General criteria for the awards include:
- Scope of the innovation – What business problem/opportunity
does the innovation address, and what is the size of the problem/opportunity?
- Impact of the innovation on software or the software industry – What
practical results (sales, users, profits, etc.) has the innovation
had on a software product or the software industry? The innovation
must be
new and have both a current and future impact.
- Novelty – How
does the innovation break with traditional ideas or processes?
To be eligible for the Awards, products/services must have been launched
by April 30 in the year of the award. Products/services still in beta
testing on April 30 in the year of award are not eligible. Nominees
may not require non-disclosure agreements for the judging of their
products/services.
Prior year nominees, finalists and award winners may submit the same
nomination in following years.
Products, ideas, companies, and services may be nominated.
Listed below are some examples of what may be nominated:
- Innovative software products
- Innovative software delivered as
a service
- Companies that demonstrate substantial ongoing innovation
- Books, templates,
or other forms of conveying innovative ideas to the software industry
- Innovative
approaches to delivering software or content (e.g., concept of
blogs or wikis)
Nominated products/ideas/services need not fit into the pre-defined
award categories. SoftwareCEO reserves the right to change the award categories
and/or award multiple winners within an award category.
To nominate,
please see How to
Enter.
For more details about the Software Innovation
Awards, click the links below.
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