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Winner: AI Coding & Developer Assistants

Postman API Platform

Technology Overview

Postman is the world’s leading API platform, enabling organizations to develop, test, manage, and distribute APIs and services. Its continued evolution addresses a new challenge: APIs are now load-bearing infrastructure for AI agents, and enterprises need more than development and testing capabilities. They now require a single place to see all APIs and services, tighter integration with how they already write and ship code, and the ability to seamlessly enforce governance standards.

Postman combines API lifecycle management, institutional context, and autonomous execution in a single AI-native platform. With API Catalog, Agent Mode, and AI Engineer, teams can discover what APIs exist, understand ownership, automate work, and deploy agentic systems with the context required for reliable production.

What Sets Postman API Platform Apart

Postman re-architected its platform around a core belief: AI must be native to the API platform, not bolted onto it. In March 2026, Postman introduced AI-native workflows and API Catalog, a centralized system of record that provides real-time visibility into APIs, performance, ownership, and governance across the enterprise. By grounding AI in authoritative API context, organizations can scale agentic systems safely and reliably.

Building on this foundation, Postman launched Agent Mode, enabling developers to understand APIs, execute changes, diagnose issues, and apply updates directly within existing workflows. In June 2026, Postman expanded these capabilities with AI Engineer, powered by Postman’s Context Graph. By capturing the institutional memory of APIs over time, it enables autonomous execution across development, testing, documentation, and CI/CD workflows.

Pricing & ROI

In March 2026, Postman introduced simpler plans and pricing that consolidate its growing suite of add-on capabilities and streamline how teams adopt the platform. This includes four tiers:

  • The Free plan and new Solo plan are designed for individual developers and support everyday development workflows, from writing and running code locally to testing before changes reach CI. Solo extends this support with additional AI and automation capabilities for developers who want more power in single-player workflows.
  • The new Team plan supports collaborative API development, testing, and distribution across shared workflows for groups of developers working together across development and test environments.
  • The Enterprise plan continues to enable organizations that are standardizing APIs and services at scale, with centralized visibility, governance, security, and operational controls.

Finalist: AI Coding & Developer Assistants

Kilo Code

Technology Overview

Kilo is an open agentic development platform that lets engineers work with AI wherever they already code, VS Code, JetBrains, CLI, or cloud, with any model they choose.

The AI coding market is consolidating fast, and developer choice is the casualty. Labs are locking models into their own tools, so the assistant you use is increasingly deciding which model you get, without asking. You're inheriting a lab's roadmap, not building your own.

Kilo is built against that. The same open-source agent runtime runs across every surface and routes across 500+ models at provider rates with no markup.

Backed by Anaconda, trusted by 1.2 million organizations and 95% of the Fortune 500, Kilo pairs its open runtime with enterprise-grade governance and support. For enterprise teams, this means open developer choice without losing security or oversight.

“Before I push to remote, I have Kilo to sanity-check my logic. It catches issues I might miss and ensures every PR is ready to merge. It gives me the confidence to ship faster.”
— Mike Madern, Fullstack Developer, Plug&Pay
“Using Kilo feels a lot like using Wise because that’s what they’re about — no hidden fees, and it’s all very fair. It feels like there’s meaningful work being done in concert with a reasonable partner.”
— Andrey Guenov, Founder, 22tasks

Finalist: AI Coding & Developer Assistants

SonarQube

Technology Overview

SonarQube is Sonar’s core platform for zero-trust, multilayered verification across all code, continuously analyzing code for bugs, vulnerabilities, code smells, and architecture issues before merge or release. With integrations into agentic coding tools, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps platforms, CLIs, and IDEs, SonarQube operates within every stage of the development lifecycle, helping reduce outages, improve security, and lower the cost and risk of agentic software development. With Gitar, Sonar’s AI-native code review solution, it combines algorithmic and agentic analysis for consistent, intentional and transparent verification.

What sets SonarQube apart is its independent verification layer: a single standard that holds steady across tools, teams, and workflows. SonarQube delivers consistent, explainable, auditable analysis and deterministic quality gates throughout the Agent Centric Development Cycle. Trusted by 7M+ developers and analyzing 750B+ lines of code daily, SonarQube enables organizations to ship AI code with confidence.

“What I like best about SonarQube is how consistently it helps me maintain code quality without relying only on manual reviews. The quality gate acts as a clear checkpoint, if something critical is flagged, it forces us to address it before moving forward. Being able to track issues, technical debt, and code coverage trends over time helps me make better decisions, especially when working on older modules. After using it for almost 9 years, it has become a dependable part of my development process rather than just another tool in the stack.”
— Shrey S., IT & Services enterprise org

Winner: AI Governance & Responsible AI

ArgusAI

Technology Overview

Bedrock Data’s ArgusAI governs the enterprise AI risk surface end to end. It maps every AI model, agent and MCP-connected service to the underlying data it can access, including sensitivity classification, entitlement chains, lineage and regulatory context, and packages that mapping into a continuously updated Data Bill of Materials (DBOM) for every AI system in a customer’s environment.

Enterprises are deploying copilots, AI agents and retrieval-augmented generation systems against sensitive data faster than any governance framework was built to handle. Most security teams have no systematic way to see what their agents can access, through which services or with what entitlements. The DBOM gives security, compliance and governance teams a documented, queryable record of what every AI system can access and under what permissions.

What Sets ArgusAI Apart

ArgusAI's core capability is MCP Server Discovery, which maps the path from an AI agent through its MCP connections to the enterprise data it can reach, surfacing exposure paths that identity reviews miss. Agent DLP acts on that map at runtime, inline at the agent gateway, inspecting tool calls in both directions and blocking, redacting or logging sensitive data, with native hooks for AWS AgentCore, LiteLLM and Claude.

Before an agent runs, the DBOM links each AI model, agent and knowledge base to its underlying data with sensitivity classification, entitlement chains and regulatory context, producing the auditable inventory regulators require, across Amazon Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Gemini Agent Search, Snowflake Cortex and Databricks. It shows which identities can actually reach sensitive data, including inherited and unused access. All processing occurs inside customer environments, with no data copied outside.

Pricing & ROI

Bedrock Data DSPM is priced based on the data environment being governed, with no per-alert or per-scan fees that inflate costs at scale. The infrastructure efficiency of the Metadata Lake architecture means customers running petabyte-scale environments pay roughly 25x less in infrastructure costs compared to platforms that rely on brute-force file scanning.

Bedrock’s Agent DLP AI governance solution is priced by the volume of messages and tool calls sent/received by agents.

ROI manifests in multiple ways: security teams reclaim significant capacity previously consumed by false-positive triage, compliance reviews that required weeks of manual effort complete automatically and AI initiatives that spent months in governance review queues move forward once data context is in place.

Finalist: AI Governance & Responsible AI

Confidential Agents

Technology Overview

OPAQUE’s Confidential Agents allow enterprises to deploy autonomous AI agents—especially for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)—on sensitive data while keeping that data encrypted, governed, and verifiable.

As organizations adopt agentic AI systems that retrieve, reason, and act across enterprise environments, they introduce new risks. These agents operate dynamically, accessing sensitive data and systems at machine speed across tools and workflows. Traditional security models weren’t designed for this level of autonomy—they rely on policies set before execution and audits after the fact, rather than enforcing controls in real time.

OPAQUE addresses this gap by applying cryptographic enforcement before, during, and after runtime. Agents run inside secure environments, data remains encrypted while in use, and every action is governed and auditable—enabling safe, production-ready AI deployment.

“Our members didn’t even know that this was possible. It was eye-opening to work with OPAQUE and start educating our members on the platform and its capabilities.”
— Eric Phillips, Director of Product Operations at RiskStream Collaborative

Finalist: AI Governance & Responsible AI

Polygraf AI Behavioral Control Plane

Technology Overview

Polygraf AI is an AI security and governance layer designed to help organizations safely adopt and manage Artificial Intelligence in highly regulated and security-sensitive environments. The platform provides a locally deployed, explainable, and auditable AI Behavioral Control Plane (AiBC) that operates in-line and in real time to detect and mitigate sensitive data leakage, compliance violations, unauthorized AI usage, synthetic content risks, and other AI-related threats.

Polygraf AI sits between users, agents, and AI systems to inspect content, enforce policy, and prevent sensitive data from leaving the trust boundary before exposure occurs. The platform protects data interactions across tools, including LLMs (Large Language Models), email, Slack, browsers, virtual meetings, and internal AI systems, while maintaining full auditability and compliance visibility.

“I have spent more than 25 years working at the highest levels in the United States government on National Security and intelligence issues. I have a deep understanding of the threats that we face. I can see the promise this technology offers. It’s something we desperately need. I look forward to seeing Polygraf succeed and helping to protect American interests around the world.”
— Chris Stewart, President, Skyline Capitol Advisors, Fmr Congressman, Utah 2nd District

Winner: AI Infrastructure & Systems

WEKApod

Technology Overview

WEKApod 3 is the third generation of WEKA’s turnkey AI storage and memory appliance, including WEKApod Nitro, Prime, and Prime Max configurations. Purpose-built for AI inference and agentic workloads, WEKApod combines custom-engineered hardware with WEKA's NeuralMesh software to address infrastructure inefficiency in production AI environments, delivering powerful storage with the world's highest capacity and performance density in a single rack.

Organizations running AI today face constraints in power, rack space, GPU utilization, and datacenter capacity that limit scalability. Most AI architectures built for training cannot meet the data requirements of production inference, leading to underutilized compute and operational inefficiencies that make AI deployments difficult and costly to scale. WEKApod delivers exceptional capacity and performance density and reduces infrastructure overhead to unlock breakthrough AI inference economics.

What Sets WEKApod Apart

WEKApod is the world's densest AI storage and memory system and the first system to deliver over an exabyte of effective capacity in a single rack.

A single WEKApod system can deliver:

  • 1.1 exabytes of effective capacity in a single rack, with NeuralMesh data reduction running on a hardware foundation of 441.5 PB raw capacity. Throughput reaches 10.2 TB/s per rack. IOPS reach 210 million per rack.
  • 267% more capacity density and 114% more performance density than the nearest competitive solution available on the market today.
  • 40-80% lower power consumption, cooling, and data center footprint,

Features:

  • Hardware custom-designed and engineered by WEKA from the chassis up.
  • Multiple patents pending for innovative chassis design, underlying drive-interconnect, thermal-management, and serviceability technologies.
  • Built on PCIe Gen 6 Internal Fabric.

Pricing & ROI

  • Configurable Appliances From Sub-1PB to 100PB and Beyond: The third-generation WEKApod Nitro, WEKApod Prime, and WEKApod Prime Max are the first WEKApod products sold as configurable SKUs. Chassis type, memory, drive capacity, and drive count are customer-selectable. Every configuration offers the same operational simplicity.
  • WEKApod Nitro delivers maximum Performance, optimized for inference workloads.
  • WEKApod Prime and WEKApod Prime Max deliver massive capacity and minimal footprint. WEKApod Prime Max: a two-rack-unit, two-node chassis packs 70 NVMe drives.
  • WEKApod is available to order today through WEKA's worldwide distributor and VAR network.

Business Outcomes:

  • Breakthrough inference economics: 7-10x more tokens per watt, per dollar, from the same infrastructure footprint.
  • Customers can reduce power consumption, cooling, and footprint by 40-80%, significantly reducing their AI infrastructure costs and operational complexity.

Finalist: AI Infrastructure & Systems

The NetBox Labs Infrastructure Intelligence Platform

Technology Overview

Modern infrastructure changes constantly, and AI has accelerated that pace. For many businesses, infrastructure is no longer a back-office system; it is what their business relies on. When infrastructure goes down, customers notice immediately.

Infrastructure teams need to know more than what they intended to build. They need to know what is actually running, compare intended and real state, track what has changed, and determine whether it is safe to make the next change. Static infrastructure records, like spreadsheets, can no longer provide the visibility organizations need.NetBox Labs created its Infrastructure Intelligence Platform to solve this problem. Built on the world’s most widely adopted system of record for infrastructure data, it unifies planning, deployment, operations, and governance, giving teams visibility so they can decide and automate confidently.

“Our OKRs are very AI automation oriented. And so NetBox is and needs to be that foundational pillar to help drive where we’re going with automation. It not only saves us time, but it keeps things consistent. Having NetBox Labs gives me peace of mind because all that recording of assets, that's all done for us.”
— Jamie Lawrence, Manager, Networking Reliability Engineering, Arm

Finalist: AI Infrastructure & Systems

Voxel51

Technology Overview

Voxel51 is the end-to-end multimodal platform for physical AI. It gives teams a unified environment to search unstructured data, explore and curate data, manage and QA annotations, and investigate failure modes across modalities — including images, video, 3D, and time-series data.

85% of AI models fail because of bad data. Poor quality, mislabeled samples, and edge cases are invisible problems that don't surface until after expensive training cycles.

