Congratulations to the 2007 Lotus Award Finalists and Winners!
The IBM Lotus Awards recognize IBM Business Partners
who have set the standard for business excellence, ingenuity,
and customer satisfaction. IBM Lotus honors your vital contribution
to the worldwide industry of products, services and solutions based
on Lotus offerings.
On behalf of the IBM Lotus team, thank you for your continued
commitment.
This category recognizes a solution that provides a company with improved productivity through increased real-time collaboration and human interaction. The winning solution must bring people - employees, customers, and/or suppliers -- together, through messaging, calendaring and scheduling, and collaborative applications, while helping to lower the total cost of ownership of the company's messaging and collaboration infrastructure. Solutions could include competitive migrations, new installations to address unserved or under-served users, delivery of messaging services to mobile users, as well as other innovative applications of Lotus messaging and collaboration solutions. Special consideration will be given to solutions in the IBM Workplace Solutions Catalog, solutions that resulted in a competitive win, and solutions that run on Linux. |
WINNER:
IntraVision (Denmark)
Solution: 4IPT Phone Suite
IntraVision's 4IPT Phone Suite is an elegant virtual telephony solution that drives productivity with quantifiable results. It extends value to the customer for a robust unified collaboration system. 4IPT Phone Suite is a creative extension of IBM Lotus Domino® calendaring functions to call centers, an area where many customers want to reduce costs while maintaining quality customer service. It is a unique solution that solves a significant business problem.
www.intravision.dk
Finalists:
Cypoint Systems Innovation AB (Sweden)
Solution: Guide Online with CYPOINT TIMS™ revolutionizes the Travel industry
www.cypoint.com
Gaia Informatica (Brazil)
Solution: RPost - Registered E-mail
www.gaia.inf.br
This category recognizes a solution that leverages IBM Lotus Notes and Domino and the advanced collaborative capabilities Sametime and Quick Place or Workplace Services Express. A major strength of the Lotus software portfolio is the flexibility it offers businesses for integrating multiple, real-time collaborative capabilities into the user environment. This maximizes the ability for people to share knowledge and skills. Solutions may incorporate capabilities such as messaging, calendar and scheduling, instant messaging and presence awareness, Web conferences, team spaces, and/or workflow. |
WINNER:
Relavis Corporation (USA)
Solution: Relavis CRM
The Relavis CRM solution has tremendous capabilities for the full lifecycle of sales, marketing and customer service. It shows great use of the IBM Lotus Domino platform as well as a clean integration with IBM Lotus Sametime® and IBM Lotus QuickPlace® software and IBM mobile capabilities. Not only does Relavis CRM leverage an extensive array of collaboration software, it delivers a range of collaboration services with core CRM capabilities.
www.relavis.com
Finalists:
Adrenalin eSystems Limited (India)
Solution: Adrenalin Human Capital Management Software
www.myadrenalin.com
Brookstone Technologies Pty Limited (Australia)
Solution: BrookstoneVirtualOffice
www.brookstonetechnologies.com
This award recognizes a solution that leverages IBM WebSphere Portal to create a dynamic internet, intranet, and/or extranet work environment. This solution should demonstrate how it met customer requirements (both from an IT and an end-user's perspective) and delivered business value. Solutions may use any of the offerings in the WebSphere Portal family (IBM WebSphere Portal Enable, Extend, Express, or Express Plus). Special consideration will be given to solution wins made via a Business Solution-based sell, solutions that resulted in a competitive win, and solutions that position the customer to leverage SOA today or in the future. |
WINNER:
Kryos Systems (Canada)
Solution: Prairie Farmers solutions for zSeries Linux WebSphere Portal
Kryos Systems is a true business solution assisting farmers and business manager relationships across the Western Canada region. This solution provides an easy to use application for a user with little knowledge of the application. Kryos provides the opportunity for significant return on investment and to increase productivity in the mission critical grain sampling process. This solution utilizes the IBM WebSphere® Portal platform capabilities, such as co-operative portlets to efficiently provide access to information. In addition, Kryos Systems leverages the unmatched vertical scalability of the IBM SystemZ platform for deployment.
www.kryos.com
Finalists:
Flowring Technology Corporation (Taiwan, R.O.C.)
