Awards News & Articles

Each year KMWorld (news, site) publishes a list of the cream of the crop in knowledge management. "100 companies That Matter" includes favorites from practitioners, analysts, theorists and customers, recognizing orgs whose innovations have had significant impact on the constituency chain as a whole. 

The knowledge management site KMWorld has produced its list of the outfits making waves in the world of data awareness. Is anyone you know on the list? The answer is a resounding yes.

The Red Herring list of the most impressive worldwide 100 private tech companies features some familiar names to the CMS crowd.

This week Packt (news, site) is announcing one new award winner a day. Already they've revealed that:

• Plone (news, site) won 2009 Best Other Open Source CMS
• Drupal (news, site) won Best Open Source PHP CMS
• ImpressCMS (news, site) won 2009 Most Promising Open Source CMS

Today's category is the 2009 Open Source CMS Hall of Fame. Starting with 2009, Best Overall Open Source CMS winners are no longer eligible to win this category (though Packt has not definitively stated whether this policy is just for this year or indefinitely).

Instead, all previous Best Overall winners (Joomla! in 2006, and Drupal in 2007 and 2008) now compete in the Hall of Fame category.

Speaking of winners, the winner of the first inaugural Packt Hall of Fame Award is Drupal. The Drupal project receives a prize of US$ 4,000 with this win. Second place is (obviously) Joomla!, which receives US$ 2,000.

In addition to this main award, there are two new separate specialty sub-awards:

• The Drupal Award, given to Zen for the Best Drupal Theme, and Views for the Best Drupal Module
• The Joomla! Award, given to Affinity for the best Joomla! theme, and noixACL for Best Joomla! extension

Tomorrow Packt announces the final prize, that of 2009 Best Overall Open Source CMS.

It is getting close to the end of the year and as well as all the happy, good will stuff, it’s also the time for awards and jockeying for best position in the market to kick-off 2010. Yesterday we gave you Gartner’s ECM Magic Quadrant, today it’s the finalists for the KM World (news, site) 2009 Promise and Reality Awards.

The winner is chosen from a list of Knowledge Management companies that nominate themselves (or are nominated) with the award given to the company that provides innovative solutions for best knowledge management practices into their business processes.

The winning company will be that company that shows they have taken the extra step to ensure that not only have they delivered their client companies with a given technology or knowledge process, but that they have also followed that up to ensure that it is properly embedded in the company’s work process.

This week Packt (news, site) is announcing one new award winner a day. Already they've revealed that Plone (news, site) won 2009 Best Other Open Source CMS, and Drupal (news, site) won Best Open Source PHP CMS.

Today's category is for the 2009 Most Promising Open Source CMS. Congratulations to the winner, ImpressCMS (news, site), and runners up Pixie (news, site) and Pligg (news, site). Still to come are the Hall of Fame winner on November 12, and the Best Overall Open Source CMS on November 13. The winner of this category receives $2,000 and both runners up receive $1,000 each.

The Packt award is really more of a popularity contest than a statement of fitness for a particular purpose, but it can serve to indicate where there is growing or waning energy around various open source projects. For a analysis of the top 20 most popular open source CMS, see the free 2009 Open Source Market Share report.

Now in its fourth year, the Packt Awards offer US$ 24,000 in prizes to the projects deemed "best" in their particular open source content management class.

Categories this year include a new Hall of Fame award alongside the usual titles of:

• Best Overall Open Source CMS
• Most Promising Open Source CMS
• Best PHP Open Source CMS
• Best Other Open Source CMS
• Open Source MVPs

The Hall of Fame award is for previous winners of the Overall award and is an attempt to open up that category for more nominees and not just the usual suspects.

It's that time again -- Packt (news, site) is announcing the winners of its Open Source CMS Awards. The lucky ones are narrowed down via community voting, and then judges make the final evaluations. Throughout this week we'll find out who won in each of the 4 categories:

1. Best Other Open Source CMS -- Congrats to the Plone (news, site) project for retaining last year's title!
2. Best Open Source PHP CMS -- Congrats to Drupal who's win was announced this morning.
3. Most Promising Open Source CMS -- Coming November 11, 2009.
4. Best Overall Open Source CMS -- Coming November 13, 2009.

Runners up for 2009's Best Other Open Source CMS are dotCMS (news, site) and mojoPortal (news, site). The winning projects receive prize money as well, $2000 to Plone and $500 each for dotCMS and mojoPortal. Previous winners for this category include Plone's 2008 win and mojoPortal in 2007.

Those who made Packt's 2009 Open Source CMS Most Valued People list were also announced. the list includes:

• Robert Campbell for CMS Made Simple (news, site) 
• Dries Buytaert for Drupal (news, site) 
• Louis Landry for Joomla! (news, site) 
• Ryan thrash for MODx (news, site) 
• Joe Audette for mojoPortal (news, site) 
• Kasper Skaarhoj for TYPO3 (news, site) 
• Leo Feyer for TYPOlight (news, site) 
• Taiwen Jiang for XOOPS (news, site) 

List members were nominated by the developers and community of each project.

[Editor's Note: Check out our 2009 Open Source CMS Market Share report for details on the 20 most popular open source content management systems.]

One company is going close off this year on a high note whether or not it wins any of the four categories it has been nominated at this year’s Document Manager Awards in the UK.

That company is Cheshire-based Version One (news, site)  and it has been nominated in four categories, including contender for best website at the awards, which take place on October 22nd.

The other three categories include Storage Product of the Year category for Diarchic, Green Product of the Year finalist for DbAuthorise and Email Product of the Year for DbMail.

KMWorld (news, site) has dropped its list of Trend Setting companies for 2009 and there are more than a few familar faces making the list.

Now in its fourth year, the Packt Awards (news, site)  offer US$ 24,000 in prizes to the best in open source content management software. Will Drupal walk off with the gold again? Or will Joomla or DotNetNuke steal the crown?

The candidates for U.K.’s Business Software Satisfaction Awards of 2009 have been announced. On the list for the third time running is Poynton-based Version One (news, site) for their suite of document management and imaging products. Version One is one of four finalists in the Paperless Office Software category, and the winner will be announced at an awards ceremony on 8 October 2009 at The Royal Courts of Justice in London.

Julian Buck, Version One’s General Manager, says, “Reaching the final of these respected awards for the third consecutive year is a great accomplishment and we are delighted that end-users continue to endorse the quality of our software and services.”

The Business Software Satisfaction Awards acknowledge high standards from U.K. business software providers. Finalists were reportedly selected based on the votes of over 8,100 end users, making this particular survey one of the largest individual pieces of business software research in the U.K.

For more information, including details on how you can attend the ceremony, head on over this way.

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.