IBM Lotus Awards 2009

This Award will be presented to an IBM Business Partner who offers a solution that extends the software user experience by leveraging new technology innovations introduced into the IBM Lotus® and IBM WebSphere® Portal portfolio. These technologies must be new since Lotusphere® 2008, such as XPages, Live Text, Composite Application integration with the Sidebar, and the Portal Web 2.0 client. They provide IBM Business Partners and customers with the capability to integrate and blend heterogeneous applications and data in the context of the end user's role, transforming solutions into a single seamless work environment that boosts end user and organizational effectiveness.

Submissions for this Award should be solutions that leverage these new technologies to extend business application functionality based on contexts defined by end consumer requirements. Entries will be judged based on the overall business value they demonstrate, the extent to which these solutions leverage the technologies, and the ability to demonstrate how these enhancements boost end user and organizational effectiveness.

WINNER:

Elguji Software, LLC (USA)

IdeaJam from Elguji Software, LLC. is the winner of the Lotusphere 2009 Breakout Technology Award. IdeaJam is an existing IBM Lotus Domino Web Application which was enhanced to leverage XPages in IBM Lotus Domino 8.5. The developers at Elguji Software evaluated XPages and selected this technology because XPages offers improvements in development, maintainability, scalability and user experience. The team at Elguji Software won this award because they made the most compelling use of this new Lotus technology. They incorporated new features such as custom controls to increase reuse and code organization as well as leveraging their existing knowledge with JavaScript and CSS. Leveraging views controls with navigation pager, the Dojo rich text control, and built-in support for AJAX made it easier to develop this applications and provide important user interface improvements. They showed how Lotus Domino XPages helped reduce their development effort needed to enhance an existing Lotus Domino application and provide a compelling Web experience. Elguji also demonstrated how IdeaJam adds business value by allowing individuals work together to share and prioritize ideas which in turn helps decision makers respond more quickly to the needs of the community.   www.elguji.com

Finalists:
Mainsoft (USA)
www.mainsoft.com

Interchange Solutions Inc. (Canada)
www.salesplace.com

This Award recognizes a solution that most effectively leverages multiple parts of the IBM Lotus portfolio, including IBM Lotus Notes® and Lotus Domino, Lotus Sametime, IBM Lotus Quickr™, IBM Lotus Forms, IBM Lotus Connections, IBM Lotus Foundations, WebSphere Portal, and IBM Mashup Center.

A major strength of the Lotus software portfolio is the flexibility businesses have in integrating a variety of rich collaborative capabilities into their environment, including:

• Exciting new Web 2.0 based social networking services
• The leading enterprise Portal platform
• Unified Communications and Collaboration for real-time awareness and communication
• Intuitive content sharing and team collaboration
• The leading messaging and collaboration platform for On Demand business
• The leading edge for integrating electronic forms into all your business processes.

Utilizing these products in an integrated solution maximizes the ability for people to share knowledge and skills across a variety of organizations and builds an unparalleled robust collaborative solution.

These solutions may incorporate a variety of capabilities: messaging, calendar and scheduling, instant messaging and presence awareness, Web conferences, team spaces, mash-ups, activities, blogs, social bookmarks, communities, electronic forms, and/or business process management.

WINNER:

Trilog Group (USA)

ProjExec 4.0 from Trilog Group is a collaborative project management solution built to run on and integrate with all IBM Lotus collaborative technologies to address the project collaboration needs of customers of all types and sizes. ProjExec 4.0 fully leverages an extensive variety of the IBM Lotus portfolio and delivers role-based, personalized access on demand to best-of-breed collaboration tools embedded in a strong project management foundation. The result is one of the most intuitive and effective project collaboration solutions on the market. Twenty-four customers have deployed the solution in 2008. One of these, a high-end international fashion house, was able to save 15% on operational project costs by utilizing many of ProjExec's innovations.   www.triloggroup.com

Finalists:
Ascendant Technology
www.atech.com

Brookstone Technologies Pty Limited
www.brookstone.com.au

This Award recognizes an outstanding solution that leverages WebSphere Portal software, IBM Accelerators for WebSphere Portal, or IBM Mashup Center. Special consideration will be given to solutions that

• provide significant business value
• have resulted in a competitive win
• were built on the WebSphere Portal Express offering,
• were built with WebSphere Portlet Factory
• position the customer to leverage SOA and/or Web 2.0 today or in the future.

