Categories
For more than 25 years, the SIIA CODiE Awards have showcased excellence and remarkable achievement in the software and information industries. To this day, they remain our industries’ only peer-recognized awards program.
- Content categories showcase the information industry’s finest products, technology and services created by, or for, Media, Publishers and Information Services Providers.
- Software categories recognize applications, products, and services which deliver solutions for use by business, government, consumers, academic, or other organizations.
- Education categories showcase applications, products and services from developers of educational software, digital content, online learning services, and related technologies across the K-20 sector.
Content Categories
Best Advertising Management Platform
Recognizes the Best Advertising Management Platform specifically designed for media, publishers & information providers. Nominees may submit solutions that support the monetization of web, mobile, app and other inventory for media, publishers & information providers.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Recognizes the Best Business Directory for use by consumers or other business professionals. Nominees may submit solutions developed for online or for mobile applications and can be developed for the broader market or customized based on a specific user community or vertical market.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Best Business Information Solution
Recognizes the Best Business Information solution for utilization by business professionals --- sales, marketing, strategy, business development, research or other departments within a corporation. Nominees may submit solutions that help professionals with their daily job functions. These solutions could include business and vertical-industry news, market research solutions, company, business and/or industry information, and data. It could also Include market data, company information, executive profiles, financial data, analyst reports, vertical segment information, niche business oriented publications, market research, etc.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Best Consumer Information Resource
Recognizes the Best Consumer Service, with a specific focus on information targeted toward individual consumers. Nominees may include online and web-based services focused on travel, sports, consumer medical reference, general reference, tax preparation, and other information resources that consumers utilize.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Best Content Management Platform
Recognizes the best software or platform that enables the creation, management and modification of information on the web. Nominees should be focused on Web Content Management, not ECM or portals, and also be multi-channel (web, mobile, social, etc.). Nominees should integrate with other technologies (CDNs, DAM, internal systems, blog platforms, etc.). The Best WCM solution also encompasses web experience management, web engagement management and can be either installed software or cloud (SaaS) model.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Recognizes the Best Crowd Sourced Solution or product or service created by crowd sourcing. Nominees may submit solutions that are designed for business professionals or consumers. Solutions may include online, mobile, social media and other channels their end-users and customers utilize.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Best Digital Rights Management Solution
Recognizes the Best Digital Rights Management solution that best allows the secure electronic purchase, distribution and subsequent use of software and/or information. Nominees may submit solutions that are designed for businesses to utilize within their media, publishing or information services solutions or technology solutions that span distribution platforms, online distribution, mobile distribution, social media and/or other channels their end-users and customers utilize.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Best eCommerce & Billing Platform
Recognizes the Best eCommerce & Billing Platform specifically designed for media, publishers & information providers. Nominees may submit solutions that support revenue collection such as subscription billing, single issue and content sales and/or specialty billing for media, publishers and information providers. Solutions may include online, mobile, social media and other channels their end-users and customers utilize.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Best Editorial Outsourcing Solution
Recognizes theBbest Editorial Outsourcing Solution that best allows media, publishing and information service providers to effectively create and/or edit content and information for their end-users and customers utilizing an external organization's solution. Nominees may submit solutions that technology-based or people-based to provide the creation, editing and other editorial support.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Best Financial & Market Data Information Solution
Recognizes the Best Financial & Market Data Information Solution designed for professionals in the finance and capital market industries. Nominees may submit solutions that provide financial and market data, and information for professional markets. Includes real-time data services, financial news services, market analysis, credit services, capital markets and/or merger and acquisition information.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Best General Reference Service
Recognizes the Best General Reference Service for use by business professionals or consumers. Nominees may submit solutions that Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, maps, wikis, question and answer services or other reference information via online, mobile or other platforms.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Best Governance, Risk and Compliance Solution