Voxel51 automates repetitive data work and gives teams deep visibility into their data: visualizing synchronized sensor streams, surfacing quality issues, uncovering distribution gaps, prioritizing valuable samples for labeling, and evaluating model performance, all in one platform. Customers report up to a 30% increase in model accuracy, 5+ months of development time saved, and 50× faster data curation.

“Without FiftyOne, our investigation capabilities would be severely limited. Model training would grind to a halt. FiftyOne is foundational to our robotics operations.”
— Dimitry Pechyoni, Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Berkshire Grey

Winner: Autonomous, Adaptive & Agentic AI Systems

AI for Prod

Technology Overview

ResolveAI, AI for prod, helps engineering teams run and operate software once code reaches production. ResolveAI connects to a company’s existing observability, code, infrastructure and knowledge systems, then uses its domain-specific multi-agent platform to triage alerts, investigate incidents, explain likely root causes and recommend or prepare next steps, and autonomously run daily operational tasks to keep the product healthy. As AI coding tools make it easier to ship software faster, the work of keeping that software reliable is becoming more complex: more changes, more alerts, more incidents, and more pressure on the teams on call. By building an evidence-based production timeline and coordinating investigations across tools, ResolveAI gives every engineer the context they need to reduce incident time, escalations and operational toil.

What Sets AI for Prod Apart

Purpose-built for production, rather than adapted from a coding assistant or generic chatbot, ResolveAI runs a multi-agent architecture that reasons causally over evidence instead of committing to the first plausible answer. Underneath, post-trained models are orchestrated alongside frontier models to optimize for the best accuracy, latency, and cost, and a knowledge graph gives agents the context, tool fluency, and engineering judgment a solo model lacks. Every investigation feeds a learning loop: explicit engineer feedback and implicit signals flow into a domain-specialized eval framework that absorbs each new model and harness release, so performance is continuously measured and improved. Enterprise-ready, the platform offers tenant isolation, data protection, predictable costs, 60+ integrations, and seamless access through coding agents, Slack/Teams, and the UI.

Pricing & ROI

ResolveAI is sold through annual and multi-year enterprise agreements, with a credits based pricing aligned to the amount of operational work the agents perform, such as chats, alert investigations, incidents, and other production tasks. The model is designed to tie cost to the work ResolveAI takes on rather than seat count or amount of time it takes to complete a particular task. Typical ROI comes from faster investigation and mitigation reducing MTTR, fewer escalations, time spent by senior engineers collecting evidence, reduced incident coordination, and more predictable operations.

Finalist: Autonomous, Adaptive & Agentic AI Systems

Boomi Agentstudio

Technology Overview

One of the most significant challenges for enterprise organizations in today's agentic era is scaling, governing, and orchestrating production-ready AI agents. Pilots stall not because models fall short, but because the infrastructure underneath does. AI agents require trusted enterprise connectivity, authoritative business data, governance that survives compliance audits, and a distributed, architecturally independent runtime. Few platforms address any of these. None address all of them.

Boomi was first to market with a full agent lifecycle management solution, Boomi Agentstudio. It unifies the four capabilities enterprise agents require at scale, connectivity, context, orchestration, and governance, in a no-code platform built for production environments, with secure access to 1,000+ MCP-enabled tools across 30,000+ enterprise deployments.

“Our team was constantly in reactive mode, manually reviewing logs, chasing errors after they’d already impacted business users. With Boomi Agentstudio, we’ve moved from firefighting to a true self-healing architecture. Error detection that used to take 30 minutes now happens in under two.”
— Joe Varghese, Senior Manager, IT Enterprise Data, Integrations & Analytics, Amneal Pharmaceuticals

Finalist: Autonomous, Adaptive & Agentic AI Systems

Talkdesk Customer Experience Automation

Technology Overview

Talkdesk Customer Experience Automation (CXA) puts AI to work across the customer journey. It combines agentic AI and multi-agent orchestration to resolve customer needs—not just respond to them.

At the heart of CXA are three pillars: Engage. Anticipate. Remember. Engage customers naturally across voice and digital channels with AI agents that understand, reason, and act. Anticipate what customers need and take action before they have to ask. Remember every customer, carrying context across conversations, channels, people, and systems.

Behind it all, specialized AI agents work together with enterprise knowledge, data, workflows, and human employees to complete even complex customer journeys. The result: customer experiences that know you, remember you, and stay one step ahead.

“Talkdesk’s advanced AI has improved our banking interactions. The CXA platform is truly transformational; its autonomous, multi-agent approach reshapes how we deliver secure, outcome-focused service. The AI-driven insights are really helping us stay ahead of the curve when it comes to providing superior customer service. Talkdesk CXA will help you improve every single SLA or KPI that you have in the contact center. Since implementing, we’ve seen huge improvements in our abandonment rate, huge improvements in our NPS and CSAT scores, and an increase of 15–20% in our containment.”
— Jeiner Morales, SVP Director of Data Analytics and Business Systems, BankUnited

Winner: Customer Experience AI Solutions

Quiq Agentic AI Platform

Technology Overview

Quiq is the agentic AI agent platform for customer experience that gives enterprises the visibility and control they need with Voice AI technology that is empathetic, life-like, and resolves customer questions quickly. AI agents work across every channel - voice, chat, SMS, email, and messaging - while giving businesses complete visibility into every AI decision.

The core problem Quiq solves: enterprise brands struggle to deliver controlled, consistent AI agents at scale. Voice AI agents and chatbots deflect rather than resolve. AI and human agent hand-offs require customers to repeat themselves. Black box AI makes it hard for enterprises to predict and understand AI actions.

Quiq addresses all of this in one platform. AI Agents resolve customer issues. AI Assistants support human agents in real time. Context flows across every channel, while Quiq protects enterprises with guardrails and verification.

What Sets Quiq Agentic AI Platform Apart

Three capabilities set Quiq apart from the competition.

First, Quiq’s Voice AI technology is turning the contact center world upside down. For decades, we’ve moved customers off voice because it was expensive and hard. But now the technology delivers an empathetic, life-like, solution-oriented experience. Listen to real-life calls on our website to see for yourself.

Second, Quiq maintains context across every channel and every handoff, AI to human, voice to messaging, text to email, without losing history or requiring customers to repeat themselves.

Third, Quiq protects brands with Verified Intelligence, verifying every AI response before it reaches customers, providing step-by-step visibility into how every AI decision was made and delivering simulations and testing tools to make sure the AI agent is ready for primetime.

Pricing & ROI

Quiq uses usage-based pricing aligned to business value. The core component is per-conversation pricing, with additional fees for automated resolutions and premium capabilities. Customers pre-purchase annual usage pools. Pricing varies based on channels, automation scope, integrations, and enterprise governance requirements.

Customers consistently see impact across three areas. On cost savings, Brinks Home achieved a 67% reduction in cost per interaction and Roku reduced cost per interaction from $3.00 to $0.50. On revenue generation, Terminix drove $7 million in sales in nine months, and Staples saw a 50%+ increase in calls routed to sales. On improved customer experience, Panasonic increased customer NPS to 75+.

Finalist: Customer Experience AI Solutions

Customer Experience Platform (CXP)

Technology Overview

ASAPP CXP is an agentic customer experience platform that gives every customer a dedicated AI agent — one that knows them, understands their context, and resolves their issues end-to-end, working alongside human expertise when needed. The core problem it solves is the fragmentation of enterprise customer service: disconnected CRMs, siloed channels, and automation tools that handle simple queries but fail on complex ones. CXP unifies interactions, systems, and data across voice and digital channels into a single platform powered by GenerativeAgent®, which listens, reasons, acts, and improves through interaction intelligence. The result is faster resolution, lower cost-to-serve, and a service experience that feels genuinely personal with the governance and reliability enterprises require.

“It’s ridiculously amazing. I have touted the performance of GenAgent the whole of the last 10 days. If one more person has to hear it, they’re gonna scream (with joy). Everyone is asking if the performance can last, and I keep saying, if anything, it’ll get better.”
— VP, Customer Support at major airline

Winner: Enterprise AI Platforms

Gravity™ by Innovaccer

Technology Overview

Gravity is the first agentic foundation built specifically for healthcare enterprise transformation. Unlike point solutions that sit in walled gardens with partial context, Gravity unifies clinical, financial, and operational data across EMRs, payers, and enterprise systems into a single shared context layer, then deploys AI agents that execute.

Built on 14 years of unified data infrastructure and $2B+ in documented outcomes across 125+ enterprise clients, Gravity solves the core reason 74% of healthcare organizations cannot scale AI past pilots: the foundation underneath their agents was never built for coordinated operations.

Customers see a 23% higher first-pass prior authorization approval rate, a 7% increase in revenue capture, $7M in savings from tech consolidation, and agents conceived and deployed in an average of 40 days.

What Sets Gravity™ by Innovaccer Apart

Gravity’s differentiation starts with what sits underneath it: 14 years of unified healthcare data infrastructure built before a single agent was written. That foundation creates four advantages competitors cannot replicate by layering AI onto fragmented data.

  • A healthcare-native unified data model with 400+ prebuilt connectors, 100+ FHIR resources, and 6,000+ data quality checks spanning ICD-10, SNOMED, and RxNorm.
  • A shared context layer where every agent operates on the same real-time data foundation, enabling cross-workflow learning.
  • Cloud-agnostic architecture across AWS, Azure, Snowflake, and Databricks, with HIPAA and HITRUST compliance built in.
  • Forward Deployed AI Engineers who take organizations from concept to production in an average of 40 days, with agents running in as little as 48 hours. The result: a platform that grows smarter over time.

Pricing & ROI

Gravity’s pricing consists of four components designed to scale with platform adoption and consumption. Platform fees are charged on a per-member-per-month basis, based on patient records managed and data feeds integrated. Consumption is measured through Health Intelligence Units (HIUs), a common currency across agentic workflows and search, priced at $1 per HIU with volume discounts and a 10% annual carryover allowance. Implementation and customization are charged as a fixed fee based on agent complexity and scope, supported by dedicated forward-deployed engineering teams. Infrastructure costs are passed through at cost with no markup and reviewed regularly for optimization. The platform has generated $2 billion in documented outcomes across 125+ enterprise clients, while Innovaccer has committed $250 million over three years to advance agentic AI development.

Finalist: Enterprise AI Platforms

Motive AI Dashcam Plus

Technology Overview

Motive AI Dashcam Plus is a first-of-its-kind dash cam that brings AI capabilities, hands-free communication, and reliability together in one unified device using edge AI to detect risk faster and prevent more collisions. Powered by a Qualcomm processor, it delivers 3x more AI processing power than other leading dash cams and can run 30+ high-precision AI models simultaneously, enabling broader detection with fewer false alerts. Its 1440p zoom lens enables Collision Evidence Capture to capture clear license plates from long distances or in bad weather. Live, hands-free two-way calling helps drivers and managers instantly connect over time-sensitive issues like fatigue or delivery delays.

It helps solve a road safety crisis: ~6M collisions were reported in 2024. Motive’s analysis found seven near-collisions for every collision, early signals enabling intervention before damage occurs. AI Dashcam Plus empowers teams to see more, act faster, and prevent more collisions.

“Motive’s AI Dashcam Plus shows how on‐device AI can transform road safety at scale. Built on the Qualcomm DragonwingTM QCS6490, it delivers the concurrency, responsiveness, and reliability fleets need—running numerous AI models at the edge with lower latency. We’re proud to collaborate with Motive to help organizations detect risks sooner, communicate instantly, and keep drivers and communities safer.”
— Erick Hong, Head of Smart Home & Life, Qualcomm Technologies

Finalist: Enterprise AI Platforms

ZEDEDA Edge Intelligence Platform

Technology Overview

ZEDEDA delivers an industry-first Edge Intelligence Platform that simplifies deploying, securing, and managing AI and cloud-native workloads across distributed sites. Designed for environments like factories, retail locations, oil rigs, vessels, and remote infrastructure, ZEDEDA enables organizations to run AI where data is generated and low latency matters most. Many enterprises struggle to deploy and manage AI in remote environments where connectivity is limited, hardware is diverse, and on-site IT support is scarce. ZEDEDA solves this challenge with zero-touch operations, reliable performance in low-connectivity environments, and flexible pay-as-you-grow edge computing. AI applications, traditional software, and supporting services run together on the same infrastructure, with secure onboarding, remote updates, continuous monitoring, and full lifecycle management built in.

“With our next-generation connectivity platform, we will be able to offer our customers notable benefits, including real-time cargo tracking, enhanced supply chain visibility, and improved operational efficiency. This platform is designed to support thousands of IoT devices, ensuring optimal performance for reefer tracking and fleet IoT.”
— Kjeld Dittmann, Head of Vessel & Cargo Connectivity at Maersk

Winner: Operational AI Solutions

Voxel’s Industrial Intelligence Platform

Technology Overview

Voxel turns the security cameras industrial facilities already have into a 24/7 safety and operations partner. Using computer vision, the platform watches for the moments that lead to injuries - a forklift passing too close to a worker, an unsafe lift, a blocked emergency exit - and alerts supervisors in real time, before harm occurs. The problem it solves is visibility: a single supervisor can't watch hundreds of thousands of square feet at once, and by the time a safety report surfaces a risk, someone has often already been hurt. Voxel closes that gap. Customers using the platform have seen recordable injuries drop by as much as 91%, proving that the right intelligence, applied early, saves lives without slowing operations down.

