Dubai portal wins top award

Media Office of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, led the list of this year's Vignette Excellence Awards in the US.

The awards recognise the most powerful and compelling websites and online properties for corporate, government and customer use. This year's winners include the Media Office of Sheikh Mohammed, MLC, Motorola, QAD and Terra Networks.

Winners were recognised during Vignette Village 2008, the company's annual user conference that occurred in Austin, Texas.

"Vignette works with some of the largest and most successful companies in the world, and the Excellence Awards go to a select few that have demonstrated outstanding innovation and real understanding of what the Web can do for their customers, partners, employees and other constituents," said Dave Dutch, Senior Vice-President of Products and Marketing at Vignette. "This year's winners serve as real examples to other enterprise-class organisations."

Vignette provides software and services that deliver dynamic user experiences. The Media Office of Sheikh Mohammed provides one of the best examples of how governments can use video and multimedia content to create powerful and effective destinations for citizens, visitors and other constituents, said the official communique from Vignette.

The Media Office's web platform features an extensive array of content that includes video archives, photo libraries, and rich internet applications that highlight the emirate of Dubai and Sheikh Mohammed's many activities.

Other winners in the list included MLC, the wealth management division of National Australia Bank, which is one of the leading web service providers for financial advisers and investors in Australia. Global communications powerhouse Motorola was third in the list of recipients.

QAD is fourth on the list and provides applications that are used at approximately 6,100 licensed sites in more than 90 countries and in as many as 27 languages.

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