Bangkok--10 Aug--IBM
IBM Beacon Award Recognizes IBM Business Partners for Outstanding Achievements in Business and Technology Excellence
Metro Systems Corporation was named winner of the award for “Power Your Planet -- Outstanding Power Systems Solution for Growth Markets” in the annual IBM Beacon Awards competition. This prestigious honor is awarded each year to a select number of IBM Business Partners and recognizes technical excellence and innovative solutions based on IBM products and services.
The Beacon Awards are an important component in IBM's PartnerWorld program highlighting the essential role that IBM Business Partners play in driving innovation for clients and making a difference in today's highly competitive marketplace. Teaming with IBM, these Beacon Award winners have set the standard for technical capabilities, vision, ingenuity in solving problems and client satisfaction.
“We are very proud to have won a Beacon award this year. Our business practice is selecting technology that can help customer solve their business pain. And we always study and test new technology before propose to customer. Metro Systems had previously won IBM Beacon Awards for two years and this time makes our third. Moreover, this year we are the only IBM business partners from Thailand who received this award, which is a clear demonstration of our world class standard,” said Mr. Veeraphan Durongsang, President of Enterprise Systems Group of Metro Systems Corporation Public Company Limited.
The IBM Beacon Awards provide a wide range of industry recognition, increased visibility and promotional opportunities to award winners and finalists. Hundreds of nominations were judged by a team of leading industry journalists, analysts and IBM executives, who selected winners and finalists in 9 overall categories encompassing 21 awards covering hardware, software, and service solutions, Midmarket, ISV and technical awards as well as a focus on Smarter Planet. Among the categories were three new additions for 2010: New Intelligence, Smart Work and Smarter Planet.
“Our Beacon Award winners represent the tremendous power of the IBM Business Partner ecosystem in creating unique client value through our combined capabilities, expertise and offerings," said Rich Hume, general manager, IBM Business Partner and Midmarket Organization "By winning the “Power Your Planet -- Outstanding Power Systems Solution for Growth Markets” Category award, Metro Systems has demonstrated their ability to deliver innovation to the market and help clients achieve higher value and better business outcomes."
For more information about the IBM Beacon Awards, including descriptions of the winning entries and details about the finalists, please visit
http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/page/2010_beacon.html
To learn more about IBM PartnerWorld, a comprehensive program that offers marketing and sales resources, training, certification and technical support to help create new revenue and market opportunities for IBM Business Partners, visit http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld.
About Metro Systems Corporation Public company Limited (MSC)
Metro Systems Corporation Public company Limited (MSC) was founded on January 6, 1986 as the first business partner of IBM in Southeast Asia. Since then, MSC expanded its business to offer fully integrated IT solutions & services, covering a wide range of the world’s leading IT products including IBM. As a proven record of the company’s continuing success, MSC has reached another major milestone such as becoming a public company, opening the new headquarters-Metro Campus.
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