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

“Harness has been pulling the CI/CD space forward since it first burst on the scene. Now a full-blown platform, it is high time they’re recognized for being an industry leader.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Harness Software Delivery Platform – Harness’s Software Delivery Platform confidently delivers software with velocity – without compromising quality, reliability, security, or efficiency. Harness offers solutions for all phases of software delivery, increasing velocity while improving the reliability, governance, and efficiency of their applications. Further, it builds security into every step of the delivery process, while also deploying cutting-edge AI and ML technologies. Together, these functionalities interweave to promote the quality of life and work for the developer, cutting out monotonous tasks and allowing for the redistribution of more time to innovative development tasks that push their software to new heights.

Git has led to GitOps and it has become an integral part of the DevOps toolbox. This award is presented to the most outstanding Repo/Git/GitOps tool.

“The Best DevOps Repo/GitOps Tool/Service award again goes to Red Hat OpenShift GitOps for helping organizations realize faster, more secure and scalable software development. OpenShift GitOps enables IT teams to implement GitOps workflows for cluster configuration and application delivery.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Red Hat OpenShift GitOps – As the number of clusters in a Kubernetes environment grows and as applications are deployed to different clusters in different environments — such as development, staging and production — Red Hat OpenShift GitOps ensures the kind of consistency, security and support that enterprises require. OpenShift GitOps is based on Argo CD, a CNCF project that acts as the declarative GitOps engine that enables GitOps workflows across multicluster OpenShift and Kubernetes infrastructure.

This award recognizes the best CI/CD tool that helps teams to deliver quality code more quickly.

“The Best CI/CD Tool award recognizes CloudBees for its continued market leadership in the space. Jenkins is still the most widely used CI/CD tool and Clouldbees still has one of the best solutions in this space.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Built on the most widely used automation server in the world, Jenkins™ – Built on the most widely used automation server in the world, Jenkins™ – CloudBees CI provides flexible, scalable, and governed CI, designed for enterprise sized requirements. The CloudBees solution enables enterprises to simplify experiences with Jenkins, leverage Kubernetes elasticity and resiliency, confidently manage plugins, secure workflows, and deliver Jenkins at scale – all while ensuring security, governance, and compliance are met.

Value stream management has come into its own as an important tool for measuring the business value of DevOps and application development. This award recognizes the value stream management tool that most effectively helps visualize the value stream, track metrics and measure improvement.

“In an age where everyone wants to be everything, ConnectALL proudly focuses on doing one thing well: Value stream management. They are very deserving of this recognition.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

ConnectALL – ConnectALL’s value stream management platform has the capability to connect any and all of the tools, systems and platforms in the DevOps and software delivery value stream ecosystem. With these connections, people can see, measure, and automate their value streams empowering them to improve flow, be data driven, and deliver business value. It provides visibility to data across an organization’s DevOps pipeline activities and tools.

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

“The Nobl9 team was last year’s winner for new DevOps company. This year, they are back-to-back winners, this time with a win in the observability space as they continue to set the pace for SREs using SLOs.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Nobl9 Platform – Nobl9 is the first observability platform that accelerates software delivery by adding business context and eliminating data overload. Global Enterprises use Nobl9 to accelerate engineering, set clear software reliability goals, and ensure end-user satisfaction. Nobl9 enriches data from popular enterprise observability systems and fits into developer workflows using popular DevOps and collaboration tools like GitHub, Gitlab, Terraform, Helm, and more.

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

“This is the year of DevSecOps. The two winners in this crowded, starstudded field are both deserving. JFrog has always had a mind for security, but with recent aquistions they have brought security and DevSecOps to the attention of all DevOps practitioners. Veracode practically invented the DevSecOps market. They have been leading and innovating here from day one and continue to do so. Two giants who are equally deserving of this award.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

JFrog Advanced Security – JFrog Advanced Security integrates the company’s DevOps and security expertise in a single, unified platform, providing the enterprise visibility and control needed to safeguard the entire software supply chain and intelligently deliver secure software at speed and scale. JFrog Advanced Security delivers holistic, binary-based security for the entire DevOps workflow, enabling organizations to identify and resolve cybersecurity threats in hours instead of weeks.

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

“This is the year of DevSecOps. The two winners in this crowded, starstudded field are both deserving. JFrog has always had a mind for security, but with recent aquistions they have brought security and DevSecOps to the attention of all DevOps practitioners. Veracode practically invented the DevSecOps market. They have been leading and innovating here from day one and continue to do so. Two giants who are equally deserving of this award.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Veracode Continuous Software Security Platform – Veracode’s Continuous Software Security Platform embeds application security into the software development lifecycle (SDLC). The comprehensive software security platform provides flexible policy management, a holistic assessment of software risk, and integrated remediation guidance. The platform runs continuous scans of applications in use by an organization using static, dynamic, and software composition engines and provides an ongoing feedback loop from customers, allowing the platform to learn from every scan and make each scan more accurate than the last. The single-pane vantage point offers powerful updated tools while simplifying the complexity of managing multiple solutions and empowering organizations to deliver secure software at scale and with unmatched speed.

