The SaaS Awards

The SaaS Awards program celebrates the brightest and the best in global software and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). 

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The SaaS Awards

Software awards for international SaaS recognition

The SaaS Awards program is the de facto recognition platform for your organizational achievements in SaaS and software. Our participants and winners base this on global reach and our fanatical celebration of innovation, from any size of organization.

We’ve been identifying and celebrating the best software since 2016. During that time, cloud-based delivery models of software have become the standard. Any software solution is eligible: The SaaS Awards promote SaaS solutions across public clouds, as well as alongside private, single-tenant solutions, off-premise or on-premise.

However your software solution is delivered, The SaaS Awards program gives innovators, organizations and product teams the international recognition, accreditation and promotion they deserve.

This awards program closes at the end of May.

The SaaS Awards recognition reflects our mission to help customer teams become the most impactful in the enterprise. It’s a testament to our customers’ success and the work of our team to continually deliver innovation that drives meaningful results.

CEO Churn ZeroYou Mon Tsang, CEO and co-founder, ChurnZero.

RECENT WINNERS

SaaS Awards winners and nominees span the globe – including America, Canada, Europe, the UK, Australia and Asia.

2025 SaaS Awards Winners

2025 SaaS Awards Finalists

2025 SaaS Awards Shortlist

SaaS Awards categories

New software awards categories year-on-year

The SaaS Awards is the recognition platform of choice in the business and technology sectors. Representing the best in software innovation from across the globe, our mission is to ensure the best SaaS and software solutions achieve international recognition for excellence.

We accept applications throughout the year, but please check for any category changes in each annual awards cycle. If you can’t find your sector or area of expertise in the list of FinTech awards categories, please contact us. We’ll do our best to represent you in the next round of awards.

General SaaS Excellence

For SaaS products that address the challenges faced by small businesses or SMEs – typically availability of resources, efficiency, and being user friendly for people of all levels of technical expertise. Solutions may focus on one, or several business areas. Solutions used across any industry are welcomed.

For SaaS products that address the challenges faced by enterprise-sized organizations – typically reducing complexity, increasing efficiency, and enhancing insight, while having a firm eye on security and compliance. Solutions may focus on one, or several business areas. Solutions used across any industry are welcomed.

For SaaS products that are utilized by a large number of users – either within a single organization, or across many customers. Entrants must demonstrate scalability, reliability, and responsiveness to changing user needs. Solutions used across any industry are welcomed.

Nominations must provide ample evidence of high levels of customer satisfaction, through case studies, testimonials, CSAT/NPS scores, and other reviews and feedback, and insight on how these levels are achieved, maintained, and improved. Solutions used across any industry are welcomed, as are entries from organizations of any size – having a smaller highly engaged and satisfied customer base is not penalized.

SaaS solutions may take any form, or be used within any business function or process, but must be able to demonstrate tangible results in increasing the productivity of an organization’s staff. Examples include improvement of workflows, AI-driven automation, or data-driven insights to inform decision making.

This category recognizes either exciting new SaaS startups, or innovative new products from established names. The solution or product must have been launched in the past 1-3 years. Ingenuity and evidence of the newcomer’s growth potential will be important factors.

For SaaS solutions that support organizations in any industry in their CSR, sustainability or ESG initiatives, or that can demonstrate a positive impact on ethical business practices – such as increasing accessibility to underserved populations, or users with diverse needs.

Open to either bespoke SaaS solutions created for a specific client or to address an unusual business case, or to SaaS solutions developed to address the needs of an industry that requires highly-specialized solutions – such as fashion, agriculture, entertainment, or sports.

Technology Innovation

Judges will be keen to understand how essential artificial intelligence is to the function, and results, of the SaaS solution. Here, AI should not be used for AI’s sake, we are looking for submissions to demonstrate why AI is essential to powering the success of the SaaS solution. 

This category recognizes both innovative technologies (including AI, ML and IoT) and approaches or methodologies, such as agile. Entrants should detail what makes their solution or approach innovative, standing it out from competitors or other similar solutions.

For SaaS solutions that enhance or support the developer experience, or management of IT resources – including cloud services, software, and hardware. Submissions should demonstrate how they have positively impacted areas such as observability, troubleshooting, and collaboration during the build, deploymenty and monitoring stages of the development lifecycle.

Submissions should detail how their SaaS solution works alongside, or integrates with Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), or both. Solutions may address a diverse range of challenges or cloud computing needs.

Please note this category has its own entry form. Nominations must be able to demonstrate how they have incorporated and executed user-centric design across the planning, deployment and maintenance stage of their SaaS product, resulting in a seamless navigation, and a fantastic user experience. Judges may test available functionality to help with their decision-making.

