Awards News & Articles

The start of summer seems an odd choice to start doling out awards (isn't that usually January/February?) but it hasn't stopped asp.netPRO from counting the votes in its 2009 Readers' Choice awards. It was the winner of the Best CMS that made us stop and pay attention.

When it comes to dancing with hippos and romancing thousands of college girls, the company that gets the job done is Bluenog (news, site). Yes, the team behind the ECM solution Bluenog ICE, which is built on Hippo open source technology and was recently announced as the management solution of choice for Wellesley College’s website, has certainly been attracting a lot of attention lately.

On the heels of their Startup 50 ranking from InformationWeek comes another award, this time from Red Herring. The media company’s editorial team announced that their list of the top 100 Technology Companies in North America contains winners drawn from a pool of 1,000.

Each year, evaluations are reportedly made on both quantitative and qualitative criteria such as financial performance, innovation, management, global strategy, and ecosystem integration.

“Of the thousands of companies that have submitted their entries we were tasked with choosing the technologies that are making the biggest impact this year,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “Bluenog is one of those exceptional companies that can make open source tick in the enterprise with its advanced collaborative solution.”

The list of companies that rocked Red Herring’s boat this year included some other familiar faces as well, like Clearwell, Meebo and Acquia. To see them all, check out Red Herring’s website here.

FatWire Software (news, site), a very familiar Web Content Management provider in these parts and one of the few companies that managed to actually benefit from the failing economy, has been acknowledged for its success yet again. Yphise, one of Europe’s independent research firms, recently named the company the best Web Experience Optimization (WEO) solution, placing it on a higher pedestal than competitors such as Interwoven, SDL Tridion and Vignette.

The Yphise Award ranks software solutions in over 170 different technical or functional assessment categories. FatWire Content Server scored high marks in:

• The assessment for increasing the agility of businesses in setting up and managing websites,
• Optimizing Web content to support corporate objectives, increasing business activity on the web,
• Facilitating website deployment

“Web Experience Management and optimization are critical drivers for marketing success and business efficiency,” said Loren Weinberg, FatWire vice president of marketing and product management. “This award is an important testament to the high quality of FatWire’s products, as well as the completeness of our vision and our commitment to helping customers achieve their goals online.”

Yphise conducts ongoing research in order to help business and IT execs make sound IT investments for boosting performance. Curious to see who else they deem worthy? Check out their list of approved software products and projects here. 

 In addition to recently showing us just how quickly Google Data Analytics API can be integrated into a web content management system, Australian CMS vendor Siteflex (news, site) has also been dazzling bigwigs in the information and communication technology (ICT) field.

What we’re referring to, of course, is the CeBIT.AU Awards. Siteflex was recently selected as a finalist for not one, but two – Excellence in New Media 2009 and Business Advantage 2009.

The CeBIT.AU Business Awards are the equivalent of receiving a big gold star for outstanding achievement in the ICT industry, while the Excellence in New Media Award recognizes outstanding companies, products and services in the New Media field, including digital platform companies, digital audio and video delivery systems, content development firms and content integration services.

"As a globally recognized ICT Authority, CeBIT's Awards are very prestigious and well-respected throughout the world. The Siteflex team is very excited to have been nominated for two award categories" stated Mark Kofahl, Managing Director at Siteflex.

We bet they are. For more information on the CeBIT, including other awardees and up coming conferences, visit their site here. 

Each year KMWorld publishes the top 100 knowledge management companies "with attitude." Relying on feedback from colleagues, analysts, system integrators and the vendors themselves, the annual list spotlights organizations that demonstrate a commitment to customer-driven innovation and exceptional market agility.

Below, a shortlist of industry standouts -- and why they made it this year.

That's right, there's an entire book about SilverStripe CMS. Written by SilverStripe core developer Ingo Schommer with the help of designer, programmer and writer Steven Broschart, the book is a 450 page long guide to SilverStripe for Web developers with an intermediate familiarity with website development, PHP5, and object oriented code.

The company put out a call for writers specifically for the project in March 2008. Merely a year later they've not only kicked it out, they' also managed to land on Amazon.de's CMS bestseller list within two weeks of release.

We would say we're surprised, but given that the company just won the Most Promising Open Source Content Management System award from Packt Publishing, we're not. The folks over at SilverStripe are definitely on top of things. 

For now, the guide is only in German (bummer) but SilverStripe has stated that they're exploring the idea of an English translation in the near future. 

The CODiE Awards are on our radar again for 2009 and the finalist announcements are expecting to be flooding the internet wires. In this case, web content management vendor Clickability has made the list of finalist again for the Content Management category.

The title of this article says it all, doesn't it? The folks over at SpringCM are probably jumping up and down right now, since they've just been considered a very promising company by Forrester Research. 

In the very Danish early evening here at the jboye08 conference your sometimes faithful correspondent was present to witness the ever faithfully entertaining Web Idol competition.

For those unfamiliar with the concept, Web Idol is a semi-serious but mostly humorous event loosely based on the extremely popular (with people we don’t know) American Idol TV show.

The Web Idol version is a bit of a hoot but at the same time provides a line-up of Web CMS vendors with a chance to strut their latest stuff in front of a crowd of leading web practitioners.

Ektron is getting some love… again. The Web CMS vendor has made it to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies for 2008. This marks Ektron’s second consecutive appearance on Inc.’s annual list – this year, at # 1,607.

Yes, that’s right, KMWorld has released it’s list of Trend-Setting Products for 2008 and we have yet another vendor announcing they made the list. This time it’s iDatix and it’s enterprise content management solution iSynergy.

Juniper Research has given top place in the Future Mobile Awards to ShoZu, a provider of mobile social media services connecting mobile consumers with their online social networks, personal blogs and photo sharing sites.

As we enter the official dog days of summer, the sweltering haze makes us long for the brisk autumn days. But the weather isn’t the only thing that makes the fall cool — it’s full of exciting industry events designed to help us develop skills, drain expense accounts and double our frequent flier miles.

It’s always good to see your name in ink — even in this day of almost everything being virtual. Such is true for open source enterprise content management provider Alfresco, whose Community Edition 2.2 was recently reviewed by Business Computing magazine receiving the Editor’s Choice Award for their June Issue.

The gang over at Vignette has been doing some celebrating this week picking up two different industry awards for two of their products proving they may actually know a little something about saving an organization a lot of money and delivering outstanding web experiences in this Web 2.0 world.