Calgary Scientific Named a "Top 5 Innovator" by PwC

Calgary Scientific Named a "Top 5 Innovator" by PwC

Vision to Reality Award Celebrates Dynamic Canadian Technology Companies

CALGARY, Alberta, Aug. 11, 2011 /CNW/ -- Calgary Scientific, a leading innovator in advanced visualization solutions and web, mobile and collaboration-enabling platforms today announced it was recently a Top 5 Finalist in PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC) inaugural Vision to Reality Awards program from amongst a field of more than 70 evaluated nominees across the nation. The awards program celebrates dynamic companies in the broad technology sector that have demonstrated successful growth and outstanding achievements making them among Canada's most successful technology companies. The criteria evaluated included the level of organizational and technical innovation demonstrated, current and potential financial performance, predicted staying power, as well as overall strategic direction.

"We are very pleased to have been named a Top 5 Innovator in the emerging Canadian technology sector," says Dr. Byron Osing, CEO and Chair of Calgary Scientific. "Calgary Scientific has built a strong reputation in the global Medical IT sector as a leading edge innovator with our ResolutionMD(TM) web and mobile product lines, which are now OEM'd by many of the largest global players in the industry, as well as for the major technical breakthrough's we have made with our PureWeb® platform. Aside from what we have accomplished in the medical sector, we are now coming up on radar screens across many other industries, and garnering the attention of the financial and analyst communities as a player to watch."

PureWeb is the first advanced software virtualization platform solution that allows multiple users to interact with the same instance of a software application simultaneously. The software's new collaboration capability allows geographically distributed users to access any PureWeb enabled application and collaborate with other users on a real-time basis, from any web-browser or supported mobile device. PureWeb allows existing software applications to be used in new ways and places, for less time and money, while maintaining high performance and security. Calgary Scientific has seen traction beyond the medical industry with retail, aerospace, defense, gaming, maintenance and simulation.

"PureWeb platform can simplify application management for many organizations through virtualization; it also has the potential to revolutionize the web, mobile and real-time advanced collaboration. While PureWeb is currently focused on the medical software industry, the solution itself can apply to many different industry verticals," said Ian Song, Senior Research Analyst with IDC. "PureWeb is a unique solution in the application virtualization space; it has the capability to address many applications others can't virtualize."

PwC Vision to Reality winners were evaluated by an independent panel of judges including executives from RIM, Fogler, Rubinoff LLP, Wellington Financial LP, Bridgescale Partners and Growthworks Capital. Other than Calgary Scientific, the finalists included Cavet Technologies Inc., IntelliView Technologies Inc. and Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc., with EcoSynthetix receiving the top honor.

About Calgary Scientific Inc.

Calgary Scientific is dedicated to providing advanced web, mobility, and multi-party collaboration enablement platform technology, as well as advanced visualization solutions to industries looking for secure access and use of their data or graphics intensive applications, while using their existing systems. All of these products demonstrate a leading edge web and mobile enablement capability made possible with the unique power of PureWeb®. Calgary Scientific aims to be the premier leader and provider of truly accessible, advanced visualization solutions, in the medical imaging market, as well as the industry leaders in advanced web, mobility, and collaboration enablement technologies. For more information on Calgary Scientific, go to www.calgaryscientific.com.

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