This year's Awards program seeks to recognize these new developments and innovation.Our judging process:Together with our editors, we will be inviting a panel of five CIO judges to take part in this year’s awards. They will represent organizations from different industries with industry expertise and knowledge in areas ranging from big data, agile transformation and cyber security.The 2019 Information Management Awards are judged a rigorous 3 stage process starting from the pre-qualification of entries by our editors, selection of categories for this year and involvement of our CIO judges and editors to decide the winning entries. Stage 1:‎ Nominations for the Awards began with industry players and Questex Media’s enterprise team submitting potential winners to the editors of NetworkWorld Asia magazine and the Networks Asia, Security Asia and Storage Asia websites.Stage 2: The editors scour the industry for emerging technology categories and potential award recipients – including nominations from Stage 1 – and shortlist up to five finalists for each Award category. Stage 3: Our panel of CIO judges are invited to select their choice and top rankings from among the finalists in each category. The finalists with the highest votes and rankings will be declared the winners in each category. In the event scores are tied, joint-winners will be announced. Judging Criteria:Judges deciding the winning entries are provided with a recommended criteria or scorecard based on the following attributes:1. Reputation of vendor in the marketplace2. Features and USPs of the vendor’s solutions/tools3. Widespread acceptance of the technology and/or brand4. Users’ feedback on the solutions/deployments5. Contributing factors such as durability, scalability, and quality of service