Recognizes the Best Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Information solution that provides industry-leading audit, risk and compliance solutions and/or expert insights that enable businesses to connect regulatory developments with internal policy systems, organizational risks and controls, and regulatory training. Nominees may submit solutions that focus on business and regulatory issues, connect financial goals to regulatory obligations, financial compliance products, managing anti-money laundering, "know-your-customer" processes and/or efficiently link corporate activities to audit and reporting requirements.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Recognizes the Best Lead Generation solution which serves to generate leads for businesses by providing compelling information via online/web, mobile/apps or social media content to consumers or business professionals. Nominees may submit solutions that are aimed at generating either B2B or B2C leads and can include services geared for specific communities and verticals.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Best Legal Information Solution
Recognizes the Best Legal Information Solution designed for the legal professional. Nominees may submit solutions that provide access to primary and secondary legal research sources; business development tools as well as litigation support and e-discovery solutions dedicated to the legal profession.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Best Media & Information Monitoring Solution
Recognizes the best solution for capturing and analyzing content, editorial opinion, or advertising across online, mobile, social and other media. Nominees may submit solutions that include documentation, content, analysis, or editorial opinion, specifically or widely. Solution may specialize coverage by media, subject, industry, size, geography, publication, journalist, or editor.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Best Medical Information Solution
Recognizes the best solution for medical and health information professionals or consumers. Nominees may submit solutions that include research, health institution rating information, medical professional or consumer health news or search solutions, diagnosis/prognosis information, professional or consumer health workflow solutions, pharmaceutical data, surgical information, patient care information, etc.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Best Press Release Distribution Solution
Recognizes the Best Press Release Distribution Solution that supports recorded or written information that is sent to news media to be distributed to a specific group or for general, broad distribution. Nominees may submit solutions that range from local to international distribution and offer unique & flexible distribution options, effective media database, reviews/credentials of media & bloggers, and/or other features such as search engine optimization.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Best Sales & Marketing Intelligence Solution
Recognizes the Best Sales and Marketing Intelligence Solution designed to provide actionable information to sales and marketing professionals, supporting their efforts to be more efficient as well as saving time or money. Nominees may have solutions focused on the identification of potential targets and/or ongoing sales intelligence about accounts and executives from web, news and social media sources. They may also include products designed to clean or maintain prospect lists. These nominated products may include stand-alone websites and databases, plugins to CRM systems and mobile apps.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Best Science and Technology Information Solution
Recognizes the best information solution for science and technology professionals or consumers. Nominees may have solutions that include journals, technical papers and reports, data collections, records, trends, news, standards and specifications. Nominees may also provide access to data, information, or news in fields such as astronautics, biology, chemical research or processing, computer, software development, engineering, environmental science, geophysics, medicine/diagnosis/surgical/patient care, pharmaceutical, nanotechnology, patents and trademarks, and physics.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Best Search Technology Solution
Recognizes the best search platform specifically designed for media, publishers & information providers. Nominees may include enterprise search solutions for media, publishers & information providers for use on their websites, mobile or other channels to facilitate finding information by their end-users or customers.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Best Semantic Technology Solution
Recognizes the Best Semantic Technology Platform specifically designed for media, publishers & information providers. Nominees may include solutions that range from automated tagging and analysis, semantic advertising to content enrichment and can be industry focused (e.g. scientific) or designed for general or broad information.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Best Service Using Aggregated Content
Recognizes the best aggregation solution that gathers or collects information from disparate sources for reuse, resale, or distribution from a single platform utilized by business users or consumers. Nominees may submit solutions that support and provide actionable understanding of end-user and customer behavior on media, publishers & information provider web, mobile and application offerings.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Recognizes the Best Social Media Platform specifically designed for media, publishers & information providers. Nominees may include software or technology that enables media, publishers & information providers to build, integrate or facilitate community, interaction and user-generated content and enable interactive dialogue with their end-users and customers.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Best Solution for Integrating Content into the Workflow
Recognizes the best solution for integrating content into an end-user workflow. Nominees may include complete end-to-end user applications, an integration of content and/or new features into an existing application, a service, or a customized solution using APIs, widgets, mobile apps or other links into to content for any business user (e.g., CRM, legal, scientific, financial planning and analysis, etc.).
