The 2025 SuperNova Award Application is Open!
Deadline for Submissions is June 13, 2025.
Deadline for Submissions is June 13, 2025
We are excited to announce the launch of our fifteenth annual SuperNova Awards. This prestigious program recognizes early adopters who demonstrate true leadership in digital business and shines a light on those teams who have overcome the odds to successfully apply emerging and disruptive technologies.
Are you or your team working on an innovative or disruptive initiative? Are you reinventing customer experiences or taking on new technologies and seeing substantial impact? If you or someone you know transformed their organization with disruptive technology apply for a SuperNova Award. Fill out the nomination form here.
Want to know what makes a winning case study? Check out the SuperNova Awards case study archive of finalists and winners here.
Few things to note as you get started:
Timeline
June 13, 2025 - Deadline for submissions
July 30, 2025 - Finalists announced
August 4, 2025 - Voting opens to the public
August 29, 2025 - Polls close for voting
October 22, 2025 - Winners announced at the SuperNova Awards Gala Dinner at Connected Enterprise (CCE)
Benefits
SuperNova Award finalists receive a VIP invite to Constellation’s Connected Enterprise 2025. This includes a free ticket to the conference, as well as potential speaking opportunities.
An exclusive 1:1 interview focused on your winning case study with our Editor in Chief, Larry Dignan.
Winners will be announced and awarded at the Gala Dinner at CCE.
Judges
Technology thought leaders, analysts, and journalists selected for their futurist mindset and ability to separate substance from hype. Judges carefully evaluate each SuperNova Award application against a rigorous set of criteria. They will identify individuals who demonstrate true leadership in the application and adoption of new and emerging technologies. Want to catch a judge's eye? Judges look for projects where elements can be replicated in other enterprises.
Categories
Data to Decisions - recognizes organizations, teams, and leaders who are transforming how decisions are made by harnessing data, analytics, and/or AI to drive real-world outcomes. Winners are those who break through silos, eliminate delays, and operationalize insights to empower faster, smarter, and more scalable decision-making across the enterprise. From modern data platforms and integration pipelines to BI/Analytics, governance frameworks, and AI-enabled automation and decision intelligence, honorees show what’s possible when technology moves beyond insight to impact.
Digital Safety, Governance, Privacy and Cybersecurity - spotlights organizations and individuals that support policies and technologies to manage how personal information is used, strategies for effective compliance, and privacy best practices. Cybersecurity will include the full spectrum of cybersecurity products and services. This category also includes solutions that address the issues of digital and AI ethics, and the impact of AI on society.
Future of Work: Employee Experience - determines organizations and individuals that deliver the best possible employee experience as a means to maximize wellness and productivity using tools that support the future of work and people analytics.
Future of Work: Human Capital Management - identifies organizations and individuals that view the workforce as a competitive asset and applies technologies to gain competitive advantage and improve employee effectiveness. Key technologies include talent management, recruiting, benefits, payroll, and core HR.
Marketing & Sales Effectiveness- recognizes organizations, teams and individuals evolving marketing operations and strategies to transform campaign-driven points of engagement into comprehensive growth-focused marketing machines. This includes championing marketing and omnichannel engagement technologies to deploy proactive, contextual experiences while aggregating rich customer insights to inform corporate engagement strategies. Technologies being deployed may include marketing automation, advanced analytics, revenue exploration and allocation optimization, advertising, social, video, and mobile relationship drivers, and dynamic digital asset management solutions.
Next-Generation Customer Experience - recognizes organizations that are transforming their operations to simultaneously improve business performance and customer experience. This includes accurately identifying customer intent and shaping interactions to make it easy for customers to buy and do business. Critical technologies include CPQ, sales enablement platforms, sales performance management, mass personalization, journey orchestration, CRM, and field and customer service management to build win-win relationships.
Tech Optimization and Modernization - recognizes organizations, teams, and leaders who are transforming how business gets done—by reducing tactical and technical debt and exponentially increasing efficiency to fund innovation. Winners go beyond cleanup—they engineer clarity, eliminate friction, and create the conditions for scale through initiatives including cloud modernization, ERP transformation, integration platforms, RPA and process mining, or licensing optimization.
Before submitting your case study, be sure to check out the previous winners and finalists on our website:
Best of luck! Please spread the word by tagging @Constellationr on X and LinkedIn and using the hashtag #SuperNova2025.
Fill out the nomination form here.