Many organizations have transformed their business by successfully adopting and implementing DevOps principles, practices and solutions. This award recognizes those enterprises that have successfully achieved DevOps success and have worked with their solution partner to do so.

Scaling DevOps Compliance: Blackhawk Network’s Intelligent Change Automation Framework – Blackhawk Network redefined enterprise DevOps with Continuous Deployment as a Service (CDaaS) an automation framework that connects Jenkins and ServiceNow to embed governance, compliance, and audit into every release. CDaaS reduced deployment approval time from hours to seconds, eliminated manual change tickets, and delivered measurable business value. Winner of the 2025 Titan Gold Award and finalist for the National DevOps Awards, CDaaS sets a new benchmark for DevOps excellence.

Operation Joined Arrows at FIS – The Operation Joined Arrows (OJA) DevSecOps CI/CD Program is a major, enterprise-wide transformation at FIS, designed to drive modernization and continuous delivery excellence. Built on Agile and Scrum, OJA unifies development, security, and operations into a single, standardized, and scalable framework. OJA’s success stems from fostering a culture of collaboration, leveraging automation, and embedding proactive security to accelerate release cycles, minimize errors, and enhance time-to-market.

Freedom Mission: First Lunar Data Center, led by Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. in partnership with Phison Electronics Corp. – Phison served as the storage and controller partner on Lonestar’s Freedom Mission, the first hardware-based lunar data center. Phison supplied ruggedized Pascari enterprise solid state-drives (SSDs) with customized, power-optimized firmware, and radiation-resilient design. Validated under vacuum, vibration and extreme temperatures, the mission launched aboard Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C and in Feb. 2025 demonstrated reliable lunar data storage and successful data transfer to Earth.

Tool & Service providers play a critical role in bringing innovative tools, platforms and services to the market..This award recognizes a strong Tools & Services leader who guides their company through the challenges of developing and bringing to market innovative DevOps technologies and services.

Paul Stovell – Paul Stovell founded Octopus Deploy in 2012 to solve deployment headaches he’d seen at organizations of all sizes. Thirteen years later, Octopus serves 4,000+ customers worldwide with annual revenues above AUD $120 million. Paul remains the CEO, and Octopus employs over 360 people while setting the standard for Continuous Delivery at scale. Under Paul’s leadership, Octopus is known for its great culture, with its public handbook reflecting the values that make it an enviable place to work.

Jyoti Bansal – Jyoti Bansal is redefining how the world thinks about software delivery in the AI era. As a serial entrepreneur who’s built multiple billion-dollar companies that retain innovation and creativity at scale (AppDynamics, Harness, Traceable, and Unusual Ventures), Jyoti is acutely aware of the software delivery bottlenecks preventing innovation from reaching customers quickly and reliably.

Shlomi Ben Haim – “Shlomi Ben Haim has led Jfrog to become the defacto system of record for software artifact management. Since then, under Shlomi’s leadership, JFrog continues to redefine binary management and secure software delivery by pioneering DevOps-Centric Security (JFrog Advanced Security), AI-Driven DevOps (JFrog ML and JFrog Fly), the industry’s first agentic remediation, self-healing software security, and end-to-end DevGovOps (JFrog AppTrust) for software governance. Known for his hands-on leadership and belief in teamwork, open communication, and dedication to always leaping forward, Shlomi continues to inspire customers, employees, partners, developers, security specialists, data scientists and MLOps engineers alike by continuously pushing the boundaries and redefining what’s possible for secure software delivery in the AI era. “

DevOps solution providers typically are on the leading edge of new DevOps strategies, tools and practices. This award recognizes the individual that does the best job of informing the DevOps community about new and exciting tools and practices to deliver DevOps success and business value.

Steve Fenton – Steve Fenton bridges the gap between research and practice in DevOps through extensive community engagement. He assists organizations in understanding and implementing DORA research and creates original studies, like the State of GitOps report and the Platform Engineering Pulse. He worked extensively on the CNCF Platform Engineering Maturity Model Assessment. His conference talks at LeadDev, PlatformCon, and DevOps Live, plus on-site visits, translate complex concepts into actionable insights.