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Recognizes the Best Syndication Platform which enables media, publishing and information companies to combine their internal information with third party data (with additional layers of discovery and/or visualization) and distribution networks. Nominees may include solutions that gather news, articles, blogs, social media or other content from media, publishers & information providers and could include text, video and other media for distribution of that content to other information or software providers. This category will look at nominees from the media, publishers & information providers' point of view (vs. the end-user of the syndication solution) on what platforms are the best to distribute information on.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Best Technology Outsourcing Service
Recognizes the Best Technology Outsourcing Service that best that best allows media, publishing, and information service providers to create products and solutions for their end-users and customers using the outsourcer's tools, technologies, and development services. Nominees may submit solutions that include application development, website development, mobile application development, project management and other solutions around the creation of the technology needed for media, publishing and information service providers. Nominees can offer a range of approaches from developing from the ground up, to customizing templated applications, to integrating technology from partners, to supplying pre-built applications with little or no customization.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Best Testing, Monitoring and Analytics Platform
Recognizes the Best Testing, Monitoring and Analytics Platform specifically designed for media, publishers & information providers. Nominees may submit solutions developed for analysis, testing and/or monitoring of website traffic, mobile, social media and other distribution and publishing channels of media, publisher & information providers and/or monitoring their competitor website traffic, mobile, social media and other distribution and publishing channels. This award will be given to the product that best demonstrates the ability to support publishers, media providers and information service providers with an outstanding user interface, the ability to deliver actionable insights, and pushes analytics and understanding past the data team and into the hands of the front line employees.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Best Video Platform for Media & Publishers
Recognizes the Best Video Platform specifically designed for media, publishers & information providers dedicated to publishing, distributing and/or monetizing video assets. Nominees may submit video platform solutions that include: hosting, video management and delivery, content management, tools for uploading, encoding, managing content, mobile and other cross-platform capabilities, moderation and review, distribution and syndication tools and/or tools for monetizing media assets or growing an audience specifically designed for media, publishers & information providers
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Content: Depth and Accuracy
- Customization or personalization
- Feature Set
- Groundbreaking & Significance of Innovation
- Innovation of Business Model / Go-To-Market Approach
- Interoperability
- Platform Flexibility & Accessibility
- Relevance to Target Audience/Customer
- Search capabilities
- User Experience & Usability
Software Categories
Recognizes the best solution that enables the capture, analysis, and mining of large data sets. Includes distributed indexing and search tools, scaled-out storage architectures, distributed analytics solutions, streamed based processing technologies, etc.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Ability to manipulate data
- Ease of data extraction
- Ease of integration
- Fulfillment of key attributes
- Functionality of key attributes
- Range & ease of customization
- Range of platforms covered
- Reporting and analytics
Best Business Intelligence/Analytics Solution
Recognizes the application or service that best facilitates analysis of data, research, and/or competitive information, enabling business managers to make strategic decisions. Solutions may support reporting, online analytical processing, analytics, data mining, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining, and predictive analytics.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Ability to manipulate data
- Ease of data extraction
- Ease of integration
- Fulfillment of key attributes
- Functionality of key attributes
- Range & ease of customization
- Range of platforms covered
- Reporting and analytics
Recognizes the best solution for providing infrastructure as a service, including infrastructure, provisioning, security, reporting/controls, storage, and backup in a seamless, scalable, and flexible manner.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Administrative controls and reporting
- APIs
- Competitive advantage
- Cost/Benefit
- Ease/speed of provisioning
- Scalability (up and down)
- Service level agreement coverage
Best Cloud Management Solution
Recognizes the best solution that ensures cloud computing resources are working optimally. This can include performance monitoring, application management, security and compliance, storage, disaster recovery.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Customization
- Flexibility
- Integration across mulitple applications / platforms
- Portability
- Reporting and analytics
- Scalability (up and down)
Best Cloud Platform as a Service
Recognizes the best cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that increases the speed of development of cloud applications, reduces cost of development, automates deployment, and provides flexibility and scalability. This includes cloud enablement capabilities.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Adminstrative controls and reporting
- Application portability
- Competitive advantage
- Cost/Benefit
- Ease / Speed of provisioning
- Scalability (up and down)
- Service level agreement coverage
Best Cloud Application Service
Recognizes the best solution for creating, delivering, and/or managing services in a cloud computing environment. Includes virtualization, billing, dynamic provisioning, automatic deployment, load balancing and performance optimization.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Administrative controls and reporting
- Competitive advantage
- Cost/Benefit
- Ease/speed of provisioning
- Scalability (up and down)
- Service level agreement coverage
Best Cloud Storage & Back Up Solution
Recognizes the best application for storing and backing up data in the cloud. Storage solutions include Private, Public, and Hybrid cloud offerings.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Agility
- Flexibility
- Redundancy
- Reliability
- Scalability (up and down)
- Security
- Storage maintenance
Recognizes the best application that aids collaboration, communication, and the process of problem solving for teams working together over geographic distances.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Ability to facilitate communication
- Ease of Customization
- Ease of use
- Real-time collaboration capabilities
- Richness of functionality
- Robustness of Features
- Visual aesthetics
Recognizes the best software solution designed to facilitate the purchase of products and services online. Includes credit card processing systems, personalization tools, shopping carts, comparison bots, order forms, and delivery/shipping management systems.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Ability to manage payment process
- Access to information
- Ease of use for the customer
- Global support (languages, currencies, etc.)
