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Congratulations to the 2008 Lotus Award Winners and Finalists! This year, IBM Business Partners have leveraged the IBM software portfolio to develop business solutions that support enterprises, communities and collaboration around the world. IBM evaluated nominations from five continents and over 30 countries, competing for top honors in 13 categories. 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 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 solutions (e.g. Sales Force Automation, Supply Chain Management, e-Learning, Customer Relationship Management, e-governance for government, practice management for health care). Particular attention will be given to solutions that resulted in a competitive win and/or solutions that leverage Web 2.0 today or in the future. |
WINNER:
E-ON Integration SA (Greece)
Retail Internet Exchange (RIX) from E-On Integration SA is a Lotus Domino-based platform for the automotive dealer industry. This real time, 24x7 working environment was designed for one of the top auto dealers in Greece for its network of 130 dealers and 1000+ car owners. RIX facilitates the implementation of standardized service procedures, helps ensure top quality services and provides a wealth of information on each car by VIN. In one year, RIX helped the customer to issue approximately 500,000 invoices, manage more than 400,000 spare parts, and generate over 150,000 service orders for more than 80 companies. According to the Lotus Award judges, "This year's Best Industry Solution winner was a nearly unanimous choice for its innovative industry solution approach."
www.e-on.gr
Finalists:
Imaginatik plc (USA)
www.imaginatik.com
Northern Collaborative Technologies (USA)
www.thenorth.com
This category (new in 2008!) recognizes solutions that leverage 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 through a unified communications experience. 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 for this category 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:
Coda OnDemand Systems (Singapore)
CodaChat from Coda OnDemand Systems is a plug-in for IBM Lotus Sametime that enables real-time, instant translation across multiple languages, in a one-to-one chat session, or a many-to-many conference session. CodaChat allows people of different native languages to communicate with one another, enabling expertise to be shared more easily across language barriers. In a CodaChat session each party types and receives messages in their respective language of choice. This capability is particularly useful for multi-national corporations that do not share a common language, and for helpdesk functions that service worldwide constituencies. "CodaChat is an exciting technology that represents an evolutionary landmark towards enhancing the daily flow of global multi-language business communications," said one judge.
www.codaondemand.com
Finalists:
RADVISION Ltd. (USA)
www.radvision.com
VoiceRite, Inc (USA)
www.voicerite.com
This category will be judged on the development of a collaborative application that shows significant business value, creativity and uses the latest release of IBM Lotus Notes® and Lotus Domino® 8 software. The application must take advantage of the new capabilities such as but not limited to composite applications, the office productivity tools, activity centric computing, integrated instant messaging, etc. The solution must bring interactive and collaborative capabilities into the context of the processes employees' use everyday. Special consideration will be given to applications that result in a competitive win and wide deployment throughout the organization. |
WINNER:
Brookstone Technologies Pty Limited (Australia)
Brookstone Technologies Pty Limited enabled their customer, a leading utility, to improve the way they do business in order to increase market share, enhance profitability, increase revenues, boost efficiency, control costs, and improve customer service. Brookstone Technologies designed a custom version of the BrookstoneVirtualOffice™ (BVO) a comprehensive suite of fully integrated next-generation Business Productivity applications/modules. The BVO is built on Lotus Notes and Domino and uses IBM Lotus Sametime for awareness and instant communication support. Brookstone Technologies' customer was able to (1) improve management and dissemination of critical business knowledge (2) increase efficiency in personnel rostering & scheduling management and (3) improve and simplify internal processes with extensive workflow. The result? The customer's operations are currently growing at the astounding rate of 10% per month and their market share is rapidly increasing.
www.brookstonetechnologies.com
Finalists:
Extracomm Inc. (Canada)
www.extracomm.com
Sherpa Software (USA)
www.sherpasoftware.com
This category recognizes a Business Partner who has developed an effective solution for a not-for-profit, environmental or humanitarian effort or in support of broader civic participation. |
WINNER:
Lotus 911, Inc. (USA)
The Mission Control System from Lotus 911 tracks information on patients who need free air transportation to medical treatments not available locally and for other compassionate purposes that benefit the community. The Lotus Notes and Domino system provides the capability to compare schedules of available pilots with the requirements of each patient to successfully complete the mission on time and as inexpensively as possible. The Mission Control System includes publishing information to the web, emailing approvals, paging pilots, online creation of forms and approvals, flight schedules, patient information and histories, pilot and plane information, and more. The enormous benefit of being able to instantly share specific information based on role, coordinate flights with active pilots and report back on the results has quadrupled the ability to cover cases and, in some cases, saving lives.
