Great Indian Developer Awards 2010

The third season of Saltmarch Media's annual Great Indian Developer Awards honored winners across a range of categories in the IT Developer ecosystem. The awards focused on software products that are contributing to the productivity and innovation excellence of the Indian developer ecosystem.

The third edition of Great Indian Developer Awards was a highly participatory process involving stakeholders from the developer ecosystem and the high stature awards jury. The decision process was staggered across three stages. Stages I and II involved a democratic community participation with shortlists for each category and subsequent voting on those shortlists, spearheaded by the developer ecosystem. Stage III involved counting the votes and presenting the top three in each category to an esteemed panel of judges.

The judging process culminated in an exclusive awards ceremony with a high stature panel felicitating the awardees. The winners are now undoubtedly set on the fast route to broad recognition for their achievements.

Award Categories

Great Indian Developer Awards honour outstanding achievements across a range of categories in the IT Developer ecosystem. This first-of-its-kind awards ceremony announces and honours winners across a range of categories.

Products Par Excellence

These awards recognize the product and innovation excellence of the hundreds of software products and tools that aid developer productivity, across 11 different categories. The selection criteria applied by an international stature panel places emphasis on functionality, usability, innovation excellence, bleeding-edge quotient, and feedback from the developer ecosystem.

Development Environments

Nominate from the new breed programming languages, source code editors and integrated development environments (IDEs).

Collaboration Solution

Nominate from groupware, real-time conferencing and collaboration, and digital communities.

Content Management

Nominate from content creation, categorization, workflow, publishing and delivery tools.

Design and Modeling

Requirements gathering, modeling, prototyping, GUI design, analysis tools, including automatically generating code from models.

Change and Configuration Management

Nominate from across tools that track and manage software defects and enhancement requests as well as version control and change or configuration management.

Testing

The best solution developed to test the functionality of a software product or service or a segment of code. Nominate from across test scripting, automation, static and defect tracking, bug tracking and documentation, functional and load testing, quality assurance planning, test-case design, white- and black-box testing and source code analysis.

Security

Nominate tools from across authentication and encryption, code analysis, firewalls, network monitoring, system enhancements, system monitoring and spam prevention.

Web Development

Nominate from web development and deployment tools that are helping developers and designers push the boundaries of the web.

Mobile Development

Awards the best software application, software service or infrastructure solution that enables access to software functionality and boosts the productivity and adaptability of a mobile device including small form factor devices and/or phones. Includes operating systems, infrastructure and network solutions.

Frameworks

Nominate from across the several libraries, components, and frameworks that are part of every developers treasure chest.

Database

Awards the best software solution for the storage, organization, management, search and retrieval of large quantities of data.