- Overall functionality of key attributes
- Overall performance (speed, security, and reliability)
- Overall visual/program aesthetics
Recognizes the best browser-based mobile website or service for the consumer. Includes social media, messaging, location-based services, banking, video services, music, entertainment, search, etc.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Ease of access
- Ease of use
- Functionality of key features and attributes
- Cross-platform capability
- Presentation of content
- User experience (speed, simplicity, navigation, interface)
Best Enterprise Mobile Service
Recognizes the best mobile service or tool serving the enterprise. This includes sales, logistics, HR, CRM, accounting, etc.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Ease of access
- Ease of use
- Impact on business processes
- Overall support across multiple devices and platforms
- Presentation of content
- User experience (speed, simplicity, navigation, interface)
Best Financial Management Solution
Recognizes the best software solution that automates business accounting and money management including accounts payable/receivable, general ledger, budgeting, resource allocation, reporting, etc.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Ability to manipulate data
- Ability to pull from disparate data sources
- Ease and speed of implementation
- Ease of data presentation
- Ease of use
- Global support (languages, currencies, etc.)
- Overall functionality of key attributes
- Reporting and analysis of data
Best Human Capital/Talent Management Solution
Recognizes the best software solution that automates any aspect of human resources management and talent acquisition, including HRIS, benefits administration, recruiting, payroll, and performance appraisal.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Ability to manipulate data
- Ability to pull from disparate data sources
- Ease and speed of implementation
- Ease of data presentation
- Ease of use
- Global support (languages, currencies, etc.)
- Overall fulfillment of key attributes
- Overall functionality of key attributes
Recognizes the best solution designed to integrate disparate applications, operating systems, data, and/or business processes used within an organization in order to simplify and automate their use and eliminate silos of information and functionality.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Ease of use of development tools
- Impact on cost of deployment
- Range of deployment options e.g. on premise, in the Cloud, virtualized
- Range of enterprise systems and SaaS/Cloud applications covered
- Range of pre-packaged template integrations
- Speed of implementation
Best Marketing Automation Solution
Recognizes the best solution for automating the development and management of customer, promotional, and/or media communications. Includes marketing automation, campaign automation, marketing intelligence, and advanced workflow automation.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Ease and completeness of integration into other applications
- Ease of deployment and the speed of its time to value
- Ease of use
- Impact of cost on deployment
- Impact on the enterprise and its ability to drive revenue
- Overall performance (speed, security, and reliability)
- Reporting, tracking, and analysis of data
Best Mobile Device Application for Consumers
Recognizes the best consumer application designed for use on mobile devices.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Cost/Value
- Functionality of key features and attributes
- Overall support across mobile devices and platforms
- Presentation of content
- Upgrade frequency
- User experience (speed, simplicity, navigation, interface)
Best Mobile Device Application for Enterprises
Recognizes the best enterprise application designed for use on mobile devices.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Functionality of key features and attributes
- Impact on business processes
- Overall support across mobile devices and platforms
- Presentation of content
- Upgrade frequency
- User experience (speed, simplicity, navigation, interface)
Best Mobile Development Solution
Recognizes the best tool or resource for designing, creating or testing mobile applications. Includes programming language, toolkits, diagnostic programs, IDE, applet and plug-in development tools, database development programs, etc.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Ability to efficiently manage large numbers of users
- Adherence to standards
- Ease of use
- Functionality of key attributes
- Impact on business processes
- Presentation of data
- Range of platforms covered
Best Mobile Marketing Solution
Recognizes the best solution for engaging customers through mobile devices. Includes mobile advertising, ad networks, ad/app analytics, marketing platforms, couponing, etc.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Ease of use
- Ease of deployment and the speed of its time to value
- Integration with other media
- Impact on business process
- Overall support across multiple devices and platforms
- Overall perfomance (speed, security and reliability)
- Reporting, tracking and analytics
Recognizes the best monetization solution to help Software, Cloud, or SaaS companies increase profitability. Monetization aspects including billing, packaging, monitoring, management, etc.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Ease of use
- Integration capabilities
- Pricing Flexibility
- Reporting /Analtyics
- Scalability (up and down)
- Security
Awards the most innovative source code or use of source code that is protected by open source licenses. Includes operating systems, databases, applications, management, networking, etc. Emphasis is placed on innovative open source technologies which build or significantly enhance a new or existing open source community, and/or leverage an innovative business model built from open source technologies.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Ability to manipulate
- Ease of use
- Functionality of key attributes
