Spotlight on Filipino ICT innovators, creative entrepreneurs
e-Services 2009 also paid tribute to the country’s ICT innovators and entrepreneurs whose innovative ideas carry tremendous potential in the international market.
This year’s winners are:

Infoview by Corebuilt Technologies, Inc.
Outstanding Client Application of the Year

Corebuilt, a software company, proves that Filipinos are innovators by heart. Their product Infoview that won for them the e-Services Award this year came about when their European client had problems with their digital signage solutions. Corebuilt developed an entirely new digital signage solution that can show different content types, from Powerpoint to video, internet feeds, and Excel data, explained Lee Zamora, project manager of Corebuilt.

This is particularly useful when screens are located in difficult to reach locations or public spaces where onsite adjustments would be inconvenient or disruptive,” Zamora added. “By winning the award, we wanted to use it to promote the company and the Philippines as a viable option when looking for innovative software development capability.

INF Dictation Capturing System by NEXT IX Inc.
Outstanding Consumer Application of the Year

Newspapers are not the only ones going online. Using open standard software, local ICT companies are also tapping into their creativity to leverage on the internet to offer communication systems.

Philippine company Next IX, Inc. continues its bid to drive technology to the next level with their internet-based dictation capturing system

According to Bobby Suson, chief executive officer of Next IX, Inc said the current product is being used by major companies to capture voice dictations from countries like the United States. “We see the internet as the infrastructure of the future for consumer applications. Thus, legacy
applications like a dictation capturing system should evolve and go online.”

In the past, Philippine companies get phone dictation services from US providers that could be very expensive.

“We are targeting China for our products and hope to continue promoting innovations that are researched and developed in the Philippines,” added Suson.

“The Award gives our company credibility when marketing in the international market. Clients become more receptive and gives us 90% probability to close the sale.”

Sweetspots by PLDT
Groundbreaking Technology of the Year

Launched in November 2008, Sweetspots is the digital signage technology of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company. The solution offers a networked end-to-end managed digital signage network solution that includes everything a client needs for a nationwide deployment of networked digital signages.

Exist Global
Most Progressive Company for Software

A proponent of Open Source in the Philippines, Exist is a comprehensive software engineering firm serving Fortune 500 clients and organizations such as ZDNet Asia and Red Herring Asia. The company currently employs 124 people and has offices in Los Angeles and San Jose California; Boulder, Colorado; Sydney, and Toronto.

“We are honored for the e-Services award which is testament of seven years of hard work and consistent innovation delivery from all of Exist Global’s employees. There is no better time to really become innovative than during these trying times. We are sure that with the recognition, Exist will continue with its progressive ways and will do our part to help in the progress of e-Services in the country,” said Winston Damarillo, CEO of Exist.

SENCOR (Systems and Encoding Corporation)
Most Progressive Homegrown Company for BPO

The company has over 24 years in the BPO/KPO business. Sencor has IT, legal, and business team in the Philippines and in the United States. They have been handling content development, legal process outsourcing, research, and business intelligence for close to 40 multinational organizations.

Special citations were also given to Mr Charlie Villasenor, CEO of Transprocure for Business Development in BPO; Mr Winston Damarillo, founding partner of Global Gateway Venture Capital (G2VC) for Business Development in Software Development; and Cutting Edge Productions for the film “Dayo” as an outstanding achievement in the field of Philippine animation.

Over the years, the country’s creative entrepreneurs in ICT have built the country’s reputation as creativity hub in Asia. The Philippine animation industry alone generated 105 million dollars in revenues in 2007 and provided jobs to 10, 000 local artists. Filipino IT designers and engineers
have introduced popular value-added services to the world market, namely mobile wallets and other creative mobile content.


Filipino ICT innovators. e-Services Awards cites Filipino companies as well as ICT personalities showing outstanding achievements in ICT and BPO.
Photo shows (from left to right): Victor Tria of PLDT; Winston Damarillo of G2VC; Kelvin Co Cua of Next IX; George Martel of Sencor; Uffe Henrichsen of Corebuilt;Charlie Villasenor of Transprocure; Jerry Rapes of Exist Global; Robert Quilao and Erwin Escubio of Cutting Edge Productions.