IBM Recognizes WebSphere Business Partners for Driving SOA, Business Resiliency and Cost Optimization

LAS VEGAS, NV - 05 May 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the winners of the 2009 WebSphere Business Partner Awards. These awards recognize outstanding dedication to building and implementing solutions that help IBM clients more effectively adapt and compete in an ever changing global environment with solutions that are built upon service oriented architecture (SOA) and WebSphere software.

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 more than 7,400 Business Partners to develop a thriving SOA community that includes 120,000 software architects and developers and more than 2,000 universities leveraging an 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. 

“As our clients strive to grow their businesses, they are looking to enable business improvement initiatives in cost and operating efficiencies,” said Sandy Carter, vice president of Strategy, Marketing, and Channels for IBM SOA and WebSphere. “The Impact Awards program reinforces our commitment to the Business Partners who provide SOA-powered solutions that help our clients drive continuous improvement, cost-savings and efficiency.“ 

The IMPACT Award winners for 2009 are:  

IMPACT Best of Show Award – CrossView, Inc.

The Impact Best of Show Award recognizes CrossView, one of our sponsors of the Impact conference, for the solution that best demonstrates the unique power of using IBM SOA and WebSphere components to solve customer business challenges. 

CrossView Cross-Channel Retail has been designed to leverage the service oriented architecture of WebSphere Commerce, as well as the Retail Industry Framework.  Their commerce platform offering enables their customers to use one database and one set of business rules across all sales channels. 

Ultramatics, Perficient and WebLayers are the distinguished finalists for the IMPACT Best of Show Award. 

SOA Cost Optimization Award – Miracle Software Systems, Inc

The SOA Cost Optimization Award recognizes Miracle Software Systems Inc and its webMethods to WebSphere Message Broker/Process Server Migration solution for exploiting IBM SOA and WebSphere and providing a proven solution that helps customers achieve cost optimization, agility and increased ROI.  

webMethods to WebSphere Message Broker/Process Server Migration was designed to remove the complexity, manageability & scalability of existing legacy EAI system and build a foundation based on IBM’s SOA Reference Architecture.  For starters, the solution implements Smart SOA foundation cost effectively by migrating webMethods Interfaces, Standardize simple, easy to implement wizards driven connectivity to all business applications and reduce the cost of integration during Mergers & Acquisitions. 

Prolifics, a JYACC Company and iSOA Group, a Commerce Solutions Inc. company, are the distinguished finalists for the SOA Cost Optimization Award. 

Business Process Management Award - Ascendant Technology

The Business Process Management Award recognizes Ascendant Technology for its Invoice Workflow for Accounts Payables as the most outstanding solution in helping customers improve their efficiency, flexibility, and control of their key business processes across the enterprise. 

Invoice Workflow for Accounts Payables Ascendant Technology streamlines invoice processing in an integration-centric manner, while at the same time, monitoring all

new business activities.  The solution automates the processing of invoices based on business rules and allows users to work on the invoices that require manual intervention. 

Chordiant Software Inc. and UFIT Co Ltd. are the distinguished finalists for the Business Process Management Award.

Green Partner Award - Enterprise Information Management

The Green Partner Award recognizes Enterprise Information Management (EIM) for its GreenCert solution for excellence in helping businesses use talent, natural resources and technology in smarter ways.  IBM SOA and GreenCert™ play an important role in helping address business challenges including rising energy costs, regulatory mandates, and customer demand for eco-friendly products, to name a few -- while sustaining new growth. 

GreenCert measures the reduction in greenhouse gases an energy company realizes when it takes steps to reduce emissions.  By quantifying these reductions, energy companies are better able to minimize their impact on the environment, maximize their improvement dollars, and more accurately comply with environmental regulations] provides. 

PointSource and Avada Software are the distinguished finalists for the Green Partner Award. 

Distributor Excellence Award - Tech Data Azlan

Distributor Excellence Award recognizes Tech Data Azlan as a high Value-Add Distributors who is leading the charge in building their Business Partners’ ability to leverage IBM SOA and WebSphere software capabilities in creative, leading-edge, exciting ways and successfully engaged in Go-to-Market activities with their Business Partners to generate demand and sell SOA Solutions and WebSphere. 

Tech Data Azlan has both a programmatic and creative approach to their market and  working with their partners with a focus on moving their partners to High Value SOA solution-selling.  They support both OEM and Passport Advantage partners and have  several creative approaches to bundling SW/HW to leverage all aspects of their  business.  They also do continuous training and enablement to drive SVI and VAP  participation with an  emphasis on General Business-focused partners and customers. 

Nexsys De Colombia S.A. and Arrow ECS are the distinguished finalists for the Distributor Excellence Award. 

Impact Comes To You Award - MQSoftware

The Impact Comes to You Award recognizes MQSoftware for leading the charge in extending the value and benefits of “Impact Comes to You” to their customers and prospects in creative ways that successfully generate customer interest, demand and sales opportunities for SOA-based solutions. 

MQSoftware did a very impressive amount of customer outreach.  They hosted and led nearly a dozen Impact Comes to You events in multiple cities that were attended by more than 300 prospects from nearly 200 companies.  They organized a thorough educational agenda targeting all the hot topics and products, supporting SOA and WebSphere key marketing messages and marketing materials.  In addition to live events, they developed a 6-part webinar series where presentations and replays were also available for download.  Their marketing programs resulted in impressive transactional and influence revenue for IBM. 

Prolifics, a JYACC Company, is the distinguished finalists for the Impact Comes To You Award. 

For details on how IBM is helping clients and Business Partners to make smarter, faster decisions by using SOA, visit:  http://www.ibm.com/press/impact2009

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