The object of the Microsoft Innovation Award is to honor venture companies that have established commercial businesses on the basis of innovative ideas, and to assist them in achieving market exposure, provide them with technological support and help them to develop their businesses globally.
The Best Commercial Business Award is to be chosen from the five winner companies that received awards for outstanding performance. The companies were selected from among venture companies that are developing (or planning to develop) businesses based on innovative software using Microsoft technologies.

Entries to the Microsoft Innovation Award 2009 were screened by the Innovation Center Selection Committee, and five companies were selected to receive the award. An introduction to the five winner companies and the solutions they have proposed is given below.

The Five Winner Companies （Japanese syllabary order）

Who will be chosen for the Best Commercial Business Award?

The Best Commercial Business Award will be selected based on the votes by the directors of Microsoft, the participants in Tech·Ed Japan 2009 and all employees of Microsoft.
At the end of the selection period, the Best Commercial Business Award will be presented at presentation ceremony to be held on Microsoft Innovation Day (scheduled for December in 2009).
* Details will be posted on the Japanese-language version of our website at a later date.

Business Card SaaS
"Link Knowledge"

	The exchange of business cards is an important record of business activities. Link Knowledge is a next-generation SaaS solution that not only allows users to manage business cards they have collected but also offers business card-oriented CRM and SFA.
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SANSAN, Inc
SANSAN aims to develop new markets using a unique business model, based on the concept that business cards can be a corporate asset.

●Microsoft technologies we use

We use a wide variety of Microsoft technologies, including the ASP.NET AJAX for Web applications and ClickOnce for the business card scanner application deployed on hundreds of customer sites.

RealNarrators with JukeDoX

	RealNarrators automatically reads out the content of the notes to a PowerPoint 2007 slide show, using a synthetic voice. It can also be used to automatically generate subtitle text or create slide show file (.ppsx).
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Skyfish Inc.
Skyfish's goal is to contribute to the building of information infrastructure that allows everyone to enjoy the benefits of IT.

●Microsoft technologies we use

RealNarrators uses the Open XML technology standard, allowing integration with PowerPoint 2007.

WallThrough
- An automatic visual tracking solution based on face tracking -

	An "interactive wall" product that allows the user to see distant rooms as if they were just through a window. In addition to interactive real-time collaboration, it can also be used for startlingly high quality playback of video content.
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MAGICTUBE
MAGICTUBE's business centers on user interface design and information systems integration. The company specializes in implementing embedded PC and Web user interfaces.

●Microsoft technologies we use

WPF, Windows Media Services, Windows XP Embedded, Visual Studio 2008

Sokkly
- a look-alike robot that talks in your voice -

	Sokkly is a cute stuffed toy-type look-alike robot, made using photographs of the subject and recordings of their voice. Artificial intelligence allows Sokkly to recognize human voices, detect a human presence and talk in the voice of its subject, and dance.
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LittleIsland INC.
LittleIsland aims to become the world's number one company for look-alike consumer robots.

●Microsoft technologies we use

SDK : Visual Studio / Voice Recognition : Microsoft Speech SDK

TrustDelete

	TrustDelete is an unique data protection solution that allows you to remotely delete data if your laptop is lost or stolen. For greater convenience and security, it is available in ASP and own server versions.
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