Best Open Source Innovation

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.

Bonita Open Solution - BonitaSoft

BonitaSoft is democratizing business process management (BPM) by bringing powerful, easy-to-integrate, and user-friendly, open source Business Process Management (BPM) to organizations of all sizes across all industries. With Bonita Open Solution, organizations can model, automate and optimize process workflows in finance, human resources, sales, marketing, supply chain, e-government, and more.

Bonita Open Solution (BOS) provides:
* Bonita Studio for graphic process modeling (easy-to-draw),
* Form Builder for creating web applications (such as web forms to deploy in a company portal),
* an embedded Bonita Execution Engine (which runs the process model directly), and
* Bonita User Experience user interfaces for end users to complete process tasks, and for process administrators to monitor and manage overall processes in real time.

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Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 - Hortonworks

Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) is a 100% open source data management platform powered by Apache Hadoop. HDP 1.1 is built on Apache Hadoop 1.0, the most stable and reliable Hadoop code available today, providing enterprise organizations with a proven and trusted data management infrastructure for harnessing the power of big data. Apache Hadoop captures, stores and analyzes structured and unstructured data, as well as real-time streams of information, flowing throughout todayâ€™s enterprise environments.

The newest version of HDP (1.1), features a number of enhancements designed to improve Apache Hadoop deployments in enterprise environments, including high-availability support by way of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, real-time and high-volume data capture based on Apache Flume, better APIs for systems management and monitoring, and improved processing speed. HDP also accelerates Apache Hadoopâ€™s role as a mainstream component of the modern data architecture, delivering enhanced integration with existing operations and management tools to ensure performance and availability.

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Puppet Open Source - Puppet Labs

Puppet Open Source is a flexible, customizable framework available under the Apache 2.0 license designed to help system administrators automate the many repetitive tasks they regularly perform. As a declarative, model-based approach to IT automation, it lets system administrators define the desired state â€“ or the â€œwhatâ€ â€“ of their infrastructure using the Puppet configuration language. Once these configurations are deployed, Puppet automatically installs the necessary packages and starts the related services, and then regularly enforces the desired state. In automating the mundane, Puppet frees system administrators, and allows them to work on more challenging projects with higher business impact.

Puppet Open Source is the underlying technology for Puppet Enterprise and runs on all major Linux distributions, major Unix platforms like Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX, and Microsoft Windows.

The Puppet community is an engaged group of system administrators and developers that is 5,000 strong and growing quickly. Community members actively collaborate through discussions on IRC, contributions of configuration modules to Puppet Forge, patches to source code, local meetups and events, and much more. Both new and experienced system administrators find the Puppet community a welcoming one.

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