2026 Finalists

Tools & Services Finalists

Fifteen awards for the platforms, products and services shaping enterprise delivery. 66 finalists across 15 categories. Read the finalists below, then cast one vote per category on the ballot.

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Tools & Services Award — Best Customer DevOps Implementation finalist badge
Tools & Services Award · #10

Best Customer DevOps Implementation

Recognizes a real-world DevOps transformation delivered for or by a named, verifiable end-user organization — not a vendor's product capabilities in the abstract. Submissions must identify the customer (or provide verifiable proof of the engagement if anonymized) and describe the starting problem, the solution implemented, and measurable business or technical outcomes such as deployment frequency, lead time, incident reduction, or cost savings. Entries that only describe a product or platform without a demonstrable, attributable customer story are not eligible for this category.

3 finalists

  1. Motive's implementation of Rootly

    Motive

    Motive's implementation of Rootly cut incident setup from 15-60+ minutes to seconds and replaced Opsgenie and custom bots with Rootly On-Call to support 99.99% reliability, led by customer exec Paul van Liew, Director of Platform Engineering at Motive.

  2. Ford Motor Company Enterprise Software Supply Chain Consolidation with the JFrog Platform

    JFrog

    By consolidating separate repository tools and scanners across 15,000+ developers and 80-plus global plants onto the JFrog Platform, Ford gained a single pane of glass view for IT and security teams and recaptures an estimated $7.88 million a year in developer productivity.

  3. Nedbank Mainframe DevOps Transformation

    Nedbank with BMC Software

    Nedbank transformed mainframe delivery into a continuously evolving DevOps capability, reducing deployment cycles by 75% while expanding automation, quality controls, and developer enablement.

Tools & Services Award — Best Software Delivery Platform finalist badge
Tools & Services Award · #11

Best Software Delivery Platform

For broad, integrated platforms that span multiple stages of the software delivery lifecycle — planning, building, securing, releasing, and operating — rather than a single point solution. Judges are looking for breadth of coverage, depth of native integration across those stages, and evidence that the platform reduces tool sprawl or hand-offs for engineering teams. Point solutions that excel at one lifecycle stage should instead be nominated in the category that matches their primary focus (e.g., CI/CD, testing, security).

2 finalists

  1. Rocket® DevOps

    Rocket Software

    Rocket® DevOps, from Rocket Software, a global technology leader in enterprise modernization, is an end-to-end CI/CD solution that helps organizations modernize IBM i application development, automate workflows, strengthen security and accelerate software delivery without disrupting mission-critical operations.

  2. Sonatype Nexus Repository

    Sonatype

    Sonatype Nexus Repository is a trusted repository for managing and delivering the components that developers, CI/CD pipelines, and AI agents need to build software.

Tools & Services Award — Best AI-Assisted Software Development Solution finalist badge
Tools & Services Award · #12

Best AI-Assisted Software Development Solution

For tools that use AI to help a human developer plan, write, review, document, or test code faster and better — with the human remaining firmly in the driver's seat. This includes AI pair-programming and code completion, AI-assisted code review, automated documentation generation, AI-generated test cases, and AI-based sprint or task planning assistance. The defining trait is human-directed use: the developer initiates, guides, and approves the work, and the AI accelerates rather than replaces their judgment.

6 finalists

  1. Theia AI

    The Eclipse Foundation

    Eclipse Theia AI is an open source, vendor-neutral framework for building tailored AI-assisted development tools and IDEs, with control over models, agents, data, integrations, and user experience.

  2. Gitar

    Sonar

    Gitar, Sonar’s AI code change verification agent, helps teams ship code with confidence at agentic speed by taking pull requests beyond review to fixes verified through CI.

  3. Agent P

    Sonatype

    Available in Sonatype Guide, Agent P automates dependency management within your AI coding assistant, helping teams keep open source dependencies up to date.

  4. Copilot4Devops

    Modern Requirements

    Copilot4DevOps is an AI application built natively inside Azure DevOps that turns requirements and work items into reviewable, publishable deliverables without leaving the tool teams already use.

