San Francisco, Calif., December 13, 2011 - Birst has been shortlisted in the inaugural 2012 Cloud Awards Program in the categories Best Software as a Service and Data Innovation of the Year.
The Cloud Awards recognize and celebrate industry leaders and pioneers in the field of cloud computing. Categories include Best Software as a Service, B2B Customer Strategy, Best Cloud Infrastructure, Data Innovation of the Year, Developer of the Year, Most Promising Start-Up, Best Platform as a Service, Security Innovation and Web Services Excellence.
The cloud computing Awards program is open internationally across the US and EMEA regions and accepts entries from organizations of any size.
Cloud Awards organizer Larry Johnson said: “We have seen a remarkable calibre of organization enter the program and the Cloud Awards team is truly honored to judge them.
“Cloud computing has faced off many detractors. Some commentators have expressed concerns over security, scalability, and reliability. Now we’re seeing consumer advertisements name-dropping ‘The Cloud’ we know it’s here to stay. But beyond the hype and the buzz, what does cloud computing have to offer?
“The organizations which have taken part in the 2012 Cloud Awards program demonstrate exactly what cloud computing has to give. We’ve seen world-leading organizations spring up literally overnight to offer faster, more capable and cost-effective solutions than previously imagined. We’ve seen markets become so disrupted they’re unrecognisable. And we’ve seen all of this when the cloud computing industry is still in its infancy. We can’t wait to see what we get in our in-trays in 2012 and 2013, let alone 2025.”
Brad Peters, Birst CEO, said: “Birst offers one of the most innovative solutions in the Business Intelligence marketplace today. We are proud to be shortlisted in the Data Innovation of the Year and Best Software as a Service, categories of the 2012 Cloud Awards. This is a prestigious honour, and in such a competitive industry.”
Full Shortlist
Best Software as a Service
Callidus Software
Birst
Broadview Networks
Data innovation of the year
Birst
Broadview Networks
StrikeIron
Developer of the year
Igor Sysoev – NGINX
Dermot Doherty – iSpaces IT
Most promising start-up
iSpaces IT
Zerto
Skydox
Best platform as a service
LiveOps
Mulesoft
Apprenda
Mendix
Security innovation of the year
Gemalto
Callidus Software
Web services excellence
StrikeIron
Skydox
Contact Details
For Birst
Stacey Burbach
Point Communications Group for Birst, inc.
602.279.1137
sburbach@pointcgroup.com
For the Cloud Awards
Larry Johnson – 2012 organiser
www.cloud-awards.com/
larry@cloud-awards.com
About Birst
Birst™ is the leader in agile business analytics. It offers a single place to manage all of a business’ analytics and agility to answer questions that span departments, data sources, and deployments—across both public or private Clouds. Birst gives users the fastest way to answer their most pressing business questions—and then all the ones they didn’t know to ask. At one-third the cost, time, and staff of traditional big BI, Birst brings the benefits of analytics and fact-based decision-making to a much broader audience.
For more information, visit www.birst.com.
About the Cloud Awards
The Cloud Awards is a premier international cloud computing awards program which recognizes and honours industry leaders, innovators and organizational transformation in the field of cloud computing. The inaugural awards, launched in June 2011, opened to large, small, established and start-up organizations, to find and celebrate the pioneers that will shape the future of the industry as we move into 2012 and beyond. Finalists were selected by a panel of international industry experts. For more information about the Cloud Awards please visit www.cloud-awards.com/.