Solutions may address dynamic internet, intranet, and/or extranet web environments; higher consideration will be given for deployments in more than one environment. To be eligible, at least one of the WebSphere Portal family of products (IBM WebSphere Portal Server, Enable, Extend, Express, and Portal on System z) or IBM Accelerators (Dashboard, Business Process, Content, Collaboration, Self Service, Learning, Enterprise Suite) or IBM Mashup Center must be included.

WINNER:

Ascendant Technology (USA)

The NetJets European Portal solution from Ascendant Technology enables a leading aviation company to offer personalized access to strategic applications and documents, mobile access to wireless devices, and provides a self-service environment for key operational applications. In an industry where personalized access to information are an imperative for company efficiency and customer safety, the environment is a one-stop-shop for the organization's document repository, maintained exclusively through WebSphere Portal. The portal solution provides employees with access to critical information for successful flights, including weather reports, FAA standards, and equipment specifications related to a particular flight schedule, necessary to ensure a safe and successful flight for every customer of the organization.   www.atech.com

Finalists:
Alacrinet
www.alacrinet.com

Edifixio
www.edifixio.fr

This Award recognizes an outstanding industry-specific solution in the commercial or public sectors. To be considered for this Award, the nominated solution must be deployed and fully operational at a minimum of two distinct customer sites. Special consideration will be given to solutions that were developed for SMB (small to medium businesses with 100-1000 employees) and those that target horizontal or vertical segments (e.g. Sales Force Automation, Supply Chain Management, e-Learning, Customer Relationship Management, e-governance for government, practice management for health care, financial services, manufacturing, etc. ). Particular attention will be given to solutions that resulted in a competitive win and/or solutions that leverage Web 2.0 capabilities.

WINNER:

e-On Integration S.A. (Greece)

e-ON EPI "Enterprise Process Integration" from E-ON INTEGRATION, helps the sales forces of three major banks in Greece to automate their workflows for Loan Origination and Approval processes in Consumer and Mortgage loans and related credit extension functions. The solution allows remote users to access their bank over the web, review each bank's promoted financial products, run loan calculators online, receive quotations, negotiate terms, attach supporting documents, and finally submit an application over the web, review its status and finalize loan decisions. This process usually takes a few minutes (instant credit), counting the back-office approval processes performed internally in the bank's risk management and credit departments, to verify debtor's creditworthiness. Furthermore, the system manages workflows for other consumer-lending type of products such as Credit Cards and Insurance, and Small-Medium Enterprises financing such as Leasing, Factoring and Open Credit. The banks using the system have realized in average a 30% - 50% reduced processing effort due to the automated, flexible workflow environment, a 20% savings by reducing paper-based processes, and 15% reduced training costs of the sales force network, along with a 20% - 40% increase in loan processing productivity while reducing human errors.   www.e-on.gr

Finalists:
iEnterprises
www.ienterprises.com

Ascendant Technology
www.atech.com

This Award recognizes an outstanding IBM Lotus or WebSphere Portal software solution sold to mid-market customers. The Business Partner should demonstrate how the solution met customer requirements and delivered strong business value for a customer with 100 - 1,000 employees by leveraging IBM Lotus or WebSphere Portal collaborative and integration capabilities. Special consideration will be given to solutions that enable customers to increase productivity and profitability while reducing overall operational expense.

