Ventana Research 2015 Technology Innovation Awards

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Recognizing Excellence in Technology for
Business and IT
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Technology Innovation for Business & IT

Innovation
The process by which an idea or invention is
translated into a good or service for which people
will pay, or something that results from this
process. To be called an innovation, an idea must
be replicable at an economical cost and must
satisfy a specific need.
In business, innovation often results from the
application of a scientific or technical idea in
decreasing the gap between the needs
or expectations of the customers and
the performance of a
company's products.

Overview of Awards
The Ventana Research Technology
Innovation Awards recognize vendors that
have introduced noteworthy innovations in
technology that advance business and IT.
The Technology 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.

Judging Category Criteria
Overall Technology
Technology Value
People
Process
Information
Technology
Best Practices
Business Impact

Business Technology
Innovation Awards
• Big Data
• Business Analytics
• Business and Social Collaboration
• Cloud Computing
• Mobile Technology
• Social Media
• Wearable Computing
• Overall Business Technology Innovation

Big Data Award
Innovation in technology to manage big data
environments to meeting the needs of business and IT
WinnerBig data has become essential for
organizations to gain insight and
utilize data efficiently. Trifacta was
selected for the award for the
demonstration of its ability to
prepare data to ensure its proper
review and quality in loading and
accessing big data.
https://www.trifacta.com/product/

Business Analytics Award
Innovation in technology for business analytics
Winner
for
IBM Watson
Analytics
Business analytics is critical for
every organization, but it’s not
always easy to use. IBM Watson
Analytics provides intuitive and
intelligent approach to gaining
insight and guidance to taking
action and making decisions with
innovations in natural language
and guided discovery.
http://www.ibm.com/analytics/watson-analytics/

Business & Social Collaboration Award
Innovation in business collaboration technology
Winner
for
EngageOne Video
Collaboration across the
business is critical for improving
efficiency as well as outcomes.
Pitney Bowes has introduced
interactive video to engage into
a new generation of
collaboration that is dynamic and
personalized.
http://www.pitneybowes.com/us/customer-engagement-marketing/synchronized-
communications-execution/engageone-video-for-real-time-content.html

Winner
for
IBM Bluemix
Cloud Computing Award
Innovation in technology that delivers notably
improved business efficiency and effectiveness
Cloud computing is a remarkable
new utility that now enables
business and IT to access and
use software more easily. IBM
Bluemix was chosen for
advancing the potential of a
cloud platform with its broad
range of services include third-
party ones like Twitter and
Weather Channel.
http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/us/en/paas.

Mobile Technology Award
Innovation in technology for smartphones and /or
tablets in a way that provides striking benefits.
Winner
for
SuccessFactors
Mobile
Mobile technology is changing
how organizations conduct
business. SuccessFactors has
advanced the full potential of
mobile through its innovative
approach to helping people
interact with applications on
mobile devices to be productive
and efficient.
http://www.successfactors.com/en_us/solutions/mobile.html

Social Media Award
Innovation in technology to notably improve the
productivity and performance of an organization.
Winner
and
Social media has rapidly
become a significant
communication and information
path connecting consumers,
government and society at
large. Lithium has innovated
through its social media
management tools and its
advancing Klout to assess
social relevance.
http://www.lithium.com/products-solutions/online-communities/

Wearable Computing
Innovation in technology that will help bring
computing to what is attached to human body
Winner
for
Wearable computing is among
the newest of categories of
technology delivering value.
O.C. Tanner and Tanner Labs
has advanced the usefulness
of wearable computing through
its mobile applications that
utilize usage data to provide
guidance and gratitude for
achieving goals.
http://www.welbe.com

Business Innovation Awards
• CFO
• Office of Finance
• Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)
• Human Capital Management (HCM)
• Sustainability
Overall Business Innovation

CFO Award
Technology vendor that helps CFO and Office of Finance
to innovate and deliver exemplary overall performance
Winner
for
Automic ONE
Automation Platform
Helping guide Finance
leadership is critical, and meeting
the expectations of a CFO is not
easy. Automic brings a new
generation of automation to
ensure the workflow of tasks to
completion in an efficient
manner. It’s orchestration and
usability makes it easy to
assemble automation and
connect to apps and systems.
http://automic.com/one-automation