Matt Allford – Matt Allford is a Developer Advocate at Octopus Deploy, where he drives technical education and community engagement around modern deployment automation, Platform Engineering, and cloud-native practices. With nearly 20 years of experience spanning systems administration, architecture, and DevOps engineering, Matt brings deep practitioner credibility to his advocacy work.

John Bristowe – John Bristowe, Principal Developer Advocate at Octopus Deploy, leads global developer outreach through webinars, live events, and podcasts that educate teams on modern DevOps practices. As host of Deploy on Friday and the SHIPPED virtual conference, he delivers practical, high-impact insights that help organisations automate, deploy, and improve continuously.

Consolidation in the DevOps space has led to a greater selection of platforms offering end-to-end solutions with increasing feature sets. This award honors the platform with the most diverse and robust solution for DevOps teams.

Opsera Unified DevOps Platform, powered by Hummingbird AI – Opsera is built for today’s modern DevOps organizations. From comprehensive pipeline creation and management, with over 100 pre-built integrations, and complete analytic and reporting capabilities for GitHub Copilot and the entire development stack, organizations achieve faster release cycles, maintain and improve code quality, and increase efficiency within their software development processes leveraging Hummingbird AI from Opsera.

Harness – Harness is the AI DevOps platform for complete software delivery. It brings AI to the full software development lifecycle, eliminating critical bottleneckslike manual testing, risky deployments, and high cloud costsby automating the most painful parts of software delivery. It allows 1000+ organizations who rely on Harness to ship software faster, safer, and smarter with end-to-end integration, freeing teams to focus on innovation.

The PagerDuty Operations Cloud – “The PagerDuty Operations Cloud sits at the intersection of digital infrastructure, observability, and real-time operations. The AI-powered, automation-led platform is designed to reduce downtime, accelerate resolution, and eliminate manual toil by orchestrating machine learning, automation, and human response in a single system of action. PagerDuty is trusted by nearly half of both the Fortune 500 and the Forbes AI 50, as well as approximately two-thirds of the Fortune 100.”

CloudBees Unify – In 2025, CloudBees unveiled Unify, a DevOps solution that connects existing developer toolchains into a single, secure, AI-enhanced control plane. Unify is a first-of-its kind shift from fragmented DevOps tools to a comprehensive solution for today’s most complex development environments. Open and flexible, it’s built for the reality of enterprise software delivery: decades of code, multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure, diverse tech stacks, distributed teams and strict governance requirements.

ControlMonkey – ControlMonkey is a Git-first IaC management platform transforming how enterprises operate Terraform, OpenTofu and Terragrunt at scale. It automatically detects, codifies and enforces every infrastructure change through Git as the single source of truth. With AI-powered code generation, continuous remediation and cloud disaster recovery, ControlMonkey provides automation, visibility and compliance. DevOps teams govern infrastructure like software with faster deployments and stronger governance.

Octopus Deploy – Octopus Deploy (Octopus) is a Continuous Delivery platform that handles complex software delivery at any scale. Octopus makes it easy to deliver software to Kubernetes, multi-cloud, on-prem infrastructure, and anywhere else. DevOps teams use Octopus to handle the release, deployment, configuration, scaling, compliance, and operations for their software and AI workloads at scale in ways no other tool can.

Generative AI is transforming DevOps by automating tasks, improving code quality, and enhancing efficiency. It leverages AI models to generate code, automate deployments, and streamline workflows, ultimately leading to faster development cycles and more robust software. This award honors the best use of Generative AI in a DevOps Tool or Platform.

Moddy – Moddy, Moderne’s multi-repo AI agent, fuses generative AI with deterministic automation to deliver safe, automated code modernization at scale. Built on OpenRewrite’s Lossless Semantic Tree, Moddy interprets natural-language requests, identifies vulnerabilities, and generates validated pull requests across thousands of repos combining AI’s creativity with engineering precision to power continuous, confident modernization in DevOps.