What Sets Voxel’s Industrial Intelligence Platform Apart

Most safety technology asks companies to choose between security and safety, or to install new hardware before they see value. Voxel does neither. It connects directly to existing cameras and goes live in days with no new sensors or wiring required. Its computer vision models are purpose-built for industrial environments, trained on billions of frames of real-world warehouse, distribution, and manufacturing footage, so detection is tuned to the hazards of forklifts, conveyor lines, and high-rack storage, not generic security scenes. And unlike point solutions that flag a single risk type, Voxel functions as an end-to-end intelligence layer: it detects the risk, routes the right alert to the right person, and tracks whether the action was actually taken, closing the loop most safety tools leave open.

Pricing & ROI

Voxel is priced on a flexible subscription model, typically structured per site for standard camera coverage, with enterprise pricing and volume discounts available for multi-site deployments. Because the platform requires no new hardware, customers avoid the capital costs that come with traditional sensor-based safety systems. Most customers reach full ROI within the first year, driven by fewer recordable injuries, reduced workers' compensation and insurance costs, less unplanned downtime, and lower turnover in roles where safety concerns often drive attrition.

Finalist: Operational AI Solutions

UKG Rapid Hire

Technology Overview

UKG Rapid Hire is changing how organizations fill frontline roles by turning high-volume hiring into a guided, mobile-first experience to staff critical roles. The solution uses AI-guided automation to orchestrate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling, onboarding, and first-day preparation to help managers move from job posting to onboarding in days instead of weeks. It solves a common problem that has long plagued frontline hiring: hiring processes that are traditionally built around paper applications, manual follow-up, disconnected systems, and delayed candidate communication can’t keep pace with industries where every unfilled role affects coverage, service, revenue, safety, or care delivery. With AI-guided workflows and conversational engagement, Rapid Hire reduces candidate friction while giving recruiters and managers more time to focus on hiring and onboarding qualified talent.

“The efficiency of UKG Rapid Hire means we secure top candidates before they accept offers elsewhere. It’s the most significant improvement I’ve seen in my recruiting career, and our team can focus on people, not paperwork, and deliver better care as a result.”
— Mike Dickinson, Director of Recruiting, NHS Management.
“Hiring in hospitality is nonstop — it’s constant. Before UKG Rapid Hire, scheduling interviews with even the best candidates could take days. Now, candidates can apply and book an interview in minutes, and in many cases, they’re interviewing the same day.”
— Erika Kamph, VP of HR, Dutchman Hospitality.

Finalist: Operational AI Solutions

Walt Smart Radio

Technology Overview

Walt by Weavix is an AI-powered smart radio platform purpose-built for industrial frontline workers. Where legacy two-way radios and consumer smartphones fail on the plant floor, in the warehouse, and across multilingual workforces, Walt fills the gap.

The primary problem is operational invisibility. Frontline workers represent the majority of the industrial workforce but remain cut off from the communication infrastructure that connects supervisors, systems, and data. The result is lost time, safety risk, and decisions made without ground-level insight.

Walt deploys to every worker as a single, hardened device that combines push-to-talk communication, real-time AI translation across 40+ languages, geofencing, and automated data capture. Every shift generates operational intelligence that did not exist before, driving measurable efficiency gains, safety improvements, and continuous improvement at scale.

“Our associates who have gotten these radios that have not had radios in the past feel more empowered. It makes them feel a little more important, and they're stepping up. A lot of what happens on the floor doesn't happen in emails. Distribution floors, that's so hard even for our corporate office to understand.”
— Sherri Jackson, Senior Distribution Manager

Winner: Vertical AI Solutions

SymphonyAI

Technology Overview

Most enterprise AI stalls in pilot mode — delivering dashboards and demos, but not decisions. SymphonyAI solves this with three purpose-built Vertical AI platforms designed to run industry workflows.

CINDE transforms retail by embedding AI across merchandising, shelf management, and supply chain — driving measurable sales, inventory, and profit outcomes from day one.

Symphony Risk Intelligence stops financial crime at scale, using agentic AI to cut false positives, accelerate investigations, and expose hidden risk that rules-based systems miss.

IRIS Foundry powers industrial performance through predictive models, knowledge graphs, and agentic workflows — reducing downtime, improving asset utilization, and accelerating root-cause analysis.

All three run on the Eureka AI Platform — SymphonyAI's unified vertical AI architecture — pre-trained with industry-specific ontologies and workflows to deliver production results in weeks, not quarters.

What Sets SymphonyAI Apart

SymphonyAI's competitive moat is vertical intelligence at the architecture level — not a generic platform stretched across industries, but three purpose-built systems on a common AI foundation.

The underlying platform combines predictive, generative, and agentic AI into a unified vertical architecture, pre-loaded with industry-specific ontologies, knowledge graphs, and domain models — so the AI understands the context of a missed promotion, a false positive alert, or an equipment failure before a single workflow is configured.

Agentic AI is embedded throughout: CINDE agents act on shelf and demand signals autonomously; Symphony Risk Intelligence agents adjudicate alerts and draft SAR narratives with 98-plus percent accuracy; IRIS Foundry agents guide corrective action from root-cause to resolution.

With 30-plus patents, SymphonyAI delivers governed, explainable, and auditable AI — not a black box.

Pricing & ROI

SymphonyAI is delivered as an enterprise SaaS platform, with pricing structured around the scale and complexity of each deployment. SymphonyAI's pricing philosophy is value-based, aligning commercial terms with measurable business outcomes — and the company is actively evolving toward an Outcome as a Service model that ties pricing directly to real-world impact. Customers across all three verticals consistently achieve rapid, quantifiable ROI:

Retail: Inventory accuracy above 98%, sales uplifts of 3.5 to 4.8%, and profit improvements in the hundreds of millions annually.

Financial Services: 77% reduction in false positives, 160% uplift in fraud detection, and 20 to 50% productivity gains for compliance teams.

Industrial: $3M-plus in annual savings per multi-site deployment, 25 to 35% faster execution cycles, and up to 35% improvement in asset utilization.

Finalist: Vertical AI Solutions

Marmot™

Technology Overview

Marmot is Komodo Health’s healthcare-native analytics AI platform, powered by the Healthcare Map, the industry’s most comprehensive longitudinal dataset spanning more than 330 million de-identified U.S. patients, more than one trillion linked healthcare encounters, and 15+ years of history.

Purpose-built for healthcare, Marmot combines domain-specific AI, governed real-world data, and transparent outputs to create an enterprise-wide AI-powered intelligence layer that supports organizations' most important decisions and workflows. Users of all technical abilities can ask complex questions in natural language and receive transparent, reproducible answers in minutes.

By embedding trusted AI directly into business processes, Marmot replaces fragmented analytics and static reporting with real-time intelligence, enabling faster, more confident decisions across commercial, clinical, medical, and operational functions to improve patient outcomes.

“Marmot has helped us achieve substantial speed. It used to take us six months to do studies, and now, using Marmot, the shortest study we’ve done is over a weekend.”
— Vice President of Clinical Data Science & Evidence, Top 10 Pharma

Finalist: Vertical AI Solutions

Matlantis - The atomistic AI simulator for materials discovery

Technology Overview

Matlantis is an AI platform for materials science and discovery that enables industries such as chemicals, semiconductors, batteries, manufacturing, drug discovery, and more, to design and evaluate materials through AI-enabled simulation rather than trial-and-error experimentation.

Traditional materials discovery methods are slow and constrained by limited experimentation capacity, often taking decades to bring innovations to market. Instead of testing a small number of candidates physically, Matlantis allows teams to explore entire material design spaces digitally, identifying viable options before real-world synthesis.

By shifting discovery upstream into computation, it reduces failed experiments and accelerates development timelines by allowing organizations to focus resources only on the most promising candidates, transforming how vertical industries approach innovation at the molecular level.

“To reach desired results in a reasonable frame of time, we previously had to screen candidate materials depending on priorities and compare their advantages and disadvantages. Matlantis frees us from that screening process, which allows us to look into the types of candidates that we used to avoid. We can now look into uncharted territories and make suggestions out of them.”
— Kosuke Takeda, Analytical Science Laboratory, Research and Development Division, Kao Corporation
“We've been freed from creating force field parameters. 'First calculate, then experiment' became possible.”
— Simulation / Experimental Materials Researchers, AGC Inc.

Winner: AI Copilots & Assistants

SAS Viya Copilot

Technology Overview

SAS Viya Copilot is an AI-powered conversational assistant embedded within the SAS Viya platform that helps users accelerate data, analytics, and AI workflows using natural language. It enables users to generate code, explain analytical processes, build models, access documentation, and automate complex tasks directly within their existing environment.

Organizations face increasing pressure to generate insights faster while managing a shortage of analytics talent and growing data complexity. SAS Viya Copilot addresses these challenges by lowering technical barriers, improving productivity, and making advanced analytics more accessible to users of varying skill levels. By combining generative AI with SAS's trusted analytics, governance, and security framework, it helps organizations move from data to decisions faster while maintaining transparency, control, and confidence.

What Sets SAS Viya Copilot Apart

SAS Viya Copilot stands apart through its deep integration with the SAS Viya platform and its ability to combine generative AI with enterprise-grade analytics, governance, and trust. Unlike standalone I AI assistants, it operates within the context of users' analytical workflows, providing relevant guidance, code generation, explanations, and task automation grounded in SAS capabilities.

Key differentiators include context-aware assistance, native integration with analytics and machine learning workflows, enterprise security controls, explainable AI principles, and support for regulated environments. The solution leverages decades of SAS analytical expertise while helping users work more efficiently through natural language interactions.

Its architecture is designed to support productivity, governance, scalability, and responsible AI adoption, enabling organizations to innovate without sacrificing oversight or reliability.

Pricing & ROI

SAS Viya Copilot is available as part of the SAS Viya platform and is licensed according to customer requirements, deployment scope, and usage needs. The solution is designed to enhance the value of existing SAS investments by increasing user productivity and accelerating analytics adoption.

Customers typically realize ROI through reduced development effort, faster onboarding, improved user efficiency, and quicker delivery of analytical projects. Organizations benefit from shorter time-to-insight, greater self-service capabilities, reduced reliance on specialized resources, and improved utilization of enterprise analytics assets.

By helping users complete tasks more efficiently and lowering barriers to analytics adoption, SAS Viya Copilot contributes to measurable business outcomes including productivity gains, operational efficiencies, faster innovation cycles, and improved decision-making.

Winner: AI-Powered Threat Detection

Doppel Platform

Technology Overview

Doppel is the Frontier AI Platform for Social Engineering Defense. Agentic attacks need an agentic defense. Unlike legacy tools, Doppel unifies Digital Risk Protection, Email Security, and Human Risk Management on one Superintelligence Layer, so a threat caught anywhere is stopped everywhere. Doppel uses AI to detect and connect threats across channels, giving security teams a more complete view of social engineering campaigns.

The platform protects enterprises against social engineering attacks, including phishing, impersonation, deepfakes, and fraud across email, domains, social media, messaging apps, paid ads, and voice channels. The Doppel Threat Graph correlates cross-channel signals to identify attacker infrastructure, prioritize threats, and automate takedowns across domains, social platforms, registrars, telecom providers, and more.

Doppel also strengthens organizational resilience through simulations and threat-informed training that mirror modern adversary tactics, helping organizations reduce analyst workload, accelerate response times, and prevent fraud, reputational damage, and compliance risk.

What Sets Doppel Platform Apart

Doppel pioneered Social Engineering Defense, applying frontier AI to detect and connect threats across the entire social engineering attack chain. Rather than treating phishing, impersonation, fraud, and brand abuse as isolated events, Doppel identifies relationships across channels and infrastructure to surface coordinated campaigns and emerging threats.

Digital Risk Protection detects threats across multiple channels, links alerts into a real-time Threat Graph, and drives AI-powered infrastructure disruption. Email Security uses a self-healing, agentic architecture to investigate inbox threats, close detection gaps, and use the Doppel Threat Graph to disrupt attacker infrastructure. Human Risk Management turns live threat intelligence into phishing simulations and next-generation security awareness training, helping organizations adapt their defenses to the tactics attackers are actually using. Doppel’s AI continuously learns from threat activity and analyst feedback, improving detection and response as attacker tactics evolve.

Pricing & ROI

Doppel is delivered as a fully managed SaaS platform with pricing tailored to organizational size, risk profile, and deployment scope, enabling customers to scale protection predictably without infrastructure or maintenance overhead. The platform reduces total cost of ownership by minimizing manual triage, consolidating workflows, and automating social engineering defense at scale.

