2012 AWARD WINNERS :: Products Par Excellence

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

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

The Winner in the Development Environments category for 2012 is a powerful IDE that ensures quality code throughout the entire application lifecycle, from design to deployment. Whether you’re developing applications for SharePoint, the web, Windows, Windows Phone, and beyond this product can be your ultimate all-in-one solution. This product has been a winner in this category in 2010 as well.

Harish Vaidyanathan, Evangelism Lead at Microsoft India receiving the award on behalf of the Microsoft team from Venkat Subramaniam, GIDS Mainstay, Founder of Agile Developer Inc. and Author of '.NET Gotchas', 'Practices of an Agile Developer' and 'Programming Groovy'

Winner from groupware, real-time conferencing and collaboration, and digital communities

Telerik TeamPulse

The Winner in the Collaboration Category for 2012 is an agile project management tool that will help you improve your software development processes. The product offers a set highly intuitive tools for managing project requirements, planning and scheduling iterations, as well as tracking project progress. Inspired by agile development technologies, it enables your team to effectively capture requirements, plan and measure results, and analyze the state of your project, while continually improving your delivery process. This solution has been a strong favorite in this category.

Abhishek Kant, Country Manager and Telerik staff receiving the award on behalf of the Telerik team from Venkat Subramaniam, GIDS Mainstay, Founder of Agile Developer Inc. and Author of '.NET Gotchas', 'Practices of an Agile Developer' and 'Programming Groovy'

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

Microsoft SharePoint 2010

The Winner in the Content Management Category for 2012 makes it easier for people to work together, set up Web sites to share information with others, manage documents from start to finish, and publish reports to help everyone make better decisions. This product has been a hands down winner in this category and is the defending champion from 2010 and 2011.

Harish Vaidyanathan, Evangelism Lead at Microsoft India receiving the award on behalf of the Microsoft team from Venkat Subramaniam, GIDS Mainstay, Founder of Agile Developer Inc. and Author of '.NET Gotchas', 'Practices of an Agile Developer' and 'Programming Groovy'

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

IBM Rational Rose

The Winner in the Modeling Category for 2012 was a star of its day for developers that wanted a premium modeling tool. Today it has reinvented itself for modern times and continues to be the premium modeling tool staying on top of the charts. This product is the fourth time winner in this category.

IBM's representative receiving the award on behalf of the IBM Rational Rose team from Josh Long, Spring developer advocate and the lead author of "Spring Recipes'

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

CollabNet TeamForge

The Winner in the Change and Configuration Management Category is a tool that accelerates software delivery, from idea to code, build and test, to application release. Customers achieve up to 50% and more improvements in delivery times, while reducing cost by 80%. This is achieved by realizing efficiencies, automating governance, and engaging all stakeholders, from workgroups to enterprises and beyond. This product is a debutante nominee in this category.

Karthi Swaminathan, Vice President – Site Operations & Engineering, CollabNet receiving the award on behalf of the CollabNet team from Josh Long, Spring developer advocate and the lead author of "Spring Recipes'

The best solution developed to test the functionality of a software product or service or a segment of code. Winner 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.

JBoss Profiler

The Winner in the Testing category is an open source tool used to systematically detect and pinpoint memory leaks in Java EE applications. It helps to monitor detailed memory usage in the application, and integrate memory leak test conditions into unit tests. This product was the strongest contender in this category and an awesome community driven project.

Bruno Georges, Head of Enterprise Application Platforms Engineering Group at Red Hat receiving the award on behalf of the CollabNet team from Josh Long, Spring developer advocate and the lead author of "Spring Recipes'

Winner from tools across authentication and encryption, code analysis, firewalls, network monitoring, system enhancements, system monitoring and spam prevention.

Microsoft Security Essentials

The winner in the Security category is a free antivirus software product for Windows operating systems that provides protection against different types of malware such as computer virus, spyware, rootkits and trojan horses. This tool, geared for consumer use, was the most popular antivirus software product in North America and the second most popular in the world in a 2011 survey.

Microsoft's representative receiving the award on behalf of the Microsoft Security Essentials team from Scott Davis, Java RockStar and Author of 'Groovy Recipes'

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

Dojo Toolkit

The winner in the Web Development category this year saves you time and scales with your development process, using web standards as its platform. It is the toolkit experienced developers turn to for building high quality desktop and mobile web applications. From simple websites to large packaged enterprise applications whether desktop or mobile, Dojo will meet your needs.

Dojo open source community memebers Anuj Dubey and Lakshmi G Sharma receiving the award on behalf of the Dojo team from Scott Davis, Java RockStar and Author of 'Groovy Recipes'

Winner from across software applications, software services or infrastructure solutions that enable 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.

Google Android

The winner in the Mobile Development category this year is a Linux-based operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. It has a large community of developers writing applications ("apps") that extend the functionality of the devices. As of February 2012 there are over 850,000 devices running this Operating System activated every day.

Sunil Rao, Country Head- Outreach Programs at Google India receiving the award on behalf of the Google team from Scott Davis, Java RockStar and Author of 'Groovy Recipes'

Winner from across the several libraries, components, and frameworks that are part of every developer's treasure chest.

Spring

The winner in the Frameworks category this year is the most popular application development framework for enterprise Java™. Millions of developers use this tool to create high performing, easily testable, reusable code without any lock-in.

Pronam Chatterjee, vFabric SME and Spring framework evangelist for VMWARE India receiving the award on behalf of the Spring team from Sander Hoogendoorn, chief architect of Capgemini’s agile software development platform

Winner from among the best software solution for the storage, organization, management, search and retrieval of large quantities of data.

Oracle Database 11g

The Winner in the Databases category for 2012 provides the foundation for IT to successfully deliver more information with higher quality of service, reduce the risk of change within IT, and make more efficient use of IT budgets. It runs on all industry-standard platforms and moves from a single instance to Grid Computing without changing a single line of code.

Naveen Asrani (inset), Director, Product Management at Oracle received the award on behalf of the Oracle team. Sander Hoogendoorn, chief architect of Capgemini’s agile software development platform gave away the award