- Innovative use of open source technology
- Overall fulfillment of key attributes
- Overall performance (speed, security, and reliability)
- Robustness of offering
Best Project Management Solution
Recognizes the best business application that automates the management of project-based business activities. The category includes: project management software, project accounting, project estimating, project portfolio management, project scheduling, requirements management, bug and defect tracking and resource planning and scheduling software.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Ability for collaboration
- Ease of use
- Fulfillment of key attributes
- Functionality of key attributes
- Overall performance (speed, security, and reliability)
- Presentation of data
- Reporting and analysis of data
Best Relationship Management Solution
Recognizes the best software solution designed to expand a company's knowledge about, and relationship with, its current or potential customers and/or partners. Includes CRM, PRM, SFA, marketing automation, personalization products and services
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Ease of use
- Integration of data sources
- Mobility
- Overall fulfillment of key attributes
- Overall performance (speed, security, and reliability)
- Presentation of data
- Reporting and analysis of data
- Speed of implementation
- Speed of updates
- User interface
Recognizes the best innovative solution designed to protect networks and other IT systems. Include authentication, firewalls, virtual private networks, encryption, intrusion detection, policy-based management, managed services, anti-virus products, identity management, etc.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Ability to process security of an entire enterprise
- Alert tools
- Data loss prevention
- Ease and speed of implementation
- Impact of cost on deployment
- Overall fulfillment of key attributes
- Reporting and analysis tools
- Threat protection
Recognizes the best solution that improves the visibility of a website or web page in search engines' search results. Includes keyword research, website optimization, content development, link building, reporting and analysis, management and upkeep, etc.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Cost / Benefit
- Overall performance
- Reporting, tracking, and analysis of data
- Support of mulitple search engines
- Transparency
- White-hat practices
Recognizes the best application for facilitating business interactions via the internet. Products include social networking applications and other services that allow for company, customer, and prospect communication over the web. This category also includes digital communities.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Ability to facilitate communication
- Ability to share data/information
- Ease of Customization
- Ease of use
- Overall performance (speed, security, and reliability)
- Richness of functionality
- Robustness of Features
- Support for interaction
- Visual aesthetics
Best Supply Chain Management Solution
Recognizes the best solution for coordination and collaboration with suppliers, intermediaries, third-party service providers, and customers in the movement and storage of materials and equipment; work-in-process inventory, and finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Ability to collaborate among partners
- Ability to integrate with other systems
- Ease and speed of implementation
- Ease of Use
- Fulfillment of key attributes
- Management and tracking tools
- Overall performance (speed, security, and reliability)
- Process Functionality
- Total systems efficiency
Best Systems Management Solution
Recognizes the best application that assists dev/ops in managing, monitoring, maintaining, operating, administering, and provisioning networks. Includes performance monitors, system management tools, load-balancing tools, user analysis tools, web site administration utilities, caching software and content delivery networks.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Cross-platform compatibility
- Ease and speed of implementation
- Ease of use
- Fulfillment of key attributes
- Functionality of key attributes
- Overall performance (speed, security, and reliability)
- Presentation of data
- Reporting and analysis of data
Recognizes the best video tool for editing, altering, and/or enhancing video content.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Ease of use
- Fulfillment of key attributes
- Functionality of key attributes
- Quality of tools
- Supported formats
Education Technology Categories
Best Postsecondary Personalized Learning Solution
Recognizes the best education solution that is specifically developed to personalize the learning process or path at postsecondary level. The solution should provide online tools, content, or platforms that support anytime/anywhere learning, project-based/authentic learning, competency-based progression, and/or student-driven learning paths.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Effective use of technology
- For instructional platforms, student receives feedback and reinforcement in the process of building skills, strategies, and concepts
- Instructional strategies are mapped to individual learning styles and abilities
- Offers student-driven learning paths
- Offers virtually unlimited and multiple instructional resources
- Provides an individualized, variable-pace learning model
- Provides parent, educator, or faculty support
- Supports anytime/anywhere learning
- Supports project-based, authentic learning
Best Classroom Management Solution
Recognizes the best system designed for PK-12 educators that provides any or all of the following: student information systems, data management and reporting tools, gradebooks, standards (including Common Core) alignment tools, packages that link data and resources to instruction, and other platform tools that take user content.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Customizable for different user needs and education outcomes