WINNER:

iEnterprises (USA)

iExtensions CRM from iEnterprises helps mid-market companies boost productivity and profitability by using the latest technologies made available through IBM and Lotus. By marrying SOA-compliant applications with WebSphere, IBM DB2, and Lotus Notes and Domino, iEnterprises enables companies to improve overall organizational efficiencies and increase departmental sales force and customer service communication, collaboration, and productivity - even when users are away from the office. iExtensions CRM integrates with IBM Lotus Connections, helping businesses build communities and relationships around contacts to increase sales, improve response rates and enhance customer service. iExtensions CRM makes business grade social networking behind the firewall readily available and efficient. With 400 customers, iExtensions CRM generated over $2 million in Lotus software revenue in 2008.   www.ienterprises.com

Finalists:
Pavone AG
www.pavone.com

Nortel
www.nortel.com

This category recognizes a tool or utility used to enhance a business solution that brings measurable market benefits to a customer. These value-added products could include component-based, data integration, migration or team development tools that make developing, deploying and administering applications in a customer environment more productive. Now that IBM Lotus Domino® Designer is Eclipse-based, the opportunities for tools vendors to integrate have never been better. Special consideration will be granted to those tools/ utilities that bring together Lotus Domino applications with other open standard environments including the Web, Web 2.0, Java™ and Eclipse. Particular attention will also be given to solutions in the IBM Lotus and/or IBM WebSphere Portal Business Solutions Catalogs, and solutions that position the customer to leverage SOA today or in the future.

WINNER:

Permessa Corporation (USA)

Permessa Email Control! enables large, global enterprises that deploy complex mission-critical messaging systems to tightly control and reduce email costs while improving business-critical performance, compliance and security. As a result, customers - including 5 of the top 10 financial services firms, 5 of the top 10 consulting firms, and 6 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies, as well as dozens of other industry leaders - can understand their complex messaging infrastructure in ways that simply were not possible before. One customer reduced overall messaging operating costs by 40% and reporting and analysis time by 95%, saving an estimated $114,000 in less than a year.   www.permessa.com

Finalists:
iEnterprises
www.ienterprises.com

Sherpa Software
www.sherpasoftware.com

This Award recognizes a Business Partner that leverages IBM Lotus Sametime® software as a platform for delivering Unified Communications and Collaboration solutions that make it easier for people to find, reach and collaborate with one another. By integrating communications and collaboration in a rich, multimedia experience—one that can include unified telephony, voice, video, instant messaging, Web conferencing, e-mail, voice mail, and business processes and applications—Unified Communications and Collaboration solutions enable a whole new way for people, teams and communities to work together. Submissions in this category will be judged on the business value they deliver, the extent of integration with other applications or solutions, and the ability to provide new capabilities or enhancements to the end user experience that would not have previously been possible.

WINNER:

Avistar Communications Corp. (USA)

C3 Desktop Video Conferencing and Collaboration from Avistar Communications Corp. integrates with Lotus Sametime, making it faster, easier and more cost-effective for individuals and groups to meet face to face and collaborate, irrespective of distance. Available in both business and standalone editions, Avistar's easy-to-use one-click conferencing interface and on-the-fly voice, video and collaboration software requires virtually no training and can be installed and deployed in less than a day. Typical Avistar deployments reduce client travel and expense spending by 30% in the first year of operation alone, while dramatically improving productivity and providing business grade quality of service and interoperability.   www.avistar.com

Finalists:
Permessa Corporation
www.permessa.com

Polymorph
www.polymorph.co.uk

Issues and opportunities around energy, the environment, and sustainability impact every business, worldwide. Multiple factors are driving businesses to explore alternative ways to address challenges with supply costs, regulatory mandates, global teams requiring collaboration, and customer demands for "greener" vendor credentials, to name a few — while sustaining new growth. IBM Lotus and WebSphere Portal software can play a critical role in driving a smarter, greener business. This Award recognizes an outstanding IBM Lotus and/or WebSphere Portal software solution designed to enable customers to increase operational efficiency, employee productivity, and business profitability while reducing the customers' carbon foot prints. Special consideration will be given to those solutions that demonstrate measurable results with before and after scenarios.

