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Swagger Earns InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award from IDG
[February 08, 2016]

Swagger Earns InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award from IDG


SmartBear Software, the leader in software quality tools for the connected world, announced that Swagger, the world's most popular description format for defining RESTful APIs, earned an InfoWorld 2016 Technology of the Year Award by IDG. Selected by InfoWorld editors and reviewers, the annual awards identify the best and most innovative products on the IT landscape. InfoWorld is the technology media brand committed to keeping IT decision-makers ahead of the technology curve.

"Like InfoWorld itself, InfoWorld's Technology of the Year Awards are all about change," said Doug Dineley, Executive Editor of InfoWorld Reviews. "Our Technology of the Year Award winners are the platforms and tools that point the way to the data centers, clouds and applications of tomorrow. They're the innovations that are changing the way we work and do business."

With over 350,000 Swagger and Swagger tooling downloads per month, Swagger was InfoWorld's top choice for its useful tooling, excellent UI generation, extensive language support and widespread adoption. In November 2015, SmartBear-the sponsors of the Swagger Project-launched the Open API Initiative (OAI), donating the Swagger Specification to The Linux Foundation (News - Alert) to create an open approach to governing its evolution. In addition to SmartBear, founding members of the OAI include Google, IBM, Microsoft (News - Alert), Capital One, Intuit, PayPal, Apigee, 3Scale and Restlet.

"The community behind Swagger is tremendous and a testament to the power of open source software," said Tony Tam, VP of Products, Swagger at SmartBear. "We are grateful to those who have helped Swagger reach the position that it's in now, and with the support of SmartBear, we expect Swagger to grow even more rapidly under the formation of the OAI. We are honored that Swagger has been recognized with an InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award."

SmartBear recently released a major upgrade to SwaggerHub, the place for development teams to collaborate and coordinate the entire lifecycle of an API. SwaggerHub users can create organizations and teams to organize, share and collaborate on Swagger API definitions directly in SwaggerHub, where public and private APIs are centrally and safely stored in a single, easy to use SaaS (News - Alert) product. For more information, visit: https://swaggerhub.com/.



InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award winners are drawn from all of the products tested during the past year. For more information, visit: http://www.infoworld.com/article/3023050/open-source-tools/infoworlds-2016-technology-of-the-year-award-winners.html.

For InfoWorld's review of Swagger, visit: http://www.infoworld.com/article/3023050/open-source-tools/infoworlds-2016-technology-of-the-year-award-winners.html#slide32


For more information on Swagger, visit: http://swagger.io/. Follow on Twitter (News - Alert) @swaggerapi.

About InfoWorld

InfoWorld is the leading resource for content and tools on modernizing enterprise IT. The InfoWorld Expert Contributor Network provides a unique perspective in the market; our editors provide first-hand experience from testing, deploying, and managing implementation of emerging enterprise technologies. InfoWorld's website (InfoWorld.com) and custom solutions provide a deep dive into specific technologies to help IT decision-makers excel in their roles and provide opportunities for IT vendors to reach this audience. InfoWorld is published by IDG Enterprise, a subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG), the world's leading media, events, and research company. Company information is available at www.idgenterprise.com.

About IDG Enterprise

IDG Enterprise, an International Data Group (IDG) company, brings together the leading editorial brands (CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, ITworld, and Network World (News - Alert)) to serve the information needs of our technology and security-focused audiences. As the premier hi-tech B2B media company, we leverage the strengths of our premium owned and operated brands, while simultaneously harnessing their collective reach and audience affinity. We provide market leadership and converged marketing solutions for our customers to engage IT and security decision-makers across our portfolio of award-winning websites, events, magazines, products, and services. IDG's DEMO conferences provide a platform for today's most innovative and eye-opening technologies to publically launch their solutions. Company information is available at www.idgenterprise.com.

About SmartBear Software

As the leader in software quality tools for the connected world, SmartBear supports more than four million software professionals and over 25,000 organizations in 194 countries that use its products to build and deliver the world's greatest applications. With today's applications deploying on mobile, Web, desktop, Internet of Things (IoT) or even embedded computing platforms, the connected nature of these applications through public and private APIs presents a unique set of challenges for developers, testers and operations teams. SmartBear's software quality tools assist with code review, functional and load testing, API readiness as well as performance monitoring of these modern applications. For more information, visit: http://smartbear.com, or for the SmartBear community, go to: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Google+.

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