TIBCO Software Celebrates Winners of EMEA Partner Excellence Awards

TIBCO Software Inc., a global leader in integration, API management, and analytics has announced the winners of the 2017 EMEA Partner Excellence Awards. Presented at the TIBCO NOW® conference in Berlin, the awards aim to recognize outstanding partners across the region who are implementing TIBCO technology to enable organizations to achieve their digital transformation goals. TIBCO is proud to honor the following EMEA partners for their services to TIBCO customers:

• Most Committed Partner: NTT DATA
• Emerging Partner: Level 9 Logistics
• Integration Excellence Award: Yael Group
• Outstanding Partner: Atos
• Best Successful Case Management Partner: CGI
• Partner Excellence Award for Driving Customer Success: HCL Technologies

NTT DATA has been awarded the Most Committed Partner award. Previously awarded a TIBCO Italian Partner Commitment Award in 2014, NTT DATA has long been a champion of digital transformation implementation projects, most notably across the retail, banking, and telco markets. With a competence centre comprising over 70 TIBCO experts, NTT DATA has demonstrated great commitment to TIBCO technology and anticipates further expansion across Europe.

Successful in the Emerging Partner category, Level 9 Logistics is a consulting firm focused on providing effective logistics solutions to organizations in the Nordics. Its clients range from SMBs to large enterprises, and span both B2B and B2C across all vertical markets. Specializing in analytics, strategy, process development, and implementation in the supply chain, Level 9 Logistics excels in the provision of professional advice on purchasing, sales, warehousing, production, transportation, finance, and implementation of software. Following the award of Emerging Partner of the Year, the partnership is perfectly poised to further develop, as Level 9 Logistics sees TIBCO products and services as a key component to its business focus, both now and in the future.

Collecting the 2017 award for Integration Excellence is Yael Group. One of the leading IT groups in Israel, it specializes in technology-based business solutions and performing implementation and integration of a wide range of world-leading software and hardware products. Among the Group's activities are integration projects, implementation of ERP and CRM systems, integration of financial solutions, BI and analytics, cloud solutions, digital and content management. A key partner for TIBCO, the Yael Group attributes its success and growth to its relentless pursuit of innovation, combined with an excellent understanding of customer requirements and superior service.

Atos, a leader in digital transformation thanks to its Bull technology brand, has been awarded the Outstanding Partner award. With approximately 100,000 employees in 72 countries and annual revenues of around €12 billion, the Group provides cloud services, infrastructure and data management, business and platform solutions, as well as transactional services through Worldline, the European leader in the payment industry. With cutting-edge technologies, digital expertise, and industry knowledge, Atos and TIBCO jointly support the digital transformation needs of customers across defense, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media, energy and utilities, public sector, retail, telecommunications, and transportation.

Following a highly successful partner relationship spanning over a decade, CGI collected the award for Best Successful Case Management Partner. During this time, CGI has developed exceptional TIBCO-specific knowledge through its centres of excellence, and plays a pivotal role in supporting customers with their digital transformation strategies. With particular strength in the manufacturing, insurance, and finance markets, CGI has been recognized for its role in driving the complete implementation lifecycle, from consultation to integration and maintenance. The high level of consultant expertise, combined with TIBCO technology, has created an environment of mitigated risks and has dramatically improved time to market.

The 2017 winner of the Partner Excellence Award for Driving Customer Success has been awarded to HCL. Its strategic relationship with TIBCO has been nurtured by the highest executives in both organizations for over 17 years. HCL is a "Global Consulting Partner" with a strong go-to-market, global services engagements with over 1,500 consultants, and 75 successful customer implementations. HCL is in a select group of global partners that represent TIBCO's end-to-end Enterprise Digital Transformation solutions, with new-age technologies like hybrid integration platforms, streaming analytics, API, and cloud platforms. Through IPs, accelerators, and frameworks that HCL has developed on top of TIBCO platforms, many global enterprises across airlines, logistics, telecoms, and financial services are able to benefit from a quicker, stable, and wider adoption of TIBCO's Digital Platform solutions. HCL was previously awarded the TIBCO Partner Award for Digital Transformation in both 2015 and 2016.

"Developing a strong and committed partner ecosystem is of vital importance to TIBCO, as it plays a crucial role in equipping customers with the exemplary solutions and services required to realize effective digital strategies," said Mark Greatorex, vice president, sales, EMEA, TIBCO. "The Partner Excellence Awards provide the perfect platform to recognize the efforts of the exceptional partners who take our solutions to the marketplace and ultimately help customers navigate successful digital transformations in order to remain relevant in today's fast-paced industry."

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