Customers achieve measurable operational outcomes. Organizations using Doppel have reduced analyst workloads by up to 80%, tripled threat-handling capacity, and shortened response times from hours to minutes through AI-driven automation. Customers also achieve median response times of 4.82 minutes and phishing URL mitigation in as little as 18 minutes. One Fortune 500 organization reduced exposed executive PII by 93% using Doppel and another Fortune 500 uncovered 700 scams with Doppel.

Finalist: AI-Powered Threat Detection

Kindling

Technology Overview

Kindling is an agentic SIEM investigation engine designed to solve severe alert fatigue for overworked, under-resourced security and IT teams at mid-market organizations. Organizations are fatigued by an overwhelming number of alerts across increasingly complex tech stacks, with 20,000+ alerts weekly on average. With attackers moving faster than ever, Kindling automatically triages and investigates every finding before it reaches security teams. Kindling pulls in historical context and synthesizes evidence to deliver actionable AI-prepared cases with a severity baseline, so teams have the contextual signal to triage, investigate, and remediate without manual overhead. Kindling is validated against over 2,000 real-world incidents resolved with Blumira’s support teams, and has an 98.5% auto-triage accuracy rate, achieved through deterministic investigation and a three-judge AI consensus.

“I love that Kindling aggregates data across all of our clients without obscuring it. Even in our short time with it, it's narrowing our focus to what needs immediate resolution. On a good day, we'd see 30 to 40 findings come in. After just one week with Kindling, we're down to 11 cases.”
— Matt Timm, TR Computer Sales

Finalist: AI-Powered Threat Detection

Skyhawk Synthesis Security Platform

Technology Overview

Skyhawk Security is an AI-powered preemptive cloud security platform, purpose-built to defend against autonomous AI attacks. Traditional threat detection tools alert after an attacker is already inside. Skyhawk identifies the attack paths an adversary would take, even AI-enabled threat actors, before they take them.

The platform deploys an AI Red Team against a continuously updated digital twin of your cloud environment, simulating real adversarial behavior to surface the precise vulnerabilities that are genuinely exploitable against your most critical assets. It simulates what a threat actor will dynamically manipulate to gain access to your cloud. With AI-driven attacks up 89% year over year, reactive detection is no longer sufficient. Skyhawk solves the fundamental gap between knowing you are exposed and knowing what can and will actually be used against you delivering threat detection that is predictive, not retrospective.

“We needed a real security product that would find actual threats. CSPM and compliance tools were giving us too many false positives with too many alerts. We needed a platform that would find threats in real-time that we could address and that is why we have Skyhawk Synthesis. It provides the context needed for real insight. The power of the solution was immediately clear. We saw the AI and ML in action, detecting anomalies and real threats with no false positives. The issues were found fast, in real-time, so our team could prevent cloud breaches.”
— Firefly

Winner: Cloud Security

ExtraHop RevealX

Technology Overview

ExtraHop RevealX is an agentless network detection and response (NDR) platform that helps enterprises stop sophisticated attacks across hybrid and cloud-native environments. By analyzing real-time network telemetry, the platform exposes active threats hiding in areas where traditional security tools are blind – unmanaged cloud workloads, ephemeral containers, encrypted traffic, and more.

To secure these environments, ExtraHop analyzes network traffic, out-of-band and in real-time, to expose stealthy threats instantly with zero impact on workload performance. By combining line-rate decryption, deep protocol fluency, and cloud-scale AI, the platform delivers continuous threat detection and active defense across the entire attack lifecycle - from intrusion to lateral movement to data exfiltration – and the forensic detail teams need to uncover cyberattacks before they disrupt the business.

What Sets ExtraHop RevealX Apart

ExtraHop is distinguished by its agentless, out-of-band deployment, analyzing live traffic with zero impact on performance. It is the only vendor to unify NDR, NPM, IDS, and packet forensics via a single sensor to deliver real-time visibility across the entire hybrid network. This consolidation ensures deep context, for example, providing packet evidence to validate threats before containers disappear.

ExtraHop combines decryption with deep protocol fluency, detecting threats in encrypted streams that metadata-only (ETA) solutions miss. This granular visibility enables the platform to baseline behavior patterns and alert when container workloads exhibit anomalous activity. Built for enterprise scale, ExtraHop maintains this visibility even as infrastructure and traffic volumes grow.

Operationally, this eliminates friction with networking and DevOps teams, unifying visibility across the entire network.

Pricing & ROI

ExtraHop RevealX is priced annually based on deployment scope, including sensor capacity and size and scale of cloud deployments. Customers have the option to consolidate multiple point tools, NDR, IDS, network performance monitoring, and forensics, into their deployment, lowering total cost of ownership, expanding coverage, and eliminating the cost of legacy tools.

According to the 2026 Forrester TEI, ExtraHop customers over three years achieve a 155% ROI, save $2.9 million in cloud and legacy cost savings, and achieve a payback period of under six months. By eliminating blind spots and retiring legacy tools, ExtraHop ensures SOC teams manage the cloud and network – not the tool – providing an optimal, cost-effective view of their infrastructure.

Finalist: Cloud Security

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Technology Overview

Fastly’s Next-Gen Web Application Firewall (WAF) provides comprehensive protection for web applications, APIs, and microservices, making security frictionless and developer-friendly through its proprietary detection capabilities.

As threats evolve, mitigating them can’t come at the cost of users. Traditional WAFs take months to install and rely on detection methodology that’s prone to false positives. They rely on static signatures and constant tuning, while Fastly’s uses proprietary SmartParse technology as an advanced detection engine to evaluate the full context of each request rather than pattern-matching. The result is accurately identified malicious or anomalous behavior that reduces alert fatigue on security teams. As AI redefines threat velocity and evolution, static pattern-matching WAFs fall short, failing to keep pace with the sophisticated attacks Fastly’s is uniquely engineered to detect.

“Prior to enabling the WAF as part of the Fastly platform, our engineers were getting escalations during non-business hours. After they implemented the security tools from Fastly, that went to nearly zero.”
— Schalk Van Der Merwe, Chief Technology Officer, THG

Finalist: Cloud Security

Paramify Cloud

Technology Overview

Paramify, the only FedRAMP 20x Moderate Authorized GRC tool, is a security strategy and compliance automation platform that acts like an Iron Man suit for GRC teams, compressing months of manual compliance work into days or weeks across frameworks like FedRAMP, DoD ATO, HITRUST, and CMMC.

It solves a costly problem: teams waste time and money working on the wrong things, in the wrong order, without a clear view of where they stand. Paramify delivers a prioritized, living roadmap from an hour-long kickoff, guides implementation with AI-powered abilities and integrations into Jira and ServiceNow, and automatically generates accurate, OSCAL-native ATO packages, SSPs, and trust center outputs. Customers manage monthly POA&Ms in 1⁄2 the time reducing employee burnout and wasted budget.

“We literally had one person to collect evidence for the KSIs in a machine-readable format and we submitted within 2 weeks. It was outstanding.”
— Rob Otten, VP of Security Compliance, Flock Safety

Winner: Data Protection

Confidential AI

Technology Overview

Fortanix Confidential AI enables enterprises to securely deploy and run advanced AI models without exposing sensitive information or proprietary model IP, no matter where their data lives. Built on Confidential Computing, it uses hardware-isolated Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to keep data, model weights, and inference encrypted at rest, in transit, and in use.

Fortanix Confidential AI addresses the barrier to enterprise AI adoption caused by data exposure and intellectual property theft. It ensures sensitive data and models remain protected from cloud providers, infrastructure operators, and privileged insiders. This removes the tradeoff between security and innovation, making it safe to scale AI in high-risk environments.

What Sets Confidential AI Apart

Fortanix Confidential AI is differentiated by its end-to-end, hardware-rooted security architecture that protects data and models not just at rest or in transit, but while in use. It leverages Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) with CPU and GPU memory encryption to isolate workloads from infrastructure, including hypervisors and privileged insiders.

Key innovations include composite attestation across CPU and GPU for a unified chain of trust, ensuring verifiable workload integrity, and attestation-gated key release so decryption only occurs inside verified environments.

Operationally, it supports bring-your-own models, multi-cloud and edge deployment, and integrates a FIPS 140-2 Level 3 HSM with post-quantum-ready cryptography (PQC). This combination enables a true zero-trust AI architecture with full lifecycle protection, which most alternatives do not provide.

Pricing & ROI

Pricing follows a simple two-component model: a base platform fee plus a per-GPU charge based on the number of GPUs deployed.

Enterprises are now able to significantly enhance ROI as a result of reduced development cycles and accelerated AI development cycles. More significantly, it enables multi-party collaboration even between enterprises who inherently do not trust each other, thus unlocking new opportunities that wasn’t possible before. This translates into significant ROI depending on the data being securely shared and the industry that the data is related to.

Finalist: Data Protection

Bedrock Data Platform

Technology Overview

Bedrock Data continuously discovers, classifies and contextualizes enterprise data across cloud, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and AI environments, combining sensitivity, identity and lineage into a single, authoritative context model called the Metadata Lake. ArgusAI extends that context to every AI agent, copilot and MCP-connected service, mapping the full path from an AI system to the enterprise data it can access.

Most enterprises lack an accurate picture of their data risk surface. Existing tools scan a fraction of the estate at high cost, move data outside customer environments to classify it introducing risk, or surface thousands of false-positive alerts security teams cannot act on. Where competitors deliver partial coverage and pattern-matched noise, Bedrock Data’s full entitlement analysis surfaces exposure across the entire estate, with no data copied or transmitted outside customer boundaries.

“Bedrock has given us a level of visibility into our data lineage and effective entitlements that was previously unattainable. We are no longer just scanning for risks; we are operationalizing a program that can detect drift and enforce policy in near real-time.”
— Head of Security Architecture & Engineering, Top 20 Financial Services Firm

Finalist: Data Protection

Infoblox Threat Defense

Technology Overview

With AI technology at their fingertips, threat actors are moving faster than ever. Traditional tools are too slow for modern attacks, relying on a reactive, patient zero approach. Infoblox Threat Defense provides preemptive network security by leveraging Protective DNS and predictive threat intelligence. The platform blocks threats at the DNS layer before they can spread, impact users and burden downstream tools. In contrast to legacy detection tools, Infoblox offers proactive protection to stop threats before they reach users, devices or cloud workloads – giving teams critical time back and peace of mind. With Infoblox Threat Defense, teams get back 6000+ hours of SOC analyst time and $400K+ productivity saved per year compared to legacy tools.

“Threat Defense is the moat around our castle. You’re going to have to get past that before you can start doing any harm on the outside walls. We’re going to shut you down before you get close. Now I don’t have to worry about what we should block. Threat Defense takes care of it.”
— John Roosa, Chief Information Officer, Stupp Bros.

Winner: Identity and Access Security

Okta for AI Agents

Technology Overview

Enterprises are deploying AI agents faster than they can secure them. 91% already run AI agents, yet only 10% have an effective governance strategy. Shadow AI is expanding, agents accumulate excessive access, and organizations can’t contain rogue agents. Okta for AI Agents secures the full lifecycle of AI agents by:

  • Registering AI agents in a centralized user directory, importing agents from supported platforms, assigning human owners and policies, and detecting shadow agents via the browser and the endpoint.
  • Securing agent access with scoped, short-lived tokens across authorization servers, secrets, service accounts, applications, MCP servers, and other agents.
  • Enforcing runtime authorization based on relationships, attributes, and policy, not static roles.
  • Requiring human-in-the-loop approval for sensitive or high-risk agent actions before they execute.
  • Providing governance through automated access reviews, audit logs, and a kill switch that revokes tokens if an agent behaves unexpectedly.

What Sets Okta for AI Agents Apart

  • Broad, expanding platform coverage. Okta for AI Agents connects to the tools teams use to build agents, pulling them into a unified registry via pre-built integrations rather than custom connectors.
  • Vendor-neutrality. Agents connect to any resource — SaaS apps, APIs, MCP servers, other agents — regardless of which cloud, platform, or framework they run on. While cloud-native tools only secure their own ecosystem, Okta helps secure agents wherever they run.
  • Full lifecycle, not a feature add. Most solutions solve one problem. Okta handles discovery, onboarding, protection, and governance across the entire lifecycle.
  • Works with the IdP already in place. Organizations can continue using their existing human identity provider (IdP). Okta works alongside major IdPs, keeping existing setups intact while layering agentic security on top.

Pricing & ROI

Okta for AI Agents is priced at a flat per-user, per-month list price. This model is highly advantageous for customers as it grants an unlimited agent license per user.

Immediate ROI comes from reducing the administrative friction of auditing thousands of AI agents by replacing manual oversight with automated lifecycle governance. Additionally, organizations can help reduce the risk of costly data breaches caused by ungoverned agent connections to corporate data, such as compromised third-party OAuth connections.