www.Lotus911.com
Finalists:
Cedros (Germany)
www.cedros.com
PSC Group, LLC (USA)
www.psclistens.com
This award recognizes a solution that leverages IBM WebSphere® Portal software standalone or in conjunction with one of our five (5) IBM Accelerators (Dashboard, Content, Collaboration, Self Service, Enterprise Suite) 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 and Server). Special consideration will be given to solution wins made using a Business Value Assessment methodology, solutions that resulted in a competitive win, solutions that are built on the WebSphere Portal Express offering, and solutions that position the customer to leverage SOA today or in the future. |
WINNER:
Alphalogix, Inc. (USA)
Alphalogix Inc. helped a $4B global manufacturer and distributor in the food services industry create an intranet enterprise portal complete with business process automation, collaboration capabilities, dashboard technology and effective communication channels to enhance business efficiency between their departments and communication with their customers. The Alphalogix Complete Enterprise Portal integrates IBM WebSphere Portal, Lotus Quickr team spaces, internal wikis and blog discussions, Alphalogix Business Process Automation, IBM Dashboard Framework, and Lotus Sametime. With Alphalogix Complete Enterprise Portal, the customer can control its vast and dispersed network of employees, reducing risk of internal miscommunication while lowering operational costs and improving overall productivity.
www.alphalogix.com
Finalists:
Ascendant Technology (USA)
www.atech.com
Trilog Group, Inc. (USA)
www.triloggroup.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 a customer with 100 - 1,000 employees leveraging IBM's collaborative and integration capabilities including all Lotus and WebSphere Portal branded offerings. Special consideration will be given to solutions that enable customers to increase productivity and profitability while reducing overall operational expense. |
WINNER:
Genius Inside SA (Switzerland)
Genius Project4Domino from Genius Inside is a collaborative project management solution using Lotus Notes or the Web. Genius Project4Domino provides all the functionality project managers and executives need to design, manage and track a range of projects across locations and among companies, suppliers and contractors. Genius Project4Domino allows project managers to define and build project plans; create associated documents such as contracts, specifications, diagrams, drawings, etc.; find available individuals based on skills, work hours, type, etc.; allocate specific individuals to complete specific tasks; monitor project progress and track budgets. Genius Project4Domino empowers organizations to gain optimal results from their most valuable asset - their people.
www.geniusinside.com
Finalists:
RESolutions Consulting, LLC (USA)
www.resolutionsconsulting.com
4C Technologies (USA)
www.cccctech.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 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 Lotus 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 either 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:
Synaptris, Inc. (USA)
IntelliPRINT Reporting from Synaptris Inc. provides users with advanced real-time data reporting, distribution and visualization capabilities within the context of the Lotus Notes client experience. The IntelliPRINT Report Designer allows Lotus Notes developers or business users to quickly develop and distribute reports to colleagues. Customers who use IntelliPRINT Reporting have seen 80% to 90% reduction in reporting time and the ROI was estimated to be 12 weeks from the time of deployment. Noted one judge, "Synaptris Inc. has delivered a proven solution that allows customers to develop and deliver reports based on the valuable data stored within their Lotus Notes applications."
www.synaptris.com
Finalists:
Rove (Canada)
www.rovemobile.com
Blackberry by Research in Motion (Canada)
www.blackberry.com
This category recognizes a solution that most effectively leverages part or all of the IBM Lotus portfolio including IBM Lotus Notes and Domino, Lotus Sametime, Lotus Quickr™, Lotus Forms, Lotus Connections and WebSphere Portal software.
A major strength of the Lotus software portfolio is the flexibility offered to businesses for 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 & communication, intuitive content sharing and team collaboration, the leading messaging and collaboration platform for On Demand business, and 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 large variety of capabilities such as messaging, calendar & scheduling, instant messaging & presence awareness, Web conferences, team spaces, mash-ups, activities, blogs, social bookmarks, communities, electronic forms, and/or business process management. |
WINNER:
GEDYS IntraWare GmbH (Germany)
Three thousand customers worldwide use the GEDYS IntraWare 7 CRM suite to gain a 360-degree customer view, supporting customer acquisition, building customer loyalty and enhancing customer service. GEDYS IntraWare 7 incorporates a wealth of technologies from the Lotus portfolio, including Lotus Notes and Domino, IBM Websphere Portal, Lotus Sametime, Lotus Connections, Lotus Quickr, and the Lotus Productivity Tools. The solution provides companywide management of addresses, group appointments, campaigns, complaints, and documents, an ITIL conforming help desk, and a sales information system. At the touch of a button, internal and external staff members can gain access to all relevant customer information, plus related operations and projects. As a result, companies are able to reduce redundant data dramatically while improving communication with customers, business partners and suppliers.
www.gedys-intraware.com
Finalists:
GIS GmbH (Germany)
www.gish.de
OpusNeo (Denmark)
www.opusneo.dk
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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. Special consideration will be given to innovative first-time nominees. Final evaluation takes place at the Lotusphere® Showcase in Orlando.