Solution: Agentflow
www.flowring.com
Gemini Systems (USA)
Solution: Enterprise Portal Platform with SOA & IBM WebSphere Portal for Intranets and Extranets
www.gemini-systems.com
This award recognizes an outstanding industry-specific solution in the commercial or public sector. To be considered for this award, the nominated solution must be deployed and fully operational at a minimum of two customer sites. Special consideration will be given to solutions that were developed for SMB (small to medium businesses with fewer than 1000 employees) and those that target commercial sector solutions (e.g. Sales Force Automation, Supply Chain Management, e-Learning, Customer Relationship Management). Particular attention will be given to solutions that resulted in a competitive win and/or solutions that position the customer to leverage SOA today or in the future. |
WINNER:
bat-groupware GmbH (Austria)
Solution: iWare
Bat-groupware's iWare is an application that manages the innovation process by supporting idea and innovation management within organizations of all sizes. iWare is a true product for the knowledge economy, where the management of innovation is the lingua franca of managers. Customers report a noticeable reduction of the innovation process timeline, and are able to learn from past projects when starting new ones. The software allows companies to assess ideas for new products in their early stages so that resources can be focused on the best ideas going forward.
www.bat-groupware.at
Finalists:
Engram GmbH (Germany)
Solution: Lokales Finanzportal
www.engram.de
Siemens Communications (USA)
Solution: Portal solution KrEx (Credit-Expert) and Siemens ComAssistant
www.siemenscommunications.com
This award recognizes an outstanding IBM Lotus Software solution sold into a mid-market customer. Solution should demonstrate how it met customer requirements and delivered business value for small to medium size business leveraging IBM's collaborative capabilities including all IBM Workplace, WebSphere Portal, and Lotus Express products. Special consideration will be given to solutions which run on Linux or run in a non-IBM environment, solutions that position the customer to leverage SOA today or in the future, and solutions that are listed in the IBM Workplace Solutions Catalog. |
WINNER:
VDoc Software (France)
Solution: VDoc Process for Websphere Portal
VDoc Process for IBM WebSphere® Portal software is a compelling, integrated suite of thirty pre-packaged applications that address core business needs of mid-sized companies. VDoc's elegant user interface makes it easy for users to design and automate business process without programming skills, and is already in production with many VDoc customers.
www.vdocprocess.com
Finalists:
DLI.tools Inc (Canada)
Solution: DocLogic Document Manager
www.dlitools.com
GEDYS IntraWare GmbH (Germany)
Solution: CRM-Suite
www.gedys-intraware.de
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 which make developing, deploying and administering applications more productive in a customer environment. Special consideration will be granted to those tools/ utilities that bring together Domino applications with other open standard environments including to the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) environment and Eclipse. Particular attention will be given to solutions in the IBM Workplace Solutions Catalog and solutions that position the customer to leverage SOA today or in the future. |
WINNER:
Instant Technologies (USA)
Solution: Instant Queue Manager
Instant Queue Manager provides the equivalent of a telephone helpdesk within the Instant Messaging environment of IBM Lotus Sametime® software. Queue Manager takes customer queries and stores them in a Lotus Domino® database, where they can be acted upon or moved automatically via a Lotus Domino® Agent into another system such as Remedy, Act, PeopleSoft or SAP application. Furthermore, the IBM Lotus Sametime ® 7.5 plug-in architecture allows chat sessions with multiple customers at a time, canned responses, and common answers. Instant Technologies utilized the IBM Lotus Sametime® Toolkits along with the IBM Lotus Sametime® 7.5 plug-in architecture and IBM Lotus Domino® to build this application.
