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City of Edmonton honored again for its implementation of POSSE

October 22, 1998

The City of Edmonton has again been honored for its implementation of the POSSE system by receiving Canada's prestigious CIO/ITX award for information technology's contribution to business success. POSSE is a one-stop configurable workflow management system that also integrates Geographical Information System (GIS) data into business processes, from the front counter to the field. A key factor in the success of POSSE was the close collaboration achieved between public and private sector IT specialists, business staff and the change process managers.

The award was organized by the Conference Board of Canada and Laurentian Technomedia Inc., and sponsored by the Globe and Mail and CIO Canada Magazine. There were 25 submissions for this year's ITX award, and the nine judges were drawn from the upper echelons of Canadian information technology executives. Joni Mines, Manager, Land Applications, Corporate Services Department, and Larry Benowski, Manager, Development Compliance Branch, Planning and Development Department, accepted the award on behalf of the City of Edmonton.

"We were extremely proud," Benowski said, "to be selected as one of the five finalists. To actually win was beyond belief. But the real heroes were the staff involved in the re-engineering of the business processes. They created a new work environment for their customers and themselves that is the foundation of POSSE."

"POSSE has been recognized again as an exemplary system with outstanding business value, "said Don Smallwood, Vice President of Computronix. In 1997, the City of Edmonton also won the URISA Award and the Bertelsmann Award for POSSE. Computronix, together with the City of Edmonton, were also nominated for a 1998 Computerworld Smithsonian Award, and in April 1998, POSSE was inducted into the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C.

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