IBM Beacon Awards

Overview

Value

Eligibility

Awards

Winners

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	Outstanding Enterprise Application Solution by an ISV
	Software as a Service (SaaS) Innovation
	Outstanding Industry Solution by an ISV

This Beacon Award recognizes the ISV that has brought to market an innovative enterprise application solution (ERP, CRM, HCM, SCM, etc.) beneficial to customers in multiple industries. The solution should leverage IBM hardware, middleware and services to deliver a measurable benefit to customers. The winner of this award can demonstrate customer value by successfully leveraging people, processes, relationships, and technology infrastructure to achieve customer revenue goals or expense reductions.

The winning solution will include an ISV enterprise application, one IBM hardware component, at least one IBM middleware component (i.e. Tivoli, DB2, Lotus, WebSphere, Rational), and IBM GBS or GTS implementation services. The solution must deliver a measurable competitive business advantage to the customer, be utilized by customers in multiple industry segments, and result in satisfied customers willing to be references for IBM.

Additional criteria:
Minimum of 1 (maximum of 3) client references required.

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This award recognizes an IBM Business Partner whose solution is delivered as a service to end users. The Business Partner must be part of the IBM SaaS Specialty. The business partner should be considered as an innovator in the Software as a Service market and recognized by peers for an on demand offering with an innovative pricing model that allows customers to respond rapidly to changing market conditions.

Additional criteria:
Minimum of 1 (maximum of 3) client references required.

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This Beacon Award recognizes the ISV that has brought to market a key innovative, industry solution.

The innovative solution should leverage open standards, must incorporate and lead with two or more IBM middleware infrastructure and hardware components, improve industry processes and demonstrate significant IBM revenue and market share. This award distinguishes that ISV whose solution clearly sets them apart in the marketplace and impacts IBM's market position. The IBM Business Partner must not endorse any proprietary infrastructure technologies.

Additional criteria:
Minimum of 1 (maximum of 3) client references required.

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