CommercialWare Selected as IBM Beacon Award Winner; Integrated Solution Delivers Greater Responsiveness, Flexibility and Affordability.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NATICK, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2004 CommercialWare, Inc., a leading provider of cross-channel retail management software, has been honored with the 2004 IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) PartnerWorld(R) Beacon Beacon, city (1990 pop. 13,243), Dutchess co., SE N.Y., on the E bank of the Hudson River; settled 1663, inc. in 1913 when Fishkill Landing and Matteawan villages were united. Award for "Most Innovative Express Solution" for delivering an integrated solution that is more responsive, flexible and cost-effective for its customers. The IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards recognize IBM Business Partners that have excelled in providing quality e-business solutions and services to customers based on IBM technologies. The twenty-eight winners, selected from a worldwide pool of IBM Business Partners, were announced at an IBM Beacon Awards ceremony March 1 at PartnerWorld 2004 in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , Nevada. The "Most Innovative Express Solution" award recognizes the IBM Business Partner solution that best incorporates one or more IBM Express offerings to help a mid-market customer improve its business processes. The winning solution demonstrates significant return on investment, time to value, and ease of use in helping an organization become an on demand business -- more responsive, flexible and cost-effective. CommercialWare's CWDirect application is a powerful software solution that enables cross-channel retailers and direct marketers to support their customers at all points-of-touch. By providing retailers with an integrated suite of applications that manage the entire transaction lifecycle - from informing and capturing customer activity, to merchandising, fulfillment ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. and customer service, CommercialWare delivers a complete solution for multi-channel merchants. Integrated seamlessly with IBM WebSphere(R) Commerce Express, CWDirect solves critical business needs by providing a unified view of customer activity across multiple channels through the coordination of order management and fulfillment from all transaction points - online, call center, mail order and store operations. By streamlining and integrating multiple sales, marketing and service channels, the end customer can enjoy a seamless shopping experience and retailers can realize operational efficiencies. Swanson Health has increased its response time for customer orders by utilizing CWDirect with WebSphere Commerce Express. Now over 95% of the orders Swanson receives from its multiple channels, ship within only 12 hours of receipt. CommercialWare attributes its success and ability to deliver results with IBM Express to several IBM channel programs including SMB (1) (Small to Medium-sized Business) Also called "SME" (small to medium-sized enterprise), it refers to companies that are larger than the small office/home office (SOHO), but not huge. Advantage, ISV (Independent Software Vendor) A person or company that develops software. It implies an organization that specializes in software only and is not part of a computer systems or hardware manufacturer. Advantage, Value Advantage Plus and the WebSphere Commerce Express Early Enablement Program. "We are excited and appreciative of this honor as it recognizes the CommercialWare commitment to our customers and their success, as well as our long and productive partnership with IBM," said, Donny Askin, Founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , CommercialWare. "We are always striving to provide outstanding results for multi-channel retailers and with WebSphere Commerce Express, coupled with our point-of-sale and order management software solutions, we are able to deliver a complete retail enterprise solution." "Judges selected CommercialWare, Inc. for the 'Most Innovative Express Solution' award for delivering a fully integrated solution for mid-market customers that is more responsive, flexible and cost-effective," said Mike Borman, general manager, IBM Global Business Partners. "This award serves as a demonstration of the superior retail solutions that CommercialWare provides to its customers." For more details about the winning solutions and award finalists, please visit http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/pwhome.nsf/weblook/pw2004_beacon.html. About IBM With 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate in·no·vate v. in·no·vat·ed, in·no·vat·ing, in·no·vates v.tr. To begin or introduce (something new) for or as if for the first time. v.intr. To begin or introduce something new. , IBM is the world's largest information technology company. IBM is a leading provider of e-business solutions and is dedicated to helping companies, Business Partners and developers leverage the potential of the Internet and network computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. across a wide range of businesses and industries. The company offers a host of cross-industry and industry specific solutions designed to meet the needs of companies of all sizes. For more information on partnering with IBM, please visit: www.ibm.com/partnerworld. About CommercialWare, Inc. Headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts Natick (Pronunciation IPA: /ˈneɪtɪk/) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Natick is located near the center of the MetroWest region of Massachusetts, with a population of 32,170 at the , CommercialWare, Inc. is the leading developer of software solutions that offer cross-channel functionality to retailers and direct marketers - small and large - seeking to optimize optimize - optimisation transactions from all customer touch points. CommercialWare's comprehensive portfolio of products provide cross-channel infrastructure linking all aspects of the transaction lifecycle through point-of-sale, back-office, order management, fulfillment, customer service, collaboration, and analytics applications. CommercialWare, the "Brand in Cross-Channel Retail," offers a confluence confluence /con·flu·ence/ (kon´floo-ins) 1. a running together; a meeting of streams.con´fluent 2. in embryology, the flowing of cells, a component process of gastrulation. of solutions that power more than 250 leading retail brands, including Abercrombie and Fitch, Starbucks, Party Land, Chico's, J.Jill, Ritz Ritz elegant and luxurious hotel opened in Paris in 1898 by César Ritz; hence, ‘ritzy, putting on the ritz.’ [Fr. Hist.: Wentworth, 429] See : Luxury Camera, JoS A. Bank, and Patagonia. For additional information, please visit: www.commercialware.com IBM, PartnerWorld and WebSphere are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , other countries or both. Other company, product and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. |
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