The primary business outcome is that it helps customers more confidently accelerate their rollout of safe AI initiatives.

Finalist: Identity and Access Security

1Password® Unified Access

Technology Overview

The way work happens has outpaced the identity security tools built to secure it. Employees adopt AI tools in the browser beyond IT's view, developers store credentials across local environments, and AI agents access systems using long-lived secrets that no governance framework is tracking.

1Password® Unified Access is the identity security platform that enables organizations to securely deploy AI agents and non-human identities without losing control of credentials. It centralizes human and machine credentials and governs how that access is used across human and non-human identities. Built on a clear operating framework of discover, secure, and audit, it enables organizations to identify AI agent use in the browser and on endpoints, guide secure vaulting, and audit how access is used across human and non-human identities.

“AI adoption is reshaping our threat model. As an Agentic Inference cloud serving digital and AI native enterprises, we’re seeing AI agents become part of everyday workflows. For DigitalOcean, it’s no longer only about individuals mishandling credentials. We need clear visibility into which AI systems are operating across our environment. Using Unified Access helps us better understand and govern AI usage to reduce shadow AI risks and securely scale AI adoption.”
— Heather Cannon, Director of Security at DigitalOcean

Finalist: Identity and Access Security

Silverfort Identity Security Platform

Technology Overview

The Silverfort Identity Security Platform protects organizations from identity-based cyber threats by eliminating gaps created by fragmented identity systems. Today, identity spans cloud, on-prem, SaaS, and AI-driven environments, yet most organizations rely on disconnected identity access management (IAM), privileged access management (PAM), and multi-factor authentication (MFA) tools that manage access but don’t secure it.

Silverfort unifies identity security into a single, real-time control layer, delivering full visibility into every identity and access path while enforcing protection at the moment of access. Identity Graph maps relationships between identities, resources, and privileges, while Access Intelligence analyzes real-world behaviors to surface hidden risk. By enforcing protection inline, Silverfort stops credential abuse, lateral movement, and ransomware before they spread, making identity the core security control layer.

“Silverfort has fundamentally changed how we approach identity security. We were able to enforce MFA on systems we previously couldn’t protect, without adding complexity or disrupting users. What stood out most was the visibility—we finally understood how identities were actually being used across our environment, which allowed us to tighten access and reduce risk quickly. It’s rare to see a solution deliver both immediate security improvements and long-term operational value.”
— Bryan Carpenter, IT Infrastructure Engineer at Trinity

Winner: Security Operations & Response

Splunk SOAR, native capability within Splunk Enterprise Security

Technology Overview

Splunk SOAR, a native capability within Splunk Enterprise Security, unifies threat detection, investigation and response in a single AI-powered security operations platform. It automates repetitive security tasks through orchestration, playbooks and embedded response workflows, enabling analysts to investigate, prioritize, and remediate threats faster and with greater consistency. By integrating SIEM, SOAR, threat intelligence, user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) and AI-driven assistance into one seamless experience, Splunk eliminates fragmented workflows, tool sprawl and analyst fatigue. Organizations use Splunk SOAR to reduce alert volumes, accelerate investigations from hours to minutes, improve SOC efficiency, and strengthen cyber resilience by helping security teams focus on the highest-priority threats instead of manual processes.

What Sets Splunk SOAR, native capability within Splunk Enterprise Security Apart

As a native capability within Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk SOAR delivers a unified, AI-powered SecOps platform that sets a high, competitive bar. Unlike point solutions, Splunk natively converges SIEM, SOAR, UEBA, threat intelligence, and detection engineering into a single, collaborative interface, which eliminates tool sprawl and analyst fatigue. The platform leverages machine learning to surface risk insights across users, devices, and applications, enabling detection of advanced, multi-stage attacks competitors routinely miss. AI-guided workflows autonomously triage alerts and recommend response actions, dramatically accelerating mean time to detect and respond. With 2,800+ automated actions across 300+ third-party integrations, Splunk's orchestration depth and breadth far outpaces alternatives by transforming reactive SOCs into proactive, resilient security operations.

Pricing & ROI

Splunk’s pricing is flexible and value-oriented, aligning costs with platform usage rather than data volume. Workload Pricing for Splunk Cloud Platform charges based on compute capacity for search and analysis workloads. Entity Pricing for Security, IT, and Observability Clouds ties costs to the number of assets managed, not data volume. Customers can also select individual offerings with Workload, Entity, or Ingest Pricing tailored to specific use cases. This approach ensures predictable, controllable spending and easy scaling. Typical business outcomes include improved workforce productivity, faster innovation driving revenue growth, risk mitigation, and infrastructure savings. Customers often repurpose thousands of hours and save millions annually, achieving strong ROI aligned with their business goals.

Finalist: Security Operations & Response

Axoflow Platform

Technology Overview

Poor data quality is the root cause of the SIEM cost crisis. Security data arrives noisy, unnormalized, and incomplete – organizations resort to babysitting data in the pipeline or inside the SIEM after it's already been ingested and paid for. Neither scales as volumes grow 25%+ per year.

Axoflow is an autonomous security data layer. It sits between log sources and every downstream destination, handling collection, classification, normalization, reduction, enrichment, routing, and storage - without manual parser or regex maintenance. Incoming data is classified automatically using an AI-maintained fingerprint database. Schema changes are absorbed without customer intervention.

The result: 70% faster investigations and 50%+ SIEM cost reduction. Runs across SaaS, on-premises, hybrid, and air-gapped deployments, processing 5 TB/day per core. Outputs in open formats (OCSF, Apache Parquet).

“Axoflow gives us a simple yet powerful tool to handle log collection without the configuration hassle. What’s even better, their logging and security expertise helped us fix problems in no-time.”
— Security Architect, US Government Organization
“Axoflow's classification-driven engine handles reduction, normalization, and routing without regex or manual tuning. Integration health is another strong point, with detailed metrics on drops, delays, queues, and host resources.”
— Software Analyst, Cyber Research

Finalist: Security Operations & Response

Finite State Product Security OS

Technology Overview

Finite State is an AI-native Product Security OS that helps manufacturers secure the software running inside connected devices. As software supply chains grow more complex and regulations continue to evolve, many organizations still rely on disconnected tools, spreadsheets, and manual workflows that make it difficult to understand what software is actually deployed and, more importantly, whether it’s secure.

Finite State solves this by creating a continuous, evidence-based system of record across firmware, binaries, and source code. The platform helps teams identify real risks, prioritize vulnerabilities that actually matter, and generate audit-ready security and compliance evidence automatically. By connecting security analysis, threat modeling, and operational workflows into one platform, Finite State helps engineering and security teams move faster while continuously proving product security and compliance.

“Reachability has been huge; it knocks out an average of 2/3 of our findings. The Finite State platform ... is game-changing.”
— Product Security Lead, public safety technology company

Winner: Cloud Infrastructure & Hybrid Platforms

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1

Technology Overview

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 is a private cloud platform for running enterprise applications, containers, and AI workloads. It unifies vSphere compute, vSAN storage, NSX networking, Kubernetes, automation, operations, security, and Private AI services into a single operating model, eliminating fragmented toolchains. The primary problem VCF 9.1 solves is making private cloud the most cost-effective and secure foundation for production AI. Enterprises can run inferencing and agentic AI with up to 40% lower server costs through intelligent NVMe memory tiering, up to 39% lower storage TCO through enhanced deduplication and compression, and zero-downtime live patching that secures up to 80% of updates without disrupting workloads. VCF delivers public cloud agility and developer self-service with the data sovereignty, compliance, and cost predictability that production AI demands.

What Sets VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 Apart

VCF 9.1 is differentiated by its unified private cloud platform spanning vSphere compute, vSAN storage, NSX networking, VKS Kubernetes, VCF Automation, VCF Operations, and Private AI services. The 9.1 release delivers specific, measurable advances: NVMe Memory Tiering reduces server TCO by up to 40% for clusters running mixed AI and non-AI workloads; vSAN global deduplication and compression cuts storage TCO by up to 39%; VKS scales to 500 clusters per Supervisor with 38% lower Kubernetes operational costs; fleet operations now support 5,000 ESX hosts with 4x faster cluster upgrades; and zero-downtime Live Patching secures up to 80% of updates without downtime. Multi-accelerator Private AI support for Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA, plus EVPN/VXLAN interoperability with Arista, complete a platform no point solution matches.

Pricing & ROI

VMware Cloud Foundation is sold as a subscription through Broadcom, authorized resellers, and OEM partners, or consumed as a managed private cloud service from VMware Cloud Service Provider partners. Customers achieve ROI through infrastructure consolidation, higher utilization, faster provisioning, and lower operational effort. IDC research found that organizations running VCF achieved a 564% three-year ROI with a 10-month payback period,

34% lower infrastructure costs, 42% lower three-year operating costs, 61% faster virtual machine deployment, and 98% less unplanned downtime. VCF 9.1 extends the business case further: NVMe Memory Tiering reduces server TCO by up to 40%, vSAN deduplication and compression lowers storage TCO by up to 39% versus external traditional arrays, and zero-downtime live patching eliminates costly maintenance for up to 80% of security updates.

Finalist: Cloud Infrastructure & Hybrid Platforms

LucidLink Connect

Technology Overview

LucidLink Connect extends LucidLink’s cloud-native streaming platform, enabling files directly from cloud storage to users and applications without requiring downloads, syncing, or duplicated copies. Distributed teams can instantly access and work with massive files as if they were stored locally, while data remains centralized and secure in the cloud.

The platform solves one of the biggest challenges in modern workflows: slow file transfers, version conflicts, fragmented storage systems, and collaboration delays caused by legacy infrastructure and sync-based cloud tools. By turning cloud object storage into instantly accessible, streamable workspaces for distributed teams, LucidLink Connect delivers the speed and responsiveness of local infrastructure while enabling organizations to support distributed, hybrid, and AI-driven workflows.

“When LucidLink was first introduced, it was an instant game changer for an industry stuck in legacy, on-premises storage and workflows. Over the years, our customers have relied on multiple S3 buckets for backup and archival storage, while moving toward cloud-first workflows that often depend on MAM systems or lightweight tools to manage media assets. Lucidlink Connect allows our customers to access their large amounts of S3 media assets and use them in secure, real-time workflows all within their existing filespaces. Another game changing innovation from Lucidlink.”
— Chris Bailey, Media Solutions Lead, Jigsaw24 Media

Finalist: Cloud Infrastructure & Hybrid Platforms

Boulder Opal

Technology Overview

Q-CTRL is defining quantum containerization to solve the "last mile" problem for quantum computing. Today's quantum computers run as bare-metal machines, forcing users to navigate hardware-specific complexity and instability.

Q-CTRL delivers AI-powered infrastructure software that turns volatile quantum systems into useful resources. Before a QPU can reliably run algorithms, it must be calibrated—historically a slow, manual, operational bottleneck. Boulder Opal is the push-button solution for fully autonomous quantum computer calibration, abstracting the low-level operations required to operate a QPU reliably. Fire Opal extends this foundation to high-performance algorithm execution, automatically optimizing circuits and suppressing errors.

When deployed locally and integrated with GPU infrastructure through ultra-low-latency connectivity like NVIDIA NVQLink, this becomes a quantum container: a self-contained, performance-optimized quantum resource that abstracts QPU complexity for data center and HPC environments, making quantum computers easier to deploy, operate, and maintain as a standardized, data center-ready integration point.

“Our mission at the JHPC-quantum project is to develop quantum-HPC hybrid workflows useful to science and industry. Integrating Q‐CTRL’s Fire Opal into our IBM Quantum System Two environment gives users the ability to run more efficient, accurate quantum circuits without needing to change how they work. This is a meaningful step forward in enabling scientific and industrial progress through our quantum-HPC integrated platform.”
— Mitsuhisa Sato, Division Director of the Quantum-HPC Hybrid Platform Division, RIKEN Center for Computational Science.

Winner: Cloud-Native Platforms & DevOps

Selector AIOps Platform

Technology Overview

With the increasing complexity and sophistication of modern networks and infrastructure, pinpointing incidents and root causes has become even more challenging. Legacy monitoring tools, operating in isolation, provide fragmented insights, further adding to the challenge.

Selector is an AI-powered observability platform that provides enterprises with a unified view across network, infrastructure, cloud, and application environments. It ingests data from across the stack, correlates signals in real time, and applies AI to deliver clear, explainable insights, enabling teams to see exactly what went wrong and why within seconds. The result is faster resolution, reduced alert noise, improved operational efficiency, and a true single pane of glass for modern, full-stack environments.

What Sets Selector AIOps Platform Apart

The unified, AI-native architecture ingests and harmonizes data across network, cloud, infrastructure, and application domains without relying on domain-specific tooling. Selector preserves data fidelity while adding context through a programmable layer, enabling precise, cross-domain correlation and explainable AI outputs. The foundation is built on a transformation-first ETL philosophy. By prioritizing the addition of context without diluting the integrity of the original source data, information is refined, ready for high-level analysis from the moment it enters the pipeline.

