IBM Tivoli 2010 Business Partner Awards

IBM Tivoli is pleased to announce the finalists & winners of the third annual IBM Tivoli 2010 Business Partner Awards. We are building upon the success of the last two years’ successful awards that recognized business partners who demonstrated excellence in delivering impressive business value solutions to our clients based on their integrations with Tivoli Software.

IBM Tivoli 2010 Business Partner Service Management Solution Award
This award recognizes an IBM Business Partner solution that delivers the visibility, control and automation needed to industrialize business and IT operations. Using Tivoli products as its foundation, the solution must deliver smarter services, and manage a dynamic infrastructure that enables improved service, cost reduction and impermeable security management of the customer IT infrastructure through a cohesive set of IT services across the entire organization. Furthermore, this solution must showcase how it delivers the visibility, control and automation as it manages the vast and growing smart infrastructure that keeps the world well-connected.
WINNER: Pirean
FINALISTS: B4Restore, ReachView Technologies

IBM Tivoli 2010 Business Partner Innovation Award
Innovate today for a smarter tomorrow. This award recognizes a visionary Business Partner who is leading the charge to manage the world’s infrastructure with IBM Tivoli capabilities and solutions in innovative, leading-edge, exciting ways. This solution encompasses solving the problems of today’s IT market using creative methods, becoming a driver in tomorrow’s new markets, fostering new innovation and cutting edge solutions.
Winner: Softential
FINALISTS: generationE, the Createch Group

Pulse 2010 Best of Show Award
This award recognizes a visionary Business Partner who is leading the charge to manage the world’s infrastructure with IBM Tivoli capabilities and solutions in innovative, leading-edge, exciting ways. This ground-breaking solution should be showcased at Pulse in the Expo and will encompass solving the problems of today’s IT market using creative methods, becoming a driver in tomorrow’s new markets, fostering new innovation and cutting edge solutions. Final evaluation takes place at the Pulse Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada.
WINNER: The Createch Group
FINALISTS: Orb Data, EMA Inc., Ness Technologies

Smarter Planet Award
This award recognizes a Business Partner for its dedicated work with clients to manage instrumented, interconnected and intelligent infrastructures with better visibility control and automation across IT assets, people, information and processes.
Winner: eSolutions

Equipment Provider Award
This award recognizes a Business Partner for its contribution to Tivoli’s success in 2009.
Winner: Alcatel Lucent

Application Specific License Award
This award recognizes a Business Partners for its contribution to Tivoli’s success in 2009.
Winner: StorServer

Value Added Distributor Awards

IBM Tivoli recognized three top Value Added Distributors (VADs) who delivered outstanding growth, value and support to its IBM Tivoli Software Business Partners during 2009. Chosen from over a hundred eligible distributors, the following VADs were selected as top honorees in their categories at Pulse 2010:

• Arrow ECS (US) as IBM Tivoli 2010 Distinguished VAD for Overall Contribution for delivering outstanding value and support toIBM Tivoli Business Partners.
• Avnet Canada as IBM Tivoli 2010 Distinguished VAD for driving exceptional overall new license growth through IBM Tivoli Business Partners.
• PEDAB Finland as IBM Tivoli 2010 Distinguished VAD for driving exceptional General Business new license growth through IBM Tivoli Business Partners.