Elastic announced the winners and honorees of the 2025 Elastic Excellence Awards.
These awards recognize groundbreaking achievements by organizations and individuals that are transforming their industries, communities, and businesses by unlocking the full potential of their data with Elastic's Search AI platform.
“Our customers are using data to deliver powerful outcomes, from reshaping business models to securing critical infrastructure and accelerating humanitarian efforts,” said Rick Laner, chief customer officer at Elastic. “The winners and honorees of the 2025 Elastic Excellence Awards are transformative players in their respective industries, and remarkable examples of what’s possible when innovation, purpose, and technology converge. We’re proud to be their partner on this journey.”
2025 Elastic Excellence Award Winners and Honorees:
Cause Award Winner
Recognizing use cases that address social and humanitarian challenges with global impact.
Vodafone Foundation – Instant Network Schools programme
Vodafone Foundation is expanding access to quality education for refugee and host communities across Africa through its Instant Network Schools programme. By enabling real-time monitoring of school operations and learning needs using Elastic Beats and the Elastic Stack, the program helps local educators tailor support, improve outcomes, and reach more students with life-changing digital learning opportunities.
Honoree: UbiLab – University of Waterloo
Business Transformation Awards
This award recognizes organizations that are creating measurable company-wide impact through Elastic’s Search AI Platform.
Search Business Transformation Award Winner: Docusign
As a global leader in Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM), Docusign utilizes Elasticsearch to power its IAM platform, leveraging scalable Search AI capabilities to support high-volume, high-trust agreement management. By embedding Elasticsearch into its agreement platform, Docusign has enabled users to access the right insights instantly, accelerating decision-making, mitigating risk, and achieving better business outcomes for their customers.
Observability Business Transformation Award Winner: GitLab
GitLab is a comprehensive, intelligent DevSecOps platform for software innovation. It utilizes Elastic's Cloud offering to help power application logging for GitLab.com, providing real-time visibility into system behavior and enabling rapid troubleshooting.
Security Business Transformation Award Winner: Proficio
Proficio is a leader in SOC-as-a-Service and cybersecurity innovation that delivers proactive threat detection, real-time incident response, and scalable security orchestration. It is revolutionizing enterprise protection against advanced cyber threats with Elastic’s AI-powered SIEM and next-generation threat analytics, and empowering enterprises to achieve resilient digital transformation at scale through Elastic’s Search AI Platform.
Innovation Award Winner
This award recognizes organizations that are redefining what’s possible through visionary and transformative uses of Search AI.
Dialpad
Dialpad is transforming how businesses communicate, blending AI and intuitive design to deliver smarter conversations. As a leading AI-powered communications intelligence platform, Dialpad uses Elastic to redefine how teams connect and collaborate with a seamless, unified, and human-centric approach to digital communication.
Honorees: Generis, Tencent Cloud
Public Sector Award Winner
This award recognizes government organizations that lead the way in resilience, security, and citizen impact through data innovation.
California Employment Development Department (EDD)
EDD administers vital benefit programs and delivers essential services to millions of Californians daily including unemployment, disability insurance, paid family leave, and job support. Elastic enhances EDD’s cybersecurity by augmenting threat detection, helping EDD safeguard its systems and benefit programs and strengthen its service reliability.
Honorees: Arizona Department of Public Safety, True Zero Technologies
Certified Professional of the Year
This award recognizes an individual who has received their Elastic Certification and then gone on to give back to the Elastic community and advance their personal and professional goals.
BK Bhate, CEO and Founder, Consultadd/Hyperflex
BK Bhate is a driving force behind Hyperflex, an Elastic Innovation Partner specializing in building secure, scalable solutions for Search, Security, and Observability. As a Certified Elastic Professional, he not only applies Search AI to solve real-world challenges but is also deeply committed to giving back. Through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and active community involvement, BK is helping others grow their skills and make meaningful contributions with Elastic.
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