Jolt Product Excellence Award
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"The Jolts Awards are the Oscars of our industry."
— Chad Fowler

The Winners of the 19th Jolt Product Excellence Awards & the Recipients of the Jolt Productivity Awards Are:

Books General | Books Technical | Change and Configuration Management | Database Engines and Data Tools | Design and Modeling Tools | Development Environments | Enterprise Tools | Libraries and Frameworks | Mobile and Web Development | Project Management | Security | Testing Tools | Utilities

Jolt Hall of Fame Winner:

  • Compuware DevPartner

Books General

Jolt Winner: 

  • Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior by Tom Demarco, Peter Hruschka, Tim Lister, Suzanne Robertson, James Robertson and Steve McMenamin (Dorset House Publishing)
Productivity Winners:
  • Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development by Scott L. Bain (Addison-Wesley Professional)
  • Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code by Van Lindberg (O'Reilly Media)

Books Technical

Jolt Winner:

  • Real World Haskell by Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen and Don Stewart (O'Reilly Media)
Productivity Winners:
  • High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, and More  by Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, Vadim Tkachenko, Jeremy Zawodny, Arjen Lentz and Derek J. Balling (O'Reilly Media)
  • Programming in Scala by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon and Bill Venners (Artima Press)

Change and Configuration Management Tools

Jolt Winner:

  • OpenMake Meister (OpenMake Software)
Productivity Winners:
  • AccuRev (AccuRev)
  • Change Manager (Embarcadero Technologies)

Database Engines and Data Tools

Jolt Winner:

  • Postgres Plus (EnterpriseDB)
Productivity Winners:
  • Aqua Data Studio (AquaFold)
  • Vertica Analytic Database (Vertica Systems)

Design Tools and Modeling

Jolt Winner:

  • Blueprint Requirements Center (Blueprint Software Systems)
Productivity Winners:
  • RAVEN (Ravenflow)
  • Screen Architect (Screen Architect Ltd. / Catch Ltd.)

Development Environments

Jolt Winner:

  • Altova MissionKit (Altova)
Productivity Winners:
  • JBuilder 2008 (Embarcadero Technologies)
  • ReSharper 4.1 (JetBrains)

Enterprise Tools

Jolt Winner:

  • MindTouch Deki (MindTouch)
Productivity Winners:
  • Agile Platform (OutSystems)
  • Zenoss Core (Zenoss)

Libraries, Frameworks and Components

Jolt Winner:

  • ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight (ComponentOne)
Productivity Winners:
  • Essential Studio Enterprise Edition (Syncfusion)
  • Threading Building Blocks Library 2.1 (Intel)

Mobile and Web Development Tools

Jolt Winner:

  • MITE (Keynote Systems)
Productivity Winners:
  • Adobe Device Central (Adobe Systems)
  • NetBeans IDE (Sun Microsystems)

Project Management Tools

Jolt Winner:

  • Pivotal Tracker (Pivotal Labs)
Productivity Winners:
  • Rally Enterprise (Rally Software Development)
  • ScrumWorks Pro (Danube Technologies)

Security Tools

Jolt Winner:

  • Parasoft Application Security Solution (Parasoft)
Productivity Winners:
  • GuardIT (Arxan)
  • InTrust for Databases (Quest Software)

Testing Tools

Jolt Winner:

  • easyb (easyb.org)
Productivity Winners:
  • Compuware DevPartner Studio (Compuware)
  • SONAR (SonarSource)

Utilities

Jolt Winner:

  • HttpWatch (Simtec Ltd.)
Productivity Winners:
  • DotTrace (JetBrains)
  • JavaRebel (ZeroTurnaround)