Its patented real-time intelligence layer combines multiple AI/ML models, including statistical, causal, and language models for accurate root cause analysis and actionable insights. With capabilities such as topology-aware correlation, automated ticketing, and natural-language interaction via LLMs, Selector enables faster decision-making, reduces operational overhead, and replaces fragmented toolsets.

Pricing & ROI

Selector is typically priced based on the scale and scope of deployment such as the number of devices, data sources, environments being monitored and ultimately use cases, allowing organizations to align cost with operational footprint and growth. This flexible model enables customers to start with targeted use cases and expand to additional domains later.

Customers achieve measurable ROI through reduced downtime, faster incident resolution, and improved operational efficiency. By correlating alerts and identifying root cause in seconds, Selector educes mean time to resolution and minimizes service disruptions. Organizations benefit from tool consolidation, which lowers licensing and maintenance costs, while automation reduces manual troubleshooting effort, saving thousands of engineering hours annually. The result is improved service reliability, lower operational expense, and faster time-to-value across large-scale environments.

Finalist: Cloud-Native Platforms & DevOps

Native, the Cloud Security Control Plane

Technology Overview

Native is the Cloud Security Control Plane for the enterprise. It enables security and platform teams to define security outcomes across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and OCI, then translates that intent into provider-native controls that are enforced consistently. Native solves the operational gap between security policy and what the cloud actually enforces. Instead of relying on fragmented controls, provider-by-provider expertise, and reactive remediation, teams use Native to map existing controls, generate the right guardrails, simulate impact before rollout, deploy safely, and keep protection aligned as cloud environments change. The result is secure-by-design cloud and AI infrastructure that reduces risk, simplifies compliance, and accelerates enterprise cloud adoption without sacrificing safety.

“We’ve had cloud security posture management solutions. We haven’t had cloud security management solutions. And that is what we’re seeing with Native. This is the next natural maturity.”
— Justin Somaini, former CISO of Charles Schwab, SAP, VeriSign and Yahoo!

Finalist: Cloud-Native Platforms & DevOps

Rakuten Cloud

Technology Overview

Rakuten Cloud unifies container and virtual machine management on a single Kubernetes platform, eliminating resource and operation silos. It's designed to deliver high performance for stateful applications and allows for effortless scaling across your entire infrastructure.

Organizations struggle with the complexity and inefficiency of managing separate container and VM infrastructures. As Rakuten Symphony's cloud platform, Rakuten Cloud solves this by providing a unified Kubernetes platform for both, eliminating silos, streamlining operations, and enabling high-performance stateful workloads to scale effortlessly across the entire infrastructure.

“Rakuten’s Cloud-Native Storage is proven in large-scale, cloud-native production environments, delivering enterprise-grade performance, resiliency and scalability. Google Distributed Cloud customers can now benefit from pre-validated and pre-integrated Rakuten Cloud-Native Storage, eliminating complex design and deployment cycles. Single-vendor procurement and support through Google Cloud simplifies operations and life cycle management.”

Winner: FinOps & Cloud Optimization Solutions

Harness Cost Management Agent

Technology Overview

Harness Cloud & AI Cost Management (CACM) gives engineering and FinOps teams one place to unify, attribute, and govern every dollar of cloud and AI spend. Traditional tools weren't built for either – cloud reports arrive to the CFO monthly, long after engineers could act, and AI spend is worse, invisible below the invoice and disconnected from what it actually produced.

CACM closes both gaps at once: AutoStopping and right-sizing cut idle cloud spend automatically, while per-agent, per-session unit economics tie every AI dollar to the work, team, and outcome behind it. The result: one system for proving cloud efficiency and AI ROI, instead of two separate stories.

What Sets Harness Cost Management Agent Apart

Harness CACM is the only FinOps platform natively integrated with the full software delivery lifecycle (CI/CD, IaC, feature flags), so cost data surfaces where engineers make infrastructure decisions.

Automation depth of the tools is unmatched too. AutoStopping cuts idle compute up to 70%, while Commitment Orchestrator continuously rebalances reserved capacity.

Most distinctly, especially today, Harness captures AI spend at the level of each individual request, tying every dollar to the agent, session, or workflow that triggered it. This is granularity most FinOps tools don't attempt, since they were built for monthly cloud invoices, not per-token AI usage. That lets a finance leader finally answer the question the business is actually asking: is this agent worth what it costs?

Pricing & ROI

Pricing is based on spend under management, so customers pay a fraction of what the platform helps them save. That model extends naturally to AI as teams onboard model provider costs alongside cloud.

On the cloud side, typical outcomes include 30–70% reduction in idle compute via AutoStopping, 20–40% savings on commitments through automated reserved instance management, 30–50% reduction in Kubernetes over-provisioning via right-sizing, and anomaly detection that compresses cost spike response from days to hours.

For AI, customers unlock true unit economics — cost per resolved ticket, per agent session, per customer interaction — turning opaque model invoices into investment data that justifies AI budgets to the board. For spend that's grown this fast this quietly, that clarity alone is worth the platform.

Finalist: FinOps & Cloud Optimization Solutions

B2 Neo

Technology Overview

B2 Neo is a white-label cloud object storage solution purpose-built for neocloud platforms. It gives GPU-centric cloud providers enterprise-grade, S3-compatible object storage, capable of up to 1 Tbps throughput, that they can integrate into their existing platforms and offer to customers under their own brand within weeks.

The core problem it solves is a strategic bottleneck. As neoclouds race to expand GPU capacity to meet AI demand, building and operating their own high-performance scalable storage backend competes directly for capital and operational resources. Without a turnkey storage layer, customers are forced to move massive datasets across boundaries, introducing latency, stalling GPU utilization, and driving up costs. B2 Neo removes that constraint so neoclouds can stay focused on compute.

“As our AI business scales, our customers increasingly demand cost-effective storage. Backblaze gave us the ability to deliver object storage as a first-class tier of our own platform, without taking focus away from our GPU roadmap.”
— Director of Product Management, global edge services platform
“Cloud storage is not our core competency, and building that expertise in-house would be a very complex problem. Backblaze allowed us to leverage their storage expertise with our distributed compute products, so we could build something great together.”
— Rafael Umann, CEO, Azion

Finalist: FinOps & Cloud Optimization Solutions

Kion FinOps+

Technology Overview

Kion delivers a FinOps+ approach, offering a unified platform that combines AI-driven cost optimization, automated governance, and policy-based controls to help organizations proactively manage technology spend. As AI, private cloud and overall SaaS costs continue to rise and fragment across teams, Kion enables enterprises to unify visibility and optimization with governance beyond traditional public cloud FinOps.

Kion does not surface spend insights after the fact. The platform empowers organizations to act through automated governance, applying guardrails that continuously optimize resources, enforce budgets, and prevent waste before it occurs. The result is greater financial accountability across the organization, operational efficiency, and long-term cost control at scale.

“We needed a governance tool that could go beyond generic FinOps capabilities and provide clear, actionable insight into cloud spend so we could drive accountability across teams. Kion came at the perfect time, delivering a single workflow with forecasting and budgeting capabilities. It immediately helped surface waste and cost anomalies that used to take days to track down and shifted the conversation from reactive to proactive, automated cost control.”
— Matt Cofran, Director of Cloud Operations, Insulet.

Winner: AI-Driven Cloud Infrastructure

Virtana AI Observability Platform

Technology Overview

Enterprise technology now spans cloud, on-premises, hybrid, air-gapped, and AI environments, making legacy monitoring tools insufficient to understand and protect today’s interconnected systems. Virtana is the first and only full-stack Agentic Observability platform, delivering unified visibility across applications, services, infrastructure, AI factories, and data pipelines. By continuously collecting and correlating system-wide telemetry, Virtana enables AI agents to observe, reason, predict, and act, accelerating root cause analysis, detecting risks before they become outages, and automating remediation. The result is faster incident resolution, fewer business disruptions, optimized performance and cost, and greater operational resilience. Trusted by Global 2000 enterprises and public sector organizations, Virtana helps assure the availability, performance, and resilience of the high-stakes systems that power modern business.

What Sets Virtana AI Observability Platform Apart

Virtana delivers the deepest and broadest Agentic Observability platform, built on a patented, system-aware architecture that continuously models how enterprise systems operate. Our real-time System Dependency Graph correlates more than 20,000 telemetry signals at sub-second granularity across applications, services, infrastructure, AI factories, data pipelines, networks, storage, and GPUs. Unlike legacy monitoring tools that generate disconnected alerts, Virtana identifies the exact constraints driving performance, cost, and failures, providing AI agents with the context to investigate, reason, and act autonomously. Open interfaces, including MCP, enable any AI agent or LLM to consume this intelligence, making Virtana the operational foundation for autonomous, AI-driven enterprise operations.

Pricing & ROI

Virtana is offered as an annual subscription, giving customers the flexibility to deploy the complete platform or begin with the observability module that best fits their needs (Application, Infrastructure, Service, or AI Factory Observability) and expand over time. This modular approach accelerates time to value while allowing organizations to scale observability as their environments evolve. Customers typically achieve measurable outcomes including faster root cause identification, reduced mean time to detect and resolve incidents, higher application and service availability, improved infrastructure utilization, and lower cloud and AI operating costs. Virtana eliminates tool sprawl; reduces operational overhead; and enables IT and engineering teams to make faster, evidence-based decisions that improve reliability, control costs, and maximize the return on technology investments.

Finalist: AI-Driven Cloud Infrastructure

Spacelift Intelligence

Technology Overview

Spacelift Intelligence is a natural language orchestration layer for infrastructure management that solves a critical gap in modern software delivery: as AI-powered coding tools accelerate development velocity, infrastructure teams can't keep pace using traditional Infrastructure as Code pipelines alone. Intelligence includes two core capabilities. Spacelift Intent provides natural language, no-code infrastructure provisioning for rapid prototyping and experimentation, complementing existing IaC and GitOps workflows rather than replacing them. Spacelift Infra

Assistant extends natural language interaction across the entire Spacelift platform, enabling teams to query infrastructure state, generate diagnostics for failed runs, create policies, manage drift and troubleshoot; all through a chat interface. Together, they allow platform teams to use AI to understand, design, govern, and even deploy their infrastructure while maintaining security, compliance and operational control.

“The promise that stood out was letting developers express what they need without having to know every cloud detail, while still being able to turn that work into Terraform later and treat it as real infrastructure.”
— Logan Stuart, Director of Engineering, Cityblock Health
“Intent is a different way of provisioning infrastructure, and for us it has been best suited for experimentation. Running it in an isolated environment makes that clear and gives teams confidence to try things without worrying about unintended impact.”
— Joe Hutchinson, Platform Lead, Vega

Winner: SaaS

HERE Enterprise Browser

Technology Overview

HERE Enterprise Browser was built specifically for the enterprise, designed to tackle critical security & productivity challenges. Built on Google Chromium, HERE streamlines workflows by unifying access to disparate desktop applications & data in a single, intuitive interface – eliminating the productivity-draining “toggle tax” of switching between tabs and systems. From the world’s leading financial institutions, to contact centers, to government agencies, HERE empowers knowledge workers with contextual access to the tools & information they need, all in one place.

As organizations accelerate AI adoption, HERE clears the biggest barrier: full integration into enterprise workflows directly in the browser. Embedded, secure AI surfaces insights in context – directly where users work. No app switching or sacrificing data control. Faster, smarter and more secure digital workspaces boosting efficiency & improving UX across enterprises.

What Sets HERE Enterprise Browser Apart

HERE Enterprise Browser stands apart by delivering a secure, streamlined experience purpose-built for enterprise workflows – far beyond what traditional browsers offer.

  • Supertabs: Group browser tabs into unified layouts, for a full view of relevant tools & data at a glance.
  • Interoperability between applications: enabling dynamic updates & data sharing without manual copy-pasting.
  • SuperSearch: surfaces results from across all enterprise apps in a single, actionable interface.
  • Notification Center: simplifies task management by letting users triage & act on messages without switching tabs.
  • Centralized admin controls: provides the ability to authorize apps, manage permissions & track usage with analytics that support compliance and vendor oversight.
  • AI Center: securely embed proprietary AI models directly into daily workflows, making AI accessible & impactful.
  • HERE Studio: Brings together natural-language "vibe coding" to regulated industries for the first time. Non-technical employees in financial services, healthcare, and government agencies now have the ability to build work applications that support their everyday tasks and make them more productive. HERE Studio is ‘compliant by construction’ as it is powered by a firm's own enterprise AI, using its own data and deployed into a governed workspace the organization already controls, rather than to the public cloud.

Collectively, these innovations dramatically reduce the “toggle tax” & unlock enterprise-wide efficiencies.

Pricing & ROI

HERE evaluates the specific business requirements & product capabilities to provide a use case–based SaaS licensing structure. Pricing plans align with feature sets, user roles, & user counts, allowing scalable access & ensuring clients pay proportionally to their operational needs & value derived.

