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LAS VEGAS, NV
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08 Apr 2008:
IMPACT 2008 -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today recognized four Business Partners for their outstanding dedication to building and implementing innovative solutions using the IBM WebSphere platform. IBM's second annual IMPACT Business Partner Awards recognize business partners who are providing customers with cutting-edge solutions based on service oriented architecture (SOA) and integration with WebSphere.
The awards are being presented at IMPACT 2008, IBM's worldwide customer event focused on the burgeoning $160 billion SOA market. SOA is among the fastest-growing segments of the information technology industry and IBM offers the most comprehensive portfolio of software, services and hardware for building, maintaining and extending SOA environments.
IBM has worked with its more than 5,000 Business Partners to develop a thriving SOA community including monthly interaction with over 120,000 architects and developers and more than 134 universities leveraging the IBM SOA curriculum. IBM SOA Business Partners are able to interact globally through the SOA Social Network in order build skills, share best practices, and find solutions to problems.
SOA can help companies build, extend, and transform their existing infrastructures incrementally over time, by allowing multiple systems to consume and re-use business services, and provide web-based collaboration throughout their industry communities. The business partners being recognized today have demonstrated a unique ability to develop and sell SOA solutions that solve customer challenges in non-traditional ways in order to improve efficiency, flexibility, and control of key business processes.
"These business partners have embraced the SOA strategy and have established a leadership position in their respective markets," states Sandy Carter, vice president of Strategy, Marketing, and Channels for IBM SOA and WebSphere. "IBM continues to work closely with its business partner community to develop and sell solutions to help customers around the world realize the benefits of SOA and WebSphere."
The IMPACT Award winners for 2008 are:
IBM IMPACT Business Partner Solution Award - Ascendant Technology, LLC
The IBM IMPACT Business Partner Solution Award recognizes Ascendant Technology, LLC for illustrating the strength of integrating with WebSphere to solve customer challenges, while delivering proven impact in the marketplace. This solution exemplifies strong collaboration across a range of constituents and programs, and demonstrates the unique power of using IBM SOA and WebSphere components in its delivery to customers.
As part of a comprehensive SOA infrastructure, Ascendant Technology provides streamlined customer self-service by helping companies to create more comprehensive and flexible applications. Ascendant Technology provides service assets and accelerators that have helped many organizations, including Austin Water (Austin, TX water utility department servicing over 1.5M customers), adopt SOA and gain rapid business value. These accelerators include: BaseLine, a jumpstart methodology for business integration; WebSphere Catalyst for Commerce, an XML-based content integrator; and the Installation and Configuration Automation for WebSphere™ (WICA) framework.
MindTree was the distinguished finalist for the IBM IMPACT Business Partner Solution.
IBM IMPACT Innovation Award - Nortel
The IBM IMPACT Innovation Award recognizes Nortel for its key IBM SOA foundation resource, the Nortel Agile Communications Environment, which leverages SOA frameworks and Web Service standards to simply and rapidly deliver communications-enabled applications and business process. The Nortel Agile Communication Environment's use of open standards also enables businesses to quickly and easily increase revenue opportunities and productivity, while lowering capital and operating costs
Nortel has tightly integrated its Agile Communication Environment with the IBM WebSphere Application Server and is the only communication vendor certified on the IBM Healthcare Integrated Framework. The company is currently working with the Mobile Emergency Triage Research Group at the University of Ottawa on an effort to combine clinical decision support systems and Web services through the Agile Communication Environment Sandbox in an attempt to enhance work flow and overall patient care.
MQ Software was the distinguished finalist for the IBM IMPACT Innovation for their appliance based on AMD and IBM technology.
IBM IMPACT Business Process Management Award - Chordiant Software Inc.
The IBM IMPACT Business Process Management Award recognizes Chordiant Software for delivering value to customers through its Chordiant Decision Management (CDM) product suite.
Enabled with IBM WebSphere, IBM DataPower SOA Appliances, Rational, and DB2 technologies, CDM helps companies quickly develop predictive models that can be rapidly integrated with intuitive, sophisticated business-oriented rules and segmentation schemes. The resulting 'decision logic' can be centrally tested, deployed, monitored, and controlled in batch or in real-time across all channels; ensuring customer interactions are unique, appropriate and consistent at all times, and next best-action offers and decisions can occur dynamically.
Ultramatics was the distinguished finalist for the IBM IMPACT Business Process Management Award.
IBM IMPACT Distributor Innovation Award - Ingram Micro Brazil
The IBM IMPACT Distributor Innovation Award recognizes Ingram Micro Brazil as a high Value Add Distributor that is leading the charge in building their Business Partners' ability to leverage IBM SOA and WebSphere software capabilities in innovative, leading-edge, exciting ways.
In a fast growing, geographically large market, Ingram Micro Brazil has created innovative ways to team with their Business Partners to address growing customer needs. Ingram Micro Brazil worked with their Business Partners serving those customers to deliver high-quality Proof of Concepts, Proof of Technology, and Ingram's IBM Business Partner Innovation Center right to the customer's door; enabling Ingram and its Business partners with the resources needed to illustrate how WebSphere technology could help to solve the customer's business challenges in own environment. Reaching beyond major cities like Sao Paola, Ingram's collaboration help extend their reach into untapped markets, resulting in increased WebSphere business for their business partners.
The two distinguished finalists for the IBM IMPACT Distributor Innovation Award are Avnet U.S and Pedab Sweden.
For more information, visit www.ibm.com/press/impact2008
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