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Americas
Trilog Group - (United States)
www.projexec.com
This year, Trilog is awarded for their market leading explorations of the infrastructure and business support systems for Domino and Portal based application in a "Software - as - a - Service" delivery model. Trilog has understood and embodied important principles of this emerging market segment, and provided software support systems that will ultimately enable many ISVs to adapt their applications to the SaaS environment. Their supporting software for ProjExec - Online, their SaaS version, pushes the edge of technology for provisioning, rating, billing, offering management and multi-tenancy and greatly expands the reach for partner applications.
Finalists:
Ascendant Technology (USA)
www.atech.com
enChoiceTM (USA)
www.enchoicesystems.com
Europe, Middle East and Africa
Haus Weilgut GmbH - (Germany)
www.mindplan.com
Haus Weilgut's Mind plan is an innovative juxtaposition of popular "mind mapping" project and activity conceptualization and brain storming, and more traditional task oriented project management. Taking full advantage of the multiple UI programming models supported by Lotus Expeditor, and the Notes client, Mind Plan integrates SWING, SWT and Notes components in one usable system. Their use of the Domino file store for the internal representation of the Mind Plan data allows them flexibility of information access, and support for off-line working, without compromising the usability or features of their mind map based interface. This use of alternate UIs foreshadows what we see as an emerging trend for alternate and purpose built user interfaces atop the Notes/Domino infrastructure.
Finalists:
GoPro Ltd (Iceland)
www.gopro.net
Acuity B.V. (Netherlands)
Asia Pacific and Japan
Blueleaf Corporation - (Japan)
www.blueleaf.co.jp
Blueleaf has an innovative approach to the integration of IBM Collaboration and IBM ECM systems that enables and exploits many elements of the IBM portfolio. With particular innovation around the use of DXL and XML for the creation of ECM replicas of Notes documents, meta data and access control information, and the presentation of that information using the composite application and side shelf capabilities of the Notes client; Blueleaf has created luggage room, a truly usable yet comprehensive content management system. We were particularly impressed with their support for CAE wiring, and the enablement that this will provide for other value added partners.
Finalists:
Synaptris, Inc. (India)
www.synaptris.com
YAMAHA Corporation (Japan)
www.yamaha.co.jp
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6 Regional Awards: North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Japan, Europe NorthEast, Europe Southwest.
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' (inclusive of WebSphere Portal) position in the marketplace and will be considered rising stars amongst their peers.
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Japan
Otsuka Corporation (Japan)
www.otsuka-shokai.co.jp
Otsuka Corporation is a contributor in Japan and one of the most contributed business partners for Japan, particularly in the SMB market. Otsuka Coporations has performed over $6M in revenue in 2007 with over 30% growth. Having a tremendous growth with huge business size, Otsuka has reach new heights.
Finalists:
Hitachi Software Engineering Co.,Ltd. (Japan) hitachisoft.jp
PFU LIMITED (Japan) www.pfu.fujitsu.com
Asia Pacific
Softcell Technologies (India)
www.softcell.co.in
Softcell is a leading provider of a broad range of IT computing products, software and professional IT services helping companies enable, manage and secure their IT environment. Softcell serves over 5,000 customers and has the process knowledge and technical expertise to ease a customer’s burden of selecting and purchasing IT assets while streamlining IT management and costs. Established in 1989, Softcell provides ‘Total IT Solutions’ in the realm of Software Licensing, Systems Integration services, Engineering Services, Internet Hosting services and Facilities Management.
Headquartered in Mumbai, Softcell Technologies maintains sales offices in 6 major cities in India at New Delhi, Kolkata, Pune, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai.
Finalists:
Softwork (Taiwan) www.esoftwork.com.tw
Maum Info (Korea) www.mauminfo.co.kr
Northeast Europe
GIS (Germany)
www.gish.de
GIS a long time Lotus partner set out on a path to triple their 2006 Lotus software revenue. In the first three quarters of 2007 GIS doubled their 2006 software revenue for Lotus and look set to close out the year in style. In 2007 they have won 15 new customers to Lotus including a number of Microsoft take outs. In June they autonomously drove their first Lotus Connections social software contract and are strongly positioning themselves for early leadership in Web 2.0. They have also innovated in portal technologies bringing some great excecutive management reference cases to market and found time to co-write a business book with the theme of "distance learning with Portal technologies."
Finalists:
LAN2LAN (United Kingdom) www.lan2lan.com
3ESS Konsulentselskap AS (Norway) www.3ess.no
Southwest Europe
Sowre Consulting España (Spain)
www.sowre.es
Sowre Consulting España is an IT consulting company located in Barcelona and Madrid focused on development and implementation of solutions based on IBM middleware SW: Lotus, Websphere and Rational. An IBM Premier Business Partner for 4 years, Sowre employs 60 professionals and is deeply committed with the IBM SWG Channel and programs. Sowre has received an IBM Business Partner Award for Best Software Business Partner for 3 years (2003- 2005) and a finalist of an IBM Beacon Award in 2006 for Best Regional Consultant and System Integrator On Demand Business Solution – EMEA.