  5. Planview Anvi

    Planview

    Planview Anvi™ is an enterprise AI solution that’s purpose-built to connect strategic priorities to on-the-ground delivery, providing the data-driven insights and workflow automations organizations need to accelerate decision-making, streamline execution, and improve outcomes

  6. IBM’s AI-Powered DevOps Solution for Modernizing Z Application Development.

    IBM Software Pvt. Ltd.

    An end-to-end AI-driven DevOps solution for IBM Z that streamlines software delivery from planning to production by automating key development and pipeline processes to boost productivity, shorten release cycles, improve quality, and accelerate application modernization while maintaining governance, security, and resilience.

Tools & Services Award — Best Agentic Software Delivery Solution finalist badge
Tools & Services Award · #13

Best Agentic Software Delivery Solution

For autonomous or semi-autonomous AI agents that plan and execute multi-step work across the software delivery chain — spanning repositories, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, or production operations — with reduced ongoing human direction at each step. This differs from the AI-Assisted category in the level of autonomy: entries here should demonstrate agents that decompose a goal into tasks, take actions across multiple systems, and adapt based on results, not just single-turn assistance. Examples include agents that triage and resolve pull requests end to end, orchestrate multi-service deployments, or autonomously remediate pipeline failures.

6 finalists

  1. Kilo Desktop by Anaconda

    Anaconda

    Kilo Desktop gives builders native access to more than 500 AI models, agentic coding and data science workflows that plan before they build, and built-in management of local models and conda environments.

  2. Coder Agents

    Coder

    Coder Agents runs autonomous, model-agnostic coding agents on self-hosted infrastructure, triggered by chat or API, that plan, execute and verify multi-step development work end to end.

  3. Eclipse LMOS

    The Eclipse Foundation

    Eclipse LMOS is an open source, vendor-neutral platform for defining, deploying, orchestrating, and scaling enterprise multi-agent systems across cloud and on-premises environments.

  4. SonarQube

    Sonar

    SonarQube builds code confidence into agentic software factories through independent code verification and governance, helping enterprises confidently ship what their agents build.

  5. Harness Software Delivery Agent

    Harness

    Harness Software Delivery Agent carries code from commit to production, and its Autonomous Worker Agents run as governed pipeline steps that diagnose failures, fix code and infrastructure, and verify deployments, with every action audited.

  6. Komodor

    The Komodor Agentic Operations Platform coordinates pre-built and custom AI agents to autonomously investigate software delivery and production issues, determine corrective actions, execute approved remediation, and verify results across Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD and observability systems.

Tools & Services Award — Best DevOps for AI Systems Solution finalist badge
Tools & Services Award · #14

Best DevOps for AI Systems Solution

Covers MLOps, LLMOps, and AgentOps: the deployment, evaluation, monitoring, governance, and full lifecycle management of AI models, LLM-based applications, and autonomous agents themselves — treating AI systems as the thing being operated, not the tool doing the operating. This includes model/version registries, prompt and evaluation pipelines, AI observability and drift detection, guardrails and policy enforcement, and cost or performance management for AI workloads in production. This category is the mirror image of the two above: it is about operationalizing AI, not about AI helping to operationalize software.

8 finalists

  1. AI Observability in Grafana Cloud

    Grafana Labs

    AI Observability in Grafana Cloud monitors and evaluates LLM-powered apps and agents by tracking their inputs, outputs, and execution flows in real time.

  2. AURA by Mezmo

    Mezmo

    AURA is an Apache 2.0 open-source SRE agent harness that lets teams run coordinated agents for production workflows using their own models, tools, and infrastructure.

  3. Teleport Beams

    Teleport

    Teleport Beams is a trusted runtime for securing AI agents in production infrastructure, giving each agent an isolated, expiring environment with delegated identity, policy-controlled connections, no static secrets, and a full audit record.

