Digital Innovation Awards

About the Awards

The annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards recognize vendors that have introduced noteworthy innovations in technology that further business and IT. The Digital Innovation Awards showcase advances in the productivity and potential of business applications as well as technology that contributes significantly to improved efficiency, productivity and the performance of an organization.

The Awards cover 10 categories that align to our expertise areas: Analytics, Customer Experience, Data, Digital Business, Digital Technology, Human Capital Management, Marketing, Office of Finance, Office of Revenue, Operations & Supply Chain and an Overall Award judged across the 10 expertise categories. Nominations are open to organizations across business and IT, technology vendors and consulting firms. Submissions are evaluated based on the stringent guidelines outlined in the awards program criteria.

Award recipients will receive their award notification through an email announcement. All winners and finalists will be recognized in a press release, on the Ventana Research community, and across social platforms. Award recipients will also receive a prestigious award shipped from Ventana Research.

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The annual Digital Innovation Awards are delivered by the Ventana Research analyst team, which through its benchmark research, on-demand advisory services, and educational content, continues to pioneer new methods for organizations to become efficient and effective in their business. As part of the scoring process and methodology, the awards team will examine submissions to evaluate the innovative approach of the technology, how it applies to people, processes, information, and technology, the best practices it supports, the degree of team involvement, and the business impact and value of the technology.

The Digital Innovation Awards Categories

Overall Digital Innovation Award

The Overall Digital Innovation Award recognizes the digital innovation among those submitted for consideration that most successfully will maximize the value of all the organization’s assets – its people, processes, information, and technology. All finalists in the individual award categories will be considered for this prestigious award.

Analytics

This award is for the technology vendor that best exemplifies innovation in any use or application of analytics across business and/or IT

Data

This award is for a technology vendor that best exemplifies innovation in big data and related technologies for supporting data and information management related needs

Customer Experience

This award is for a technology vendor that best exemplifies innovation in applications and technologies that support the engagement with customers for any purpose

Digital Business

This award is for a technology vendor that best exemplifies innovation in applications and technologies that support the digital business needs

Digital Technology

This award for a technology vendor that best exemplifies innovation in the technologies that support any or all of the following areas: Big Data, Business Analytics, Business Collaboration, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Mobile Technology, Social Media or Wearable Computing

Human Capital Management

This award is for a technology vendor that best exemplifies innovation in the applications and technologies that support human capital management

Marketing

This award is for a technology vendor that best exemplifies innovation in the applications and technologies that support marketing

Office of Finance

This award Is for a technology vendor that best exemplifies innovation in the applications and technologies that support the office of finance

Operations & Supply Chain

This award is for a technology vendor that best exemplifies innovation in the technologies that support the operations or service/supply chain

Office of Revenue

This award is for a technology vendor that best exemplifies innovation in the application or technologies that support the sales organization

Recognition
Award winners will be notified the week of April 24th, 2023. Award recipients will receive a physical award via mail and a logo graphic to be used in marketing and promotions. The awards will be announced through a press release announcement and across our social channels.

Submissions
To participate in the Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards, submit your nomination via the form below by the close of business PDT on March 17th, 2023. Completed nomination forms will be accepted via the online form only.

Organizations may submit their own nominations directly. We accept nominations from the Ventana Research analyst and research team, technology vendors, and public relations firms that have explicit approval from the organizations to submit on its behalf; all such submissions must include the nominated organization’s contact information to enable the awards team to confirm submission approval and review.

Judging
The awards are judged by the analysts at Ventana Research, an industry-renowned research team with extensive expertise and knowledge in business and technology. The team will evaluate each submission against the criteria provided. The quality and depth of the submission – its clarity, completeness, and specificity – will affect the overall score, so please provide as much information as possible in a clear and concise manner.

15th Annual Digital Innovation Award Winners

Overall Digital Innovation Winner

Oracle for Oracle ME (My Experience)

Digital Innovation Award Winners by Category

Analytics
Pyramid Analytics for Pyramid Decision Intelligence Platform

Customer Experience
NICE for CXone Autoflow

Data
MongoDB for MongoDB Atlas

Digital Business
ServiceNow for Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM)

Digital Technology
Nividia for NVIDIA Omniverse

Human Capital Management
Salary.com for CompAnalyst Pay Equity Suite

Marketing
CSG for CSG Xponent

Office of Finance
OneStream for Sensible Machine Learning

Office of Revenue
Uniphore for Q for Sales

Operations & Supply Chain
Kinaxis for Planning.AI

Input the information of the person being nominated to receive the award.

Input the information of the person who is nominating someone to receive the award. This is also the person we will follow up with if we have any questions about the nomination or need additional information.

Yes, you can submit a nomination form on behalf of yourself or your company.

All submissions are confidential. But if you submit a nomination and are selected as a Finalist or as a recipient of the Award, the company name and product/technology name will be disclosed through a press release, email and via social media. We do not disclose any part of the submission to the external market.

No, our awards program is free for anyone to participate in.

Yes, a nominator can nominate a person or company for multiple categories on the form and can submit nominations for multiple people or companies.

Yes, place them together in a ZIP file. For more information on zipping files/ a folder, click here for Windows and click here for Macs.

No, the technology does not need to be a publicly available technology.

Awards Schedule Announced	January 17th, 2023
Award Submissions Accepted	January 17th - March 17th
Submissions Review & Judging	March 20th - April 7th
Finalists Verified & Notified	Week of April 17th
Finalists Announced	Week of April 24th
Winners Selected & Notified	Week of May 1st
Winners Announced	May 9th

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