- Positive impact on classroom management process
- Produces useful reports to intended users
- Provides easy access to student and/or course data
- Provides straightforward methods from bringing in curriculum, content, data or standards information
- Short learning curve
Best Corporate Learning/Workforce Development Solution
Recognizes the best platform, service or provider that supports the efforts of organizations (business, government, academia) to educate employees in a body of specific knowledge that aids in the successful execution of an employee's job. Includes applications that educate on internal processes, practices, expectations, and objectives or train on workplace safety, technical assignments, hazardous material management, machinery operation, or emergency response training. Includes learning management systems, and content development, delivery and packaging tools.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Ease of use and implementation
- Functionality of assessment tools
- Functionality of key attributes
- Learner receives feedback and reinforcement in the process of building their skills and strategies
- Overall visual/program aesthetics
- User interface
Best Cross-Curricular Solution
Recognizes the best software tool for students, educators, or administrators that can be used in multiple curriculum areas in the PK-12 or postsecondary market. Includes language literacy or productivity and creativity solutions that support instruction or management across different courses or subject areas, such as career planning, document creation, graphic design, workflow, problem solving, or web development.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Applicable for use in multiple curriculum areas or courses
- Appropriate for users with diverse learning styles and abilities
- Effective use of technology
- Overall visual/program aesthetics
- User receives feedback and support in the process of creating documents or projects
Best Education Community Solution
Recognizes the online system designed to provide social learning, collaboration, and education community support for PK-12 or postsecondary students, teachers and administrators. Includes tools for teacher communication, class/lecture capture, resource centers, collaboration and planning tools, blogs, wikis, and other interactive, social media solutions.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Appropriate for students with diverse learning styles and abilities and/or for educators/faculty with diverse instructional settings
- Appropriate use of graphics
- Content and/or information successfully targets designated educational users and needs, levels, or topic areas
- Effective and easy-to-use web design
- Supports customization and personalization by the user
- Supports social learning and/or collaboration tools for the education user
Best Education Game or Simulation
Recognizes the best game application designed for PK-12, postsecondary, or adult students that uses active, virtual learning environments to enable students to learn/apply curriculum concepts in an entertaining, educational way. This solution can be either an instructional, diagnostic, or assessment tool designed for pre-school through adult students or instructional/administrative leaders.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Appropriate for students with diverse learning styles and abilities
- Ease of use and implementation
- Effective use of technology
- Impact on learning
- Overall visual/program aesthetics
- Provides levels of challenge for the user
- Self-directed with feedback and support for user
Best Education Reference Solution
Recognizes the service that best packages reference, library or research information for educational purposes in the PK-12 and/or postsecondary markets. This service can include content such as encyclopedias, maps, databases and source material.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Appropriate use of graphics
- Ease of use and implementation
- Navigation within the solution
- Range and ease of customization
- Richness of information
Best Educational Use of a Mobile Device
Recognizes the best curriculum or administrative application, designed for either PK-12 or postsecondary markets, that is delivered via mobile devices, including smartphones or tablets. The solution can be browser-based or a native app.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Appropriate use for a mobile/handheld device
- Mobile platform capability
- Overall visual/program aesthetics
- Software/app design successfully targets designated user needs
- User interface is appropriate for intended audience
Best Instructional Solution in Other Curriculum Areas
Recognizes the best application focusing on non-core curriculum areas for students in the PK-12 or postsecondary market. These areas include art, foreign language, music, technology, engineering, computer science, vocational/career planning, or multi-disciplinary topics.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Appropriate use of graphics
- Content successfully targets designated content area and levels
- Effective use of technology
- Instruction and content are designed to deepen student knowledge and skills
- Instructional strategies appropriate for all learning styles and abilities
- Provides educator/faculty support
- Student receives feedback and reinforcement in the process of building skills, strategies, and concepts
Best K-12 Course or Learning Management Solution
Recognizes the best digital learning environment/system designed for K-12 educators to manage curriculum-based content, student access and use, diagnostic and remediation programs, data management and reporting tools. Includes course and content-based learning management systems used by students.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Customizable for different user needs and education outcomes
- Produces useful reports to intended users
- Provides easy access to student and/or course data
