Ventana Research Announces the Technology Innovation Award Winners for 2016

    BEND, OR, October 12, 2016 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Ventana Research today announced the 30 winners of the 2016 Technology Innovation Awards. These Awards, presented annually, identify the technologies that have had or have the potential to have the most striking positive impact and honor their providers. The Technology Innovation Awards are the most prestigious annual industry technology awards backed by a proven industry analyst firm with market research and expertise across business and IT. The awards thus recognize pioneering vendors that contribute advancements in technology that drive change and increased value for organizations worldwide.

Ventana Research invited all technology providers to nominate their technology innovations to be considered for the awards. Recipients were selected based upon the vendor's contributions in the specific business and/or IT category and the extent to which they will help organizations innovate or enhance the productivity and outcomes of business or IT processes.

"I would like to congratulate all the vendors that have submitted for the Technology Innovation Awards as the volume and quality of submissions were exceptional this year," said Mark Smith, CEO and chief research officer of Ventana Research. "The level of digital innovation in technology continues to grow dramatically, making the challenge to select the winner in each category very difficult. Congratulations to the winners for the investments to technology that are advancing the industry support the needs of business and IT with your products and technology."

These Technology Innovation Awards are the largest business and technology awards program in the industry with 30 awards categories. The categories and winners for the Ventana Research 2016 Technology Innovation Awards are:

Overall Business Technology Innovation:

Oracle for Oracle Adaptive Intelligence Apps

Business Technology Innovation Awards

Big Data: Informatica for Informatica Big Data Management
Business Analytics: SAS for SAS Viya
Collaboration: Ceridian for Dayforce TeamRelate
Cloud Computing: ADP for ADP DataCloud
Internet of Things: PTC for ThingWorx
Mobile Technology: Jacada for Visual IVR
Social Media: Clarabridge for Clarabridge CX Social
Wearable Computing: Domo for Domo Mobile

Business Innovation Awards

Chief Financial Officer: BlackLine for BlackLine Finance Controls and Automation Platform
Office of Finance: Workday for Workday Planning
Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC): IBM for IBM Regulatory Compliance Analytics, powered by Watson
Human Capital Management:SAP for SAP SuccessFactors Intelligent Services
Sustainability: Avetta for Avetta

Operational Innovation Awards

Overall Operational Innovation: Saba for Saba Pulse 360
Contact Center Excellence: NICE for Adaptive WFO
Customer Excellence: Aspect for Aspect Via
Marketing Excellence:InsideView for InsideView Marketing Solutions
Sales Excellence: InsideSales.com for InsideSales Playbooks
Supply Chain/Service Chain Excellence: Scout for Scout RFP

CIO/IT Innovation Award

Chief Information Officer: Solace for Solace

Information Technology Innovation Awards

Overall Information Technology: Yseop for Yseop Compose
Business Intelligence: Qlik for QlikSense
CyberSecurity: BDNA for BDNA
Information Optimization: Datawatch for Datawatch Monarch
Information Management: Teradata for Teradata Everywhere
IT Analytics: Rocana for Rocana Ops
Location Analytics: MapAnything for MapAnything
Operational Intelligence: Zoomdata for Zoomdata
Predictive Analytics: RapidMiner for RapidMiner Platform

Ventana Research highlights and acknowledges the importance of these innovations through the annual Technology Innovation Awards. To learn more about the Ventana Research Technology Innovation Awards and to see what previous award recipients have said about them please visit: www.ventanaresearch.com/Awards.

About Ventana Research
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