Champion Solutions Group Wins IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Award for IGS Teaming for Resellers
Team Selling Paradigm Produces Major Business Growth for IBM Premier Partner
Boca Raton, FL, February 3, 2006 - Champion Solutions Group, an IBM Premier Business Partner, has been named winner of the "Best IGS Teaming for Resellers" award in the annual IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards competition, honoring IBM Business Partners for their innovation, customer satisfaction and outstanding achievements in providing on demand business solutions.
Champion Solutions Group delivers technology infrastructure solutions that are designed to increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve overall system performance and availability.
A long time IBM Remarketing Business Partner, Champion redefined its relationship with IBM Global Services (IGS) in 2005 to focus on team selling in specific service areas. The team approach produced success in ebusiness Hosting, Learning and Labor-based services and achieved 20 percent growth year-to-year.
Champions Services Teaming strategy was a highly focused effort to team with IGS across multiple solution areas that produced measurable business growth. Champion also enjoys an excellent reputation for customer service, as evidenced by the many customers waiting for Champion to become available to initiate projects.
"Judges selected Champion Solutions Group as the winner in this category based on its ability to deliver cutting edge innovative value to customers while working closely with IBM to both benchmark and extend those solutions and technologies," said Donn Atkins, General Manager, IBM Global Business Partners. "Champion Solutions Group is combining technology expertise with business insight to help their clients innovate on important business issues and realize real efficiencies."
"It is with great honor to be recognized by the largest IT services company in the world with such a prestigious award," stated Chris Pyle, President and CEO, Champion Solutions Group. "Winning the IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Award for IGS Teaming validates our strong partnership and illustrates our unique ability to bring innovation to the marketplace. By teaming with IGS across multiple solution areas for On Demand Business, we are able to deliver key services and provide more feature-rich solutions to our clients."
About IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards:
862 nominations were judged by a team of leading industry journalists, analysts, and IBM executives, who selected winner and finalists in 36 award categories. These IBM Business Partners will be honored during the IBM PartnerWorld 2006 Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, March 12 - 15. For more information about the IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards please visit http://www-1.ibm.com/partnerworld/pwhome.nsf/weblook/pub_awards_pwbeacon_nom.html
About Champion Solutions Group:
Champion Solutions Group, an IBM Premier Business Partner headquartered in Boca Raton, FL, specializes in the design and implementation of data management (storage networking, backup and recovery, server and storage virtualization), high availability clustering, server and storage consolidation, network computing, managed maintenance services, eBusiness and managed infrastructure services solutions. These solutions help our clients increase application productivity, reduce costs, and improve overall system and storage performance and availability. For more information about Champion Solutions Group, please visit www.championsg.com .
