Coriell Life Sciences Wins 2015 IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Cloud Solution Hosted on SoftLayer
CAMDEN, NJ - Feb 11, 2015 - Coriell Life Sciences was named a winner of a 2015 IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Cloud Solution Hosted on SoftLayer. Each year, this honor is awarded to a select number of IBM Business Partners who have delivered exceptional solutions to drive business value and transform the way their clients and industries do business in the future. The 2015 awards recognize achievements across a wide-range of solution areas, including, cloud, analytics, mobile, security and social business.
The Beacon Awards recognize an elite class of visionary business leaders, and were incredibly honored to be included in that company, said Scott Megill, President and CEO of Coriell Life Sciences. IBMs world-class technology - particularly the powerful SoftLayer platform - enables us to operate on the cutting-edge, while also differentiating our organization as a dynamic presence in the competitive life sciences space.
The Beacon Awards are an integral part of IBMs Business Partner recognition program. Announced at the IBM PartnerWorld Leadership Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, the winners are selected by a panel of expert judges consisting of IBM executives, industry analysts and members of the press. IBM's Beacon Awards recognize Business Partners who have demonstrated business excellence in delivering IBM-based solutions to clients around the world to drive transformation and business growth. This years awards recognized Business Partner achievements across 28 award categories. This includes two new awards for 2015: the Big Data and Analytics Solution award and Technical Support Services Solution award.
The 2015 Beacon Award winners are Business Partners who have demonstrated their ability to transform the way their industries do business and deliver outstanding value to clients through the development of new, advanced solutions focused on cloud, analytics, mobile, security and social, said Marc Dupaquier, general manager, IBM Global Business Partners. Were pleased to recognize Coriell Life Sciences for consistently delivering these innovative IBM solutions by honoring them with a Beacon Award for Outstanding Cloud Solution Hosted on SoftLayer.
For more information about the IBM Beacon Awards, including information about winners and finalists, please visit www.ibm.com/partnerworld/beacons.
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