From the website:
The Pentaho Excellence Awards recognize the innovative, interesting and impressive ways that you - our customers and users worldwide - are using Pentaho. It provides an opportunity to highlight your stories and recognize how you've driven business value with Pentaho.
Six Excellence Awards will be given across six categories. Category winners will each receive a free pass to PentahoWorld along with several other benefits, including recognition at the awards ceremony at PentahoWorld. At this ceremony, we will announce winner that has the highest overall score to be recognized as the Pentaho User of the Year.
One thing I'd like to point out - This is not for customers only! If you're using the Community Edition and have a usecase that you think is a good candidate, by all mens, submit it! Deadline for submissions is July 11.
Here are the 6 categories:
1. Platform Innovation - Recognition of the most innovative use of Pentaho's open and extensible platform to create a cutting-edge deployment and generate business value.
2. Embedded Analytics - Recognition of the company with the greatest metamorphosis after embedding Pentaho Business Analytics. This could include time-to-market, driving new revenue streams or delighting their customers.
3. Improved Customer Experience - Recognition of the most insightful company who has improved their customer satisfaction through integrating and analyzing diverse data sources.
4. Best ROI - Recognition of the company that has the greatest return on investment as a result of their Pentaho deployment. This could be a quantitative ROI such as in terms of value per dollar spent and people hours saved. Qualitative examples include improved visibility, gained productivity and reduced risk.
5. Best Enterprise Deployment - Recognition of the most successful Pentaho deployment at an enterprise level (e.g. Fortune 2000) company to not only solve departmental issues, but to future-proof their business to scale and develop new analytics capabilities throughout their entire organization.
6. Best Big Data - Recognition of the cutting-edge company who has successfully leveraged one of Pentaho’s Big Data partner technologies to push the horizons of analytical technology and value.
Good Luck!!
-pedro