Cloud & SaaS Awards

Sponsored content by Acronis – a 2026 Security Awards Success Suite entrant. By the Team at Acronis. Acronis was a finalists for ‘Best in Information Security (InfoSec),’ and ‘Best Security Solution for Data Management / Data Protection’ at the 2026 Security Awards. Ransomware is no longer a niche cybercrime. It is a mass‑market threat. Cheap to deploy and highly scalable, modern attacks do not discriminate by company size or industry. Equally important is how these attacks are evolving.

For the past two years, enterprise AI conversations have orbited a single question: which large language model should we standardize on? The debate has been lively, the vendor pitches relentless, and the proof-of-concept budgets substantial. Yet for many organizations, the honest answer at the end of the cycle has been underwhelming. The model works well in demos. It struggles in production. It hallucinates on the very terminology your business runs on. The problem was never the model.

Cognizant Technology Solutions – Neuro AI Multi Agent Accelerator CoreView – Corey DataRobot – Agent Workforce Platform Farsight AI – Freeform Halcyon HiddenLayer – AI Security Platform HiveSenses – Bee Monitoring System Hyper Labs, Inc.

LaCalculadora Specialized SaaS platform for personal income tax automation in Andorra. LaCalculadora is a specialized SaaS platform built for tax professionals working in one of Europe’s smallest tax jurisdictions. It automates personal income tax calculations, generates official tax forms and replaces spreadsheet-based workflows with a structured, fully traceable system. What makes the platform different, however, is not automation alone.

The ‘Best AI Infrastructure Solution’ category recognizes outstanding technologies providing the foundations organizations need to build, train, test, deploy, operate, scale, secure or govern artificial intelligence systems. Nominees may span physical infrastructure, cloud and software-defined infrastructure, or specialist platforms that provide essential capabilities within the AI technology stack.

The ‘Best AI Assistant’ category recognizes outstanding AI-powered assistants that help people perform tasks, access and interpret knowledge, make decisions, solve problems or complete work more effectively. Entries could include workplace copilots, conversational assistants, knowledge and research assistants, productivity tools, or highly specialized solutions designed around the requirements of a particular role or domain.

The ‘Best Use of AI in Real Estate & Property’ category recognizes outstanding applications of artificial intelligence across the real estate and property sector. Nominated solutions may address any stage of the property lifecycle, including development, investment, valuation, transactions, sales, leasing, property management, asset management and building operations.

The ‘Best Agentic AI Solution’ category category recognizes outstanding solutions that use agentic AI to take action towards defined goals. It is open to individual AI agents, multi-agent systems, agentic platforms and frameworks that demonstrate meaningful agency in how they approach and complete work. Agentic solutions demonstrate the capacity to adapt their approach as new context emerges, operational conditions change, or unexpected obstacles arise.

Generative artificial intelligence is accelerating transformation across healthcare, improving workflows, clinical documentation, and operational efficiency. At the same time, it is lowering the barrier to creating highly convincing fraudulent activity. What once required coordination, expertise, and time can now be generated quickly, inexpensively, and at scale.

“The SaaS Awards celebrate organizations that combine genuine innovation with measurable customer impact, and Actian is a deserving winner in a very competitive category. What set it apart was its ability to combine technical innovation with strong customer outcomes and evidence of large-scale adoption. The platform addresses a challenge faced by organizations of all sizes: helping them understand, govern, and realize greater value from their data.