PARTNERING WITH IBM

Smartner and IBM are targeting mobile operators and service providers with a fully functional mobile office solution to address the growing mobile services market for small and medium-sized companies (SMEs).

Our joint offering allow operators and service providers to enter rapidly to the mobile business market, while keeping risks and costs to a minimum. The European-wide co-operation also means high quality local support and maintenance services for our customers.

The co-operation started in the summer of 2001, and in December 2002 the companies signed a marketing agreement to further enhance the relationship. Please see further information below, and contact Smartner to hear what the joint offering would mean for your enterprise customers.

	IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM is dedicated to helping customers, business partners, and developers across a wide range of industries leverage the power of the Internet for e-business.
Success Stories:	Smartner and IBM have already participated in several customer deliveries together. Please read the following success story about our customer case in Ireland. Smartner Partners with IBM to Create Vodafone Email Anywhere (PDF file, size 63 KB)
Technology Details:	Smartner Office Extender runs on IBM WebSphere infrastructure middleware. The solution can be hosted by operators or service providers, or by IBM on behalf of them in IBM's e-business Hosting Centre. Hosting Offering for Service Providers (PDF file, size 69 KB) IBM - Smartner Solution Fact Sheet (PDF file, size 281 KB)
Press Releases:	The following links take you to news about IBM and Smartner partnerhip: - Smartner offering based on IBM Technology and Services - IBM and Smartner win Vodafone contract - Smartner-IBM first partnership announcement
Contacts:	Please contact Smartner sales to get more information on our co-operation with IBM.

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