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

“Digital.ai has become a full-featured, end-to-end DevOps solution. They take home the award for best testing tool service this year and have a strong presence up and down the entire DevOps stack.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Digital.ai Continuous Testing – Digital.ai Continuous Testing is used by enterprises including CVS, Discover, Fidelity and Charles Schwab to help teams test at scale while increasing test coverage and making data-driven decisions to deliver high-quality, error-free web and mobile apps. The solution enables faster software releases by providing continuous tests for functional, performance and accessibility scenarios; testing on a matrix of devices and browsers with a variety of manufacturers operating systems and execution of all testing from the same tool within the context of functional testing.

The adoption of containers has paved the way for an entire solutions ecosystem supporting and enhancing the container technology. Kubernetes is perhaps the most widely recognized and utilized tool in the space. There are many platforms and services that offer Kubernetes based solutions. This award honors the best Kubernetes platform/service available.

“While we continue to see great innovation in the Kubenetes platform space, Red Hat’s Open Shift is still the 800-pound gorilla here, and more than deserving of this award.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Red Hat OpenShift – Red Hat OpenShift is a container orchestration platform that builds on Kubernetes’ rock-solid foundation—paying full respect to the open source community that continues to nurture the project. The downstream OpenShift project extends Kubernetes to make it suitable for enterprise operations teams. Indeed, Red Hat OpenShift focuses on an enterprise user experience. It’s designed to provide everything a full-scale company may need to orchestrate containers—including enhanced security options and full-time professional support—and it integrates directly into enterprises’ custom IT stacks.

The cloud-native movement has taken the IT world by storm due to the depth and breath of the solutions available and the benefits of building applications and services specifically for cloud-native environments. This award recognizes the best tools, solutions and services considered cloud-native

“The term ‘cloud-native security’ was literally coined by AquaSec. They continue to be a market leader, innovating to keep their users safe and secure. We are proud to honor them with this year’s cloud-native security provider award.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Aqua Platform – Aqua stops cloud native attacks with the industry’s first unified cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP), featuring intelligence-driven cloud native detection and response capabilities. Aqua secures customers’ cloud native assets from day one and protects them in real time.No other solution can stop attacks in progress. Aqua protects the entire application lifecycle, including the code, and is the only solution that is fully integrated with software supply chain security capabilities, protecting against supply chain risk from code all the way through to runtime, across the application and underlying infrastructure. Aqua ensures that prevention is automated and response is immediate, and it guarantees that protection with a $1M warranty.

Mainframes are far from being the dinosaur of the IT world, and a variety of solutions are available for enabling DevOps practices in mainframe environments and hybrid environments. This award recognizes the best of them.

“Zowe, the open source for mainframe software managed by the Linux Foundation’s Open Mainframe project, is our winner for Best DevOps Mainframe Solution. Zowe has done so much to bring mainframe developers and platforms into the DevOps community, allowing them to use the latest tools.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Open Mainframe Project Zowe – Zowe is the most exciting innovation in the mainframe space in a generation. It’s an open source framework that bridges DevOps and modern ways of working to the mainframe. While mainframe processes have experienced incremental improvements over the years, DevOps has reset expectations for software velocity and quality. The mainframe community now broadly accepts the value of DevOps and Zowe is viewed as the gateway. While there was some dispute about proprietary solutions or open source, the direction is now clear. Rather than continuing to be constrained by proprietary options, the mainframe community now truly understands the value of the open source solutions.

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.

“The team at Liquibase helped define the DevOps for database category. We are pleased that 2022 saw them continue to lead this space and support the open source community, as well.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Liquibase – Liquibase brings DevOps to the database. With support for more than 50 databases, including relational, NoSQL, and graph databases, Liquibase allows development teams and organizations worldwide to standardize and streamline their database change process within their existing CI/CD toolchain. Liquibase delivers developer and DBA productivity, database governance and security, deployment agility and reliability, and cloud scalability to the leading companies in banking, insurance, healthcare, retail, technology, and more.

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

“The DORA Metrics have become the benchmark for high performing IT teams. BMC’s Compuware Advisor Dashboard with DORA metrics give users some unique insight.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

BMC Compuware zAdviser DORA Metrics Dashboard – BMC Software announced the availability of its new DORA Metrics dashboard within BMC Compuware zAdviser. This analytics tool enables the continuous measurement of DevOps key performance indicators (KPIs) for the mainframe. As part of the dashboard, users can benchmark their performance against peers in their industry through anonymous data aggregation with BMC Compuware zAdviser. Additionally, the solution uses machine learning (ML) to correlate developer behavior and KPIs and suggest optimizations.