CrossView Wins IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Business Agility Solution

- May 18, 2010

Santa Clara, CA – May 18, 2010 – May 18, 2010 –

IBM Beacon Award Recognizes IBM Business Partners for Outstanding Achievements in Business and Technology Excellence

CrossView, apremier provider of cross-channel commerce solutions, was named winner of the award for Outstanding Business Agility Solution in the annual IBM Beacon Awards competition. This prestigious honor is awarded each year to a select number of IBM Business Partners and recognizes technical excellence and innovative solutions based on IBM products and services.

The Beacon Awards are an important component in IBM's PartnerWorld program highlighting the essential role that IBM Business Partners play in driving innovation for clients and making a difference in today's highly competitive marketplace. Teaming with IBM, Beacon Award winners have set the standard for technical capabilities, vision, ingenuity in solving problems and client satisfaction.

“Winning the IBM Beacon Award is an honor for CrossView,” said Mark Fodor, chief executive officer, CrossView. “Along with an increasing number of well-known retailers embracing CrossView’s Cross-Channel Commerce solutions, this award is a powerful validation of our platform and the results clients are driving with our solutions.”

CrossView’s Cross-Channel Commerce solution suite empowers retailers to unify their sales channels on a single platform, delivering an integrated experience across all customer touch-points: the Web, call centers, stores, catalogs, kiosks, mobile commerce and through social media outlets. The modular solution enables retailers to create and manage a merged-channel enterprise. 

Hundreds of Beacon Award nominations from firms around the world were judged by a team of leading industry journalists, analysts and IBM executives. Judges selected CrossView along with winners and finalists in 9 overall categories encompassing 21 awards covering hardware, software, and service solutions, Midmarket, ISV and technical awards, as well as a focus on Smarter Planet.  

Aligned with IBM’s Smart Work initiative, CrossView’s Beacon Award for Outstanding Business Agility solution recognizes the firm’s strength in helping customers maximize business performance. This includes demonstrating increased responsiveness to market conditions, continuous business process improvements, and better access to rich information and applications.

“Our Beacon Award winners represent the tremendous power of the IBM Business Partner ecosystem in creating unique client value through our combined capabilities, expertise and offerings," said Rich Hume, general manager, IBM Business Partner and Midmarket Organization "By winning the Business Agility Solution award, CrossView has demonstrated its ability to deliver innovation to the market and help clients achieve higher value and better business outcomes."

For more information about the IBM Beacon Awards and CrossView’s winning solution, visit http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/page/2010_beacon.html

CrossView is a premier provider of cross-channel commerce solutions and has been serving the retail community since 1997. Clients range from top 10 Internet retailers to organizations expanding into multiple channels. CrossView's product suite is integrated with a company's core retail management systems, bringing together all information around customers, orders, products, pricing, promotions and inventory across all sales channels. For more information, visit www.crossview.com.