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bom.com Wins Prestigious Industrial Design Excellence
Award (IDEA)
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Solution Recognized for Innovative Design and User Benefits
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 28, 2002 — bom.com today announced that it has been honored by the 2002 Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA). IDEA, which is co-sponsored by BusinessWeek and the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), is widely regarded as the premier award worldwide for industrial design. The 174 winners, chosen from a pool of 1,116 entries, were announced today by BusinessWeek.
bom.com received a Bronze award in the Digital Media and Interfaces category for its online product lifecycle management (PLM) solution. The product was designed by an internal engineering team, led by chief technology officer Eric Larkin and product development director Janet Yu, in collaboration with principals Victor Zauderer and Marc Escobosa of Zaudhaus, a creative design and consulting firm that is the company’s interface development partner.
“Anyone who won a 2002 IDEA should feel very good about it,” Jury Chair Chuck Jones, FIDSA, said. “This jury had vast knowledge of all the categories and was stringent in its deliberations and choices. These winning designs were face-changing designs, functional, hit the specific target audience and were designed with the sound principles that our members demand.”
“For an enterprise software application to provide maximum benefit, it must be a tool that individuals will actually use,” said Michael Topolovac, president and chief executive officer of bom.com. “For that reason, bom.com focuses not only on providing full-featured PLM functionality, but also on making that functionality available through an intuitive, easy-to-use interface. To receive an award echoing what our customers are telling us - that bom.com is succeeding at those design objectives - is a tremendous honor.”
IDEA winners, selected by a jury of 16 non-affiliated designers, were judged in five areas of industrial design excellence: 1. design innovation, 2. benefit to the user, 3. benefit to the client/business, 4. ecological responsibility, and 5. appropriate aesthetics and appeal. bom.com and the rest of the IDEA 2002 winners will be featured on the IDSA website at www.idsa.org.
About IDEA & IDSA
The IDEA program fosters business and public understanding about the impact of industrial design excellence on the quality of life and the economy. IDSA is the nonprofit association that represents the profession of industrial design to education, business, government and the public and serves the profession’s needs for information and networking.
About Arena Solutions
Arena Solutions is the leading provider of on–demand (SaaS) product lifecycle management solutions
for manufacturing companies of all sizes. As the only true on–demand, secure Internet–based
PLM service, Arena PLM provides a superior alternative to complicated, lengthy and expensive traditional
PLM software deployments. Through its award–winning service, Arena enables product manufacturers and
their global supply chains to streamline outsourcing, improve operational efficiencies, and speed time–to–market.
Arena PLM has been adopted by more than 15,000 users across companies at all stages of development, including industry leaders
Foundry Networks, Color Kinetics, Intuit, Sierra Wireless, Align Technology and more.
Arena Solutions’ market–changing approach to PLM has received significant recognition in the industry, including Manufacturing Business Technology’s Top 40 Emerging Vendors, the Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100, Industry Week’s “Technology of the Year – Notable Innovators” and Start Magazine’s “Hottest” Companies.
Founded in February 2000, Arena Solutions is headquartered in Foster City, California. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.arenasolutions.com.
Contact:
Cindi Goodsell
cgoodsell@arenasolutions.com
1.510.479.9015
Arena PLM is a trademark of Arena Solutions, Inc. Other product and company names are the property of their respective holders.