HERE delivers measurable ROI by streamlining workflows & reducing operational overhead across enterprises. Customers have reported achieving up to $8M in annual cost savings per 1,000 employees and a 40% improvement in workflows for KYC/AML operations at Tier 2 Banks.

A major Tier 1 client replaced $50M in legacy tech with HERE, & a Tier 1 Bank has cited $75M in productivity gains. The average workflow improvement for complex content centers is 60%.

...A testament to HERE’s ability to empower teams to work smarter, more securely & at scale.

Finalist: SaaS

Foxit PDF Editor

Technology Overview

Foxit PDF Editor 2026.2, the latest release from Foxit, combines two decades of PDF intelligence with AI-powered capabilities for knowledge workers in regulated industries. The release introduces Foxit Workspace, an AI knowledge hub that consolidates documents, spreadsheets, presentations, links, and notes to generate cross-document insights and create reports, presentations, and diagrams.

The 2026.2 release debuts Local AI, enabling users to run supported document tasks entirely on-device using Microsoft Foundry Local, keeping sensitive content off cloud services. Bring-your-own-model (BYOM) support allows organizations to connect existing frontier model licenses and reduce token costs. Workspace operates as an MCP host, integrating with Notion, Atlassian, Fireflies, HubSpot, and Figma. Additional enhancements include automatic page labels for technical workflows, preset Skills for automating recurring tasks, and a faster OCR engine.

Best for organizations in legal, financial services, healthcare, and government requiring document confidentiality and regulatory compliance.

“I will say that this has been the best partnership experiences with a software company I have ever been involved in and would highly encourage you to begin a discussion with them.”
— Henry H., Manager Network & Infrastructure, Assa Abloy

Winner: AI-Optimized Data Platforms

VAST AI Operating System

Technology Overview

VAST Data builds the AI-native data infrastructure platform that enables enterprises to run large-scale AI systems efficiently and continuously. The VAST AI Operating System unifies storage, databases, vector search, streaming data, KV cache, and AI pipelines into a single global platform optimized for agentic computing.

Traditional enterprise AI environments rely on fragmented infrastructure stacks that require constant data movement between disconnected systems, creating bottlenecks, higher latency, operational complexity, and poor GPU utilization. VAST eliminates these inefficiencies by replacing siloed architectures with a unified data layer capable of serving all enterprise and AI data types in real time.

This architecture enables organizations to build and manage millions of agents, maximize GPU efficiency, simplify operations, and support scalable AI and analytics workloads across cloud and on-premises environments.

What Sets VAST AI Operating System Apart

The VAST AI Operating System is built on a unique architecture called Disaggregated Shared-Everything (DASE), purpose-built for AI and large-scale accelerated computing. DASE separates compute from persistent memory, allowing thousands of stateless containers and GPU workloads to simultaneously access a unified global pool of flash storage.

DASE re-engineers the distributed file system concepts pioneered by Google in 2003 for modern AI and agentic computing environments. Unlike traditional multi-tier infrastructure, which creates bottlenecks through fragmented storage and duplicated data pipelines, DASE enables independent scaling of performance and capacity while maintaining a single shared data space.

This “embarrassingly parallel” architecture delivers high performance, resilience, operational simplicity, and cost efficiency simultaneously - eliminating many of the historical tradeoffs that constrained previous generations of enterprise infrastructure.

Pricing & ROI

Customers license VAST software while purchasing hardware directly from approved manufacturers, giving organizations flexibility, transparency, and the ability to scale compute and capacity independently for AI workloads.

VAST delivers strong ROI by replacing fragmented infrastructure stacks with a unified AI data platform that consolidates storage, databases, streaming data, vector search, and AI pipelines into a single system. This eliminates many of the operational costs associated with disconnected architectures, duplicate data movement, and complex integrations.

Customers achieve measurable outcomes including significantly higher GPU utilization, lower infrastructure footprint, reduced power and cooling costs, simplified operations, faster AI training and inference, and improved storage efficiency through advanced data reduction. Some organizations have reported up to 80% reductions in data center space and energy requirements after deploying VAST.

Finalist: AI-Optimized Data Platforms

Empiric Earth Atlas: Real-World Driving Data for Physical AI (formerly Nexar Atlas)

Technology Overview

Atlas, from Empiric Earth, is a data platform built for physical AI. It captures, processes, and indexes real-world driving data so teams can train, validate, and deploy machine learning models on what actually happens on the road.

Empiric Earth's network of more than 350,000 connected sensors sends over 100 million fresh miles of driving data into Atlas every month. Across its full network, Empiric Earth has recorded more than 10 billion miles and more than 60 million edge cases, covering 98% of US roads.

Most AI systems learn from synthetic, simulated, or closed-fleet data that misses how the real world varies. Atlas gives developers continuously refreshed ground truth at the scale and quality physical AI needs to work reliably outside the lab.

Formerly Nexar Atlas. Nexar and Nauto merged in 2026 to form Empiric Earth.

“By bridging Nexar’s high-quality real-world data with NVIDIA AI-powered simulation environments, we are paving the way for OEMs and developers to refine their autonomous vehicle training, high-definition mapping, and predictive modeling.”
— Norm Marks, Vice President of Automotive, NVIDIA

Finalist: AI-Optimized Data Platforms

Starburst Enterprise Intelligence Platform

Technology Overview

Enterprises are stuck on an AI dilemma: they can't deploy AI at scale when critical data is siloed across clouds and on-premises systems, ungoverned, or locked down by regulatory and sovereignty rules that forbid moving it. Starburst is an AI-optimized data platform that resolves this — delivering fast, secure, governed access to enterprise data wherever it lives, with no migration required. Built on Trino and Apache Iceberg, it federates queries across on-premises, multi-cloud, and hybrid environments. Starburst’s Enterprise Context Layer is a governed catalog of domain-based, purpose built, reusable data products with business-approved metadata. This gives AI agents and analysts a shared, trusted understanding of data across domains. The result: agents reason over governed data in place, preserving compliance and cutting time-to-insight from weeks to minutes.

“At Vizient, we're focused on improving how teams across the organization access, connect and use trusted data in a complex healthcare environment. As part of that effort, we've been building the foundations for a governed internal data marketplace and reusable data products that support cross-domain analytics and AI enablement. Our approach incorporates a range of technologies, including Starburst, to help teams work more effectively across distributed datasets while reducing unnecessary data duplication.”
— Ram Radhakrishnan, Engineering Leader, Data & AI Platforms, Vizient

Winner: Analytics & Data Intelligence Solutions

OpenSearch Platform

Technology Overview

OpenSearch is the trusted, vendor-neutral open source platform for search, analytics, observability and vector database workloads. Under the OpenSearch Software Foundation, OpenSearch enables organizations to ingest, analyze, and act on massive volumes of structured and unstructured data through a single, unified platform – powering enterprise search, real-time observability, security analytics, and generative AI applications without vendor lock-in or proprietary licensing costs.

Enterprises scaling AI typically run separate tools for logs, metrics, traces, search, and AI retrieval. This creates real operational and financial overheads – more systems maintained, opportunity to miss context, more vendor contracts to manage. OpenSearch addresses this by combining search, observability, vector retrieval, and agentic AI in one open source platform, under Apache 2.0 licensing, so enterprises aren't locked into a single vendor's roadmap.

What Sets OpenSearch Platform Apart

OpenSearch's primary architectural advantage is unification: enterprise search, observability, vector databases, security analytics, and agentic AI infrastructure within a single open source platform. Users don’t have to stitch separate tools or worry about lock-in. They have access to a formal Long-Term Support program, launched in 2026, which provides defined 18-month support lifecycles, SBOM-backed security compliance, and accredited vendor support – ensuring the kind of stability enterprises typically associate with proprietary vendors without sacrificing the freedom of open source. The platform provides OpenTelemetry-native observability, native Prometheus integration, high-performance hybrid search, and high-speed vector retrieval. Integrated AI functionality includes agent skills for easy, native deployment from popular IDE tools, and agent traces that enable observability for gen AI applications and LLM agents.

Pricing & ROI

OpenSearch is free under the Apache 2.0 license, meaning no per-node fees, no usage caps and no restrictions on use. For enterprises requiring enterprise support, a growing ecosystem of vendors offers production-grade managed services, professional support and distribution options.

The business case is compelling. Organizations that consolidate search, observability, and/or analytics workloads onto OpenSearch consistently eliminate multiple commercial licensing agreements, reducing infrastructure complexity and vendor spend in the process. Developers building AI applications benefit from built-in vector search, hybrid retrieval and agentic memory – capabilities that would otherwise require separate paid products. The result is shorter development cycles, reduced operational overhead and full data sovereignty. Many users report consolidating three or more commercial tools into a single OpenSearch deployment, with immediate and measurable cost/business impact.

Finalist: Analytics & Data Intelligence Solutions

Harness Cost Management Agent - AI DLC Insights

Technology Overview

One of the biggest problems in enterprise AI adoption today is measuring the ROI of AI spend. Much of this stems from the "tokenmaxxing" craze — teams and vendors treating token volume itself as a proxy for productivity. But measuring tokens isn't measuring value: AI spend needs to be tied to outputs and developer use cases.

Harness AI DLC Insights solves this by giving enterprises prompt-to-production visibility into AI-assisted development. It captures session-level telemetry, token consumption, model usage, AI-generated code and downstream delivery outcomes, then connects those signals to adoption, efficiency and impact metrics — showing not just what AI costs, but what it delivers.

“The single most productive month across the organization was the exact month we began systematically reducing unnecessary AI spend. With AI DLC Insights, engineering leaders can move from asking ‘How much AI are we using?’ to knowing ‘What did that spend actually change?’”
— Sanjay Nagaraj, SVP Global Engineering, Harness

Finalist: Analytics & Data Intelligence Solutions

The Riverbed Platform

Technology Overview

Observability is entering a new phase, moving from insight to autonomous action. While observability collects data, full-stack AI for IT Operations delivers the intelligence to prevent, detect, and remediate issues before users are affected, measuring success by fewer incidents rather than better dashboards.

This shift demands three things: high-fidelity, full-stack data; visibility across networks, apps, and endpoints; and AI that can be trusted to act independently or with guidance. Without depth and accuracy, automation breaks down. Without the completeness of data collected and analyzed, insight stays siloed. Without explainability and governance, autonomy cannot scale.

Riverbed has an open observability platform grounded in operational truth. By unifying high-fidelity data, open standards, and governed AI, Riverbed enables intelligent agents to act responsibly and improve digital experiences.

“We see a long future with Riverbed, building smarter remediations and making operations even more efficient. Riverbed is very responsive, a strong partner, and willing to go the extra mile to deliver value and better customer experience.”
— Craig Stephens, Aternity Product Owner, EDF
“Over a 5-year period, we will save around £2.5 million to £3 million in terms of total IT costs. This is fantastic as the funds can be spent on other vital improvements for patient care.”
— Jeffrey Wood, Deputy Director of ICT, The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Winner: Database Systems

EDB Postgres® AI

Technology Overview

EDB Postgres AI (EDB PG AI) is the sovereign data and AI platform for the agentic enterprise: one Postgres foundation unifying data, governance, and agent runtime—deployed entirely on infrastructure you own.

Enterprise AI stalls because agents lack grounded context and low-latency access to data fragmented across silos and separate vector and analytical stores, stitched together by brittle ETL pipelines. EDB PG AI eliminates that gap by bringing AI to where your data already lives.

EDB PG AI is where Postgres becomes AI-native: models and agents run inside the database, right next to your data. Vector search, inferencing, and native MCP integration connect agents to the tools your developers already use—no round trips, no separate database to manage.

What Sets EDB Postgres® AI Apart

  • Built-in vector engine: Store, index, and search data natively within Postgres—up to 3x faster app development, 51% lower TCO than AWS (McKnight Consulting).
  • Unified data layer: Postgres, ClickHouse, WarehousePG, and open lakehouse formats from a single Postgres front end, connected with zero ETL. Oracle compatible to modernize with 95% fewer rewrites. Distributed high availability to keep your business always on. Petabyte-scale analytics is built in.
  • Governed agent runtime: Proactively enforces agent governance as actions execute at the data layer, where it cannot be bypassed. Zero layers between execution and enforcement.
  • Sovereign by default: Deploy in your environment of choice—no external vector database, data movement, cloud dependencies, or added governance surface. Manage, automate, observe, and optimize every cluster you run at enterprise scale.
  • Composable multi-agent systems: Every flow callable from MCP server so agents collaborate across teams without custom integration work.

Pricing & ROI

Pricing is predictable by design. EDB PG AI uses a core-basedmodel—not consumption or per-token billing—so costs don't spike as agents scale or usage grows. It runs on infrastructure customers own or choose (cloud, on-premises, hybrid, or air-gapped), or as a fully-managed, turnkey appliance.