WINNER:

KLG Systel, Ltd. (India)

connectgaia.com from KLG Systel Ltd. is a revolutionary solution to rising electricity rates and the power crisis at the micro level and global warming at the macro level. connectgaia.com provides "demand response" capabilities that empower users with information on their electricity usage, enabling them to realign consumption patterns. Wasting electricity directly impacts users, resulting in inadequate power supply, higher bills, higher rates, and even concern about future energy security. One customer using connectgaia.com was able to save nearly 9300 kWh of energy, with a return on investment in 12 months.   www.klgsystel.net

Finalists:
Alphalogix
www.alphalogix.com

Enterprise Information Management, Inc.
www.eim-usa.com

This category recognizes a Business Partner who has developed and deployed an effective solution for a not-for-profit, environmental or humanitarian effort or in support of broader civic participation.

WINNER:

PSC Group, LLC (USA)

Africa Challenge S.A. (ACSA), has joined with Zain, Africa's most successful pan-African mobile network, to create the Zain Africa Challenge (ZAC), the first-ever televised academic competition among students at 100+ African universities. Since running an event of this magnitude is exceptionally complex, PSC Group was engaged to design and implement a new infrastructure and architecture for dealing with the creation and management of ZAC content. The successful solution was called Zain Africa Challenge: Celebrating Higher Education in Africa. Because a global collaboration environment was required, IBM Lotus software was the chosen platform. The solution provided a time to market of less than one month, administrative efficiencies and seamless communication between hundreds of collaborators. By automating this process with Lotus Notes and Domino, the ZAC was conducted flawlessly and will reach an estimated 250 million people with the televised events. More information about this project can be found at www.zainafricachallenge.com 

Finalists:
ITM Associates, Inc.
www.itmassociates.com

TeamCentric Technologies
www.teamcentric.com

IBM Business Partners who invest in our partnership, maintain and grow their skills in Lotus and/or WebSphere Portal offerings, help us reach new markets, and take full advantage of our key channel programs to drive incremental business are invaluable to us. Thus, we are announcing a new Award to recognize a single IBM Business Partner worldwide who exemplifies the word "partner" to us. We will not be requesting nominations for this award; rather we will gather input and data from across our sales and marketing teams, our financial systems, PartnerWorld databases and skills reports in order to identify the winner.

Winners will be announced at Lotusphere 2009.

WINNER:

Fritz & Macziol Software und Computervertrieb GmbH (Germany)

Check back soon to read more about the 2009 Lotus Award Winners and their Innovative Solutions   www.fum.de

Finalists:
Ascendant Technology (USA)
www.atech.com

Sirius Computer Solutions (USA)
www.siriuscom.com

The CTO Award recognizes those visionary IBM Business Partners who are leading the technology charge by exploiting Lotus' and WebSphere Portals latest capabilities in innovative, leading-edge, and exciting new ways. These ground-breaking solutions are positioned to be drivers in tomorrow's new markets, fostering innovation and at an ingenuity level that stands out above their peers. Special consideration will be given to first-time nominees.

Americas

Elguji Software, LLC

IdeaJam is a "suggestion box" application designed to support open innovation practices by capturing ideas from participants and user ratings to identify the most valuable ideas for further action. IdeaJam is one of the first Domino applications built using XPages technology to create a highly engaging and usable "Web 2.0" user experience. The user interface is complemented by open data access in RSS, ODF, and XLS formats. Users can extensively - and very easily - customize the application using the Lotus Notes client, without any programming required. IdeaJam provides multilingual support, and many details of the IdeaJam process and user interface are easy to reconfigure for different use cases.   www.elguji.com

Europe, Middle East and Africa

Integra for Notes

Integra for Notes Symphony Edition enables Lotus Notes users to generate quick reports from Notes applications. It integrates with Lotus Symphony to generate spreadsheet documents that users can analyze using the Symphony DataPilot table and charting functions. Integra provides users with a four-step wizard for quickly specifying the required reports. Using the Symphony mail merge feature, Integra enables users to batch-process reports to large audiences. Integra for Notes is highly customizable, enabling solution providers to define reusable reports, as well as allowing users to create their own and save them for reuse.   www.integra4notes.com

Asia Pacific / Japan

Synaptris, Inc.