Finalists:
EASI (Belgium) www.easi.net
V Doc Software (France) www.vdocprocess.com
Latin America
IBERIA (Brazil)
www.iberianet.com.br
Finalists:
ASSIST www.assist.com.co
PLANSIS www.plansis.com.br
Americas
Perficient (US and Canada)
www.perficient.com
Perficient is a leading information technology consulting firm serving clients throughout North America. Perficient helps clients implement business-driven technology solutions that integrate business processes, improve worker productivity, increase customer loyalty and create a more agile enterprise to better respond to new business opportunities.
Finalists:
4C Technologies www.cccctech.com
Ascendant Technology www.atech.com
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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 (inclusive of WebSphere Portal) , 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, Florida.
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WINNER:
GoPro ltd
Go Pro's case management solution infuses collaboration organizations business processes and preservers all of the artifacts created through the case management system. The document and business process management solution gives employers the ability to document and organize email, contracts, instant messages and other interactions into a hierarchical context, preserving the document trail and correspondence history. Go Pro leverages capabilities of Lotus Domino, Lotus Quickplace, Lotus Sametime and WebSphere Portal in a solution that makes it easy to implement standard work processes and satisfy diverse requirements for legal and standards compliance.
www.gopro.net
Finalists:
Haus Weilgut GmbH
Solution: IX Instant Workflow Plugin for IBM Lotus Sametime
www.weilgut.de
Alphalogix
Solution: Royal Jordanian Procedures & Auditing Workspace (RJPAW)
www.alphalogix.com
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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 over year and executed innovative and effective marketing campaigns to drive demand for Lotus products. Additionally, this distributor will have grown their Lotus business via targeted partner recruitment, partner skill development and utilization of IBM channel marketing programs. Special consideration will also be given to those distributors who have adopted and leveraged Lotus software to run their business.
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WINNER:
Tech Data GmbH & Co.
Tech Data Azlan is a distributor of networking, services, storage, and software located in Munich Germany. Tech Data Azlan is the first recipient of the coveted VAD of the Year award for delivering high double digit total revenue growth and triple digit growth in SMB new licenses year over year. In addition to their strong revenue growth, they developed a variety of very creative recruitment, demand generation and enablement campaigns -- including "Go For SMB 2007", Competitive Selling Workshops, Lotusphere Comes to You hosting and OCCS (Open Client Collaboration Solutions-Linux) campaigns , Tech Data Azlan hosts a BPIC where all Lotus products are demonstrated and tested for ISV enablement activity. Additionally, they utilize Domino and Sametime within their own enterprise for internal and external collaboration. Tech Data Azlan received the highest number of EXCELLENT ratings by their resellers in the areas of technical support, responsiveness, follow through, expertise and integrity.
www.azlan.de
Finalists:
Ingram Mirco (Brasil)
www.ingrammicro.com.br
itX Group Limited
www.itx.com.au
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This category recognizes a solution that extends the Lotus Notes software user experience by leveraging the composite application framework and extensions provided by the Lotus Notes and Domino 8 release. This new composite application framework provides IBM Business Partners and customers with the capability to integrate and blend heterogeneous applications in the context of the end user's role, into the Lotus Notes 8 client; transforming solutions into a single seamless work environment that boosts end user effectiveness. Submissions for this category should be solutions that leverage the composite application framework, re-usable components or new extensions that can be integrated into the Notes 8 environment based on contexts defined by end consumer requirements. These entries will be judged based on the business value they demonstrate, the extent to which these solutions can be integrated with other applications or solutions, and ability to demonstrate how these enhancements boost end user and organizational effectiveness.
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WINNER:
e-office
The One View Management (OVM) composite application from e-office is based on the existing IBM Lotus Notes TeamSpirit CRM application. It leverages the composite application model for on the glass integration of a variety of components. These components are wired together and organized on different pages to provide a more effective user interface, replacing a busy menu pane by always-available sidebar applications and tabbed components in the main pane. Required information and applications are presented to the user in the single composite application to get their job done faster. In addition to NSF components from TeamSpirit and Lotus Notes' own mail application, Eclipse components and components which access external data and services such as Google Maps were developed and integrated to provide the complete solution. e-office have also exploited one of the strengths of composite applications by developing reusable components which can then be wired in to other applications as needed. With this composite application extension of their existing product they have shown how to innovate and add value to the application, make it easier and more compelling to use, without losing sight of the core business need that it intends to solve.
ibm.e-office.com
Finalists:
Acuity B.V.
www.acuity.nl
iEnterprises Inc.
www.ienterprises.com
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