Office of Finance Award
Innovative technology is empowering finance in the
discipline of superior financial management
Winner
for
Host Analytics
Modeling Cloud
Managing finance these days
requires more than just
accounting and ERP. Host
Analytics was selected for its
flexibility to help finance model
and analyze business in a
secured and collaborative
approach that eliminated needs
for siloes of spreadsheets.
http://www.hostanalytics.com/product/modeling

Governance, Risk & Compliance Award
Technology vendor that is providing innovative
technology in areas of governance, risk and compliance
Winner
for
Oracle
Governance, Risk,
and Compliance
Management
The processes that constitute
GRC must be aligned both to the
business and to the regulatory
environment. Oracle GRC brings
together a suite of applications,
tools and platform that bring
powerful controls, governance
and ensure segregation of duties
(SOD) that are all presented in
powerful visual approaches.
http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/corporate-governance/overview/index.html

Human Capital Management Award
Innovative applications and technology for HCM,
including talent and workforce management
Winner
for
ADP Vantage HCM
Effective human capital
management requires the
ability to provide direct support
for both HR and management.
ADP with Vantage HCM brings
a new employee and manager
experience to an organizations
to more easily perform tasks
and get the information for a
range of HR related needs.
http://www.adp.com/solutions/employer-services/vantage.aspx

Sustainability Award
Innovative technology to support reduction of the
impact of operations and carbon footprint
Winner
for
Corporate
Responsibility,
Energy & Carbon
Management,
Responsible
Supply Chain
Supporting sustainability in a smart
and impactful manner is worthy of
note. Enablon was selected for its
breadth and depth in its suite of
applications that are easy to use
and engaging through mobile and
visualization. Innovations like
Infographics and methods to adapt
using On Publisher simplifies the
process to get insights and
analytics to act on information.
http://enablon.com/solutions

Overall Business Technology Innovation Award
Winner
https://www.domo.com/product
Effective business management
requires the information and
analytics to assess and guide
actions to generate optimal results.
Domo has brought a new generation
of software designed for business to
understand, collaborate and act on
metrics in a simple but sophisticated
manner. Simplifying process of data
to analytics to decision is just one
part of its innovations.

Operational Technology
Innovation Awards
• Contact Center & Call Center
• Customer Excellence
• Marketing Excellence
• Sales Excellence
• Service & Supply Chain Excellence
Overall Operational Innovation

Contact Center Award
Innovation in technology to manage contact centers
Winner
for
PureCloud
Managing the operations of a
contact center poses many
challenges. Interactive
Intelligence was selected for its
empowering a contact center
to collaborate, communicate
and engage across agents and
customers through web and
mobile to provide the best
possible customer experience.
http://www.inin.com/pages/mypurecloud.html

Customer Excellence Award
Innovation in technology to manage customers and
improve their experience and relationships with them
Winner
for
Z-Insights
Managing customer expectations
is challenging. Zuora was
selected for its focus on
subscriber insights and its
lifecycle of interactions to
determine where to improve the
experience and optimize revenue.
Its innovative experience through
workflow, segments and triggers
focus on customer excellence.
https://www.zuora.com/z-insights/

Marketing Excellence Award
Innovation in technology to meet marketing goals and
overall objectives of the organization and support sales
Winner
for
Orion
Helping marketing and the CMO
achieve the best possible
performance is no easy task.
FirstRain was selected for its
ability to provide insights to
marketing on market, products,
competitors that can shorten
time to determining where
action should be taken and raise
level of situational intelligence.
http://www.firstrain.com/overview/

Sales Excellence Award
Innovating technology for sales to help manage
performance and processes
Winner
for
Xactly Insights
One key aspect of achieving sales
excellence is superior time
management. Xactly Insights
provides benchmarks and
understanding on sales organization
and industry from performance to
compensation to ensure optimal
performance. Its ability to guide
equal and fair compensation has
broken open dialogue on incentives.
https://www.xactlycorp.com/products/sales-compensation-planning/

Service & Supply Chain Award
Innovation in technology for supply chain performance
through use of applications and analytics
Winner
for
ChannelView Suite
Managing the service and supply
chains of a business requires
access to key information that
can be used to improve results.
Zyme has innovated in enabling
a streamlined and unified
approach to manage the channel
for sales and products to guide
and optimize best possible
results.
http://www.zyme.com/solutions/applications-api-s-and-
integration?smoothscroll=ChannelViewConnect

