ioimage Honored With Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Growth Strategy Leadership

HERZLIYA, Israel, November 29 /PRNewswire/ -- ioimage, the pioneer of intelligent video appliances designed for simplicity in installation and operation, announced today that independent market analysis company, Frost & Sullivan, has selected ioimage as the recipient of the 2006 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Growth Strategy Leadership.

This prestigious Award is given to a company that demonstrates leadership and technological innovation while establishing new venues and forging strategic partnerships and joint ventures for penetration into new markets. Additional Award criteria are the company's ability to address unmet demand for video analytics with easy to deploy solutions and the demonstration of leadership in educating the market on the need for the technology.

"ioimage first excelled with a high-performance solution in a growing market niche and then leveraged their technological position to diversify embedded intelligent video solutions to a wider market," says Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Dilip Sarangan. "Bringing about greater market acceptance of video analytics and developing a flexible intelligent video solution that appealed to the masses, ioimage's strategies won them market share and growing presence in the physical security marketplace."

For the Award, Frost & Sullivan researched each company's market revenues and focused on eligible companies that showed high growth rates and met selection criteria. From those outstanding companies, Frost & Sullivan selects the company that has bolstered its position and demonstrated an outstanding strategy that has a lasting market impact.

For 2006, Frost & Sullivan selected ioimage from among the eligible candidates as the winner for the 2006 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Growth Strategy Leadership.

"An Award from an established voice in the worldwide marketplace, such as Frost & Sullivan, is a celebrated honor for years of hard work by the ioimage team," said Roni Kass ioimage CEO and Founder. "Were not stopping here; We will continue to expand into new markets with easy-to-use, reliable and top performing intelligent-video-solutions as well as grow the intelligent video functionality for next generation applications and solutions."

About Frost & Sullivan

Frost & Sullivan, a global growth consulting company, has been partnering with clients to support the development of innovative strategies for more than 40 years. The company's industry expertise integrates growth consulting, growth partnership services, and corporate management training to identify and develop opportunities. Frost & Sullivan serves an extensive clientele that includes Global 1000 companies, emerging companies, and the investment community by providing comprehensive industry coverage that reflects a unique global perspective and combines ongoing analysis of markets, technologies, econometrics, and demographics. For more information, visit www.awards.frost.com or www.autoid.frost.com.

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    About ioimage

Founded in 2000, ioimage has pioneered the concept of intelligent video appliances, delivering high performance video analytics designed and packaged for simplicity. ioimage helps government, public, and commercial organizations transform video surveillance into a proactive, event-driven process using networked DSP-based devices for real-time detection, alert and tracking of intruders, vehicles, and threats.

    More information is available at www.ioimage.com.

    For international media inquiries, contact:

    Fiona Ungar
    Marketing Communications Manager
    fiona@ioimage.com
    Tel: +972-9-954-6003

    For Americas media inquiries, contact:

    Chelsie Woods
    ioimage Public Relations
    +1-207-885-1236
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    cwoods@eclipsemediagroup.net