Grafana Assistant – Grafana Assistant is an AI-powered agent in Grafana Cloud that leverages LLMs to help users query, build, & troubleshoot using natural language. It streamlines common DevOps workflows like writing PromQL, LogQL, or TraceQL queries, creating & managing dashboards, investigating issues, and understanding telemetry trends all through generative AI capabilities. The Assistant is tightly integrated into the Grafana interface, providing context-aware, multi-step investigations & actionable insights.

The PagerDuty Operations Cloud – “The PagerDuty Operations Cloud sits at the intersection of digital infrastructure, observability, and real-time operations. The AI-powered, automation-led platform is designed to reduce downtime, accelerate resolution, and eliminate manual toil by orchestrating machine learning, automation, and human response in a single system of action. PagerDuty is trusted by nearly half of both the Fortune 500 and the Forbes AI 50, as well as approximately two-thirds of the Fortune 100.”

Postman Agent Mode – Postman Agent Mode is an AI-native assistant that transforms natural language into real API actions, like automating design, testing, documentation, and monitoring within the world’s leading API platform. Unlike copilots that suggest code, Agent Mode executes production-ready workflows, compressing weeks of manual effort into hours, and redefining how developers build and deploy APIs through intent-first, AI-powered automation.

Planview Anvi – Planview Anvi is an enterprise AI solution that delivers expert guidance and intelligent actions powered by deep domain expertise & contextual data to help companies prioritize strategic investments & deliver positive outcomes. Leveraging Planview’s longstanding market leadership in project, product, and digital transformation initiatives, Planview Anvi helps organizations deliver strategic outcomes with intelligence that truly understands their business & ultimately achieve positive results.

LaunchDarkly Platform (AI Configs) – AI Configs address the critical challenge of deploying non-deterministic AI at enterprise scale. With teams managing hundreds of prompts, adapting to rapidly evolving models, and unable to measure token costs or output quality, genAI development has become risky. LaunchDarkly’s AI Configs enables runtime management of prompts and models without redeployment, instant rollbacks when issues arise, real-time monitoring of token usage and performance, and progressive delivery to de-risk releases.

Octopus AI Assistant – The Octopus AI Assistant puts a DevOps expert in the seat next to you, helping you scale securely, save time and money, and reduce risk. It answers your questions, bootstraps new projects, speeds up troubleshooting, and helps you optimize Octopus. This helps teams deploy faster, reduce errors, and decrease support costs.

CodeRabbit’s AI Code Review Platform – CodeRabbit is the pioneer of AI code reviews, helping developers ship code faster with fewer bugs. Its platform delivers context-aware reviews with built-in intelligence from code graphs, PR history, issue tickets, MCP servers, and custom review rules that make it the most advanced code review platform. CodeRabbit adapts to your codebase, reduces noise, catches elusive bugs, improves security, and enables reliable, high-speed software delivery.

Agentic AI refers to autonomous AI capabilities in a DevOps Tool or Service that can plan, reason, and act to complete DevOps tasks with minimal human oversight. This involves perception, decision-making, and execution, creating a value stream lifecycle where the AI agent interacts with the DevOps environment. This award honors the best use of Agentic AI in a DevOps Tool or Platform.

Kagent Enterprise – “Kagent enterprise is a context-aware platform for AI and agentic applications on Kubernetes that solves the unique security, observability, resiliency, and governance requirements that prevent AI and agentic projects from moving from pilot to production. Built specifically for DevOps and platform engineers, Kagent enables AI agents to run directly in Kubernetes clusters to automate operations, troubleshoot issues, and solve complex cloud-native challenges.”

Spacelift Intent – Spacelift Intent is the first Agentic AI model for infrastructure provisioning. It translates natural language goals (deploy staging, rollback last change) into safe, governed actions without HCL or Terraform. Intent executes within enterprise guardrails, unifying automation, compliance, and autonomy across any cloud or IaC stack.

GitLab Duo – GitLab Duo Agent Platform is a next-generation DevSecOps orchestration platform enabling asynchronous collaboration between developers and specialized AI agents. The platform transforms software engineering from isolated, linear processes into intelligent human-AI collaboration across the entire DevSecOps lifecycle. With native Model Context Protocol support, built-in development, security, and operations workflows, and a unified Knowledge Graph, GitLab Duo transforms how teams deliver software.