Overall Operational Innovation Award
Innovation in delivering exemplary overall operational
performance
Winner
for
Salesforce Wave
Analytics
Applying technology to optimize
operational performance is
critical to ensure best possible
outcomes. Salesforce innovative
approach brings actionable
analytics to front office where
easy and mobile access
streamlines time to action. It’s
approach to unify analytics to
marketing, sales and service
advances potential performance.
http://www.salesforce.com/analytics-cloud/overview/

CIO, IT and Information Technology
Innovation Awards
• CIO
• Business Intelligence (BI)
• Information Optimization
• Information Management
• IT Analytics
• Location Analytics
• Operational Intelligence (OI)
• Predictive Analytics
• Overall IT Winner

CIO Award
Recognizing the technology vendor that most effectively
advanced CIO and IT innovation
Winner
for
Splunk Enterprise
Security 4.0 & Splunk
User Behavior
Analytics
Providing technology that can
change the operations of IT and
business – for the better, that is
– is never easy. Splunk was
chosen for its focus to advance
the insight on security situation
through its use of events and
data to link potential threats
directly to IT for taking action.
http://www.splunk.com/en_us/products/premium-solutions/splunk-enterprise-
security.html

Business Intelligence Award
Innovation in business intelligence to help its
organization improve decision-making
WinnerBusiness Intelligence is by now a
familiar tool for business. But for
many it no longer is providing
game-changing insights. SiSense
was chosen for its lightening fast
analytics that are optimized to
provide users a simpler but more
sophisticated approach to
dashboards and metrics.
http://www.sisense.com/features/

Information Optimization Award
Innovation in making information more accessible for
use across an organization, customers or consumers
WinnerInformation is indeed everywhere, but it
isn’t always in the right shape and form.
Information optimization is a new process
and technology to help business and IT
deal with this challenge. Salsify was
chosen for its approach to simplify and
unify product information flow from its
origination to consumption across the
consumer supply chain. Its exchange
across channels has it fulfilling on the
promise of the information supply chain.
http://www.salsify.com/

Information Management Award
Innovation in information management to improve the
value of information assets
Winner
Managing information to address
the needs of business and IT is
critical. Denodo was chosen as it
brings a more agile and
integrated approach to virtualize
the connection to data across
sources and systems where the
rapid and secure approach to
business needs is essential to
realizing information value.
http://www.denodo.com/en/denodo-platform/overview

IT Analytics and Performance Award
Innovation in IT processes and technology to improve
an organization’s performance
Winner
for
SAS
Cybersecurity
Managing IT performance is no
easy task. Providing insight
through analytics is critical to
that task. SAS focus on utilizing
advancing advanced analytics
on IT data links real time and
diverse sets of data to determine
where potential risk and fraud
can be occurring across the
enterprise.
http://www.sas.com/en_us/software/fraud-security-intelligence/cybersecurity-
solutions.html

Location Analytics Award
Innovation in technology to enable use of location and
geography to improve operations and decision-making
WinnerLocation is available to every
business for use to deliver
competitive or operational
advantage. SpaceCurve brings
forward a new generation of
location analytics with spatial and
related data together in a simpler
approach that can guide the true
situational context to a more
intuitive and smarter approach.
http://spacecurve.com/technology/

Operational Intelligence & IoT Award
Innovation in technology for using events and data to
improve operational responsiveness and drive action
Winner
for
Ryft One
Knowing when and how to respond
to operational issues is essential.
Ryft brings forward a new
architectural and compute potential
of events across a network to
process for real time insights. The
inline processing that prepares
events to data for consumption by
range of tools to gain insight but
also to prepare for IoT demands.
http://www.ryft.com/products/

Predictive Analytics Award
Innovation in technology for using or applying
predictive technology to improve business outcomes
Winner
for
Visier Workforce
Analytics
Getting guidance on future
outcomes is never easy. Visier
brings forward embedded
predictive analytics to guide
human resources to know where
employees are at risk of leaving
of where situations needs to be
assessed and determine if
changes should be acted on by
HR and management.
http://www.visier.com/workforce-analytics/

Overall IT Winner Award
Recognizes vendor for consideration that best
exemplifies innovation in technology.
Winner
for
Informatica
Secure@Source
Even within the rapidly changing
environment of information
technology, some new approaches
distinguish themselves.
Informatica focus on data security
to elevate the importance of
monitoring data usage is essential
to the future of IT.
https://www.informatica.com/products/data-security/secure-at-source.html

Congrats to all Award Winners
Innovating business and IT is essential to success!

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