Itanium Solutions Alliance unveiled its roadmap for 2008 .The alliance also shared winners of its second annual innovation awards and its intention to expand partnerships and solutions presence in India. This years category winners are S7 Software for Entrepreneurial Innovation, Protg Software for Enterprise Business Application achievement; University of Houston for Humanitarian Impact.

"The stories of this year's winners amply demonstrates the impact of Intel Itanium technology in solving mission-critical computing challenges in a wide range of application environments. The breadth of entries was impressive and selecting a winner in each category was quite challenging. The winners and finalists solutions clearly showcase the value of an Itanium-based solution over costlier mainframes in real-life applications," said Joan Jacobs, executive director, Itanium Solutions Alliance.

S7 Software Solutions, a software services and product-based company specializing in software migration and re-engineering domain, was recognized for porting more than 2 million lines of software code of a Fortune 100 company's financial transaction processing system. Faster response time, higher availability and flexible scalability made the Itanium-based platform the perfect fit for their migration challenge. "By migrating our customer's application engine onto the Intel Itanium architecture, we helped our customer derive the benefits of Itanium's scalability and performance features including faster transaction time, secure around-the-clock processing and extensive software environment," said Phaniraj Raghavendra, software architect, S7 Software Solutions.