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Calero, the global leader in Technology Business Management solutions, today announced its win of two 2025 CODiE Awards: Best IT Management Solution and Best Financial & Market Data Solution.
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The CODiE Awards are the premier peer-recognized program celebrating excellence and innovation in technology. Each year, industry experts and fellow professionals evaluate products based on innovation, impact, and overall value, recognizing those that drive meaningful advancement across the sector. This year’s wins mark the fifth and sixth CODiE Awards Calero has earned since 2020.
“These awards reflect our team’s unwavering commitment to helping organizations navigate complex technology and data environments with clarity and confidence,” said Eric Martorano, President and CRO of Calero. “Our solutions are built to turn complexity into opportunity, giving organizations the clarity and control they need to make smarter decisions, improve efficiency, and drive meaningful growth. I’m inspired every day by our team’s passion and dedication, and these awards recognize the measurable impact we deliver for our customers around the world.”
With more than 3,000 customers in 102 countries, Calero delivers a modern, centralized platform encompassing Technology Expense Management, Technology Lifecycle Management, and Managed Technology Services. It is the only solution in the industry to provide Unified Technology Management across telecom, mobility, and SaaS – all in a single pane of glass. Calero’s unified platform reveals otherwise hidden insights into and control over organizations’ complete technology picture. These capabilities give organizations full visibility into their technology ecosystem, enhance asset governance, streamline operations, and reduce unnecessary spend.
Calero also leads the industry in Market Data Management, managing billions in market data spend for thousands of organizations worldwide. For more than 30 years, it has empowered financial institutions – from global tier 1 banks to specialized asset managers – to gain precise control over market data inventories. The end-to-end platform supports the full data lifecycle, from subscription tracking and vendor management to compliance readiness, helping organizations streamline operations, optimize resources, and focus on analysis and strategic decision-making.
“The CODiE Awards celebrate the visionaries shaping the future of technology,” said Jennifer Baranowski, President of the CODiE Awards. “This year’s winners exemplify how innovation, leadership, and purpose can come together to create solutions that move industries forward and make a lasting impact.”
About Calero
Calero is the leading provider of Technology Business Management solutions, empowering organizations to streamline and optimize their technology investments through three key solution pillars:
With a focus on delivering actionable insights and operational efficiency, Calero helps businesses achieve greater control and cost savings across their technology ecosystem. Find out more at www.calero.com.
Calero has won two 2025 CODiE Awards: Best IT Management Solution and Best Financial & Market Data Solution. The company’s centralized platform encompasses Technology Expense Management, Technology Lifecycle Management, and Managed Technology Services. It’s the only solution to provide Unified Technology Management across telecom, mobility, and SaaS – all in a single pane of glass.
Alabama is forcing the committee that will set the College Football Playoff bracket to revisit an old question: Should a 12-team tournament to determine the national champion include a program with three losses?
And Duke is bringing up a new head-scratcher that nobody really thought of before: Could a team possibly make the playoff with five?
Those two mysteries were the main ones left after a day of shuffling in the conference title games set the stakes for Sunday’s big reveal.
Alabama’s 28-7 loss to CFP No. 3 Georgia and unranked Duke’s 27-20 win in overtime over CFP No. 16 Virginia were the key results Saturday — leaving the selection committee to sleep on which three teams out of five contenders vying for the final spots in the bracket are worthy, and which two stay home.
No. 9 Alabama (10-3), No. 10 Notre Dame (10-2) and No. 12 Miami (10-2) are in the hunt for two of those spots.
No. 25 James Madison (12-1) and Duke (8-5) — unranked but the newly crowned champion of the Atlantic Coast Conference — are the candidates for the other.
Normally, the sports world doesn’t start paying attention to Duke until hoops season reaches full swing. Maybe someone among the ever-present throng of Duke haters on social media would title this one: “Blue Devils ruin football, too!”
Duke’s win gives the ACC a champion with five losses, which places the conference on the cusp of not placing a single team into the tournament.
Blue Devils coach Manny Diaz is more than fine with comparing his team to James Madison.
“They don’t have a win like this. They don’t have a win against a team like that. That’s a big-time team right there in Virginia,” he said. “Seven wins in this conference? Seven Power Four wins compared to zero? No, that’s a playoff team. These guys deserve to be in.”
It is true that Duke’s strength of schedule is about 50 spots higher than James Madison’s. But in most of the rest of the metrics — including that all-important loss column — the Dukes of James Madison look much stronger than Duke.
This is how the ACC got into this pickle:
— No. 20 Tulane won the American Conference.
— The No. 25 Dukes won the Sun Belt.
— The unranked Blue Devils beat Virginia.
CFP rules call for the five best-ranked conference titlists to earn automatic spots in the 12-team bracket. Four of those spots, or so the thinking went, were supposed to go to the Power Four conferences. But that’s not what the rules say, and so, it comes down to whether the committee ranks Duke ahead of James Madison to keep the unthinkable from happening.
Because two teams from outside the top 25 won their conferences and will receive automatic bids, it means the top 10 teams — not 12 — from Sunday's rankings will make the playoffs.
Heading into Saturday, one thought was that the committee placed Alabama at No. 9 last week, flip-flopping it with Notre Dame, so that if the Crimson Tide lost, there would still be room to slip them into the playoff, even with that 10-3 record.
The ugliness of Saturday's loss — a 21-point beatdown that looked worse at times — might change that calculus.
Crimson Tide coach Kalen DeBoer is leaning on the idea that a team shouldn’t be penalized for playing in its conference title game.
“How that can can hurt you and keep you out of the playoff?” he said.
Last year, Alabama was the odd man out after being idle on championship Saturday, but watching SMU slide in ahead of it after — what else? — a loss in its conference title game. But that loss was close. Alabama's wasn't.
Notre Dame and Miami, which were idle Saturday, are looking at other things.
Irish coach Marcus Freeman is leaning on the argument that the real comparison should be between his team and Alabama — not between Notre Dame and BYU or Notre Dame and Miami. He wants nothing to do with that Miami comparison, because the Irish lost to the Hurricanes in Week 1.
Committee chair Hunter Yurachek has been opaque, at best, about how the committee judges that result.
One possibility Sunday is that, thanks to No. 11 BYU's lopsided loss to Texas Tech, Notre Dame and Miami could be scrunched right next to each other in the rankings. That, some believe, would make it almost impossible to ignore the head-to-head matchup.
That’s what Miami coach Mario Cristobal is banking on.
“Same record. Identical metrics and then, again, Miami beats Notre Dame,” he said.
The game pitting the two best teams in the country didn't have much impact on anything regarding playoff seeding.
No. 2 Indiana beat No. 1 Ohio State 13-10 in a thrilling, defensive slugfest that will make the Hoosiers — yes, the Indiana Hoosiers — the top team in the country heading into the playoff.
All the discourse about Alabama and the meaning of title games aside, it would be hard to see Ohio State dropping below the No. 4 spot and forfeiting the first-round bye that goes to the top four.
Maybe the committee places the Buckeyes at 2 or 3 to at least keep alive the tantalizing prospect of a rematch in the national final on Jan. 19.
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Alabama head coach Kalen Deboer speaks to an official during the first half of a Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game between Georgia and Alabama, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Georgia defensive back Daylen Everette (6) runs an intercepted ball against Alabama wide receiver Germie Bernard (5) during the first half of a Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