Opsera Hummingbird AI – Opsera Hummingbird AI represents a transformative leap in DevOps orchestration, introducing the industry’s first comprehensive agentic AI platform that delivers contextual reasoning across the entire software delivery lifecycle. Unlike traditional DevOps tools that merely automate tasks, Hummingbird AI acts as an intelligent reasoning agent that understands, analyzes, and autonomously optimizes DevOps operations across 100+ KPIs, spanning DORA metrics, developer experience, and security posture.

Harness AI – “Harness AI is the solution to tackle software delivery challenges after code generation. Embedded directly into the Harness platform, it brings real-time, contextual intelligence to the entire SDLC so enterprises can deliver software faster, safer, and at scale. At its foundation is the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, which maps every build, test, and deployment and powers agents across DevOps, AppSec, Testing, and FinOps that anticipate risks, automate fixes, and optimize delivery in one u”

JFrog Fly – JFrog Fly introduces the industry’s first agentic repository a zero-configuration, AI-native layer that lets agent-driven workflows manage artifact lifecycles, semantic releases, and CI/CD integration without friction. By embedding context-aware decision-making directly into the delivery pipeline, Fly reimagines how AI agents and developers interact with infrastructure. It’s the next-gen bridge between AI coding and trustworthy release.

Mezmo Agentic AI SRE – Mezmo’s Agentic AI SRE for Root Cause Analysis is paving the way for AI innovations in DevOps. By leveraging Context Engineering, the solution feeds intelligent agents with clean, high-fidelity data, virtually eliminating noise and speeding up diagnosis. This innovation cuts incident resolution time by 90% and reduces per-incident cost by 90%, setting a new standard for autonomous, cost-effective reliability at scale.

Copado DevOps Platform – Copado’s AI-powered DevOps platform brings intelligence, automation, and governance to every stage of Salesforce delivery. With Org Intelligence, teams gain real time visibility into technical debt, metadata relationships, and deployment risks across complex Salesforce environments. Copado’s AI driven automation accelerates releases with intelligent pipelines, predictive test automation, and smart conflict resolution, reducing errors and deployment time by over 50%.

Sysdig Sage – DevOps and security teams often work in silos, slowing innovation and increasing risk. Sysdig Sage, the first agentic AI cloud security analyst, perceives, reasons, and acts across the software lifecycle. It unites teams with shared intelligence, giving engineers visibility and ownership, cutting response times by 76% and reclaiming 80+ hours/week from manual triage. Sysdig Sage transforms security from a barrier into a proactive, autonomous partner for faster innovation and greater resilience.

The Octopus MCP Server – The Octopus MCP Server lets your AI assistants interact directly with Octopus, helping you explore, analyze, and diagnose problems in your Octopus instance. Octopus MCP can work alongside your source control, CI, and cloud MCP tooling, enabling agentic workflows across your DevOps ecosystem. All interactions are secure and auditable by default to maintain your organization’s compliance and governance standards.

This award honors the best DevSecOps solution, which enables security to be included earlier and continuously throughout the SDLC.

Checkmarx One Assist – Checkmarx One Assist introduces the first autonomous security platform purpose-built for the AI development era, assembled on Agentic AI technology. Established with two decades of trusted AppSec intelligence,the family of intelligent agents secures AI-generated code at the speed it’s created, specifically tailored for Developers, AppSec leaders, and CISOs. With authoritative data engines at its core, the solution delivers accuracy that reduces false positives and reliably scales globally.

Moderne – Moderne redefines DevSecOps through safe, automated code remediation at cloud scale. Built on OpenRewrite, its deterministic platform unites security, modernization, and compliance, transforming detection into continuous action. Enterprises eliminate CVEs, patch vulnerabilities, and upgrade frameworks across thousands of repos in hours, not months, achieving measurable resilience and tech stack liquidity while future-proofing against post-quantum and emerging risks.

Harness Cloud Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) – Cloud Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) delivers end-to-end API security continuous discovery, shift-left testing, and real-time runtime defense protection in a single cloud-native platform. It eliminates blind spots, stops advanced attacks in real-time, and integrates directly with CI/CD.

Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) – Orca Security empowers organizations to leverage AI for competitive advantage through their cloud-agnostic, all-in-one security platform that delivers easy deployment, immediate ROI, and centralized data access for effective risk prioritization across multi-cloud environments, enabling Security, IT, and DevOps teams to achieve faster technology adoption, increased velocity, and improved security posture while allowing CISOs to rapidly demonstrate clear value to executive leadership.

Opsera Unified DevOps Platform, powered by Hummingbird AI – Opsera’s DevSecOps Platform transforms software delivery by unifying disparate tools into a single, cohesive pipeline. It proactively prevents vulnerabilities and enforces security, governance, and compliance at every stage. With our Unified Insights engine, organizations gain unparalleled visibility to measure and improve software security, quality, and governance, ensuring the delivery of secure, high-quality software at scale.

Fastly Next-Gen WAF – Modern software delivery is changing the shape of security, and Fastly’s Next-Gen Web Application Firewall is built for this new reality. Leveraging its proprietary detection technology, customers effectively protect applications, APIs, and microservices in real-time while enabling devs to deploy on demand without impacting end users. With Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF, organizations rest easy knowing their applications are working as intended all while enjoying frictionless, user-friendly security.

Liquibase Secure – The database is the last blind spot in the enterprise. Liquibase Secure closes it by embedding security and compliance into database change itself. With policy checks, drift and anomaly detection, data lineage, and targeted rollbacks across 60+ databases and data platforms, it validates every schema change, human or AI-generated, before runtime, giving enterprises speed, trust, and complete control across the data layer.

Sonatype AI Software Composition Analysis (SCA) – With unmatched open source visibility and a unified product suite, Sonatype’s AI SCA solutions give enterprises the intelligence and automated governance they need to harness the full potential of open source and AI. Sonatype protects developers and their time by automating policy enforcement, remediation, and artifact workflows so developers can spend more time on innovation and less time on remediation and rework.

Root.io – Root.io is ending the CVE grind by repositioning supply chain security around “Shift Out” AppSec operates independently from developers, both sides freed from vulnerability management. It delivers zero-vulnerability containers compatible with existing infrastructure, deployable in 30 days with full CI/CD integration and compliance docs. Root proves security and velocity aren’t competing priorities, but complementary strengths across the software supply chain.

BlueFlag Security Platform – BlueFlag Security is an identity-centric SDLC security platform that correlates developer access, tool misconfigurations, and risky code changes to prevent breaches. Industry research shows that most SDLC attack paths originate not in code, but in misconfigured pipelines and compromised developer identities. By embedding governance across the SDLC, BlueFlag empowers DevSecOps teams to reduce operational costs, accelerate remediation, and ensure software integrity without slowing delivery.

Software supply chain security refers to the measures taken to protect the integrity and security of software throughout its entire development and delivery lifecycle, from initial code to final deployment. This award honors the best solution for ensuring that the software is trustworthy and hasn’t been tampered with at any point in its journey.

Checkmarx One – Checkmarx One secures every stage of the software supply chain by identifying and mitigating risks from third-party components, open-source libraries, and malicious packages. As a member of the OASIS OSIM committee, Checkmarx helps shape global supply chain security standards while empowering organizations to build, verify, and deliver trusted software with reduced risk and full lifecycle visibility.

Chainguard Containers – Chainguard makes open source software trustworthy by default by delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers rely on so teams can build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. Chainguard envisions a world where engineering teams move at the speed of innovation, confident that every line of code is verifiably secure and ready for production.

JFrog Platform – The JFrog Platform deserves recognition as the Best Supply Chain Security Solution for redefining how organizations secure and govern software from code to deployment. With AppTrust enforcing policy-driven release governance and immutable proof of integrity, plus innovations like JFrog AI Catalog and MCP Server extending protection into the AI era, JFrog delivers end-to-end transparency, traceability, and trust across the software supply chain.

This award recognizes the best observability solution for observing and monitoring to understand the performance of individual components, systems and entire applications.

