Plaques will be completed and shipped to the three winning organizations on September 1, 2009. No cash value is associated with these awards.

Who is Eligible to Apply:

Eligible nominees are exclusively North American IT end-user organizations within and outside the Intel Premier IT Professional community. All submitted projects must be partially or fully deployed and the solution must be based on Intel architecture. Projects that are in development or in pilot testing will not be eligible. Contest excludes members of Intel’s ecosystem such as OEMs, ISVs, channel, etc. For any questions on eligibility please contact jen_mckean@idgresearch.com.

Visit http://public.cxo.com/awards/IPIK/IPIK_2009_application.html before 11:59:59 PM on May 29, 2009 and follow the instructions to complete and submit the application form. Entrants represent and warrant that their Submission is the original work of such entrant, it has not been copied from others, and it does not violate the rights of any other person or entity. All entrant information, including e-mail addresses, is subject to the respective Privacy Policy of the applicable Sponsor.

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How We Judge the Award

Judges evaluate finalists for each award according to the substantiated solution attributes and achievements against the following criteria:

• Innovation: The extent to which your organization used IT in a new way or enabled new ways of doing business.
• Impact or contributions to the business: The measurable impact, backed up by supporting data, that your project or initiative has had on your organization and its business results.
• Employment of best practices: the extent to which the initiative establishes new or leverages existing best practices.

Each application will be read by 4 members of the CIO/Intel judging team who will rate it on a scale of 1 to 5 for each criterion. Applicants with the highest average scores will become semifinalists. There will be four semifinalists chosen per category. All scores will be kept confidential within the CIO/Intel judging team. Once the four semifinalists have been determined, each judge will be asked to rank order the pool of semifinalists within each category. The ranked scores will be added together and the entry with the highest ranked score in each category will become that category’s Intel Premier IT Knowledge Award winner. In the rare event that a tie score is reached throughout any portion of the judging process, the judging panel will collaborate and arbitrarily choose what applicants advance. To include Intel Premier IT Professional member participation, application abstracts will be compiled by the CIO/Intel judging team and posted on cio.com landing page. A simplistic voting mechanism for the eight semifinalists will be posted on this a cio.com landing page exclusively allowing Intel Premier IT Professional members to choose an overall best of submission from both categories. To ensure exclusivity, a redirect URL will be created by Intel within the Intel Premier IT Professional gated site driving members to this voting landing page. The highest ranked company will be showcased within the supplement and receive a plaque as an Intel Premier IT Professional’s Choice Award recipient. Odds of being voted best of submission will be determined by both the number of eligible submissions and the quality of each solution attribute and achievements.

Deadlines:

The deadline for submitting applications online is 11:59:59 PM, EST on May 29, 2009. The four finalists for each category will be chosen by the CIO/Intel judging team. To ascertain the Intel Premier IT Professional's Choice Award, all eight abstracts will be completed by June 12, 2009, posted on cio.com landing page and judged exclusively by the Intel’s Premier IT Professional members from June 15, 2009 through June 26, 2009.

How We Use Your Information:

The judges will use this information for the purposes of this awards program. Excerpts and information from the semifinalists will be highlighted on a cio.com landing page to exclusively allow Intel Premier IT Professional members to vote on one overall best of submission. All entry materials become the property of the Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned. The copyright in any Submission shall remain the property of the entrant, but submitting an entry into this Awards program constitutes entrant’s irrevocable and perpetual permission and consent, without further compensation or attribution, to use such Submission for editorial, advertising and publicity purposes by the Sponsor and/or others authorized by the Sponsor, in any and all media now in existence or hereinafter created, throughout the world, for the duration of the copyright in the Submission. Sponsor and/or others authorized by the Sponsor shall have the right to reasonably edit, adapt, and modify the Submission for purposes of this contest.

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