Submissions should take care to explain which data assets are essential to the SaaS innovation, how the data is compiled, mined, or acquired, and the usability of output options for users to make informed decisions. Entries may be used across any industry, or be aimed at organizations of any size.

Open to SaaS solutions that aid in any area of cybersecurity, such as risk, IAM/SSO, data management, incident resolution, and threat detection. This category covers solutions aimed at organizations of any size, or even B2C security solutions.

SaaS for Business Operations

Nominations may provide a platform covering all of these business areas, or provide specialist solutions focused on supporting either sales, marketing, or CRM. This category includes solutions supporting sales prospecting, sales pipelines, digital marketing, email marketing, PR, brand management, lead generation, and customer service.

This category covers both the creation, distribution, and management of digital content (such as documents, videos or other web content), within a range of different contexts. Solutions must have either had a measurable impact on audience engagement, or supported in the storing, organizing, editing and publication of multimedia assets.

For SaaS solutions that support any or all processes related to human resources. This includes recruitment, onboarding, and the employee experience (including benefits, performance management, employee engagement, and training).

Solutions may support businesses of any size in their ability to gain insight, and easily generate reports, to help inform critical business decisions. Entrants should highlight any innovative approaches or technologies used within the BI/Analytics/Reporting solution, and showcase how usable it is for individuals of any level of technical background.

Entrants should showcase how their solution optimizes the planning and delivery of projects across any industry, or for organizations or project teams of any size. Collaboration tools, automations, or workflow creations should be detailed, as should any specific features relating to project management – such as budgeting, task management, or risk assessment.

For cloud-based resource-planning products. Submissions should identify and detail which business processes or functions are tied together by the ERP, such as CRM, finance and budgeting, supply chain, and BI/analytics. Solutions serving organizations of any size or industry are welcomed.

The scalability and usability of the SaaS workflow automation solution is of particular importance in this category. Submissions should highlight how simple it is to create and manage workflows for users of all technical backgrounds, and indicate which organizational functions the workflows can be applied.

Vertical / Industry SaaS

Nominations in this category must be able to demonstrate how their SaaS solution drives value within either the nonprofit or education sectors – where resources are often tight, and regulation/compliance needs very high.

Entries are welcomed from organizations with solutions that support businesses whose primary customers are consumers – including retail/eCommerce, the leisure & tourism industry, and hospitalty/catering. Solutions may support in helping consumers transact, support customer service processes, or aid personalization or marketing effectiveness, among may other use cases.

This category covers SaaS solutions that either support financial services organizations in the delivery of their products/services (such as banking, insurance, or investments), or FinTech used to assist any organization with their financial operations (across any sector) – such as payroll, accounting, budgeting, or financial forecasting.

For SaaS solutions tailored for logistics, fleet management, shipping, or freight operations. Solutions must be able to demonstrate tangible results in areas such as increased efficiency, improved performance against ESG targets, and improving overall customer experience in deliveries. 

Submissions should focus on how their SaaS solutions drives positive results for healthcare providers or pharmaceutical companies, or improves patient outcomes. Solutions may focus on a diverse range of needs within the sector – from organization management and financial operations, to clinical applications or monitoring tools.

Entrants should detail how their SaaS solution drives efficiency or improvement in legal outcomes for legal professionals or practices. Solutions may include those for eDiscovery through to case management, and contract automation to document management, among many others.

SaaS solutions in this category must demonstrate how they optimize operations, enhance productivity, or increase the quality of output of organizations that manufacture or engineer goods. Services may incorporate IoT, CAD tools, or ERP systems.

This category covers a diverse range of use cases covering the needs of construction organizations in the planning & building of properties, through to property managers and real estate businesses for ongoing management and maintenance of a property once it is occupied.

Entrants should detail how their SaaS solution has helped improve the service output, efficiency, or positively impacted other organizational KPIs of energy, utilities or telecoms organizations. This includes areas such as imprpving renewals processed and customer service, through to service provision, uptime, and maintenance.

Now accepting entries for 2026

Download the forms and choose your categories.

ENTRY BENEFITS

Recognition

We help promote your success every step of the way with Shortlist, Finalist and ultimate Winner stages

Badges

Make your way through each stage and unlock access to marketing materials highlighting your success

Publishing

Share and promote your expertise and insight at every stage you reach on our industry news center

Announcements

Join in the buzz at Shortlist, Finalist and Winner stages on our website and international press releases

Trophy

Every winner gets their prestigious trophy shipped to them automatically (North America only)

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Winning a SaaS Award is a tremendous honor, and validates the hard work and dedication of our team.
Itzik Levy, vcita
Recognition from the industry is huge, and massively motivating for the team. Everyone is galvanized and feels really proud of our developments.
Lucas Bertrand, Looper Insights
To be named a SaaS Award winner is an incredible confirmation of our strategy.
Ivo Rook, 1NCE

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