ISG Opens Nominations for 2025 Software Innovation Awards™ North America

Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq: III), a global AI-centered technology research and advisory firm, today announced that nominations are open for the 2025 ISG Software Innovation Awards™ for North America, which celebrate software providers whose innovations drive business and IT transformation.

Now in its eighteenth year, the program recognizes software innovations that enhance business application capabilities and deliver measurable improvements in efficiency, productivity and organizational performance.

Nominations are being accepted through Friday, July 11, from software providers across business and IT sectors, including independent software vendors and consulting firms with proprietary software offerings.

ISG Software Innovation Awards will be given in the following categories:

• Overall Software Innovation: The digital innovation that most successfully maximizes the value of people, processes, information and technology;
• Artificial Intelligence: The software provider that best exemplifies innovation in the technologies that support analytics, data intelligence, data platforms, generative AI, governance, machine learning and AI, operations and streaming and events;
• Business and Technologies: The software provider that best exemplifies innovation in technologies supporting customers and CX, digital business and workplace, employees and HCM, office of finance and accounting, office of revenue and supply chain and operations;
• Industries Award: The software provider that best exemplifies innovation in technologies supporting a specific industry. Software catering to the automotive, CPG and retail, energy, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, public sector, media and telecom, and travel and hospitality industries will be considered;
• Information Technology Award: The software provider that best exemplifies innovation in technologies supporting ADM and devops, cloud and infrastructure, compute, edge, network and IoT, cybersecurity, intelligent automation, IT management and operations, observability and platforms.

Nominations will be judged by analysts with ISG Software Research. Winners will be announced at the ISG Sourcing Industry Awards gala dinner on Wednesday, September 17, at the Westin Dallas Stonebriar Golf Resort & Spa in Dallas.

"Software is the largest IT expenditure for most enterprises today," said John Boccuzzi, Jr., partner and president, ISG Research. "The ISG Software Innovation Awards showcase the providers that are maximizing the productivity and potential of business applications and the technologies that drive organizational efficiency, productivity and performance.”

In addition to the winners of the ISG Software Innovation Awards™, the September 17 gala dinner will also recognize winners of the ISG Paragon Awards™, honoring outstanding enterprise-provider partnerships; the ISG Provider Lens™ Awards, honoring outstanding performances by providers featured in ISG Provider Lens studies; and the ISG Star of Excellence™ awards, which recognize excellence in provider delivery based on enterprise client feedback.

Full details of the award categories and nomination guidelines are available on the award website.

About ISG

ISG (Nasdaq: III) is a global AI-centered technology research and advisory firm. A trusted partner to more than 900 clients, including 75 of the world’s top 100 enterprises, ISG is a long-time leader in technology and business services that is now at the forefront of leveraging AI to help organizations achieve operational excellence and faster growth. The firm, founded in 2006, is known for its proprietary market data, in-depth knowledge of provider ecosystems, and the expertise of its 1,600 professionals worldwide working together to help clients maximize the value of their technology investments.

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