REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 25, 2026 ¨C Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ, the leader in AIOps for observability, today announced that it has been selected as the winner of the ¡°AIOps Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ of the Year¡± award in the 9th annual AI Breakthrough Awards program conducted by , a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global Artificial Intelligence (AI) market today.
As organizations across every industry accelerate digital transformation and AI adoption, the ability to deliver frictionless digital experiences has become mission critical. Modern enterprises depend on seamless digital experiences to keep employees productive, business workflows running smoothly, and operations performing at their best, driving greater efficiency, resilience, and business outcomes.
The AI Breakthrough Awards program recognizes the world¡¯s most innovative companies, technologies, and products in AI. Winners are selected based on criteria such as innovation, performance, functionality, and market impact. This recognition highlights Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ¡¯s continued leadership in AI-powered IT operations and observability, helping organizations prevent disruption, accelerate resolution, and advance toward autonomous IT through trusted data, intelligent automation, and actionable insights.
¡°While traditional automation is built on a static rulebook, the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ delivering AIOps and AI-powered observability solutions goes further, driving faster, smarter, and more autonomous IT operations without shifting additional burden to employees or IT teams,¡± said Richard Tworek, Chief Technology Officer, at Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ. ¡°We¡¯re proud to receive this recognition from AI Breakthrough. The future of IT isn¡¯t just faster reaction times; it¡¯s also about eliminating disruption altogether to improve employee productivity, increase efficiency, accelerate innovation, and move toward autonomous IT.¡±
¡°Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ delivers on the promise of AIOps, reimagining what ¡®good IT¡¯ looks like. A seamless digital experience is the foundation of the modern enterprise – whether in the office, at home, day or night,¡± said Steve Johansson, managing director, AI Breakthrough. ¡°Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ is redefining AIOps for a new era, operationalizing AI through autonomous IT operations that keep employees productive and operations running. We¡¯re pleased to award Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ with ¡®AIOps Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ of the Year¡¯.
Bringing together 25+ years of expertise across applications, networks, devices, and clouds with a unified architecture for autonomous IT operations, this achievement builds on the recent announcement of six new Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ products and capabilities. These innovations include Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ IQ 4.0, the company¡¯s unified intelligence layer for autonomous operations; Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Q, a conversational AI interface for IT teams; AI Assurance for AI observability and governance; and new Aternity capabilities, including Replay 2.0, High Frequency Analytics, and APM+, which extend visibility, accelerate root cause analysis, and help organizations proactively prevent disruption before it impacts users.
For nearly a decade, the AI Breakthrough Awards have researched, analyzed and recognized the most important advances in artificial intelligence, and this year’s field is the strongest yet. Thousands of nominations from over 20 countries poured in across categories, including Agentic AI, Generative AI, Computer Vision, AIOps, Robotics, Natural Language Processing and industry-specific AI applications ¨C underscoring the explosive global growth of AI and its importance as the defining technology of our time.
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