External Awards
2025 iF Design Winner
IBM watsonx Orchestrate is a generative AI and automation platform that empowers your business users by automating tasks, simplifying complex processes, and ultimately saving you and your team time and effort by making your organization more productive with the use of AI assistants and agents. IBM watsonx Orchestrate has a skills catalog with 1000s of pre-built skills to help you accomplish a wide range of tasks. You can quickly and easily create and deploy your purpose-built AI assistant with helpful conversations that help end users get work done, and build your own custom skills and workflows without the need for coding expertise.
W3 Award
The IBM Cloud design team is thrilled to announce that we’ve received a Silver Award in the 14th Annual W3 Awards for the design and experience of the IBM Cloud Pak Experiences website. The website was recognized in the Visual Appeal and Website Experience categories, helping create an engaging experience for IBM Cloud Pak Experiences users. We are so excited to see our efforts for good design be recognized by another international design award.
The W3 Awards, hosted by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA), honors outstanding websites, web marketing, online videos, and mobile sites or applications from creators worldwide. This year they received over 5,000 entries from across the globe, with many examples of exceptional execution of design and creativity.
COMPUTEX d&i awards 2018 - Software Application
Bluemix Availability Monitoring (BAM) allows developers to easily get insight into their application's health and performance. BAM helps DevOps teams ensure their applications are always available and meeting user expectations as they roll out continuous updates. This makes the correlation between app performance and code changes an effortless experience. Traditional application monitoring tools force developers to undergo tedious manual configuration in order setup the tool in the infrastructure they own. BAM is designed to make this setup easy, so that users save time and developers can focus on building their applications.
IDA Design Awards Graphic Design Honorable Mention
A handful of designers, thinkers and entrepreneurs created the International Design Awards in 2007 as a response to the lack of recognition and celebration for smart and sustainable multidisciplinary design.
Bluemix Availability Monitoring (BAM) allows developers to easily get insight into their application's health and performance, and see correlations between app performance and code changes. They can ensure that their apps are meeting the needs of their users with each product release. Traditional application monitoring tools force developers to undergo tedious manual configuration in order setup the tool in an already existing infrastructure. BAM was designed to make this setup easy and to save time for users. Developers can spend less time fixing errors and focus on building quality apps.
Golden A' Design Award Winner for the Information Technologies Design Category
A' Design Award and Competition is pleased to announce that the information technologies design IBM Bluemix Availability Monitoring by Esteban Pérez-Hemminger, Troy Bjerke, Jamie Skinner, Nina Dang, Lauren Goldstein, Natalie Caudell and Sandra Tipton has been honored with the famed Golden A' Design Award at Information Technologies Design Competition selected as the winner by the transnational arbiters of the A' Design Awards & Competitions among a great number of participants.
The Golden A' Design Award is a prestigious award given to top 3% percentile designs that has exhibited an exemplary level of quality in design. Entries to the A' Information Technologies Design Awards are peer reviewed and anonymously judged by a grand jury panel of prominent academics, influential press members and established professionals. Nominated information technologies designs are voted on pre-determined evaluation criteria to highlight only the best information technologies design works. In addition to reaching top international media, A' Information Technologies Design Award winners are listed at World Design Rankings (worlddesignrankings.com), are highlighted at Design Classification (designclassifications.com) platform and are showcased at DesignMag.org which lists the best designs from all countries in all disciplines.
A' Information Technologies Design Award aims to highlight the excellent qualifications of best information technologies designs and greatest information technologies design concepts worldwide. The A' Design Accolades are organized and awarded annually and internationally in multiple categories to reach a wide, design-oriented audience. The ultimate aim of the A' information technologies Design Competition is to create a global awareness for good design. Learn more: http://www.whatisadesignaward.com
Internal Awards
IBM ENTREPRENEUR Award
This nomination recognizes the outstanding effort of our 3-in-a-box Agent Builder leadership team, tasked with designing and building our low-code agent builder tool within watsonx Orchestrate. The team took the burden to proactively address this major strategic pivot during rapidly changing market conditions, to help align the 2025 strategy. Faced with considerable complexity, the team navigated multiple dependencies and balanced diverse stakeholder expectations. They actively gathered and incorporated feedback, effectively managing and resolving conflicting inputs through agile pivots and continuous adaptation. Their proactive collaboration and determination culminated in the successful delivery of a impactful new user experience, that created a significant amount of investment and interest for the product with figma prototypes and in-person demos @ THINK 2025. This team's dedicated execution has set a new benchmark, enabling wxO to achieve 96% of its revenue target with a large part due to this pivot in our strategy.