  4. JFrog AgentSecOps and DevGovOps Solution

    JFrog

    JFrog treats AI models, MCP servers, skills and plugins as first-class software assets, giving enterprises scanning, policy enforcement and prompt-to-release traceability across the agentic software supply chain.

  5. AgentControl

    LaunchDarkly

    AgentControl is built specifically to solve the increasingly common rogue agent issue, combining real-time intervention with the governance, benchmarking, and release controls teams need to run agents the way they've learned to run code - safely, and with an emergency brake that actually works.

  6. Coder AI Governance

    Coder

    Coder AI Governance centralizes model access, spend controls, auditing and network policy for AI coding agents, so enterprises can operate agents as governed, observable workloads on infrastructure they control.

  7. Harness Agent DLC

    Harness

    Harness, the platform for the Autonomous SDLC, treats models and agents as governed artifacts on the same platform that already delivers enterprise software.

  8. Phison’s Pascari aiDAPTIV ™

    Phison Pascari aiDAPTIV ™

    Phison’s Pascari aiDAPTIV ™ breaks through AI memory limitations by combining intelligent memory management with high-endurance flash, enabling developers and enterprises to deploy larger AI models, longer-running agentic workflows and private AI applications on more accessible hardware.

Tools & Services Award — Best Platform Engineering Solution finalist badge
Tools & Services Award · #15

Best Platform Engineering Solution

For solutions that give engineering organizations self-service infrastructure and workflows through golden paths, internal developer portals, and platform orchestration. Judges will look for evidence of developer self-service, standardized paved roads that reduce cognitive load, built-in governance and guardrails, and measurable developer enablement outcomes such as faster onboarding or reduced ticket volume to platform teams.

4 finalists

  1. Gremlin

    Gremlin is a proactive AI-driven reliability platform.

  2. Red Hat Developer Hub

    Red Hat

    Red Hat Developer Hub is an agent-ready developer portal powered by CNCF’s Backstage project that gives developers and AI agents the self-service workflows and enterprise context to build, deploy, and run applications aligned with organizational standards.

  3. Harness Platform

    Harness

    Harness gives developers and AI agents governed, self-service golden paths across the software lifecycle, unifying service discovery, infrastructure provisioning, software delivery, security, and shared SDLC context so platform teams can enable more engineering work without adding tickets, custom tooling, or manual oversight.

  4. Liquibase Secure

    Liquibase

    Liquibase Secure enables automated and governed database self-service, allowing developers to deliver database changes through standardized workflows while platform teams maintain enterprise security, compliance, and operational controls.

Tools & Services Award — Best Developer Productivity Solution finalist badge
Tools & Services Award · #16

Best Developer Productivity Solution

For tools focused on measuring and improving developer productivity, identifying workflow friction, and surfacing engineering analytics that connect activity to outcomes. This includes DevEx survey and sentiment tools, engineering intelligence dashboards, flow-metrics and DORA-metric reporting, and solutions that help leaders correlate investment in developer experience with delivery results. Entries should emphasize measurement and insight rather than platform infrastructure itself.

2 finalists

  1. BMC AMI zAdviser Enterprise

    BMC Software, Inc.

    BMC AMI zAdviser Enterprise combines mainframe delivery telemetry with source-code analysis to show where delivery slows, which programs carry risk, and where critical knowledge is concentrated.

  2. Sikka ONE API

    Sikka

    A single unified API, now also available over MCP, that replaces hundreds of separate integrations with one interface to data from 500+ dental and healthcare practice management systems.

Tools & Services Award — Best CI/CD Solution finalist badge
Tools & Services Award · #17

Best CI/CD Solution

For solutions focused on the mechanics of getting code from commit to production: build automation, continuous integration, GitOps-based deployment models, progressive delivery techniques (canary, blue-green, feature flags), release orchestration & management, and rollback capability. Judges are looking for breadth of solution including features that deliver reliability, speed, and control across the build-to-release pipeline, including how well a solution handles failure and recovery.

