IBM announced the winners of its 4th annual IBM Tivoli Awards. To be recognized for an IBM Tivoli award, IBM Business Partners must have delivered unique and innovative solutions that have raised the standard for business excellence and customer satisfaction.
Each of the winning solutions delivers maximum client value and provides an innovative approach to solving business challenges.
Winners and finalists for the nine award areas were selected by IBM executives as leaders who focus on deep skills and solutions.
This year, IBM added two new Tivoli awards. The Integrated Service Management (ISM) Summit Cup recognizes the IBM Business Partner that provided outstanding contribution, dedication to growth, and engagement by selling Tivoli software. The Integrated Service Management Library Solution Excellence Award recognizes the IBM Business Partner with the most popular Ready for Tivoli Service Management solution, referenced in the Integrated Service Management Library, based on customer views.
This year's IBM Tivoli Award winners are:
* ISM Summit Cup: Winner - Softential; Finalists - generationE Technologies and Pirean Limited
* Best of Show Award: Winner - Lighthouse Computer Services, Finalists - Cohesive Information Solutions, Inc and InterPro Solutions, LLC
* Business Partner Innovation Award: Winner - Total Resource Management, Inc. Finalists - Trend Micro, Inc. and Pirean Limited
* Integrated Service Management Excellence Award: Winner - generationE Technologies; Finalists - Flagship Solutions Group, Inc and Prolifics
* Smarter Planet for Service Management Award: Winner - Cohesive Information Solutions, Inc
* Application-Specific License Excellence Award: Winner - Johnson Controls, Inc.
* Network Equipment Provider Excellence Award: Winner - Alcatel-Lucent
* Integrated Service Management Library Solution Excellence Award -Winner - CiM Maintenance, Inc.
* Value Added Distributor Excellence Award: Winner - Avnet Technology Solutions
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