- Provides straightforward methods from bringing in curriculum, content, data, or standards information
- Recognizable and positive impact on course development and implementation processes
- Short learning curve
Recognizes the best business management application or service that supports education enterprises in the PK-12 market, including transportation, human resources, talent management, security, food services, digital communication/security solutions, scheduling and registration services, data mining, data analysis, student information systems, network services, special ed funding tracking, IEP tracking, etc. This solution, delivered by the Internet or a network, will also best enable data exchange, processing and reporting.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Ability to integrate data and information from various sources
- Customizable for different user needs and education missions
- Overall visual/program aesthetics
- Produces useful reports to intended users
- Provides easy access to data
- Short learning curve
Best Mathematics Instructional Solution
Recognizes the best instructional product that offers mathematics curriculum and content for students in the PK-12 or postsecondary market. Includes managed classroom/course-based instruction or online supplemental instruction for students so they can learn and apply mathematics concepts and methods.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Appropriate use of graphics
- Content successfully targets designated mathematics levels and topics
- Effective use of technology
- Instruction and content are designed to deepen student mathematics knowledge and skills
- Instructional strategies appropriate for all learning styles and abilities
- Provides educator/faculty support
- Student receives feedback and reinforcement in the process of building skills, strategies, and concepts
Best PK-12 Personalized Learning Solution
Recognizes the best education solution that is specifically developed to personalize the learning process or path at the PK-12 level. The solution should provide online tools, content, or platforms that support anytime/anywhere learning, project-based/authentic learning, competency-based progression, and/or student-driven learning paths.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Effective use of technology
- For instructional platforms, student receives feedback and reinforcement in the process of building skills, strategies, and concepts
- Instructional strategies are mapped to individual learning styles and abilities
- Offers student-driven learning paths
- Offers virtually unlimited and multiple instructional resources
- Provides an individualized, variable-pace learning model
- Provides parent, educator, or faculty support
- Supports anytime/anywhere learning
- Supports project-based, authentic learning
Best Postsecondary Course or Learning Management Solution
Recognizes the best teaching and learning platform designed for postsecondary educators to manage curriculum-based content, student access and use, diagnostic and remediation programs, data management and reporting tools. Includes enterprise e-Learning platform or course and content-based learning management systems used by students.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Ability to integrate content into platform or management tool
- Appropriate use of graphics
- Compliance with industry standards and requirements for accessibility
- Customizable for different user needs and education outcomes
- Flexible for diverse audiences and education missions
- Navigation within the solution
Best Postsecondary Enterprise Solution
Recognizes the best non-instructional business management application or service that supports education enterprises in the postsecondary market, including class/lecture capture solutions, network services, human resources/talent management, digital communication/security solutions, scheduling and registration services, data mining, data analysis, student information systems, etc. This solution, delivered by the Internet or by network, will also best enable data exchange, processing, and reporting.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Compliance with industry standards and requirements for accessibility
- Creates unified online presence
- Navigation within the solution
- Overall visual/program aesthetics
- Provides customizable features
Best Postsecondary Learning Solution
Recognizes the best broad-based, multi-disciplinary teaching application or solution for curricula and content that is specifically targeted toward students in college (graduate and undergraduate) and trade/professional school learning environments. Includes solutions that offer ability to deliver blended or custom-crafted materials, digitally on a number of devices. Helps students navigate their digital/ebooks and reference content in a format that fits the way they learn with interactive media, collaboration tools and course content.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Appropriate use of graphics
- Compliance with industry standards and requirements for accessibility
- Content is current and well-sourced
- Customizable for diverse audiences and education missions
- Effective use of technology
- Instructional design and content appropriate for different learning styles, content areas, and ages
- Student receives feedback and reinforcement in the process of building skills, strategies, and concepts
Best Professional Learning Solution for Education
Recognizes the best educational application or service designed to support PK-12 or postsecondary education institutions in the development of faculty and administrative staff. Includes professional development programs, learning management systems, and content development, with video-based delivery and packaging tools.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Appropriate for educators in diverse instructional settings
- Content and instructional design successfully targets designated educator needs
- Educator receives feedback and support in the process of building skills and strategies.
