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IBM announced the winners of its annual IBM Beacon Awards competition Friday, recognizing IBM Business Partners for outstanding delivery of value to clients and innovative approaches to solving business issues. Winners were selected in 37 award categories by leading industry journalists, analysts, and IBM executives. The IBM Beacon Awards are an important part of IBM's PartnerWorld program, providing industry recognition, increased visibility and promotional opportunities to winners and finalists. Members of PartnerWorld take advantage of worldwide IBM marketing and enablement initiatives to drive new revenue and market opportunities through the delivery of innovative, high-value business solutions. "The IBM Beacon Awards recognize the best solutions and services that Business Partners deliver across our business and around the world," said Ravi Marwaha, general manager, IBM Global Business Partners. "Through their dedication to innovation, business value and customer satisfaction, these Business Partners combine their deep technology and industry expertise with IBM technology to deliver exceptional solutions that solve real business problems." Chosen from over 725 nominations, winners and finalists from around the world will be honored during a gala event at the IBM Business Partner Leadership Conference in Los Angeles on April 30 - May 2, 2008. This year's Beacon Award winners by category are: Software Outstanding Lotus Software Innovation: GoPro ltd, Reykjavik, Iceland Outstanding Tivoli Solution for Data Backup and Recovery: mySoftIT GmbH, Kerpen, NW, Germany Outstanding WebSphere® Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) Solution: Prolifics, New York, NY, United States Rational® Excellence in Software Delivery: Sogeti, Paris, France Systems and Technology Innovation in Green IT Data Center Solution: Southern Cross Computer Systems Pty Ltd, Hawthorn East, Victoria, Australia Innovative IBM Business Systems Solution: Dynamix Group, Inc., Roswell, GA, United States Leadership in Blade Center Solution Deployment: PEAK Resources, Inc., Denver, CO, United States Leadership in Optimizing IT Infrastructure: Synergy Plus Pty Ltd, Southbank, VIC, Australia Outstanding Business Critical Solution for Linux on IBM: Inter Access Nederland, Hilversum, Netherlands Outstanding Client Centric System x Solution: Metro Systems Corporation Plc, Bangkok, Thailand Outstanding IBM Information Infrastructure Solution: Agilysys, Inc., Alpharetta, GA, United States Outstanding IBM Power Systems Solution: Paragon Solutions Group, Inc., Denver, CO, United States Outstanding Virtualization System Solution: Evolving Solutions, Inc., Hamel, MN, United States IBM Global Services IBM Global Services Product Affinity: Logicalis, Bloomfield Hills, MI, United States Outstanding Collaboration Solution with IBM Global Business Services: Kevlertech, Inc./ MIT Consultants, Chicago, IL, United States Outstanding Collaboration Solution with IBM Global Technology Services (tied): Motorola, Nashville, TN, United States, MSI Systems Integrators, Inc., Omaha, NE, United States; Pasporte Ltd., Bagshot, United Kingdom Outstanding Complementary Services Growth with IBM Global Services: Insight Inc., Tempe, AZ, United States Sales and Distribution Overall Technical Excellence - Asia Pacific: MindTree Consulting Ltd, Bangalore, KA, India Overall Technical Excellence - Europe, Middle East, Africa: Fritz & Macziol Software und Computervertrieb GmbH, Ulm, Germany ISV and Developer Relations Software as a Service (SaaS) Innovation: Global Groupware Solutions Ltd., Gurgaon, HR, India Consultants and Integrators Regional Consultant and System Integrator - Outstanding Integrated Solution - Asia Pacific: Ontrack Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Regional Consultant and System Integrator - Outstanding Integrated Solution - Europe, Middle East, and Africa: Sowre Consulting España, sl, Barcelona, Spain Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs Global Small and Medium Business Global Solutions Industry Innovation Excellence in Government: Avatar S.A.C, San Isidro, Peru and Cosapi Data S.A., Lima, Peru Innovation Excellence in Healthcare & Life Sciences (tied): BlueWare Inc., Cadillac, MI, United States; Vocera Communications, Inc., San Jose, CA, United States IBM Global Financing Outstanding Financing Program in Europe, Middle East and Africa: Computer Gross Italia Spa, Empoli, Italy Outstanding Financing Program in the Americas Group: Arrow Electronics, Englewood, CO, United States About IBM Beacon Awards To learn more about IBM PartnerWorld, a comprehensive program that offers marketing and sales resources, training, certification and technical support to help create new revenue and market opportunities for IBM Business Partners, visit http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld. |
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