The "Best of Swiss Software" award is launched

The Swiss award landscape has a prominent newcomer: the makers of Best of Swiss Web and Best of Swiss Apps present the "Best of Swiss Software"Award. Best of Swiss Software stands for outstanding individual software projects and examples of successful integrations of software platforms such as ERP, CRM and industry solutions. The aim is to support innovation and make outstanding achievements visible. Best of Swiss Software thus sets quality standards and puts the best teams and companies in the Swiss software industry in the spotlight.

Four categories

Swiss ICT service providers have the opportunity to demonstrate their skills in four categories:

• Business SolutionsCustomized software developed to automate and support various business processes.
• Cloud Native SolutionsIndividual software for user companies or product manufacturers that has been optimized for cloud platforms and takes into account as many modern architecture and development principles as possible.
• Data & AI SolutionsIndividual solutions developed to build company-wide data platforms, create applications and train AI models or develop generative AI solutions based on them.
• Core Business Integration: Introduction of a standardized ERP, CRM or industry solution platform that has been ideally optimized to the requirements and processes of a company by means of parameterization and in-house module development.

The adjudication process

In a two-stage process, the University of Bern and the jury carefully examine all submitted projects for their quality and innovative strength. Each category is awarded 1x gold, 1x silver and 1x bronze.

• Level: Assessment- In a first step, all submitted projects are evaluated by the assessment partner, the Institute of Information Systems at the University of Bern. A maximum of 12 projects per award category will be nominated for the award.
• Level: Competition- The nominated projects will be presented by the entrants in a 30-minute Q&A session on the jury day. The jury, consisting of 5-10 renowned experts from the ICT industry and representatives of important clients, will evaluate the presentations and determine the winning projects in each category.

The most important data

The submission deadline for all four Best of Swiss Software categories is Monday, August 26, 2024. The Best of Swiss Software Award Night will take place on Tuesday, November 19, 2024, at the Kongresshaus in Zurich in combination with the "Best of Swiss Apps" award ceremony took place.

Source and further information: www.bestofswisssoftware.ch