IntelliPRINT Active View from Synaptris is a solution that enables Lotus Notes users to perform sophisticated real-time analysis of Notes data directly within the Notes client. It also supports subsequent charting, printing and emailing of results. Not only does the IntelliPRINT solution help users unlock their Notes data for analysis, but by performing all data processing on the user's computer, IntelliPRINT also helps offload potentially heavy processing and storage from the Notes Domino server, thus reducing server operating costs. IntelliPRINT works with any Notes application, and is capable of handling databases that contain mis-formatted data fields. In addition, it provides a special mode for working with mail databases, supporting analysis, selection and archiving of mail messages.   www.synaptris.com/

This category recognizes an IBM Business Partner that has adopted and leveraged the latest Lotus (inclusive of WebSphere Portal) technologies, has made a significant investment in IBM and Lotus , and has an exhibit on the Showcase floor that demonstrates a fresh, unique and powerful solution that provides significant customer value. Special consideration will be given to solutions that are referenceable.

WINNER:

Instant Technology

Instant Queue Manager from Instant Technology enables organizations to manage and respond to requests for information from internal and external users in real time. Leveraging Lotus Sametime Instant Queue Manager allows easy management and prioritization of instant messaging queues via the location of an online expert who can quickly respond to requests. Features including quick and easy configuration, archiving and reporting capabilities and support for mobile clients make this a compelling solution for internal help desks, sales and customer support teams across multiply industries.   www.instant-tech.com

Finalists:
Elguji Software (USA)
www.elguji.com

iEnterprises (USA)
www.ienterprises.com

This category recognizes a single IBM distributor that has demonstrated leadership in several key areas. The distributor will have grown their total Lotus revenue year to year, and executed innovative and effective marketing campaigns to drive demand for Lotus products. Additionally, this distributor will have expanded their Lotus and WebSphere business via targeted partner recruitment, partner skill development and utilization of IBM channel marketing programs. Special consideration will be given to those distributors that have leveraged Lotus and WebSphere Portal software to run their business.

WINNER:

itX (Australia)

itX is a distributor of systems, security, virtualization and software solutions located in Australia. itX is recognized as Lotus Value Added Distributor of the Year for delivering high double-digit growth in their Notes/Domino business, driving double-digit growth in SMB new license sales, recruiting 24 new partners to the Lotus family, and investing in sales enablement universities across the country. itX has developed joint vendor initiatives to enable Apple resellers on Lotus, further extending their install base.

Additionally, the company has created a web-based demand generation tool to assist resellers in creating leads. As part of this initiative, itX developed 3 very creative Lotus campaigns, promoting Lotus Forms, Lotus Notes and Domino 8 and Lotus Foundations. itX helped partners identify opportunities across Australia with over 100 Lotus-related events and tactics. Internally, itX is a Lotus Notes, Lotus Quickr and Lotus Sametime shop, connecting their six internal branches and they have extended the use of these collaboration tools to include their reseller community. itX received high ratings from their resellers who value their "creative development" of end user demand generation tactics and "sound product knowledge".   www.itx.com.au

Finalists:
TechData Azlan (Germany)
www.jagdfieber-azlan.de

Ingram Micro US (USA)
www.ingrammicro.com

6 Regional Awards (North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Japan, Europe NorthEast, Europe Southwest).

This Award honors the top IBM Business Partners from each of six major regions of the world. Winners must demonstrate increased revenue attainment and loyalty to IBM, along with the ability to open new local markets, and to maintain a positive stature in the Business Partner community. Business Partners considered in this space significantly impact Lotus' (inclusive of WebSphere Portal) position in the marketplace and will be considered rising stars amongst their peers.

