The Enterprise Solutions Innovation Award
This category is for the software large organisations actually run on — platforms, integrations and internal systems where the achievement is adoption, reliability and the messy work of replacing something that already existed.
- Independent jury
- 250
- Innovations evaluated
- 4,500+
- Star rating
- 1–5
- Running since
- 2010
Academics, scientists, officials, investors
Across seventeen editions
Every nominee earns an AGBA Innovation Star
India’s longest-running innovation award
Three categories sit close to data. This is the one about method and evidence.
Most nominations that fail here fail because they were in the wrong category. Read across before you write anything.
Innovation in Enterprise Solutions
Platforms, integrations and internal systems judged on adoption and reliability at scale.
This category
Innovation in Digital Transformation
Enterprise-wide change programmes where process, platform and people move together.
Innovation in Cloud Computing
Platform engineering, migration and the infrastructure underneath these systems.
Who should enter
- Enterprise platforms and suites with measured adoption across business units
- Integration and middleware work that replaced something brittle and load-bearing
- Workflow, ERP and core-system modernisation with a defensible cutover story
- Internal developer and employee platforms with throughput or satisfaction data
- Enterprise automation where the process, not the tool, was redesigned
What this award recognises is a system people use — logged in, relied on, hard to take away. Licences sold are not the same as adoption.
If the story is an organisation-wide change programme, enter Innovation in Digital Transformation. If it is the infrastructure layer, enter Innovation in Cloud Computing.
What the jury looks for
- Problem definition & market opportunityWhether the innovation solves a real problem, backed by evidence and a measurable impact on its target audience.
- InnovativenessNovelty and uniqueness — new technology, functionality or business model — measured against what already exists, including IP.
- Market potential & impactSize and growth of the addressable market, competitive landscape, and scalability across geographies.
- Social impact & sustainabilityContribution to society and the environment, including social responsibility and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
These are the same four criteria — problem definition, innovativeness, market impact and social/sustainability impact — used to assess every category. In this category the jury also weighs methodological rigour — including what you did to avoid fooling yourselves — the decision that changed as a result and what it was worth, the reproducibility and honesty of the evaluation, and the engineering quality of the data foundation underneath. Read the full evaluation criteria.
Who judges this category
Nominations are assessed by an independent jury, not by the organisers. Jurors are matched to the categories where their expertise lies. These are among those who read enterprise platform and integration entries.
Mr Sandeep PhanasgaonkarFounder, agileITvantages
Prof. D. JanakiramDirector, Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology
Prof. Arunabha MukhopadhyayProfessor, Information Technology and Systems, IIM Lucknow
Dr Neelesh KumbhojkarDirector, Symbiosis International University; former Cloud competency head, Tech Mahindra
Ms. Shobhana LeleChief Information Officer, The Bombay Dyeing and Manufacturing Company
Mr. Sudhanshu MittalHead and Director, Technical Solutions, NASSCOM
Prof. Saurabh KumarAssistant Professor, Information Systems, IIM Indore
Prof. Somanath TripathyProfessor, Computer Science and Engineering, IIT PatnaEight of roughly 250. The full panel spans the IITs, the IIMs, the IIITs, the Indian School of Business, NITI Aayog and central ministries, the Department of Science & Technology, MeitY and CERT-In. See the full jury panel.
Systems on the podium
Enterprise solutions have been recognised in every recent edition. These are among the most recent winners, photographed at the ceremony.
Previous winners
The category has run as Enterprise Solutions, Enterprise Application and Enterprise Automation across the editions. The complete record sits in the winners archive.
Category names have changed across editions as the field has moved; the rows above are the closest equivalents in the published record. See the winners archive for the full 1st–16th edition history.
What happens after you submit
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Stage one · nowNomination registration
Register your company and category through the nomination process, then complete the detailed nomination form and processing fee.
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Stage twoJury presentation
Present the innovation to the jury and take questions. Jurors score each entry against the four evaluation criteria and rank it within its category.
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Stage threeStar Certification
Nominees are also assessed for AGBA Innovation Star Certification, an independent maturity rating alongside the category judging.
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Stage fourFinalists announced
Once every category has been evaluated, finalists are announced on the website ahead of the ceremony.
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Stage fiveAward ceremony
Winners are honoured on 18 February 2027 at Hotel Ashoka, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.
Before you write your nomination
Is an internal system eligible, or only products sold to enterprises?
Both. Internal platforms are read on the same criteria, and often carry the clearest adoption evidence.
What counts as adoption?
Active use by the people it was built for, sustained after the rollout team left. Say how many, how often, and what they stopped using instead.
Is a modernisation project innovative enough?
It can be. Replacing a load-bearing legacy system without breaking the business is a genuine engineering achievement — show the cutover.
How do I submit a nomination?
Nominations are submitted through the nomination process, which sets out the stages, the supporting material required and the current edition’s dates.
Put your platform in front of the panel
Nominations for the Enterprise Solutions Innovation Award are read by an independent jury of architects, CIOs and researchers. Bring the adoption data and the migration story.