www.instant-tech.com
Finalists:
Idokorro Mobile, Inc. (Canada)
Solution: Idokorro Mobile Admin
www.idokorro.com
Smartdot Technologies Co., LTD (China)
Solution: iOA (integration Oriented Office Automation) Solution
www.smartdot.com.cn
This category recognizes a solution that extends the real-time collaboration experience of IBM Lotus Sametime through the plug-in environment provided by Lotus Sametime 7.5. This plug-in environment, which leverages Eclipse technology, provides customers and partners with a capability to develop custom solutions and integrate business applications directly into the Sametime instant messaging client; transforming the client into a platform for real time collaboration. Submissions for this category should be plug-ins to the Lotus Sametime 7.5 environment, and will be judged on the business value they return, 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:
Imixs Software Solutions GmbH (Germany)
Solution: IX Plugin for IBM Lotus Sametime
The IX plugin for IBM Lotus Sametime® takes collaboration to a new level, adding workflow to the IBM Lotus Sametime® 7.5 real-time environment. This creative solution lacks at presence and instant messaging as an environment from which workflow and activities can be assigned and managed. Real-time workflow via IM moves the discussion beyond the buddy list and supports the notion of real-time collaborative applications becoming the next wave of innovation. IMIXS provides a cross-platform solution that can work alone or with IBM Lotus Domino® and IBM Lotus Notes® applications.
www.imixs.com
Finalists:
iscoord ag (Switzerland)
Solution: is-phone 7.0 for IBM Lotus Sametime
www.iscoord.com
RADVISION, Inc. (USA)
Solution: Click to Meet for IBM Lotus Sametime
www.radvision.com
This category recognizes a solution that leverages IBM Workplace Forms to improve business productivity by helping to reduce the problems inherent with paper-based forms processes. The winning solution should provide far more than simple electronic print and fill capabilities. It should aid in streamlining and automating end-to-end business processes that are initiated by forms by leveraging one or more of the following capabilities: digital signatures, connected and disconnected users, XForms, business logic within the forms, guided wizards, integration with back-end systems and other IBM products (e.g., IBM WebSphere Portal, IBM Content Manager, IBM Notes/Domino) and the ability to process forms via a web browser and the IBM Workplace Forms Viewer. Special consideration will be given to solutions in the IBM Workplace Forms Catalog. |
WINNER:
Spheronic Pty Ltd (Australia)
Solution: Financial Services Forms
Through Spheronic's delivery of a streamlined development method and architecture, their clients have been able to achieve improved speed to market and ease of use, enhanced capability to address confidentiality/security/legal compliance requirements, and integration with key back-end systems. The solution provides a development approach and method for deployment that maximizes the integration points between IBM Workplace Forms, IBM WebSphere® Portal (and/or IBM WebSphere® Application Server), and a variety of process engines. Additionally, Spheronic Forms Factory enables conversion of large numbers of forms typically at a fraction of the skill and cost of providing in-house form conversion. Spheronic's IBM Workplace Forms-based solution can help financial services organizations automate their business processes via improved electronic data capture, electronic signature capabilities, and pre-population of forms from desktop and portal applications.
www.spheronic.com
Finalists:
Enterprise Information Management, Inc. (USA)
Solution: Enterprise Information Management Solution
www.eim-usa.com
ITM Associates, Inc. (USA)
Solution: inFusion eForms
www.itmassociates.com
IBM provides the business and technical expertise, software, and services to help companies enable people-centric interaction and collaboration using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). This category recognizes solutions that promote efficiency, flexibility, and innovation through SOA projects that leverage IBM's extensive collaborative portfolio of products and solutions. Nominees will be judged by how well they delivered a personalized, streamlined environment for employees to interact with other employees, customers and partners while accessing and receiving targeted information in the context of business processes and leveraging key SOA elements. Technology considerations for this category include WebSphere Portal 6.0 for composite applications and portlet (service) generation, Lotus Sametime 7.5 for real-time collaboration, Lotus Expeditor for server-managed application deployment, and Dashboard Frameworks for developing business result views and key performance indicators. Special consideration will be given to solutions that demonstrate successful SOA implementations using additional IBM technology such as Master Data Management and IBM Content Manager for integrated data and content management, Tivoli tools for governance and management, Rational tools for reuse, and WebSphere technology for business process management. |
WINNER:
PSC Group, LLC (USA)
Solution: Sales Scoreboard Portal for Universal Underwriters Group
Universal Underwriters Group (UUG) engaged the PSC Group to create a Sales Scoreboard Portal. UUG needed a more proactive, 360-degree view of their customer, focusing primarily on sales data. With information spread across 10 disparate policy systems, PSC applied the IBM SOA model and leveraged IBM WebSphere® Portal software to aggregate all information into a single location, using SOA development techniques, web services, and portlets to surface data and workflow from IBM WebSphere® Application Servers, legacy systems, and DB2® data repositories. This new system significantly reduced the turnaround time and manual tasks in data collection, compilation, and analysis, yielding a $3 million (USD) revenue increase for UGG within the first 6 months of operation. Leveraging IBM WebSphere® Portal, portlet technology, and web services, PSC executed the classic "first major application of SOA concepts".
