The results are in! 📢 We are excited to announce the 2025 Enterprise Awards, recognizing the standout leaders, innovations, breakthroughs, and yes, a few unforgettable flops that shaped enterprise technology this year.
From #AI-native software to sovereign #cloud, 2025 proved that the next era of enterprise transformation is already here. Our analyst team evaluated the biggest moves across the industry, and these winners set the pace for what comes next.
Check out the list of winners and runners-up below and find out why they made this year’s list in our blog post: https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/constellation-2025-enterprise-a...
🏆 Best Enterprise Software Vendor
Winner: Oracle
Runners up: Anthropic, Adobe, Databricks
🏆 Best CEO
Winner: Sundar Pichai, Google
Runners up: Arvind Krishna, IBM; Sam Altman, OpenAI
🏆 Best Enterprise Services Vendor
Winner: Cognizant
Runners up: Infosys, Thoughtworks
🏆 Best Enterprise Software Startup
Winner: Cursor, Loveable
Runners up: Gamma
🏆 Best AI Model Launch
Winner: Gemini 2.5
Runners up: Chinese Open Source LLMs, Claude, Grok, Amazon Nova Sonic
🏆 Best AI Application Launch
Winner: Adobe Brand Concierge
Runners up: Sierra.ai, SAP Joule Everywhere, Microsoft Research Agent
🏆 Best Partnership
Winner: ServiceNow
Runners up: Oracle, OpenAI + Every Corporate Boardroom’s Slide Deck, IDS and Anthropic
🏆 Best Tech Acquisition
Winner: Wiz + Google
Runners up: Salesforce + Informatica, Adobe + Semrush, ServiceNow + Logik.ai + Moveworks
🏆 Best New IPO
Winner: Figma
Runners up: CoreWeave
🏆 Best New Enterprise Category
Winner: Sovereign AI Cloud
Runners up: Retrieval and Context Platforms
🏆 Best New Enterprise Software Marketing of the Year
Winner: Google Cloud Gemini for Enterprise
Runners up: ServiceNow’s “People First”
🏆 Best New Enterprise Software Ad Campaign
Winner: ServiceNow
Runners up: UKG
🏆 Best Live-Event
Winner: Canva Create
Runners up: Adobe MAX, Amazon Web Services (AWS) ReInvent, Databricks Data + AI Summit, Google Cloud Next, ServiceNow Knowledge, UKG Aspire
🥴 Worst Tech Acquisition
Winner: HP + Humane
Runners up: CoreWeave + Core Scientific, Windsurf + Google
🥴 Biggest Tech Flop of the Year
Winner: DNS Failures
Runners up: Humane AI, Meta Edits
These organizations and leaders stood out for their bold thinking, disruptive execution, and ability to deliver real impact in a year defined by AI acceleration and platform-level change.
đź‘Ź A big congratulations to all the winners and runners-up, and a huge thank you to the teams pushing enterprise technology forward every day.
