OutSystems Named SIIA Software CODiE Award Finalist for  Best Cloud Platform as a Service

OutSystems, the open application platform company, today announced that OutSystems Platform was named a finalist for the 2014 SIIA Software CODiE Awards for Best Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS). The SIIA CODiE Awards are the premier awards for the software and information industries and have been recognizing product excellence for 29 years. The awards have over 75 categories and are organized by industry focus of Content, Education and Software.

“OutSystems provides the only open, high-productivity application platform as a service that makes it easy to rapidly create, deploy and manage enterprise mobile and web applications,” said Sean Allen, director of product marketing for OutSystems. “When considering PaaS offerings, companies have two choices. They can continue to develop in the same manner as they do today, just in a hosted environment, or they can step-up to a high-productivity platform. With the Platform, our customers are routinely multiplying developer productivity by at least 4X, while also significantly increasing the collaboration between business users and IT.”

“This year’s CODiE Awards finalists showcase the innovation and creativity in today’s market. We are happy to recognize them for their products that are breaking ground in the software industry,” said Rhianna Collier, VP for the Software Division at SIIA. “I look forward to honoring all the finalists in May at our awards program at Maximize.”

This year’s program features 28 Software categories, several of which are new or updated to reflect the latest industry trends. Winners will be announced during a special Awards dinner on May 21 in San Francisco during the industry's premier ISV gathering of SaaS, BI, and Cloud providers, Maximize.

Details about each finalist are listed at: http://siia.net/codies/2014/

About SIIA - SIIA is the leading association representing the software and digital content industries. SIIA represents approximately 700 member companies worldwide that develop software and digital information content. Information technology (IT) and software security are critical issues to SIIA’s members, many of whom strive to develop safe, secure and state-of the-art products that effectively serve their commercial and government customers alike, while 
protecting their intellectual property.

The SIIA Software Division provides a forum for companies developing the applications, services, infrastructure and tools that are driving the software and services industry forward.