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.

“The Best DevOps Industry Implementation was awarded to FIS Operation Joined Arrows (OJA) which implemented DevOps across the enterprise revolutionizing their processes and resulting in a cohesive and secure software development lifecycle. Well done!”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

FIS Operation Joined Arrows (OJA) has been nominated for the Best DevOps Solution, Best DevOps Industry Implementation award categories due to its innovative approach in integrating development, security, and operations seamlessly. OJA has demonstrated a clear commitment to intertwining these traditionally siloed domains, resulting in a cohesive and secure software development lifecycle. By leveraging automation, collaboration, and a proactive security mindset.

This award recognizes industry research and analysis that has significantly and positively impacted the DevOps community.

“In an age of rapid AI adoption The 2024 JFrog Software Supply Chain report serves as required reading for developers, DevOps professionals and IT leaders who are at the frontline of today’s technological innovations.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

The 2024 Software Supply Chain State of the Union reveals crucial security trends that were based on insights from 1,200 experts and JFrog research, highlighting the surge in open-source packages, growing tech stack complexity, and the shift toward proactive security. With 25% of developer time spent on remediation, the findings emphasize the importance of prioritizing vulnerabilities and leveraging AI to strengthen software supply chains, helping organizations innovate while minimizing risk.

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.

“The Best End to End DevOps Tool/Service award goes to Jfrog who has been advancing DevOps since its inception by focusing on improving speed and efficiency across development teams.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

The JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform offers visibility, security, and automation for trusted releases. It unifies DevOps, DevSecOps, and MLOps, centralizing software binaries, packages, data, and AI/ML models as a single source of truth. This improves compliance and collaboration across development, security, and operations teams. With support for cloud and self-hosted environments, JFrog accelerates software releases and strengthens AI initiatives.

AI is changing and improving DevOps Tools and Platforms at a rapid pace.. This award recognizes the DevOps Tool or Platform that has applied AI in the most interesting and productive way to improve or accelerate the application of DevOps principles.

“While rapid AI and ML adoption and integration is the mantra in our industry, GitLab Duo is a standout helping organizations adopt AI while protecting their sensitive data.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

GitLab takes a unique approach to AI–rather than relegate it solely to code generation, GitLab Duo integrates AI throughout the software development lifecycle to streamline development and deployment workflows, enable better collaboration, identify and mitigate potential security issues, and visually forecast the impact on business results. In 2024, Gartner recognized GitLab as a Leader in both the Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms and the inaugural Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants.

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.

“Tony’s passion for DevOps embodies the spirit of an evangelist by consistently seeking opportunities to share his knowledge, engage with the community, and advocate for adopting DevOps principles. His passion for the communitiy makes him a standout and an extremely worthy winner.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Tony Anter constantly engages with the community and shares his deep knowledge as a DevOps evangelist. As a DevOps architect/evangelist for BMC, Tony shows customers what is possible in mainframe DevOps, and DevOps in general, empowering them with this knowledge. Tony captivates audiences with his enthusiasm and expertise, and his passion for the field is evident in his active presence, thought leadership, and dedication to educating others about the power of DevOps.

Value stream management is 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.

“Broadcom has long prioritized its commitment to raise awareness about the transformational benefits of value stream management. Their deep understanding of this space makes them very deserving of this recognition.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

ValueOps by Broadcom is the industry’s most complete enterprise VSM platform. Combining robust business planning, agile delivery management, and value stream integration in one solution, ValueOps uniquely accelerates transformation by improving visibility, alignment, and efficiency at every stage of value creation. ValueOps empowers leaders at every level to plan, fund, manage, track, and optimize their work efforts using a common framework and value orientation.

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

“This year’s Best Observability Solution goes to the Splunk Observability Cloud which enables IT and DevOps teams to rapidly detect, investigate, and resolve business-critical incidents.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Splunk Observability Cloud delivers a unified, full-stack observability solution with real-time metrics, logs, and traces—at any scale and without sampling. Designed for IT and DevOps teams, it simplifies operational complexity, accelerates cloud transformation, and optimizes performance. With comprehensive, end-to-end visibility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, Splunk enables rapid detection, investigation, and resolution of business-critical incidents.

