IBM Named Best Partnering Company by CRN Magazine

ARMONK, NY - 01 Mar 2006: IBM was named the 2006 CRN Channel Champion of Champions, in a repeat performance that honors the company two years in a row for its support of the channel and industry leadership. IBM was also recognized as 2006 CRN Channel Champion, or top vendor, in the categories of Application Integration Middleware, Advanced Workstations, Storage Management Software, Network Storage Hardware and Midrange Server at an awards ceremony in Atlanta, GA, on February 28. The CRN Channel Champion´s award program, now in its 16th year, is sponsored by CMP Media´s CRN, vital information for VARs and technology integrators.

The CRN Channel Champions study measures overall business and technology integrator perceptions of vendor products and services. The survey is the largest and broadest-based technology integrator market study in the industry. The result is a premier resource used by business and technology integrators throughout the industry to evaluate vendors and their programs.

The survey rated vendors in 26 key product and service categories. ˝The CRN Channel Champions study is a premier resource for solution providers to use throughout the year to evaluate vendors and programs,˝ said Dan Dignam, vice president/publisher, CRN. ˝Congratulations to all of the winning companies. They have demonstrated that they deliver high-quality solutions and have many satisfied business partners.˝

˝IBM´s unwavering focus -- from one end of our organization to the other -- is on delivering open, on demand solutions and services that are channel-ready, as well as offering partner programs that truly stimulate an ecosystem of growth, collaboration and innovation,˝ said Donn Atkins, general manager of IBM Global Business Partners. ˝We are dedicated to being the IT industry´s partner of choice and we are honored that the Business Partner community selected IBM as the company they most want to partner with.˝

The 2006 CRN Channel Champions Awards brings IBM´s total of awards in recognition of its Business Partner programs and initiatives to 44 since 2003, the most of any technology vendor in the period and more than Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, EMC, Computer Associates and BEA Systems combined.

About IBM
IBM is the world´s largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key business partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable companies to take full advantage of the on demand era. For more information about IBM, visit www.ibm.com.

About CRN
CRN drives sales by empowering VARs and technology integrators with the vital news and technology information they need to generate demand and grow revenue. CRN is the newspaper of record for the channel. For 24 years, VARs, Solution Providers, technology integrators and IT consultants have turned to CRN first each week for immediate and actionable information.CRN can be found on the Web at http://www.crn.com.

About CMP Media (www.cmp.com)
CMP Media is a marketing solutions company serving the technology, healthcare and lifestyles industries. Through its market-leading portfolio of trusted information brands, CMP Media has earned the confidence of more professionals and enthusiasts in these fields than any other media company. As a result, CMP is the premier provider of access, insight and actionable programs designed to connect sellers and buyers in each of these industries in ways that yield superior return on investment. CMP Media is a subsidiary of United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $3 billion.

Source: IBM
www.ibm.com

2006-03-03 15:18

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