3 finalists

  1. Harness Software Delivery Agent

    Harness

    Harness Software Delivery Agent moves application, infrastructure, and database changes from commit to production through a governed pipeline, with fast feedback, automatic verification and rollback, and policy enforced at every step.

  2. BMC AMI DevX Code Pipeline

    BMC Software, Inc.

    BMC AMI DevX Code Pipeline brings governed SCM and CI/CD to mission-critical apps: parallel development on shared programs, automated build and deployment, and on-demand fallback.

  3. Liquibase Secure

    Liquibase

    Liquibase Secure brings database change into enterprise CI/CD pipelines with automated deployments, policy enforcement, and governance that helps organizations deliver software faster without increasing operational risk.

Tools & Services Award — Best Quality Assurance Solution finalist badge
Tools & Services Award · #18

Best Quality Assurance Solution

For solutions that validate software quality across the delivery lifecycle, including continuous testing, functional, performance, reliability, and increasingly AI-assisted testing (such as AI-generated test cases, self-healing test scripts, or intelligent test selection and prioritization). Judges will look for breadth of testing coverage, integration into CI/CD workflows, and how effectively the solution reduces manual QA burden while catching real defects earlier.

4 finalists

  1. TestSprite

    TestSprite is an autonomous AI testing agent that generates, runs, and maintains end-to-end frontend and backend tests, giving development teams and AI coding agents a continuous quality check on every change.

  2. Applause Managed Software Testing Services

    Applause

    Managed software testing services from Applause combine insights from the world’s largest testing community with AI and automation, giving DevOps teams the expertise, resources and real-world confidence they need to release high-quality apps and websites efficiently — at the speed and scale required in today’s highly competitive market.

  3. Testkube

    Testkube is a testing platform that gives teams one place to create, orchestrate, execute and analyze any test in their existing infrastructure, working with any testing tool and any framework, decoupled from CI/CD pipelines and built on an open source core.

  4. Parasoft Continuous Quality Testing Platform

    Parasoft

    Parasoft helps enterprises scale AI-driven testing with reusable low-code/no-code test assets, standardized testing infrastructure, and test impact analysis that keeps regression test execution focused on recent code changes.

Tools & Services Award — Best DevSecOps Solution finalist badge
Tools & Services Award · #19

Best DevSecOps Solution

For solutions that embed application security directly into the development workflow rather than bolting it on afterward — including secure coding practices, policy-as-code enforcement, secrets detection and management, and vulnerability identification integrated into the developer's existing tools and pipelines. Judges will look for how seamlessly security is woven into everyday development activity and how effectively the solution reduces friction between developers and security teams.

7 finalists

  1. Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform

    Teleport

    The Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform improves engineering velocity and infrastructure resiliency by establishing a unified identity layer for humans, machines, workloads and AI agents that is cryptographically secured, grants ephemeral, just-in-time privileges with no standing access, and extends identity and access control to agents and MCP tooling through a trusted, ephemeral runtime, making every human, machine, and agentic action auditable and governed.

  2. JFrog Self-Healing Supply Chain Security Solution

    JFrog

    JFrog secures the AI-era software supply chain from network edge to production by curating every package developers and agents pull and automatically applying trusted fixes, cutting remediation time from days to hours.

  3. Progress Chef 360

    Progress Software

    Progress Chef 360 is a unified DevSecOps platform for automating, orchestrating and governing infrastructure and compliance across hybrid, multi-cloud, on-premises and air-gapped environments.

  4. Harness Autonomous SDLC platform, including the Harness Software Delivery Agent and the Harness Security Testing Agent

    Harness

    Harness’s Software Delivery Agent takes every code change safely to production, the Security Testing Agent finds and fixes risk before it ships, and one governed foundation makes security part of everyday delivery.

  5. Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)

    Orca Security

    Orca Security’s Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) is an AI-first, agentless-first platform that gives organizations a unified way to secure the applications they build and the cloud environments where those applications run by bringing together cloud workload protection, vulnerability management, application security, and risk visibility across configurations, identities, data, and AI systems.

