IBM’s Mid-Market Built on Express Advantage Offerings Surpass 500 Deployments Worldwide

IBM’s Mid-Market Built on Express Advantage Offerings Surpass 500 Deployments Worldwide

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today it recently surpassed the major milestone of its 500th deployed offering under the Built on IBM Express Advantage program, launched in April, 2005. The initiative builds on IBM’s Express Advantage offerings and offers IBM Business Partners a full range of hardware, software, service and financing solutions, designed exclusively for the mid-market.

The success of IBM’s Built on IBM Express Advantage offerings is a testament to the ease with which IBM Business Partners can enroll in and benefit from this initiative. Enrollment requires that IBM Business Partners utilize one IBM Express Advantage offering and complete one mid-market installation. The program is inclusive of all IBM Business Partners types and focuses on enabling Partners who serve the mid-market by providing them with the targeted support and offerings to deliver their own mid-market applications and services to this key customer set.

The pay-off to both IBM Business Partners and to the mid-market clients they serve is that the partners can focus their attention on developing leading-edge industry and infrastructure solutions on the IBM Express Advantage offerings platform. Built on IBM Express Advantage opens the door for IBM Business Partners to take advantage of IBM’s vast resources, and use these resources as leverage for developing their own high-value solutions and services for the mid-market.

“IBM’s Built on Express Advantage program allows a company like NSI to build a solutions-focused business, raising us above the commodity clutter and enabling us to provide complete business solutions to our mid-sized customers,” said Tom McDonald, President of New England Systems Inc, an IBM Business Partner.

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