The KPMG Product of the Year Award is reserved for the most innovative product introduced taken to market by a North Texas company. The award will be presented at the KPMG High Tech Awards banquet in Dallas on Wednesday, October 24, 2001 and was created to honor outstanding individuals and companies in Dalls' high-tech industry - the fastest growing high-tech market in the country, according to Red Herring Editor, Tony Perkins.

"The Dallas area is the undisputed birthplace of the high-tech industry," said Don Spitzer, KPMG Southwest Area Partner. Spitzer continued, "the nominees for Product of the Year represent the best in Texas."

"This is a great honor for a great product," said Kevin Rachel, director of field operations for Emrys Technologies. "We have developed an amazing product that solves very complex challenges that our customers face in the development and deployment of distributed and mobile computing solutions."

Customers embracing Emrys and its technology include Producer's Lloyds Insurance Company (winner of the InfoWorld Magazine 100 Award for technology innovation), HUON Corporation, AMX International, Inc., and Zurich Insurance, Inc.

At the core of Emrys' product offering is the Visions product suite, the industry's most powerful development tools and most robust deployment infrastructure to allow organizations, large and small, to overcome the most difficult distributed and mobile computing challenges with extraordinary ease and simplicity.