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Award Force

Score9 out of 10

3 Reviews and Ratings

What is Award Force?

Award Force is an award, grant application, and submission platform from the Australian company of the same name featuring granular roles and permissions to for entry and review, control of judgment process, and other features.

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Screenshot of Award Force customers
Screenshot of the awards management software's dashboard for program managers to monitor program progress and status.
Screenshot of Award Force's entrant-centred features, designed for great experiences, better task completion and happy entrants.
Screenshot of the Award Force judging suite, designed to help judges make great decisions through one or more judging rounds, and with four different judging mode options.
Screenshot of the submission management system's interface.
Screenshot of the awards galleries, featuring high-def audio + video for easy viewing on screen.

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Screenshot of Award Force customers

Outstanding and excellent Award Program Platform

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The cumbersome award application process as well as the following judging process has added so much value to our organization and smoothen our award operations. Award program setting up has been never easy like this. We can easily review and run the nomination reports now. Streamline our Award process via AF has been a lifesaver.

Pros

  • Ability to evaluate the applications within the app by judges.
  • Can create my questionnaires and categorize them automatically.
  • Assign judges easily
  • Provide help to the submissions.

Cons

  • Provide a smooth learning curve for the new users (As judges differ always)
  • Emails sent from the software lands in Spam sometimes
  • The product tends to lag if we are running many tasks at once.
  • Limited in-app reporting view.

Most Important Features

  • Pre-configured award setups.
  • Assign custom judges based on the award program
  • Capacity to re-submit incomplete applications.

Return on Investment

  • Huge cost saving on paper usage. Cost reduction almost by 90%
  • Transparency in judging process.
  • Time to judge and evaluate the programs gone down by 60%.

Alternatives Considered

Judgify and AwardStage

Other Software Used

DisplayFusion, Lemax, Barra Portfolio Manager

Intelligent and Easy To Use Software with Great Support Team

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Award Force allows us to broadcast emails across a specific group of people, allows us to track all the submissions and a great way to interact between applicants and judges. The product is comprehensive and this helps in tracking and indulging investors and startup applications. The support team is very helpful in any issues we face. Their product knowledge is impressive and this helps us in less downtime and more productivity.

Pros

  • User friendly User Interface
  • Data Protection
  • Reasonable pricing

Cons

  • Extra details are missing in fact sheets.
  • As a first time user, setup is time consuming and need help from support regularly.
  • Apart from this I have not encountered any downside with Award Force till now.

Most Important Features

  • Integrating awards with other vast applications.
  • API and SSO integration.
  • Assessment Management.

Return on Investment

  • Immense forward increase in ROI.
  • Increase in participation and hence more productivity.
  • No dependency on separate vendors for different features and cutting cost.

Other Software Used

Salesforce Lightning Platform, Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Webex App