FORT WORTH, Texas — The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) has received the CIO-100 award for technology and process integration from CIO Magazine. The 2002 CIO-100 recognizes 100 organizations around the world that excel in positive business performance through integrated processes and technology. BNSF was the only railroad among the 100 organizations recognized.
BNSF was recognized for its development and implementation of its Planning and Activity Reporting System (PARS), a single point of entry for maintenance work orders; Employee Online, which allows employees to update personal information, check pay and benefits and review corporate information and policies; and Revenue Single Source, a revenue management tool allowing access and review of all revenue transactions on the railroad from a single Web interface.
“We’re pleased with this recognition of the vision, commitment and hard work of our Technology Services team and our business partners,” says Greg Fox, BNSF’s vice president, Technology Services and chief information officer. “Technology and process integration are essential to our continuing drive to become more efficient and easier to do business with.”
“Now, more than ever, companies rely on integrated applications that freely share information,” says Abbie Lundberg, editor in chief, CIO magazine. “This year’s CIO-100 award recipients are being honored because their companies developed an integrated enterprise to enhance their business, from improving relationships with customers to creating a seamless value chain.”
The complete list of recipients is featured in the August 15 issue of CIO magazine and at www.cio.com .
A subsidiary of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (NYSE: BNI – News), BNSF operates one of the largest railroad networks in North America, with 33,000 route miles covering 28 states and two Canadian provinces. BNSF is an industry leader in Web-enabling a variety of customer transactions at www.bnsf.com . The railway moves more intermodal traffic than any other rail system in the world, is America’s largest grain- hauling railroad, transports the mineral components of many of the products we depend on daily, and hauls enough coal to generate more than 10 percent of the electricity produced in the United States.