NORTH AMERICA

Software Information Systems, LLC (USA)

Software Information Systems (SIS) is a total solution provider focused on information access and collaboration technologies. SIS's "360-degree view of technology" simplifies project implementation by combining software best practices with an understanding of underlying requirements such as security and infrastructure performance. Leveraging creative approaches to changing market needs for over 26 years, SIS maintains long term relationships with over 800 clients throughout the U.S.   www.thinksis.com

Finalists:
Ascendant Technology (USA)
www.atech.com

Perficient (USA)
www.perficient.com

LATIN AMERICA

Masterdom (Brazil)

Since 1988, in the Brazilian market Masterdom has been a certified IBM Premier Business Partner working with large companies from various sectors of the economy, with special emphasis in government. With a remarkable 2008, Masterdom saw growth of 35% in new licenses revenue, new certifications, 100% attendance in sales enablement sessions; Sponsorship of two major brand summits; played an important role in influencing major deals have made valuable contributions to the Lotus Business in Brazil.   www.masterdom.inf.br

Finalists:
Iberia (Brazil)
www.iberianet.com.br

Technology Specialist Group Ltda (Columbia)
www.tsgroup.com.co

NORTHEAST EUROPE

Open Logic (United Kingdom)

Since 2002 Open Logic have been investing in building rich sales and technical expertise in Portal and more recently in collaboration 2.0. Their innovative approach to marketing has ensured a regular flow of prospects and customers to the Lotus portfolio with industries ranging from education to transport and travel. Acting as trusted advisor to many of their customers Open Logic have added a number of blue chip customers to their roster and have twice featured in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100, a measure of the UK's fastest growing technology companies. In 2008 Open Logic once again demonstrated the strength of its customer relationships in helping IBM secure some sizable contracts and create a number of promising portal/web 2.0 opportunities. Winner of three UK Software Business Partner Awards. It is with great pleasure that we present this year's North East Distinguished Achievement Award to Open Logic.   www.openlogic.co.uk

Finalists:
Edcom (Germany)
www.edcom.de

BIT Bücker GmbH (Germany)
www.bueckergmbh.de

SOUTHWEST EUROPE

AIRC (Portugal)

AIRC is the leading information technology consulting firm for City Councils in Portugal. AIRC have developed a portal-based solution called MyNet. MyNet provides City Councils with a turn-key e-administration solution, allowing employees and citizens to collaborate is an easier manner and access several services with just one interface. AIRC has already deployed their solution in more than 30 city councils in Portugal (>600K, inc. 50K in Q4'08), and more are expected implementations will follow in the coming years. AIRC has a strong position in local government and are constantly positioning IBM Websphere Portal as the front end for applications, against all the pressure of Microsoft.   portal.airc.pt

Finalists:
ASI (France)
www.asi-informatique.fr

BYTE (Greece)
www.byte.gr

ASIA PACIFIC

Lauren (India)

Lauren Information Technologies Pvt Ltd established in 1992, continues its evolution today by striving for excellence with its products, solutions and services. An ISO 9001:2000 Certified Company with 300 plus employees, Lauren has offices in all the major locations across India, including uts Head office based out of Mumbai and Branch Locations in Pune, Nasik, Baroda, Hyderabad, Bangalore, & Chennai. Lauren also has its service representative offices in Delhi, Kolkatta & Cochin. Providing end-to-end solutions on the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions using various IBM technologies, Lauren has been recognized for their outstanding work as the Asia Pacific Distinguished Achievement Award winner.   www.lauren.co.in

Finalists:
ISW (Australia)
www.isw.com.au

Smartdot (China)
www.smartdot.com

JAPAN

Ricoh Sales Co., Ltd. (Japan)

Ricoh Sales Co., Ltd. based out of Japan, has leveraged the capabilities of the IBM Lotus Notes and Domino business as a matter of highest priority in their solution business. Ricoh Sales Co,. Ltd. has actively promoted the development of their own Lotus Notes and Domino solutions for internal control system, eco-DB and e-Learning. As a result of their dedication and success, Ricoh brought IBM revenue more than $2M/year in FY05-07 and in FY08 their sales revenue for Lotus amounted to $2.05M in FY08.   www.ricoh.com

Finalists:
CSK Systems Nishinihon Corporation (Japan)
www.csk.com

NEC Nexsolutions, Ltd (Japan)
www.nec-nexs.com

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