RTI Named SIIA Business Technology CODiE Award Fin

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 14, 2017) - Real-Time Innovations (RTI) , the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) connectivity company, today announced that RTI Connext® DDS Professional was named a 2017 SIIA CODiE Awards finalist in the "Best IoT Platform" category. Finalists represent the best products, technologies and services in software, information and business technology.

RTI Connext DDS Professional is a connectivity platform designed for the demanding requirements of the IIoT. It delivers the low-latency and real-time Quality of Service (QoS) needed to monitor and control physical-world processes. The technology provides the performance, reliability, scalability and security essential for mission-critical systems. Connext DDS complies with the Data-Distribution Service™ (DDS™) standard to foster interoperability and open architectures.

Connext DDS Professional is RTI's flagship product. The foundation of Connext DDS is RTI's distributed networking databus, a data-centric messaging bus for scalable and reliable infrastructure. With the RTI databus, applications exchange information by reading and writing data objects shared within a Global Data Space.

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the premier awards for the software and information industries, and have been recognizing product excellence for over 30 years. The awards offer 93 categories that are organized by industry focus of education technology and business technology. RTI Connext DDS was honored as one of 205 finalists across the 59 business technology categories.

"I am impressed by the level of innovation and creativity of the products that have been selected as this year's CODiE Award finalists," said Ken Wasch, President of SIIA. "We are happy to recognize these products and the power they have to transform the future of how we do business."

"We are honored to be recognized as a CODiE finalist this year, among many of the industry's most innovative companies and technologies," said David Barnett, VP of products and markets at RTI. "Our product is designed to meet the demanding requirements of the intelligent systems changing our world, such as autonomous cars, micro grids and connected hospitals. Our finalist ranking is further validation of our commitment to help our customers and partners leverage the IIoT."

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry's only peer-recognized awards program. Business technology leaders including senior executives, analysts, media, consultants and investors evaluate assigned products during the first-round review which determines the finalists. SIIA members then vote on the finalist products and the scores from both rounds are tabulated to select the winners. Winners will be announced during the CODiE Award Business Technology Winner Announcement & Celebration , July 25 in San Francisco.

Details about each finalist are listed at http://www.siia.net/codie/Finalists

About the SIIA CODiE™ Awards

The SIIA CODiE Awards is the only peer-reviewed program to showcase business and education technology's finest products and services. Since 1986, thousands of products, services and solutions have been recognized for achieving excellence. For more information, visit siia.net/CODiE .

About RTI

Real-Time Innovations (RTI) is the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) connectivity company. The RTI Connext® databus is a software framework that shares information in real time, making applications work together as one, integrated system. It connects across field, fog and cloud. Its reliability, security, performance and scalability are proven in the most demanding industrial systems. Deployed systems include medical devices and imaging; wind, hydro and solar power; autonomous planes, trains and cars; traffic control; Oil and Gas; robotics, ships and defense.

RTI lives at the intersection of functional artificial intelligence and pervasive networking(SM).

RTI is the largest vendor of products based on the Object Management Group (OMG) Data Distribution Service™ (DDS) standard. RTI is privately held and headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.

RTI is hiring aggressively; see www.rti.com/careers .