In June 2014, the InformationWeek editorial team sent out invitations to IT Heads of user companies, system integrators, and PR agencies to nominate their clients for the EDGE awards. We received a phenomenal response to our call for entries. In totality, we received more than 210 nominations from different companies across the country. In the first phase, redundant and incomplete entries were removed from the list. Based on an internal assessment framework that focused broadly on the parameters of innovation, cost savings, scale and efficiency, this list was subsequently narrowed down to top 167 projects.