The 5th Edition of India's Premier Software Developer Awards Now Open!

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Saltmarch Media's annual Great Indian Developer Awards honor trailblazing technologies and organizations contributing to the evangelism, productivity and innovation excellence of the software developer ecosystem. Stages I through III involve a democratic community participation with longlists and shortlists for each category, and subsequent voting on those lists. Stage IV involves counting and consolidation of the votes and selection of winners by an esteemed panel of judges who also place a special emphasis on the outcome of the voting process.

Award Categories

Products Par Excellence

These awards recognize the product and innovation excellence of the hundreds of software products and tools that aid developer productivity, across 11 different categories. The selection criteria applied by an international stature panel places emphasis on functionality, usability, innovation excellence, bleeding-edge quotient, and feedback from the developer ecosystem.

Development Environments

Nominate from the new breed programming languages, source code editors and integrated development environments (IDEs).

Collaboration Solution

Nominate from groupware, real-time conferencing and collaboration, and digital communities.

Content Management

Nominate from content creation, categorization, workflow, publishing and delivery tools.

Design and Modeling

Requirements gathering, modeling, prototyping, GUI design, analysis tools, including automatically generating code from models.

Change and Configuration Management

Nominate from across tools that track and manage software defects and enhancement requests as well as version control and change or configuration management.

Testing

The best solution developed to test the functionality of a software product or service or a segment of code. Nominate from across test scripting, automation, static and defect tracking, bug tracking and documentation, functional and load testing, quality assurance planning, test-case design, white- and black-box testing and source code analysis.

Security

Nominate tools from across authentication and encryption, code analysis, firewalls, network monitoring, system enhancements, system monitoring and spam preventio

Web Development

Nominate from web development and deployment tools that are helping developers and designers push the boundaries of the web.

Mobile Development

Awards the best software application, software service or infrastructure solution that enables access to software functionality and boosts the productivity and adaptability of a mobile device including small form factor devices and/or phones. Includes operating systems, infrastructure and network solutions.

Frameworks

Nominate from across the several libraries, components, and frameworks that are part of every developers treasure chest.

Database

Awards the best software solution for the storage, organization, management, search, editing, reporting, analysis, and retrieval of large quantities of data.

Stage I: Longlist Nominations

Closes 20 Jan 2012 at 1800 Hrs IST

This is the first stage of the awards process. We are inviting you, the developer, to send us nominations for each category. Pick from software tools, frameworks and platforms that are not only popular in your development organizations, but also have changed the way you approach your development tasks and ushered in innovation, cost-effectiveness, performance improvements and ease of use. You may choose to send us one nomination each across one or more of the open categories.

YOUR LONGLIST NOMINEE(S):