  6. Mend.io

    Mend.io is an AI-native application security platform that secures modern software across code and AI from development through runtime, protecting proprietary code, open-source dependencies, containers, AI-generated code, models, agents, and system prompts while using contextual risk prioritization and AI-powered remediation to help security and development teams focus on critical risks, reduce remediation effort, and build, deploy, and operate AI-powered applications securely at scale.

  7. Liquibase Secure

    Liquibase

    Liquibase Secure brings enterprise security and compliance into database change workflows, helping organizations enforce policies, prevent risky changes, and maintain proof of control throughout software delivery.

Tools & Services Award — Best Software Supply Chain Security Solution finalist badge
Tools & Services Award · #20

Best Software Supply Chain Security Solution

For solutions focused specifically on the integrity and provenance of the software supply chain: dependency and open-source risk management, artifact and container security, Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation and management, build provenance and attestations, code and artifact signing, and protection of the CI/CD pipeline itself from tampering. This category is distinct from general DevSecOps in its specific focus on what goes into a build and proof of where it came from, rather than the broader application security workflow.

3 finalists

  1. CleanStart

    CleanStart Security Inc.

    CleanStart secures the software supply chain by helping organizations govern open-source components, build security-hardened software artifacts, verify their integrity and provenance, and discover deployed software assets.

  2. JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform

    JFrog

    The JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform is a single system of record that blocks risky components, finds exploitable vulnerabilities and automatically applies trusted fixes across software and AI assets at every stage of delivery.

  3. SonarQube Advanced Security

    Sonar

    SonarQube Advanced Security helps teams ship more secure software with confidence by identifying risks introduced with their third-party and open source dependencies, helping enforce security standards before release, and providing a record of findings and risk decisions.

Tools & Services Award — Best Observability Solution finalist badge
Tools & Services Award · #21

Best Observability Solution

For solutions that give teams visibility into and control over how software behaves in production, including telemetry collection (logs, metrics, traces), incident detection and response, service reliability and SRE practices, automated remediation, and operational intelligence. Judges will look for the breadth and depth of telemetry, speed of detection and resolution, and evidence of measurable reliability improvements such as reduced MTTR or improved SLO attainment.

6 finalists

  1. Rootly

    Rootly is the AI-native reliability platform that keeps the world's software reliable: on-call, incident response, AI SRE and status pages in one place, engaging the right people, investigating, keeping customers informed and turning every incident into learning.

  2. Grafana Cloud

    Grafana Labs

    Grafana Cloud is the fully managed, open-standards-based observability platform that more than 10,000 organizations — including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce — rely on to see, understand, and act on metrics, logs, traces, and profiles at scale.

  3. Progress WhatsUp Gold NDR

    Progress Software

    Progress WhatsUp Gold NDR is a comprehensive observability platform that delivers end-to-end visibility across network, system, application and cloud environments, enabling teams to detect issues early, accelerate troubleshooting and improve operational reliability.

  4. Bronto

    Brontobytes Limited

    1000X more storage than traditional tools, retained 12 months always hot

  5. i-Rays

    Omnilogy

    Prevent IBM i issues before they become costly outages.

  6. Virtana Agentic Observability Platform

    Virtana

    Virtana, provider of the deepest and broadest Agentic Observability Platform, gives AI agents the full-stack context to diagnose root cause and automate remediation under enterprise-defined policies across applications, infrastructure, cloud and AI factories, helping Global 2000 enterprises and public sector organizations reduce downtime, lower costs and strengthen operational resilience.

Tools & Services Award — Best Infrastructure Automation and Cloud Operations Solution finalist badge
Tools & Services Award · #22

Best Infrastructure Automation and Cloud Operations Solution

For solutions that automate the provisioning, configuration, and ongoing operation of infrastructure and cloud environments, including infrastructure as code, configuration management, environment automation, and multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud operations tooling. Judges will look for how effectively the solution eliminates manual infrastructure work, enforces consistency across environments, and scales operational management as infrastructure grows.