Measurable outcomes:

  • 51% lower TCO versus cloud stacks for building AI driven applications
  • Up to 99.4% lower query latency than Databricks
  • 26% more accurate vector search than MongoDB
  • 67% lower development effort vs. cloud stacks

Finalist: Database Systems

Harness Software Delivery Agent - Database DevOps

Technology Overview

Database changes are the last manual bottleneck in modern software delivery. While application code moves through governed CI/CD pipelines, schema changes still rely on manual SQL execution and specialized DBA expertise, creating a gap between delivery and database management that slows releases and introduces risk.

Harness Database DevOps closes that gap by integrating database migrations directly into deployment pipelines, improving developer experience while enforcing governance policies for safe schema changes. AI-Powered Database Migration Authoring lets any developer describe a schema change in plain language and receive a compliant, production-ready migration in return. Harness analyzes the current schema and governance policies, generates a backward-compatible migration, validates it for safety and compliance, creates a matching rollback, and commits it to Git for delivery through CI/CD.

“Harness gave us a truly out-of-the-box solution with features we couldn’t get from Liquibase Pro or a homegrown approach. We saved months of engineering effort and got more for less, with better governance, smarter change orchestration, and a clearer understanding of database state across teams and environments.”
— Daniel Gabriel, Principal Engineer at athenahealth

Finalist: Database Systems

Meko

Technology Overview

Despite powerful models and adoption of AI agents, organizations still aren’t seeing compounding returns. Today’s agents behave more like stateless interns: capable of executing tasks, but unable to retain knowledge, build on prior work, or improve over time. The core limitation isn’t intelligence, it’s memory and shared knowledge. Without a structured and scalable way to retain and apply learnings, agents cannot evolve or deliver long-term ROI.

To solve this, Yugabyte introduced Meko (Me = memory + Ko = knowledge), a new agent-native data infrastructure designed specifically for multi-agent AI systems that work and learn from prior interactions together, much like humans learn through experience and collaboration. By enabling persistent, shared intelligence across multi-agent systems, Meko helps organizations build AI systems that continuously improve, accelerating ROI and business impact.

Winner: Data Integration & Data Engineering Solutions

SnapLogic Agentic Integration Platform

Technology Overview

The SnapLogic Agentic Integration Platform enables enterprises to connect applications, data, APIs, and AI agents across complex hybrid environments through a unified, AI-powered integration and orchestration platform.

As organizations move from AI experimentation to operational deployment, many struggle with fragmented systems, disconnected data, legacy infrastructure, and limited governance over AI-driven workflows. SnapLogic addresses this challenge by serving as the execution layer for enterprise AI and digital transformation, removing the integration tax that stalls projects along the path from pilot to production.

The platform combines integration, automation, API management, data engineering, and AI orchestration in a single solution, enabling organizations to rapidly build, deploy, and govern intelligent workflows at enterprise scale. Supporting both low-code and pro-code development, SnapLogic accelerates time-to-value while reducing operational complexity.

What Sets SnapLogic Agentic Integration Platform Apart

SnapLogic differentiates through its unified approach to integration, orchestration and AI execution. Unlike traditional iPaaS vendors focused on connectivity, SnapLogic combines application integration, data engineering, API management, workflow automation and AI agent orchestration within a single platform.

The platform includes over 1,200 pre-built connectors and templates, AI-assisted development through SnapGPT, low-code and pro-code experiences, and support for modern standards, including MCP. Recent innovations, including AI Gateway and Trusted Agent Identity, enable governed AI execution with policy enforcement, auditability, and identity-aware agent interactions.

SnapLogic’s agentic architecture allows organizations to orchestrate AI agents securely across enterprise systems, maintaining governance and control. It’s metadata-driven design, reusable integration patterns, and hybrid deployment flexibility enable enterprises to scale integrations and AI workflows without vendor lock-in or extensive custom development.

Pricing & ROI

SnapLogic is available through an annual subscription model, priced based on usage and deployment scale to align with enterprise requirements and growth trajectories. The platform consolidates integration, automation, API management and AI orchestration into a single solution, replacing multiple point tools and reducing total cost of ownership.

Customers consistently achieve measurable outcomes: integration delivery up to 60–70% faster than custom-coded approaches, significant reduction in manual operational processes, and accelerated time-to-value on AI and data initiatives.

Finalist: Data Integration & Data Engineering Solutions

Neurpac

Technology Overview

Atombeam Neurpac is a foundational AI-driven software solution that re-architects how computers communicate to solve the global data tsunami. While legacy compression is too slow and compute-heavy for machine-scale workloads, Neurpac uses a revolutionary Data-as-Codewords method to achieve an average of 75% lossless data compaction. It replaces large data strings with tiny codewords, effectively quadrupling available bandwidth with near-zero latency. This addresses a critical infrastructure deficit where the explosion of IoT and AI data is overwhelming existing networks and power grids. By moving the solution from hardware to the data itself, Neurpac maximizes the performance of existing infrastructure without the massive capital and environmental costs of physical expansion.

“Utilities are pushing more data across networks for which they were never designed. Together, Atombeam and Trilliant can help utilities deliver significantly more data securely across constrained networks and unlock real-time intelligence without adding complexity or cost.”
— Jim Madej, President and CEO at Trilliant

Finalist: Data Integration & Data Engineering Solutions

Pentaho Data Integration

Technology Overview

Businesses under pressure to adopt AI are quickly realizing that as they look to put projects into production, the data pipelines needed to deliver trusted data at scale break down. Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) solves this problem by strengthening the data foundations needed for AI initiatives and raising their overall level of data fitness.

More than just ETL, PDI is a codeless data orchestration tool that blends diverse data sets into a single source of truth as a basis for analysis and reporting. It can be effortlessly managed in a drag-and-drop, modern, browser-based graphical interface so users can easily track where data is coming from, where it's going and how it's transforming.

“I love that with Pentaho V11 (Pentaho Data Integration) I can just build pipelines in the browser without having to install anything locally, and the new component-based setup makes keeping everything updated feel so much lighter and easier. The refreshed UI really brings everything together in a clean, modern way that just makes the whole experience better.”
— Ronald Rojas, Director, Matrix CPM

Winner: Data Storage & Management

EXAScaler

Technology Overview

DDN EXAScaler is a high-performance parallel file system designed to power the most demanding AI and HPC workloads at scale. As organizations invest heavily in GPUs, data infrastructure has become a critical bottleneck, often limiting performance and increasing costs. Built on Lustre, EXAScaler delivers up to 10 TB/s of throughput and multi-petabyte scalability, ensuring data reaches GPUs fast enough to maximize utilization. By eliminating storage constraints across training, inference, and analytics workloads, EXAScaler helps organizations accelerate AI deployment, reduce infrastructure waste, improve operational efficiency, and achieve greater returns on their AI investments.

What Sets EXAScaler Apart

DDN EXAScaler is differentiated by its ability to keep large-scale AI and HPC environments running at maximum efficiency. While many storage platforms focus on capacity, EXAScaler is engineered to solve the industry's biggest challenge: feeding data to GPUs fast enough to prevent costly idle time. Built on a massively parallel Lustre architecture, EXAScaler delivers multi-petabyte scalability, extreme throughput, and parallel access for thousands of GPUs and compute nodes simultaneously.

Unlike conventional storage systems, EXAScaler is optimized for AI training, checkpointing, distributed inference, and large-scale simulation workloads where data movement determines performance. The result is higher GPU utilization, faster time to results, lower infrastructure costs, and the ability to scale AI projects from pilot to production with predictable performance and efficiency.

Pricing & ROI

DDN EXAScaler is available through flexible subscription and consumption-based models that scale with customer capacity and performance requirements. The primary ROI comes not from lowering storage costs, but from maximizing the value of AI infrastructure investments.

By eliminating I/O bottlenecks and keeping GPUs continuously fed with data, EXAScaler increases utilization, accelerates model training, and reduces operational complexity. Customers have achieved significant business outcomes, including lower training costs, faster time-to-production, and improved infrastructure efficiency. Salesforce reported an estimated 42% reduction in overall model training costs, while Resemble AI increased GPU utilization from approximately 30–40% to nearly 100%.

Ultimately, EXAScaler helps organizations improve AI economics by increasing performance, reducing waste, and maximizing return on expensive compute resources.

Finalist: Data Storage & Management

Everpure Platform

Technology Overview

The Everpure Platform unifies enterprise data across on-premises, hybrid, and public cloud environments, so organizations can operate it as a single, governed system rather than fragmented infrastructure. It powers the Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC), which shifts data management from storage silos to a consistent, policy-driven model.

Enterprises struggle with fragmented storage that requires separate management, inconsistent policies, and manual coordination, creating complexity and governance gaps at scale.

Everpure replaces this with a unified control and data layer that defines policies once and enforces them everywhere. Block, file, and object data services are converged under one architecture, enabling consistent protection, placement, and lifecycle management across all environments. The result is continuous governance of data as a single asset rather than dispersed infrastructure.

“We are seeing 18:1 data reduction—nine times the anticipated compression rate with Everpure Cloud Dedicated—which puts us on track to save up to 50% in cloud storage costs. We can also now operate more efficiently and make better decisions with intelligence and automation.”
— Luciano Batista, Vice President, Enterprise Services Delivery, Mars Incorporated

Finalist: Data Storage & Management

Hammerspace Data Platform

Technology Overview

The Hammerspace Data Platform transforms fragmented enterprise data into AI-ready data without requiring organizations to migrate or duplicate data into new AI-specific infrastructure.

Enterprise data is distributed across storage systems, sites, clouds, and organizational boundaries, while AI workloads increasingly require immediate access to it all. This creates delays, governance challenges, duplicated datasets, and significant operational complexity.

The Hammerspace Data Platform solves this problem through a unified data plane that combines a global namespace, metadata intelligence, automated data orchestration, vectorization workflows, MCP integration, and policy-driven governance. Data remains in place while becoming immediately accessible for AI, analytics, inferencing, and agentic workflows.

The result is faster time-to-value, simplified AI adoption, and AI-ready data in days rather than months.

“There is a rapidly growing need for a distributed and parallel data storage architecture that covers the broad space so that sites don’t face the inefficiencies of supporting many different solutions.”
— Gary Grider, HPC Division Leader, Los Alamos National Laboratory
“Hammerspace allows for immense flexibility, immense cost savings, and covers all cluster workload profiles.”
— Hunter Hagewood, Executive Director of Research Computing Operations, Vanderbilt ACCRE

Winner: SiliconANGLE Founders Choice Award

Neo4j Aura Agent

Technology Overview

Enterprise AI agents often fail due to fragmented data and lack of “AI-ready” context. They struggle to understand relationships within data, leading to inaccurate outputs. Building effective agents requires manual tool design, prompt engineering, and repeated iteration – demanding expertise and specialized infrastructure. Development is slow and difficult to scale.

Neo4j Aura Agent solves this. It’s an agent-creation platform designed to make agentic AI practical, scalable, and trustworthy. It enables organizations to build, test, and deploy AI agents grounded in enterprise data in minutes, not months. Using no- or low-code and auto-generation tools, plus automated orchestration and AIOps for graph-based retrieval, it eliminates the need for deep AI expertise. The result is faster development, lower barriers, and agents that deliver more accurate, context-aware outcomes at scale.

What Sets Neo4j Aura Agent Apart

Neo4j Aura Agent’s graph-native orchestration delivers superior accuracy and transparency:

  • Graph-Driven Agent Creation: Auto-generate a ready-to-deploy draft agent in minutes with prompts and tools customized to your graph schema and use case.
  • Accurate Agentic GraphRAG: Improve relevance with robust graph retrieval tools: vector search, query templates & text-to-query.
  • Rapid Testing & Iteration: Test, refine, and evaluate agent behavior easily in a built-in low-code playground.
  • Advanced Reasoning & Explainability: Transparent chain-of-thought and multi-hop graph reasoning exposed through Aura Agent’s reasoning tab.
  • Single-Click Deployment: Secure, hosted, MCP & REST endpoints in the cloud.

Organizations use Neo4j to give their AI a structured, explainable foundation – combining graph queries with language models to reduce inconsistent outputs and enable natural language access to complex data. The result: AI that reasons, explains, and scales.

Pricing & ROI

Neo4j Aura Agent uses a consumption-based pricing model. Charges accrue for agents made accessible through a public endpoint at $0.35 per agent per hour; internal agents are not charged.

Customers benefit from faster agent development cycles, reduced implementation complexity, and improved retrieval accuracy, enabling them to move to production in minutes rather than weeks. The result is lower development overhead and stronger explainability.

The returns are measurable. In a recent IDC Study, organizations using Neo4j for GenAI reported improved AI accuracy, greater output consistency, and reduced hallucination rates. IDC calculates organizations achieved average annual benefits of $4 million per organization, a three-year ROI of 230%, and a payback period of 7.8 months – validating that the speed-to-value advantage translates directly to the bottom line.