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

“For the cloud development generation, Checkmarx One is designed toDevSecOps teams secure their applications from the first line of code to deployment in the cloud.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Checkmarx One delivers the most complete suite of enterprise AppSec solutions available within a unified, cloud-based platform that allows organizations to secure their applications from the first line of code to deployment in the cloud. It offers everything that enterprise security and dev teams need to integrate AppSec across every stage of the SDLC and build a successful AppSec program while keeping devs working in their preferred IDEs and DevOps workflows.

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.

“Harness Internal Developer Portal (IDP) is the recipient of a the new Best Platform Engineering Solution award category for 2024. IDP Focuses on improving developer and platform engineering efficiency and effectiveness.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Harness Internal Developer Portal (IDP) is a centralized developer platform focused on accelerating onboarding and improving developer productivity by reducing cognitive load, providing central access to technical resources, providing day-1 and day-2 self-serve automation, providing golden paths to production, and ensuring that services meet organizational standards. IDP is also built for platform engineering teams to be efficient, easy to manage, and scalable.

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

“The importance of code quality today cannot be understated, but the tricky part is balancing code quality with speed to market. Tricentis SeaLights helps to reduce cycle time and minimizes production risks.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Tricentis SeaLights offers next-generation Quality Intelligence specifically designed for enterprise quality engineering teams. By integrating code coverage with testing data, it empowers teams to focus on the most critical areas of their code, reducing test cycle times and minimizing production risks. Supporting both automated and manual testing, SeaLights delivers real-time insights that optimize test efficiency and coverage, driving continuous improvement in software quality at scale.

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.

“The mainframe continues to play a pivotal moment as organizations scale their workloads and seek to transform their work. BMC AMI DevX addresses this challenge, delivering a platform that improves the mainframe developer experience.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

BMC AMI DevX empowers the next generation of mainframe developers, delivering an unparalleled developer experience that accelerates innovation. By streamlining the entire development lifecycle—from coding and testing to debugging and deployment— DevX enables organizations to automate application development with a comprehensive DevOps toolchain while providing a single place to manage end-to-end DevOps capabilities.The impact is significant as reflected in our 8.9/10 Trust Radius customer rating

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.

“Enterprises face many data storage and management issues that slow down innovation and make it difficult to maintaincontrol across transactional, analytical, and AI data. EDB Postgres AI directly addresses these issues by empowering developers and DevOps teams with a unified, scalable, and secure data platform.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

EDB Postgres® AI empowers Postgres developers and DevOps teams with unified support for transactional, analytical, and GenAI workloads. It provides hybrid DBaaS automation and multi-model support, a vectorized query engine, delta table format, and object storage, and includes RAG pipeline automation, auto vector embedding, and an intelligent query retriever. Additionally, EDB Postgres AI offers AI-driven assistance for all Postgres workloads, along with built-in monitoring and security features.

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

“Infrastructure as code (IaC) has helped cloud provisioning, but Platform engineering teams are still overwhelmed. StackGen helps organizations accelerate time to market and improve employee retention as applications are deployed with resiliency, reliability and security.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

StackGen generates Infrastructure from Code automatically based on application code with golden standards applied. Unlike manual infrastructure as code (IaC) creation or “golden” templates, StackGen auto-generates IaC from the application code itself to standardize and streamline cloud deployments. No application source code changes are needed. It removes SDLC bottlenecks, minimizes liabilities and eliminates cognitive overload.

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.

“Under the leadership of CEO Anuj Kapur, CloudBees has experienced remarkable momentum and transformation in just two years. Focusing the company on the biggest DevSecOps challenges facing enterprises, the company acquired Launchable and made substantial performance and scalability improvements to Jenkins, positioning CloudBees at the forefront of scaling AI innovation within DevSecOps. Anuj is certainly deserving of this award.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

CloudBees has achieved significant growth under Anuj Kapur’s leadership. With now over 500K developers actively using its platform, major customers like Salesforce and HSBC, and surpassing $150M in annual recurring revenue, CloudBees drives strong innovation in DevSecOps. With Kapur at the helm, the launch of CloudBees CI’s High Availability Mode and the acquisition of Launchable position CloudBees as a leader in AI-driven DevOps.