Infoworld presents the Best of Open Source Software Awards 2008

Infoworld presented today the InfoWorld's Annual BOSSIES - 2008 Best of Open Source Software Awards, that "recognize the best free and open source software the world has to offer to businesses, IT professionals, and productive individuals who rely on computers to get work done. The 2008 BOSSIE winners include 60 products in eight categories covering business and productivity applications, development tools, middleware, networking, security, and storage."

I highlighted the category Best of open source enterprise applications, with mainly these winners:
- Business intelligence (BI) - Pentaho Open BI Suite
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) - Compiere
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM) - SugarCRM
- Business Process Management (BPM) - Intalio BPMS

You can see the full report to further details.

This is a good award to recognize the effort of open source community in develop good tools.

TDWI Best Practices Awards

Today, April 21, is the deadline to apply to TDWI Best Practices Awards, a contest organized by TDWI (The Data Warehousing Institute).

According TDWI, this contest is "designed to identify and honor companies that have demonstrated best practices in developing, deploying, and maintaining applications for business intelligence, data warehousing, and related data management areas (like data quality and master data)".

I think it is a good incentive to companies that have a well implemented BI/DW application.