www.psclistens.com
Finalists:
Ascendant Technology (USA)
Solution: Austin Energy Multi-family Partnership Program Portal
www.atech.com
Peace System Integration (Taiwan)
Solution: Re-estimates of Financial Capital Assets & Risk Management
www.peace.com.tw
This award honors the top IBM Business Partners from each major region of the world. Winners must demonstrate increased revenue attainment and loyalty, along with the ability to open new regional markets, and to maintain a positive stature in the Business Partner community. Business Partners considered in this space can significantly impact Lotus' position in the marketplace and will be considered rising stars amongst their peers. |
North America winner:
Ascendant Technology (USA)
www.atech.com
Ascendant Technology, headquartered in Austin, TX with offices across the US, is a Premier level member of IBM PartnerWorld, notable for its dedication and loyalty to IBM. A finalist for the Distinguished Achievement Award last year, Ascendant has more than doubled the amount of software and services business delivered for IBM in 2006. Recently, Ascendant was recognized by the Pacific Southwest region as the 2006 Tour de Force Award winner - based on leading YTY software revenue growth and feedback from regional Client Representatives and Software Sales Representatives that Ascendant invests in pre-sales and is easy to do business with.
Finalists:
E2 Consulting (USA)
TamGroup (USA)
Latin America winner:
Azurian (Chile)
www.azurian.com
Azurian not only achieved the best results in license revenue in Latin America for the SMB market, but also achieved two IBM WebSphere® Portal certifications in 2006 and closed three deals with IBM Lotus® software and IBM WebSphere® Portal within the first and third quarters of 2006.
Finalists:
Arpia (Brazil)
Soluciones Integrales Tecnológicas (Mexico)
Asia Pacific winner:
Japan Business Computer Corporation (Japan)
www.jbcc.co.jp
Japan Business Computer Corporation (JBCC) was founded in 1964. Throughout 2006, JBCC has achieved consistent transactional revenue growth and shown solid contribution to their SMB business. As a result, in 2006 JBCC was one of the leading IBM Lotus® Solution Providers in Japan. The JBCC and IBM team are committed to continuing their strong relationship in 2007.
Finalists:
MDCL-Frontline Co. Ltd. (China) www.mdcl.com.cn
Cordial (Korea) www.cordial.co.kr
Northeast Europe winner:
ebf GmbH (Germany)
www.ebf.de
In 2006, EBF has managed to exceed double digit growth in IBM Lotus® SMB new licenses by achieving an impressive +300%. As a key partner in the German market, EBF has grown into one of the largest Lotus® SMB license sales contributors, combining continued value add to its Lotus installed base, new customer acquisitions and competitive win-backs. Moreover, EBF has expanded the market for new Lotus technology including, IBM Workplace technology and IBM WebSphere® Portal, whilst investing in building and selling mobile solutions together with BlackBerry, Vodafone and T-systems. This year they have added 10 new SMB customers on Lotus platforms with another 50 new customers reported in pipeline.
EBF invests in building and maintaining Lotus skills by participating in Lotusphere ®, IBM Software University, and by writing Lotus Technology Redbooks on-site with the Lotus development labs.
Nominated on previous occasions for the Distinguished Achievement Award, EBF's continued impressive results, customer loyalty, and ability to open the door to new customers with new technologies make them a worthy choice for the 2006 Award.
Finalists:
GoPro (Iceland)
BT Global Services (United Kingdom)
Southwest Europe winner:
Edifixio (France)
www.edifixio.com
Edifixio is a consulting society with 150 employees, located in Paris (FR), Grenoble (FR), Boston (US) and Calcutta (India). An IBM Lotus® Business Partner for 3 years, Edifixio has engaged a training strategy to develop their IBM business, working with IBM Lotus® software and IBM WebSphere® software. During 2005 and 2006, Edifixio has deployed more than 50 IBM WebSphere® Portals for customers of major companies.
