The OPAL Award for Best Practices, launched in 2015, aims to showcase top-performing members and spread their accomplishments throughout the industry.​

The event provides the opportunity to other members to emulate their counterparts and to encourage them to compete in such proactive developments.​

• The award program is designed to identify and honor companies and other organizations that have demonstrated best practices in developing, deploying, and maintaining solutions.

• A panel of independent judges, possessing expertise in the relevant field, selects winners based on submitted entry forms. Entries are evaluated on criteria including business value, maturity, innovation, and relevance to other organizations.