Apica Flow – Apica Flow is an intelligent telemetry pipeline solution that addresses the critical enterprise challenge of observability cost explosion and vendor lock-in. Flow processes, enriches, and routes telemetry data while providing infinite buffering to prevent data loss during traffic spikes or destination outages.

Grafana Cloud – Grafana Cloud is the world’s most composable observability platform built on open source, trusted by 7,000+ customers, and starting with a forever-free tier that’s actually useful. In 2025, Grafana Labs introduced Grafana Assistant (GA), Assistant Investigations (Preview), and the complete Adaptive Telemetry suite, alongside full-stack and database observability. From startups to enterprises like Anthropic and NVIDIA, Grafana Cloud helps teams cut costs, reduce toil, and resolve incidents.

Observe Inc. – Observe is an AI-powered observability platform engineered for scale. Built on a scalable data lake, Observe ingests and stores telemetry at dramatically lower cost. Its Knowledge Graph tracks relationships between objects in the system to provide essential context for investigations, while its AI SRE accelerates time to resolution. Customers like Capital One, Topgolf, and Dialpad ingest petabytes daily and troubleshoot 3x faster at 70% lower cost, depending on Observe for reliability at scale.

Splunk Observability Cloud – Splunk Observability Cloud delivers unified visibility across infrastructure, applications, and user experiences in cloud-native and hybrid environments. With AI-powered troubleshooting, OpenTelemetry support, and integrated monitoring, teams can quickly detect, investigate, and resolve issues to optimize performance, control costs, and deliver exceptional digital experiences.

Honeycomb.io – Honeycomb is the AI-powered observability platform that enables engineering teams to see everything and solve anything. It unifies all telemetry data, provides sub-second querying speeds, and seamlessly integrates with AI agents to reveal issues other observability tools miss in your ever-evolving tech stack. With Honeycomb, customers are able to break down technical barriers and empower a new culture of performance.

Chronosphere – Chronosphere is a cloud-native observability platform that empowers organizations to manage and derive insights from their telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) at scale, enabling efficient troubleshooting and cost optimization in modern, containerized environments.

Catchpoint – Trusted by the top online retailers, Global2000, CDNs, cloud service providers, and xSPs, Catchpoint gives enterprises proactive observability across the entire Internet Stack, finding and fixing issues before customers feel them. Backed by the world’s largest independent observability network (~3,000 agents/105 countries) Catchpoint offers capabilities designed to proactively identify and resolve issues across the Internet Stack before they impact customers, workforce or digital experience.

This award recognizes the best Platform Engineering solution enabling self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era covering the operational necessities of the entire lifecycle of an application.

Temporal – Temporal is a Durable Execution platform that enables engineering teams to offload reliability, scalability, and failure-handling from applications into the platform itself. By providing a consistent programming model across the full application lifecycle, Temporal empowers developers with true self-service capabilities, removing undifferentiated infrastructure work and letting teams focus on core business logic.

Komodor AI SRE Platform – Komodor is an Autonomous AI SRE Platform that empowers platform engineering teams to visualize, troubleshoot, and optimize Kubernetes-based cloud-native infrastructure at scale. Powered by Klaudia Agentic AI, Komodor delivers proactive reliability, automated remediation, and continuous cost optimization, transforming how enterprises operate and scale modern applications.

Harness Internal Developer Portal (IDP) – Harness Internal Developer Portal (IDP) gives developers self-service access to infrastructure, environments, and golden paths. It unifies automation, governance, and service data into one platform that streamlines software delivery across the entire SDLC. Harness IDP simplifies complex processes by combining powerful automation with seamless integration, security, and governance, reducing DevOps tickets by up to 90% and streamlining onboarding from days to hours.

ControlMonkey – ControlMonkey is an end-to-end IaC automation platform that reduces engineering toil and accelerates cloud delivery. Engineers gain self-service infrastructure, automated drift remediation and built-in policy guardrails. Built for platform engineers, ControlMonkey scales across teams, regions and clouds, delivering faster, safer and fully governed infrastructure at any scale.

BlueFlag Security Platform – BlueFlag Security empowers platform engineering teams to integrate SDLC security and governance into their developer platforms. By unifying identity, CI/CD, code, and compliance controls, it enables organizations to make security and compliance part of the paved road rather than an afterthought, helping development teams deliver software that is secure, trustworthy, and resilient.