Finalist:
Tecla (Italy)
The CTO award recognizes those visionary IBM Business Partners who are leading the charge in exploiting Lotus' latest collaborative capabilities in innovative, leading-edge, and exciting new ways. These best-of-a-kind solutions will be drivers in tomorrow's new markets, fostering innovation, and at an ingenuity level above the normal boundaries. Final evaluation takes place at the Lotusphere Showcase in Orlando.
America's winner:
ITM Associates, Inc. (USA)
Solution: InFusion eForms
www.itmassociates.com
eForms is one of the fastest growing application areas in our portfolio. ITM’s Infusion system provides customers and solution providers with an innovative system for speeding time to solutions for business applications based on forms. Infusion makes great leverage of the XML and Xforms specifications in their solution. These standard-based specifications allow ITM to separate form data, flow of control and visual interface to optimize and simplify data collection, forms routing, integration with other systems; all while retaining the digital integrity of the forms system. Their solution embodies the essential patterns for eForms applications, and surfaces those patterns in easy to understand business-oriented metaphors and control panels.
Finalists:
Attensa, Inc. (USA)
Solution: HannoverDJ
www.attensa.com
RADVISION, Inc. (USA)
Solution: Click to Meet for IBM Lotus Sametime
www.radvision.com
Europe, Middle East and Africa winner:
maxence integration technologies GmbH (Germany)
Solution: SteeringPlace
www.mxcit.de
www.maxence.de
This maxence solution for “Composite Management Solutions” combines elements from across the entire Lotus and Workplace solutions portfolio.
Taking advantage of the service-oriented structure of our components, maxence built a broad-based solution comprised of a number of business information management, decision making and enterprise governance components.
Their solution includes some of the latest Lotus technologies, such as IBM Workplace for Business Strategy Execution, and Activities, and demonstrates collaboration services that can be combined for a highly customized, and business-oriented result.
Finalists:
Imixs Software Solutions GmbH (Germany)
Solution: IX Instant Workflow Plugin for IBM Lotus Sametime
www.imixs.com
Specialized Technical Services (STS) (Jordan)
Solution: Royal Jordanian Procedures & Auditing Workspace (RJPAW)
www.sts.com.jo
Asia Pacific winner:
Synaptris, Inc. (India)
Solution: IntelliPRINT Analytics
www.synaptris.com
With a real focus on the business end-user, Synaptris has created a system for data analysis and visualization that can be snapped into virtually any Notes (or non-Notes) based application system. This innovative solution allows end-users to create and manipulate their visualization definitions, and to share those with other users according to their identity and data access rights. IntelliPRINT embodies notions of visualization templates, user-driven composition and component building, but works in conjunction with and extends the notions of identity, and data security that have been hallmarks of Notes systems.
View our winning solution.
Finalists:
Ephox Corporation (Australia)
Solution: Ephox EditLive! for IBM Workplace Web Content Management
www.ephox.com
JustSystems Corporation (Japan)
Solution: xfy in Notes
www.justsystem.co.jp
www.justsystems.com
This category recognizes innovative IBM Business Partners that have adopted and leveraged the latest Lotus technologies. These IBM Business Partners have made a significant investment in IBM and Lotus, and have demonstrated fresh, unique and powerful solutions that show significant customer value. Special consideration will be given to solutions that are referenceable. Final evaluation takes place at the Lotusphere Showcase in Orlando.
WINNER:
Ephox Corporation (Australia)
Solution: Ephox EditLive! for IBM Workplace Web Content Management
www.ephox.com
INNOVATION and the Spark of Genius come alive! Historically, web-based editing has not met the needs of a market where expectations have been set by desktop editors. Ephox Edit Live! has changed the game by providing rich content authoring capabilities for the web. These tools can be easily integrated with IBM Workplace Web Content Management to provide enterprise-class content authoring.
Finalists:
Mainsoft Corporation (USA)
Solution: Visual MainWin for J2EE, Portal Edition
www.mainsoft.com
RADVISION, Inc. (USA)
Solution: Click to Meet for IBM Lotus Sametime
www.radvision.com
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