Hauppauge, NY - Intrigma Inc. today announced that it has been named a winner in the Business Achievement Awards presented by the Hauppauge Industrial Association (HIA). Intrigma Inc. was named in the Rookie of the Year category.
"HIA's Annual Business Achievement Award competition focuses attention on the accomplishments of the local business community," states Terri Alessi - Miceli, President of the HIA. "It is a great opportunity to gain the recognition they deserve for their growth, leadership and overall commitment to our region."
Judging was based on the company's commitment to the growth or betterment of the Long Island community, positive employer/employee relations, revenue and profitability trends, and future company vision. Companies were also able to point out any recent outstanding accomplishments, technical innovations, market expansion, industry leadership or triumph over adversity in their bid for the award.
Winners
& finalists this year include Clear Vision Optical, P.W. Grosser, Community Development Corp of Long Island, Intrigma, Allstate - Dubin/Wood Agency, Atlantis Marine World, Teresa's Family Cleaning, Holzmacher, McLendon
& Murrell, P.C. (H2M), mindSHIFT Technologies, Education
& Assistance Corporation (EAC), Middle Country Public Library, Hangover Buster and The OfficeWorx.
Winners and finalists of these firms in each of four divisions will be the honorees at the HIA's September 9th Gala Luncheon where 350-400 business professionals and political dignitaries will also hear a keynote presentation officiated by Steve Levy, Suffolk County Executive. Winning companies will also have an opportunity to display their products and/or services and to speak about their company in the presence of government dignitaries and Long Island business leaders.
"Long Island firms face many obstacles," said Ann Marie Scheidt, Co Chair of HIA's Business Development Committee. "But they've proven over and over that they have the talent and resourcefulness to overcome those obstacles and forge ahead. This is the HIA's way of saying 'thank you' to companies that have successfully met competitive challenges, have had a significant community impact, and have made commitments to growth on Long Island."
Sponsors of this event to date include Capital One Bank, Clear Vision Optical, Stony Brook University, Newsday, Event Pros Group, People's Alliance Federal Credit Union, Girl Scouts of Suffolk County, Vormittag Associates, Inc. (VAI).
"Competition today is intense, especially for companies on Long Island," said Terri Alessi - Miceli, President of the HIA. "The HIA is helping to shine a light on Long Island companies that have had tremendous business success while contributing to the betterment of the Long Island Community while overcoming any diversity that has come their way."
Past winners have included Vormittag Associates, Inc. (VAI), FedEx Corp. (Large Business Achievement Award), Clear Vision Optical, Fuoco Group (Small Business Achievement Award), UCP of Greater Suffolk, Girl Scouts of Suffolk County (Not-for-Profit) and Dr. Sheri Glazer, DDS, Applied DNA Sciences (Rookie of the Year).
Intrigma Inc. - Medical Staff Scheduling
Intrigma is a software vendor dedicated to providing hospitals and medical facilities with scheduling technologies. The company was founded in 2004 and is located at the New York State Technology Incubator at Stony Brook. Intrigma helps hospitals and medical facilities schedule staff and cope with staff shortages by providing software technologies that allow fast and efficient staff-schedule making and schedule-related communications between staff and administration.
About the HIA
The Hauppauge Industrial Association, which has a membership of approximately 1,000 companies throughout LI, is a proactive 30-year-young business organization that focuses on the economic health and well-being of its member companies and that of the entire Long Island business community. HIA provides services and programs focusing on international trade, human resources, business development, government affairs, manufacturing, technology, environment, education, engineering, transportation, energy and much more. Contact the HIA at
www.hia-li.org or 631 543-5355.
Intrigma Inc., the first winner of Stony Brook's DARE student entrepreneurship competition in 2005 and a tenant in the Stony Brook Software Incubator, has been awarded a $100,000 National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant. SBIR grants are normally awarded to corporations with a high-risk/high-return potential and a vision of significant societal impact.
The company's scheduling software, Intrigma Scheduling Studio (ISS), aims to ease the strain on hospitals that have staff shortages. Shortages of this type have become very common in recent years as the demands on hospitals grow at a much faster rate than available qualified staff. ISS features an advanced algorithm for generating schedules; the SBIR grant will enable research on how the software can deal with automated rule relaxation, improving the quality of the generated schedules. "In many facilities, a medical staff member spends thirty or forty hours every week constructing highly constrained schedules," explains Dan Ports, lead developer at Intrigma. "We want to alleviate this problem by integrating more sophisticated metaheuristics into our scheduling engine, resulting in better schedules with a minimum of user input."
Tal Eidelberg, Intrigma's CEO and former Stony Brook Computer Science Master's student, says that the company's close relationship with Stony Brook University played a crucial role in the company's development: "Intrigma from the get-go was a Stony Brook brainchild. Our initial affiliations, ranging from employees and board members to research advisers and investors, are all individuals connected to SBU in one way or another." Eidelberg says that the time is right for startups on Long Island: "We are extremely fortunate and excited to be in business at this time on Long Island given the larger University-based projects that are currently in gear such as the Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology initiative and the angel investor network that Stony Brook is spearheading." Winning the Phase I NSF grant allows Intrigma to apply for a Phase II award of up to $500,000.
Courtesy of
Stony Brook Research News
