Awards

Octane Software Solutions rebuilt NewsCorp Australia's TM1 architecture and deployed IBM watsonx Orchestrate to automate variance reporting and forecasting. Using IBM watsonx Orchestrate, we eliminated manual processes, reduced reporting time by 99%, and boosted finance team efficiency by up to 98%. Executives are now receive proactive, intelligent commentary, transforming the finance function to strategic advisors.

Tractor Supply’s own supply chain transformation is being propelled by advancements in IBM AI capability across strategic areas. Their new support tool, "Hey GURA," taps into advanced predictive analytics to orchestrate a supply chain that’s as intelligent as it is efficient. From warehouse to doorstep, Hey GURA sharpens delivery speed and date precision with real-time inventory insights and ultra-reliable ETAs. Hey GURA seamlessly scales across more than 3,200 stores, powered by a secure hybrid cloud foundation. Hyper-local is the new standard: with live demand signals and regional agility, Hey GURA fine-tunes inventory and assortment strategies down to the neighborhood level.

XDEV Software is helping to tackle education inequality. The BYLES project targets disparities in reading ability linked to social background, a major societal challenge. Germany’s largest digital reading assessment reached more than 184,000 children in 2024. Developed on Quarkus, the “eddipuls” platform delivered adaptive diagnostics at scale (i.e., 11,000/day). Despite a tight budget, strict data privacy rules, and high scalability demands, teachers now receive instant, tailored learning insights.

Perfaware collaborated with Lululemon to modernize their legacy call center with the latest micro frontend architecture. Leveraging IBM’s next-gen call center solution, Perfaware not only implemented a robust foundational upgrade but also delivered tailored enhancements that transformed the customer service representative experience. Perfaware successfully delivered the solution well in advance of Lululemon’s peak season. 

Banco do Brasil delivered a robust governance solution for traditional and generative AI, combining watsonx.governance and the EY AI lifecycle framework and IBM products such as DataStage. The initiative ensured full-lifecycle oversight—automating audits, monitoring model drift, anonymizing sensitive data, and aligning AI outputs with regulatory and business requirements. This initiative reinforces the institution’s commitment to responsible AI at scale, ensuring transparency, accountability, and operational integrity across its AI ecosystem.

Scrum Information Technology Solutions has successfully leveraged IBM's advanced data management technologies to streamline data integration, enhance data quality, and enable real-time analytics. Through collaborative efforts with IBM, we developed scalable solutions that significantly improved data governance and operational efficiency. This nomination highlights our commitment to delivering actionable insights and empowering clients to make data-driven decisions, setting new standards for excellence in data management.

CXP Brasil is redefining FinOps in Latin America. Through strategic use of IBM Turbonomic, they helped Elo and Nuvemshop move from reactive cost control to proactive, intelligent cloud optimization. But their true impact goes beyond savings: CXP Brasil ignites cultural change, uniting engineering and finance, and embedding FinOps as a core discipline that empowers teams to scale with visibility, accountability, and confidence.

Hyland, an intelligent content solution provider, needed to improve their visibility into cloud costs after a “lift and shift” move to AWS. With thousands of customers, Hyland needed to manage a significant AWS footprint, including EC2 instances, S3 buckets, and EBS volumes, and was looking to increase transparency and customer confidence in its AWS cloud usage. The team used IBM Cloudability to gain insight into costs, reducing Amazon RDS expenditure by 50%. They were also able to reduce over-provisioning of compute and storage resources, address anomalies, and provide cost analysis and actionable data to customers. The cost savings, insight, and cloud visibility that came with IBM Cloudability implementation has had a direct, positive, measurable impact on business decisions and sales.

INCO, in partnership with ANTEL, provided ANCAP with a private cloud solution powered by IBM Power Systems. This solution includes IBM i, PowerHA, Flashcopy for disaster recovery, WebSphere Application Server, and SAP applications, ensuring optimal performance. BRMS with IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager encryption ensure data security, while FlashSystems enhance storage efficiency. INCO also provide expert services for monitoring, operation, administration, and support, ensuring ANCAP's cloud environment is optimized and efficient.

SVA Systemvertrieb Alexander GmbH was asked by their customer, a chemical company in southern Germany, for a solution to modernize their infrastructure, enabling cloud readiness and bringing High Availability and Disaster Recovery up to the most current level. The customer had SVC DH8, 2x IBM V3700 and Brocade Gen5 SAN. The team exchanged this "old iron" hardware for two FlashSystem 5300 (FCM4) as a policy-based High Availability solution with FlashSystem Grid enabled, plus all new available SAN and VMware, in a very short period of time.

Nordea specialists built a solution that validates the captures in IBM Cyber Vault using scripts that discover relevant elements, such as DB2 tables, WDS, IMS DB, Adabas databases, and so on. They build and execute validation jobs that use standard utilities to verify the integrity of these elements (Type 2 validation) without any manual intervention. Results are mailed to Splunk, where they are checked by scripts that raise alerts based on relevant parameters.

Svenska Handelsbanken AB embarked on an innovative project to infuse AI in their fraud prevention process in tight collaboration with IBM's Machine Learning for IBM z/OS product team. It is a true success story, a testament to what can be achieved through long-term partnership. 

Cubewise's Marius Wirtz started and led TM1py, a TM1 community-driven open source project that now has a large group of contributors. TM1py enables users to do basically anything in the IBM TM1 database using Python. It is the foundational tool for customers to solve many difficult problems, especially around cloud connectivity. It is the foundation of many commercial products that have been brought to market by many IBM partners. 

University of Colorado's Jesus Portilla integrates open-source AI across 3+ universities, merging IBM tools (OpenShift AI, IBM watsonx, Cloud) with PyTorch, Hugging Face, Kubeflow and JupyterLab. In the last year, he educated 60 students, drove over five upstream PRs, and ran two open governance “code-for-good” capstone projects, tackling industry dashboards and language-learning bots. By removing contribution barriers and modeling transparent governance, he built a vibrant, self-sustaining open source software ecosystem.