- Overall visual/program aesthetics
- Provides information and support for educators anytime/anwhere
- Short learning curve
Best Reading/English/ELL Instructional Solution
Recognizes the best instructional solution for language arts, reading, composition, and language learning curricula and content for students in the PK-12 or postsecondary market. Includes solutions for native and non-native English speakers at all levels, for learning languages of any country, and can be managed classroom/course-based instruction or online supplemental instruction for individuals.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Appropriate for students with diverse learning styles and abilities
- Content successfully targets designated language acquisition needs, levels, or subject areas
- Effective use of technology
- Provides educator/faculty support
- Student receives feedback and reinforcement in the process of building skills, strategies, and concepts
Best Science/Health Instructional Solution
Recognizes the best instructional solution for science and health curricula and content for students in the PK-12 or postsecondary market. Includes managed classroom/course-based instruction or online supplemental instruction for individuals.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Appropriate use of graphics
- Content successfully targets designated content area and levels
- Effective use of technology
- Instructional design and content appropriate for different learning styles, content areas, and ages
- Instructional strategies appropriate for all learning styles and abilities
- Provides educator/faculty support
- Student receives feedback and reinforcement in the process of building skills, strategies, and concepts
Best Social Sciences Instructional Solution
Recognizes the best instructional solution for social sciences curricula and content for students in the PK-12 and postsecondary markets. Includes managed classroom/course-based instruction or online supplemental instruction for individuals.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Appropriate use of graphics
- Content successfully targets designated content area and levels
- Effective use of technology
- Instructional design and content appropriate for different learning styles, content areas, and ages
- Provides educator/faculty support
- Student receives feedback and reinforcement in the process of building skills, strategies, and concepts
Best Solution for Special Needs Students
Recognizes the best application specifically designed to benefit students with unique educational needs, including those with physical or learning disabilities, those on the autism spectrum, or those who are gifted and talented in the PK-12 or postsecondary market. Includes solutions that are 508 compliant and provide instructional materials that are accessible or developed under the principals of universal design for learning (UDL).
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Appropriate use of graphics
- Content successfully targets designated special needs or disabilities
- Provides educator/faculty support
- Strategies are appropriate for students with unique learning styles and challenges
- Student receives feedback and reinforcement
- Technology is accessible and adaptable for students
Best Student Assessment Solution
Recognizes the best application or solution for high-stakes assessments/preparation for high-stakes tests in the PK-12 or postsecondary market for use in either formative or summative assessments.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Appropriate for students with diverse learning styles and abilities
- Educators, faculty members and administrators receive useful reports
- Overall visual/program aesthetics
- Provides educator/faculty support
- Student receives feedback and reinforcement in the process of building their test-taking skills and strategies
Best Virtual Learning Solution
Recognizes the educational solution that best delivers course support, full courses or degree programs online, in either subcription-based or massive, open environments. Can be designed for tutoring, self-paced digital instruction, home-schooling, advance placement course work, credit recovery, instructional support, personalized learning environments, or college credit and targets the PK-12 or postsecondary market.
Judges will be looking for:
Judges will be looking for:
- Appropriate for students with diverse learning styles and abilities and/or for educators/faculty members with diverse instructional settings
- Appropriate use of graphics
- Content and/or information successfully targets designated educational users and needs, levels, or topic areas
- Effective and easy-to-use web design
- Effective use of technology
- Provides useful information to students, educators and administrators
There will be three overall, top awards in these education technology categories:
Best PK-12 Solution
Best Postsecondary Solution
Best Education Solution
Companies will not need to nominate in any of these categories when completing the application. Finalists will automatically be considered for the top awards. The winner in each category will be based on scores from both rounds of judging. The award will be presented to the product with the highest score from among the categories that qualify. To be eligible for Best PK-12 Solution, you must be a finalist in at least one of the following categories:
Best Classroom Management System
Best Education Community Solution
Best Education Game or Simulation
Best Education Reference Solution
Best Education Use of a Mobile Device
Best Instructional Solution in Other Curriculum Areas
Best K-12 Course or Learning Management Solution
Best K-12 Enterprise Solution
Best Mathematics Solution
Best Personalized Learning Solution
Best Professional Learning Solution for Education
Best Reading/English/ELL Instructional Solution
Best Science/Health Instructional Solution
Best Social Sciences Instructional Solution
Best Solution for Special Needs Students
Best Student Assessment Solution
Best Virtual Learning Solution
To be eligible for Best Postsecondary Solution, you must be a finalist in at least one of the following categories:
Best Education Community Solution
Best Education Game or Simulation
Best Education Reference Solution
Best Education Use of a Mobile Device
Best Instructional Solution in Other Curriculum Areas
Best Mathematics Solution
Best Personalized Learning Solution
Best Postsecondary Course or Learning Management System
Best Postsecondary Enterprise Solution
Best Postsecondary Learning Solution
Best Professional Learning Solution for Education
Best Reading/English/ELL Instructional Solution
Best Science/Health Instructional Solution
Best Social Sciences Instructional Solution
Best Solution for Special Needs Students
Best Student Assessment Solution
Best Virtual Learning Solution
Finalists in all categories are eligible for Best Education Solution.
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