1 finalist

  1. Mezmo Governance

    Mezmo

    Mezmo Governance (currently in closed-beta) lets SRE teams define and test policies that control how their agents operate within production workflows, regardless of which agents they use.

Tools & Services Award — Best FinOps Solution finalist badge
Tools & Services Award · #23

Best FinOps Solution

For solutions that help organizations understand and optimize the cost of engineering and AI operations, including cloud cost visibility and management, capacity planning, AI/compute consumption tracking, unit economics analysis, and tools that translate engineering spend into business value. Judges will look for how directly a solution ties cost data to actionable optimization and how it helps teams balance efficiency with delivery velocity — including the fast-growing challenge of managing AI inference and compute costs.

2 finalists

  1. Adaptive Telemetry

    Grafana Labs

    Adaptive Telemetry is a Grafana Cloud feature suite that automatically identifies which metrics, logs, traces, and profiles are actually used, then aggregates or drops the rest, cutting telemetry costs by up to 80% without teams having to manually tune what they send.

  2. Harness Cost Management Agent

    Harness

    Harness Cost Management Agent is an AI-native agent that attributes, optimizes, and governs cloud, AI, and engineering spend, tying cost to the team, pull request, and business outcome behind it, at the autonomy level the customer chooses.

Tools & Services Award — Best Breakthrough DevOps Solution finalist badge
Tools & Services Award · #24

Best Breakthrough DevOps Solution

For new commercial product or a major new platform introduced during the previous 24 months — not an incremental update to an existing offering. Judges are looking for novelty and impact: solutions that introduce a meaningfully new approach, capability, or category to the DevOps and software development market, with particular attention this year to breakthroughs driven by AI. This category exists to spotlight innovation itself, separate from how well an established product performs within its category.

9 finalists

  1. Coder Agents

    Coder

    Coder Agents is a fully self-hosted, model-agnostic AI coding agent that runs orchestration and execution on infrastructure the enterprise controls, including air-gapped environments.

  2. Dstl8

    ControlTheory

    Dstl8 distills runtime telemetry at the source, and routes cited diagnoses from its own custom model to the AI coding agent or engineer who shipped the code, with zero alert rules to write.

  3. Allstack’s Product Studio

    Allstacks

    Allstacks Product Studio is an AI product management workspace whose agents help product teams decide what to build, define it so engineering builds the right thing, and measure its impact after release. Every recommendation is grounded in the organization's deep and broad context across strategy and market research, customer feedback, documentation, code, and delivery history.

  4. LucidLink Developer Tools

    LucidLink

    LucidLink Developer Tools enable developers to build applications, automated pipelines and AI agents that securely read and write shared enterprise files alongside people, without requiring a desktop client, separate working copies or complex file synchronization.

  5. CodeHunter

    CodeHunter introduced Zero Trust for Code, a pre-execution security platform that independently verifies what AI-generated and developer-written software can do, with automated integration into AI-assisted development workflows such as Claude Code.

  6. Splunk Agent Observability

    Cisco

    Splunk Agent Observability helps AI engineering teams build trust in AI by evaluating, observing and controlling agent behavior and token costs.

  7. Checkmarx Fusion

    Checkmarx

    Checkmarx Fusion combines two decades of application security research, deterministic precision, frontier AI reasoning, and intelligent findings validation to deliver the most complete vulnerability detection available across languages, codebases, and the software development lifecycle.

  8. Liquibase Secure Change Intelligence

    Liquibase

    Liquibase Secure Change Intelligence gives enterprises a centralized view of database change activity, helping teams identify risk, detect drift, investigate failures, and improve delivery performance across their database environments.

  9. NeuBird Production Ops Agent with Agentic Reliability Center (ARC)

    NeuBird

    NeuBird's Production Ops Agent prevents incidents, resolves them with root cause in under five minutes at 94% accuracy and operates production between them, running on the Agentic Reliability Center (ARC), a governed platform where every action waits for an engineer's approval.