IBM Solution Developer Program Expands Support for World’s Largest Software Companies
Boosts Premier and Advanced Partner e-business Potential
Orl & o, FL (May 06, 1998) – . Today at IBM’s Technical Interchange conference, the company officially expanded its Solution Developer Program to better support the largest software companies. The program supports IBM’s Premier and Advanced level solution developers with additional marketing, sales support and technology consulting to keep these leading global businesses at the forefront of the e-business revolution.
With this extension, IBM now offers more comprehensive support to the top two levels of its Solution Developer Program’s three membership tiers — the approximately 300 Alliance Partners among the program’s total 22,000 member companies worldwide. The expansion enhancessupport for those developers who wish to adopt and quickly develop a simple and complete path to e-business with IBM technology. Coupled with the business, technical and information services already offered to Solution Developer Program members, IBM sports the most comprehensive alliance offering in the industry for e-business solution development.
“IBM is putting itself in the developer’s shoes and understands what they need to succeed,” said Jeff Mason, general manager of Solution Developer Marketing, IBM. “We’re in the business of helping our partners seize the day. Our expanded Solution Developer Program responds to developer requests by giving them more of the resources they need to build and connect e-businesses.”
“The new alliances add great value to our solutions, which means expanded business opportunities for us. As IBM is surging into the forefront of e-business, it is taking care to ensure that Solution Developer Program members have access to the e-business resources they need to remain competitive,” said Jim Holland, Corporate Alliance Director, Compuware Corporation. “IBM really understands what we need to succeed with our customers and is helping us to achieve our goals.”
“Lawson and IBM have proven to the enterprise applications industry that there is a tangible difference between truly collaborative partnerships that bring real value — versus those geared to generating marketing headlines,” said Mark Galloway, vice president, strategic planning for Lawson Software. “For more than 15 years we have delivered solutions jointly to some 850 companies worldwide. A very tangible example is the melding of the Lawson INSIGHT solution with the IBM SP’s parallel processing environment. This powerful partnership has delivered a high-performance solution to billion-dollar customers like The Penn Traffic Company and Ergon, Inc. ostensibly showcasing IBM development
breakthroughs and the joint partnership, while facilitating Lawson’s rapid ascension into the high-end market.”
Source: IBM