EMC Corporation, the world leader in information storage and management, today announced that Technology Marketing Corporation's Communications Solutions Magazine has named EMC Smarts Business Dashboard as the recipient of a 2004 Product of the Year award.

"Each year, Communications Solutions bestows its Product of the Year awards on companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement and application refinements. EMC Corporation has demonstrated to the editors of Communications Solutions that it's gone the extra mile with EMC Smarts Business Dashboard, helping to improve both customer experience and ROI for the companies that use it," said Rich Tehrani, President and Group Publisher of Communications Solutions.

EMC Smarts Business Dashboard software delivers at-a-glance insight into information technology resources and shows how their health affects critical business services. Completely secure and customizable, the software combines data-driven analysis with high-level business graphics to deliver accurate, real-time information to every viewer via a web interface. EMC Smarts Business Dashboard turns notification logs, maps, summary views and status tables into individual components called EMC Smarts Viewlets. These can be combined to create customized displays enhanced with a choice of icons, colors, and backgrounds. Viewlets can also be embedded into third-party portals or custom web pages, creating a desktop layout with information from multiple interactive sources of content.

"For more than two decades, Communications Solutions has delivered some of the industry's most comprehensive product analyses for the communications industry," said Chris Gahagan, Senior Vice President, EMC Software. "We're honored that EMC Corporation has been singled out by this panel of experts – recognizing EMC Smarts Business Dashboard as one of the market's premier solutions for delivering highly automated, intelligent IT services insight."

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes two print magazines: Customer Interaction Solutions and Internet Telephony; five digital publications: SIP Magazine, Speech-World, WiFi Telephony Magazine, VoIP Developer and WiMAX Magazine; and five online publications: TMCnet.com, Planet PDA Magazine, WiFi Revolution, Alternative Power and BiometriTech. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own onsite laboratories, TMC Labs. TMC also produces the VoIP Developer Conference, Speech-World Conference, IP Contact Center Summit and the Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit. TMCnet.com publishes more than 25 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.