Platform Hub – Octopus Platform Hub is redefining how platform teams scale delivery and governance in the cloud-native era. Platform Hub gives engineering organizations a ready-made foundation for platform engineering combining structure, self-service, and safety. Through connected Process Templates and enforceable Policies, platform teams can standardize delivery practices, automate compliance, and empower developers to move faster.

Testing is a mainstay in the DevOps toolchain, and this award recognizes the best testing tool for ensuring the quality of code.

CircleCI – CircleCI offers the world’s first autonomous validation platform for AI-era development. As teams generate code faster than ever, CircleCI bridges the velocity-confidence gap by providing self-correcting test suites to fix bugs, intelligent orchestration, and predictive pipeline optimization. Its validation and testing expertise enables innovations like its genAI agent to autonomously remediate flaky tests. CircleCI ensures organizations can ship software as fast as AI generates it, confidently.

Applause Payment Testing Solution – The Applause Payment Testing Solution helps global enterprises ensure their transactions are successful all over the world. With access to the world’s largest digital testing community, including users ready to test with their own, region-specific payment instruments, the solution helps DevOps teams expand coverage dramatically without adding overhead. Fully managed and seamlessly integrated, Applause makes it easy to fix critical issues and gain valuable insights fast, throughout the SDLC.

Harness AI Test Automation (AI Test) – AI Test Automation (AI Test) is the industry’s first AI testing solution that’s fully integrated across the entire CI/CD pipeline, designed to meet the speed, complexity, and resilience required today by running continuously with every build without the need to maintain brittle scripts. AI Test cuts test cycle times by up to 80% and reduces maintenance effort by up to 70%, improving quality and release confidence without any toil, so engineers can focus on innovating rather than babysitting.

TestSprite – TestSprite is the first agentic testing platform built for AI-native development. As AI coding tools like Cursor make development 10x faster, testing has become a bottleneck. TestSprite’s AI agent autonomously writes, runs & updates tests directly inside developers’ AI IDEs, enabling test-driven development throughout the process not after. Users cut testing cycles from days to minutes. TestSprite grew from 6,000 to 35,000 developers in 90 days, proving developers need testing at AI speed.

SonarQube – SonarQube automates code reviews and provides actionable code intelligence for all code first-party, AI-generated, and third-party open source. Providing the industry’s broadest coverage for code with identification of over 6,600 types of quality and security issues across more than 35 languages, Sonar’s platform helps development teams fuel AI-enabled development and build trust into every line of code. It can be deployed on a self-managed server, SaaS, and is offered as a free IDE plug-in.

Corellium Viper with MATRIX – Corellium Viper with MATRIX revolutionizes Mobile Application Security Testing. As the industry’s only virtualized mobile hardware platform and iOS jailbreak alternative, this tool delivers root & kernel access on the latest iOS, dynamic instrumentation without repackaging, built-in certificate pinning bypass, and repeatable, sharable testing. Filling the gap left by disappearing jailbreaks, Corellium is the leading platform for deep, scalable mobile security testing across iOS and Android.

Zephyr – Zephyr is the Jira-native test management and automation platform that empowers every team to automate with AI. With no-code automation, parallel testing, and cross-project visibility, Zephyr eliminates silos, accelerates release cycles, and scales without slowing Jira. It empowers teams to boost coverage, cut regression time by up to 80%, and ship high-quality software with confidence.

Sauce Labs – Sauce Labs revolutionizes software testing with AI-powered continuous QA across the entire SDLC. Having processed 8+ billion tests, the platform unifies functional, visual, and error monitoring with predictive analytics that slash debugging time by 50%. Supporting 9,000+ real devices and 800+ browser/OS combos, it delivers 90% faster test execution with enterprise-grade security. Trusted by F500 leaders like Walmart & Microsoft, Sauce drives 217% ROI while ensuring flawless releases at speed.

Mainframes are far from being the dinosaur of the IT world. This award recognizes the best solution for implementing DevOps practices in mainframe environments and hybrid environments.

