Sydney-headquartered Cortell Australia has been recognised by IBM as a global winner in the IBM Business Unit Excellence Awards, taking the trophy for data and AI for business analytics.
Cortell was the only Australian company recognised in the BU Excellence Awards which recognise IBM partners based on stellar performance, demonstrated excellence, exceptional customer experiences and business growth.
Additionally, the company took the Top SaaS partner award in the IBM Geography Excellence Awards, which also saw Fast 50 member Advent One receive another IBM award as the Top APAC Systems Partner, and WC Statistics taking home the Top New Logo Partner Award.
Melbourne headquartered cloud services provider and CRN Fast50 member AdventOne was the only Australian company to be awarded one of 17 IBM Beacon Awards.
The Beacon awards “recognize Business Partners worldwide who integrate IBM technologies and services into solutions that break new ground, drive innovation and take the world forward,“ according to the awards website.
AdventOne was given the ‘Outstanding Solution Driving Client Modernization and Transformation with IBM Power Systems’ award.
“Advent One is the proud recipient of the IBM Beacon Award. This award not only reflects the ongoing strength of relationship between Advent One and IBM, but also highlights and validates the culture of innovation prevalent at Advent One,” chief executive Jon Ossip told CRN.
The South Australian state Government has added Unisys, TPG and Adelaide-based Intervolve to its hosting services panel.
The three companies join the $300 million managed platform services panel where they can provide for the state government’s hosting services needs for up to six years, increasing its total supplier list to 19.
In January this year, the SA Government named its first 13 suppliers to the newly created panel, which include the likes of Datacom, Atos and Tata Consultancy Services.
Other panellists include Advent One, Blue Crystal Solutions, DWS, Iocane, DCI Data Centres, Satalyst, Your DC, 5G Networks, Data#3 and NTT. Later additions include Empired, DXC Technology and NEC Australia.
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