Systems vendors participating in the CMS & Portal Benchmark^® 2008 by delivering the reply on the main Request For Information have the opportunity to win the prestigious CMS and Portal Awards^®.

Systems Vendors participating in the CMS and Portal Benchmark^® 2008 have the opportunity to win one of the prestigious Leader Awards.

Winners are selected for recognition based on excellence in the following criteria:

• Architecture and integration
• Usability
• Security
• Web standards
• Search
• Personalisation
• Out-of-the-box functionality
• Customization and development
• Partner support and -strategy and Focus on third part development
• Community

System vendors participating in the CMS & Portal Benchmark^® 2008 have the opportunity to win one of the prestigious CMS & Portal Challenger Awards.

Why rewarding challengers? Because the challengers in some of the key areas are doing just as well as the leaders. Sometimes they are solving problems in a more simple, more pragmatic and usable way than the leaders.

Often the challengers cast a new view of how to solve common problems or even set the standards for future solutions. They are the "naughty boys in class".

They are indeed runners up for the best CMS and portal systems.

The CMS products are continuously developed and the customers are requiring new functionality in new domains. Some vendors and products stick out as first movers and innovators either to fulfill the needs or delivering new opportunities to their customers.

Winners are this year selected for recognition based on excellence in these specific areas:

• CMS and portal innovations
• Web 2.0 abilities
• 1-2-3 Websites
• Multi partner support.
  
  

Social Software products have been evolving fast and have aggressively taken bits of the traditional CMS and Portal Market. 

Winners are this year selected for recognition based on excellence in these specific areas:

• Best Wiki product
• Best Blog product
• Best Social Community product
• Best developer community
• Excellence in innovation
• Excellence in usability

The three first awards will be given to the products that are leaders within these three categories respectively. The latter three awards will be given to the products that have been outstanding in the category in question.