IBM Recognizes Ardenta as the Best Independent Software Vendor of the Year

UK-based IT consulting company, Ardenta, announced that it has won IBM's 2009 Platinum Award for best Independent Software Vendor of the Year.

 

Ardenta was recognized for its superior solution development and sales success. The Award was presented by Radio & TV presenter and writer, Geoff Burch and Paul Campion, director general business and partner sales, IBM (News - Alert) UK and Ireland. 

 

Ardenta has been focusing in designing, implementing, maintaining and supporting mission critical systems for organizations, which depend on high performance solutions. Ardenta supports mission critical systems which operates 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year. Ardenta is also an IBM Premier Business Partner.

 

In providing the award, IBM cited Ardenta's track record as an IBM Premier Business partner for many years having performed consistently well while delivering strong revenues by offering complete solutions to a wide range of customer’s including a combination of IBM software and hardware.

 

"Ardenta are an important business partner to IBM because they deliver real value to IBM customers through their knowledge and experience of IBM's software. This award celebrates Ardenta's achievement in consistently providing high quality solutions and services to its client base, and demonstrating significant revenue growth in their focus industry," said Mark Kenyon, IBM Software Business Partner Manager.

 

Ardenta’s solutions comprise of xSeries, P Series and Storage as well as other software products such as Tivoli Storage Manager, DB2, and Optim. Additionally, the company is also part of the wider partner community utilizing the Power Net program and often works with complementary business partners for the benefit of clients.

 

Some of the key customers of Ardenta include ITV, Ladbrokes, Musgrave Retail Group (GB) Ltd, The Tote and many others.

 

"We are delighted to have been awarded IBM's 2009 Platinum Award for Independent Software Vendor of the Year, having achieved performance and growth in 2008 during a tough economic environment. We see it as an endorsement of our ability to provide market-leading IBM solutions for our customers,” said Neil Truby, managing director at Ardenta.

 

"We are proud that the award acknowledges our IT expertise, technical excellence, and the value and support we offer to customers. Among other things it also recognizes our reputation as a leading business partner for IBM Informix," he added.