Genus Technologies Wins IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Innovative Collaboration Solution

ROME, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Genus Technologies (www.genusllc.com) was named winner of the IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Innovative Collaboration Solution for its Media Upshot™ Rich Media Management product. 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. Media Upshot extends the capability of IBM Lotus Connections™, Lotus Web Content Management™ (WCM) and WebSphere Portal to process, manage and deliver rich media files including video, audio, images, Microsoft® Office and Adobe® PDF files.

"As an organization, we're committed to developing solutions that help people work together more efficiently and effectively," says David Fetters, Genus Principal and VP of Operations. "The tremendous growth of rich media as a key component of organizational content created the need for rich media management and delivery as part of a total collaboration strategy. Media Upshot meets that need."

"As social networking becomes increasingly pervasive in our private lives, visionary business leaders grasp how social networking and collaboration tools can transform organizations. Successful early adopters of these tools will be tomorrow's market leaders."

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, these Beacon Award winners have set the standard for technical capabilities, vision, ingenuity in solving problems and client satisfaction.

"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 Outstanding Innovative Collaboration Solution Category award, Genus Technologies has demonstrated its ability to deliver innovation to the market and help clients achieve higher value and better business outcomes."

About Genus Technologies

Genus Technologies LLC (www.genusllc.com) designs and implements pre-packaged and custom solutions built on IBM (www.ibm.com) and Kofax (www.kofax.com) technologies that simplify the capture, storage, management and delivery of all types of content. From lower volume corporate content to higher volume transactional data, Genus addresses the entire spectrum of enterprises' content management and delivery needs.

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