Ventana Research Announces 15th Annual Digital Innovation Awards Finalists

    BEND, OR, June 17, 2022 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Ventana Research announced today the 30 finalists of the 15th Annual Digital Innovation Awards. These awards identify the top technologies and products that have the most striking impact in their respective markets, recognizing pioneering vendors that contribute advancements in technology, drive change and increase value for organizations worldwide. This year's finalists represent a significant wave of technological advancements in use of AI (artificial intelligence) and ML (machine learning) infused across tools and applications demonstrating substantive advancements, that from our analysis, have the most significant impact to the technology industry.

The Digital Innovation Awards cover 10 categories aligned to our expertise areas: Analytics, Data, Customer Experience, Digital Business, Digital Technology, Human Capital Management, Marketing, Office of Finance, Office of Revenue and Operations & Supply Chain, along with an Overall Award. Nominations were open to organizations across business and IT, technology vendors and consulting firms. Award finalists were judged by the subject matter expert analyst team at Ventana Research, which scored the submissions on digital innovation that most successfully maximizes the value in an impact to organization's assets – its people, processes, information and technology. The winners in each category, along with the overall winner, will be announced forthcoming.

"The importance of digital innovation in technology to the value of every organization is essential to be productive and resilient in the best and worst of times, and our 15 years in identifying and recognizing technology providers continues to be a long-standing tradition of our firm," said Mark Smith, CEO and Chief Research Officer at Ventana Research. "Congratulations to the finalists of our 15th annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards, for their diligence to excellence in technology and dedication to advance the technology industry to be impactful and prepare for the readiness required by every organization."

The finalists of the 15th Annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards are:

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

- ai for H2O AI Cloud
- Pyramid Analytics for Pyramid Decision Intelligence Platform
- Qlik for Qlik Active Intelligence

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.

- Dialpad for Dialpad Ai Contact Center
- Genesys for Pointillist® Customer Journey Management Platform
- NICE for CXone Autoflow

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

- Astronomer for Astro
- Bigeye for Bigeye
- MongoDB for MongoDB Atlas

Digital Business - This award is for a technology vendor that best exemplifies innovation in applications and technologies that support the digital business needs and in the following areas: Business Continuity, Digital Communications, Digital Payments, Digital Security, Experience Management, Governance and Risk, Performance Management, Sustainability Management and Work Management.

- Algolia for Algolia
- Near for Near Pinnacle
- ServiceNow for Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM)

Digital Technology - This award for a technology vendor that best exemplifies innovation in the technologies that support any or all of the following areas: Analytics & Data, AI & Machine Learning, Blockchain, Cloud Computing, Collaborative & Conversational Computing, eXtended reality, Internet of Things, Mobile Computing or Robotic Automation.

- Nividia for NVIDIA Omniverse
- Sprinklr for Sprinklr Contact Center AI
- Tray.io for Tray Automation Platform

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

- Oracle for Oracle ME (My Experience)
- Salary.com for CompAnalyst Pay Equity Suite
- Synd.io for Syndio Workplace Equity Platform

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

- CSG for CSG Xponent
- Innovid for TVSquared
- Zoho for Zoho Marketing Plus

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.

- OneStream for Sensible Machine Learning
- Workiva for ESG Explorer and Frameworks
- Zuora for Zuora Revenue

Office of Revenue - This award is for a technology vendor that best exemplifies innovation in the application or technologies that support the revenue organization.

- Clari for Clari Align
- Scratchpad for Scratchpad
- Uniphore for Q for Sales

Operations and Supply Chain - This award is for a technology vendor that best exemplifies innovation in the technologies that support the operations or service/supply chain.

- IBM for IBM Supply Chain Intelligence Suite
- Kinaxis for Planning.AI
- ParkourSC for Digital Supply Chain Platform

Ventana Research highlights and acknowledges the importance of these innovations through its annual Digital Innovation Awards. To learn more about the Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards, please visit here.

About Ventana Research

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