Microsoft Innovation Award 2010

Entries to the 2010 Microsoft Innovation Awards were screened by the Innovation Center Selection Committee, four companies were chosen to receive an Award for Outstanding Performance and a company was received the Best Commercial Business Award referred to the votes of Microsoft employees and attendees of Tech・Ed Japan 2010 which is a technical conference hosted by Microsoft. A brief introduction to the winners is given below.
The Best Commercial Business Award The 4 recipients of the Award for Outstanding Performance The 4 winning companies
(Japanese syllabary order)
inotech e-typing Co., Ltd. SKYARC System   Co., Ltd. STEPWISE INC. XeBRal Co., Ltd.

The Best Commercial Business Award

Knee OA Computer-
Aided Diagnosis (KOACAD)

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Knee OA Computer- Aided Diagnosis  (KOACAD)
Osteoarthritis of the knee has a major impact on health and is said to threaten some 2.50 million people in Japan. In collaboration with the University of Tokyo, inotech has developed a novel computer program known as KOACAD, which allows fully automatic measurement of the major parameters of knee osteoarthritis from plain radiographs.
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Our aim is to create better solutions for medical fields.
inotech

●Microsoft technologies we use

Visual Studio 2010, Windows XP/Vista/7 In future the service will be offered via cloud computing.

The 4 recipients of the Award for Outstanding Performance

e-typing
(Internet-based typing practice)

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e-typing
E-typing is Japan's largest typing practice service, with over 910,000 registered users. We are living in an age when people tweet, talk and send information with their fingertips. Typing is in great demand as a communication skill.
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We will continue to develop and offer new services and programs as long as there is a demand for typing practice.
e-typing co., ltd.

●Microsoft technologies we use

The service runs on Windows Server 2003 Web Edition and most of the content is provided by ASPs.

Content Management System
"MTCMS Enterprise"

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Content Management System "MTCMS Enterprise"
MTCMS Enterprise 5 is a CMS for the construction and management of large-scale websites with tens of thousands of pages. Multiple websites can be managed using a single installation and features such as Site Map Dashboard, Approval Workflow and MS Word integration make it easy to update websites, even for someone without technical knowledge of the Web.
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We are a Web technology integrator specializing in web publishing platforms.
SKYARC System   Co., Ltd.

●Microsoft technologies we use

Developed using Perl, with Windows Server 2008, IIS7 and SQL Server 2008.

Venta for Silverlight

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Venta for Silverlight
Venta for Silverlight is a cloud-type retail management application. Venta has minimal retail management functions but can be easily customized and linked with other systems, allowing the user to create all the functions they need, when they need them. Venta is a new paradigm in platforms.
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STEPWISE is a creative company developing systems that use of IT to help you run your business the smart way.
STEPWISE INC.

●Microsoft technologies we use

Windows Azure, SQL Azure, Silverlight 4, WCF RIA Service, ASP.NET Entity Framework.

Corporate search and
analysis infrastructure

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Corporate search and  analysis infrastructure
An ASP solution offering cross-thematic, full-text search and new information alerts, covering the information published by 3,800 listed companies and some non-listed companies in Japan (around 1.3 million documents).
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XeBRaL Co., Ltd. is a company of experienced financial and investment professionals, offering infrastructure for the corporate analysis process. We act as a hands-on partner, helping our clients to analyze information.

Xebral Co. Ltd.

●Microsoft technologies we use

SQL Server 2008, Entity Framework and ASP.NET. We are also planning to integrate BI tools such as PowerPivot into our service.