And the winners are…

Yesterday at Shape'09 – The Web Conference, the best Swiss Silverlight applications of the year were accredited with the

recognition – An initiative of Microsoft Switzerland, in cooperation with Best of Swiss Web (BoSW). Claudio Dionisio, president of the BoSW Association, awarded the most innovative, exciting and business relevant Silverlight solutions. The projects were judged by a competent jury, chaired by Prof. Dr. Markus Stolze from the Institute für Software at the Hochschule für Technik in Rapperswil. The jury members especially focused on aspects such as technical innovation and unconventional design. Furthermore, great emphasis was placed on stability, usability and business relevance of the submitted solutions.
From the pool of the submitted projects, the jury awarded the following four solutions with Gold-, Silver- and Bronze- Awards. And the awards go to:

On the Shape Web Site, you can find plenty of information about these solutions, the jury members and the criteria they have used to select the winners. Aim of this post is more to honor the great people who are behind these great solution. So, let’s see some pictures :-)

sobees web

Vincent RITHNER, CTO soobes.com (second from left). In his words:

"Since the beginning of sobees, our plan was clearly to deliver the best applications interacting with social networks and offering the best user experience, both on the desktop and on the web. For us, WPF for the desktop and Silverlight for the web (and SL mobile in the future) represent the best technologies to transform our vision into reality."

Beside Vincent, from left to right:

• Claudio Dionisio, president of the BoSW Association
• Prof. Dr. Markus Stolze (BoSS jury president) from the Institute für Software at the Hochschule für Technik in Rapperswil
• Christof Zogg, Director Developer & Platform Group, Microsoft Schweiz

B2B-Connector - E-Commerce Platform Swiss Post

Paolo Casella, SW Architect, Informationstechnologie - Die Schweizerische Post (second from left)

Sergio Aquilini, Senior Developer, Informationstechnologie - Die Schweizerische Post (third from left)

In Paolo’s words:

"At the very start of project our customers expressed very clearly, which were the needs the solution to be developed had to fulfill: multitenant, high accessibility, higher user-experience (usability/ease-of-use), no deploy. The challenge was to combine such customer needs to the technical requirements defined by the existing applications and data-structures: complex data representation (sales-related information, customer information, processes status, use of graphics), combination of different screens at a time (parallel processing of user-tasks), asynchronous data access. Those are the reasons why we came up with the idea of Silverlight."

Medical Cockpit

Paul Affentranger, Geschäftsführer, afca informatik ag (second from left). In his words:

"Silverlight enables us to develop with less complexity modern, attractive and stable user interfaces. The technology supports smooth collaboration between developers and designers, and integrates well to Service Oriented Architecture. "

Interaktives Sales Tool

The UNIC Team with the customer representative from Siemens Schweiz AG. In their words:

"With the new interactive and intuitive Silverlight solution we gain substantial benefits and savings in our customer service."
Bernardo Egli, Marketing Communication Manager, Siemens Schweiz AG, Building Technologies Division

"The extensive basic features of Silverlight allowed us to develop efficiently our user-friendly sales tool for Siemens Switzerland AG."
André Schmid, Director Sales and Consulting Microsoft, Unic AG