Liquibase Secure – Liquibase Secure modernizes mainframe database delivery by automating and governing schema change across mainframe, hybrid, and cloud databases. It standardizes delivery paths, integrates with CI/CD pipelines, and provides policy checks, drift detection, and targeted rollbacks. Enterprise teams gain DevOps speed with full compliance, cutting errors by 95% and achieving continuous delivery across mainframe and distributed environments.

IBM Test Accelerator for Z – The IBM Test Accelerator for Z is a comprehensive test automation and generation framework, built for z/OS developers and testers. Teams gain the flexibility to spin up temporary z/OS environments for Dev and Test and are enabled to adopt continuous integration practices for z/OS applications. Its capabilities include automation frameworks for unit and functional tests with data capture and generation to accelerate test creation, improve test coverage, and maintain tests in a modern SCM.

Databases often have been left out of the DevOps conversation, but that is changing. This award recognizes the best database related solution for DevOps and DataOps.

Redgate Flyway – Redgate Flyway empowers teams to deliver database changes with the same confidence, speed, and control as they do with application code. Supporting 50+ databases across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, Redgate Flyway standardizes and automates database deployments. With editions for both individuals and enterprises, and new Autopilot sample projects for rapid adoption, Redgate Flyway accelerates AI, cloud, and DataOps innovation, ensuring every change just flows through.

Harness Database DevOps – Harness Database DevOps removes one of the largest blockers in modern software delivery: slow, manual database schema changes. Powered by AI &trained on database best practices, developers can now author compliant database migrations in plain language-no SQL or migration tooling expertise needed. Fully integrated into CI/CD, Harness validates, deploys, and rolls back changes automatically with governance and unified visibility, cutting cycle times from days to hours and reducing failures by 80%.

SymmetricDS – SymmetricDS by Jumpmind is a leading database replication and file synchronization solution, trusted by top brands such as Humana and Anheuser-Busch. With unmatched scalability, it manages up to 20 million data changes per hour across up to 70,000 databases. Its innovative features, such as AI-powered optimizations and robust validation tools, make it the best-in-class solution for modern DevOps environments, ensuring speed, flexibility, and reliability.

Liquibase Secure – Liquibase Secure automates and governs database schema change across 60+ databases and data platforms. It standardizes delivery paths so developers can safely deploy with AI-assisted changelog generation, policy checks, and cross-environment visibility. By integrating database change into DevOps and DataOps pipelines, teams like Bancolombia and Zions Bank deliver 120x faster, reduce errors by 95%, and achieve full audit-readiness.

This award recognizes the best tool that has brought innovation to the DevOps space in the past year. (less than 24 months old)

Swagger Contract Testing – Swagger Contract Testing is the only solution that supports true independent service deployment with fast, reliable feedback on a developer’s machine and sophisticated CI/CD support. Swagger Contract Testing is built on the industry-standard open source Pact framework, trusted by thousands of developers worldwide. Using Swagger Contract Testing, customers spend 47% less time maintaining integration tests.

Gomboc AI – DevOps teams waste hours manually fixing infrastructure issues flagged by scanners. Gomboc uses deterministic AI to remediate Infrastructure-as-Code misconfigurations automatically. It scans Terraform and CloudFormation pull requests, then generates merge-ready PRs with exact, auditable fixes. Supporting AWS, Azure, and GCP with CIS, NIST, and SOC 2, Gomboc delivers secure, compliant releases in minutes, not months, with zero backlog, and measurable ROI for DevOps and security teams.

Azul Intelligence Cloud – Intelligence Cloud increases DevOps productivity and developer capacity recovery by analyzing production Java runtime data to deliver unrivaled visibility and automation. It eliminates 99% of security false positives by using production runtime data to detect vulnerabilities, identifies unused / dead code across enterprise Java estates for removal, and slashes months off Oracle Java to OpenJDK migration timelines. It empowers DevOps teams to boost efficiency and strengthen their security posture.

GitOps Cloud – “With GitOps Cloud, DevOps teams and developers can easily create promotion flows by connecting multiple existing Argo CD instances to a single control plane, making it fast and easy to promote software changes securely.