Zoomery wins Microsoft Innovation Award!

vbandi — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:38:00 GMT

(Please visit the site to view this media)(Please visit the site to view this media)Our very ambitious Silverlight Deep Zoom project, Zoomery has received Microsoft Hungary’s Innovation Award 2009 yesterday. This is the second time that we have won this award (the first application was featured in the Architecture Journal case study “Support Technicians on the Road”, and we are very proud of it! I’d like to thank my colleagues, Balázs Cseh, Péter Szabó and Mátyás Surányi for working very hard on the project, for their ideas and feedback and their dedication. I’d also like to thank Microsoft Hungary for choosing Zoomery and presenting us with the award. Congratulations to the other awardee, BInergy for their great WPF application!

Here is a quick demo reel video of Zoomery. You can view the rest of our demo reel at www.response.hu, if you’re interested. :)

Zoomery

As there probably will be no official English press release, let me sum up / translate the relevant parts of the Hungarian press release here:

June 3, 2009 Budapest: The representatives of Microsoft Hungary ceremoniously presented the 2009 Innovation Awards. The Awards were first presented in 2008, acknowledging the most innovative Hungarian software solutions. A Solution is innovative, if it answers existing market needs using new tools and technologies, or using the existing ones in a new way. The important thing is not to use the technology for its sake, but to help drive the personal or corporate efficiency, the user experience, the connection of software and services, or maybe to help advancing the entire society.

This year the applications were invited in three categories:

Rich client applications [cut]
Rich Internet Applications (RIA). Silverlight is Microsoft’s most important platform for creating rich internet applications. The software should be an application running in Internet Explorer 7 or 8, using Silverlight 2.0 technology that utilizes the data binding, multimedia and other value added services of Silverlight. [cut]
Windows 7 Applications [cut]

During evaluation, emphasis was placed on the list of possible applications. Microsoft’s Professionals were examining the vertical and horizontal functionality of the software as announced in the call for applications, and what amount of novelty can be found relative to the existing solutions on the market. An important decision factor was the usage of Microsoft technologies, and what problems were solved using them.

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Response Ltd. [that’s my company] entered with its Zoomery technology. Using Zoomery, any digital data can be transformed into “zooms”, allowing the user to view a huge amount of information, be it pictures, documents, plans, complete conferences or even full newspaper archives. The end user can navigate the material presented easily – using the intuitive user interface, he / she can search or continuously travel between the overview and the smallest details in seconds, without losing context.

Zoomery can show the data in any browser, using Silverlight’s unique Deep Zoom technology, while the soul of its content generator framework is based on WPF. Key Hungarian Zoomery references include the “A photo for every day” picture calendar created for the biggest Hungarian news portal “Origo”, and Microsoft’s “I love your website” campaign, which is aimed to help spread Internet Explorer 8 in Hungary. Further samples can be seen at www.zoomery.com.

“We have entered the competition for the innovation award because of the publicity, and in the hopes that thanks to the prestigious Microsoft award, we can get new clients, or even contact potential investors” – said Response Ltd. General Manager, András Velvárt, who is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional awardee for his community work and technical expertise.

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Other press coverage so far (all Hungarian):

VBandi's blog : out-of-the-box, Silverlight

Zoomery wins Microsoft Innovation Award!