Celebrating Organizations Rising to New Heights in Software Supply Chain Excellence and Innovation
The Elevate Awards celebrates bold innovators embracing open source and AI/ML to scale their software development, while defending against malicious code and security vulnerabilities. These organizations are at the forefront of DevSecOps realizing the value of software supply chain management at-scale.
2024 Award Categories
This year’s awards recognize achievements in 6 categories:
Executive of the Year
Recognizing Outstanding Industry Leaders across the SDLC
Executive of the Year
Recognizing Outstanding Industry Leaders across the SDLC
You are, or work with a Senior Leader in Development, DevOps, or Security, who understands the value of Software Supply Chain Management at-scale. They know how protecting your organization from ever-increasing threats within your SDLC, while ensuring Development teams continuously deliver high-quality software, faster, is critical to innovation. They value your partnership with Sonatype in achieving this goal. Tell us what makes them so special in how they have championed the delivery of high-quality, secure, software innovations through the use of Sonatype solutions and industry best practices.
Fastest Time to Value
Recognizing High-Performing New Customers
Fastest Time to Value
Recognizing High-Performing New Customers
As a new customer, you’ve invested in the Sonatype platform for a reason. If you’re able to clearly articulate your purchase goals and demonstrate fast fulfillment of those goals, this award is for you. Showcase how quickly you were able to demonstrate value in terms of real measurable gains and share your approach
NOTE: This award is only applicable to customers new to Sonatype within the past year.
Tech Debt Destroyer
Recognizing “Most Improved” Customers
Tech Debt Destroyer
Recognizing “Most Improved” Customers
Technical debt results in re-work and ultimately slows innovation. Many organizations ignore a mountain of debt at their peril, but not you. Tell us about where you started and where you are today. Share how your organization reduced this debt and increased your software innovation throughput in the process.
DevSecOps Trailblazing Team of the Year
Recognizing Innovators and Thought Leaders
DevSecOps Trailblazing Team of the Year
Recognizing Innovators and Thought Leaders
Your team takes pride in innovating and experimenting with new approaches to ensure high-quality and secure development across your SDLC. Perhaps you drove efficiencies through AI/ML technologies and SBOM Management. You may have leveraged Sonatype’s Repository Firewall for blocking malware and intentionally malicious components. Tell us your story about how your team is at the forefront of DevSecOps, blazing a trail that others may follow.
Software Supply Chain Impact
Recognizing Significant ROI across the Enterprise
Software Supply Chain Impact
Recognizing Significant ROI across the Enterprise
Tuning a high-performance and secure software supply chain isn’t easy. Perhaps the greatest achievement along the journey is when involved teams (e.g., DevOps, Development, AppSec) sing your praises. If you’ve empowered teams with the techniques and technologies to help build secure, high-quality software, faster, here’s your chance to showcase how you optimized your software supply chain and the impact it made–including Return on Investment (ROI) for your organization. This award honors superb planning, execution, and automation across all parts of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
Silo-Bridger
Recognizing Collaboration All-Stars
Silo-Bridger
Recognizing Collaboration All-Stars
Adopting transformative technologies requires organizational change, often spans multiple disciplines, and is invariably met with resistance. This can be daunting, yet some teams make overcoming this resistance look easy. Showcase how you overcame obstacles and silos on your path to broad-based Sonatype Lifecycle adoption, resulting in reduced OSS security risk and enhanced developer productivity.
Congratulations to Elevate Awards Finalists
The 2024 Elevate Awards finalists represent the vanguard of software supply chain excellence. These organizations aren't just keeping pace with the evolving software development landscape; they're setting new standards for innovation, security, and agility.
This year’s finalists represent global leaders in software development and security across a wide range of industries including financial services, healthcare, technology, and government.
Remember These Key Dates
July 12th
Awards Submissions Open
Aug 9th
Awards Submissions Close
September
Finalists Announced
October
Winners Announced