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IBM offerings for small, medium businesses

By Our Staff Correspondent

CHENNAI NOV. 18. IBM India has launched a portfolio of `Express' offerings and programs designed and priced specifically for small and medium-sized business (SMB) customers. The portfolio will consist of new hardware, software, services, solutions and finance. It is all designed to meet specific criteria for SMB's with respect to function, easy to use and management and price.

Addressing a press conference here today, Abraham Thomas, Managing Director, IBM India, said the offerings within the new IBM Express portfolio would assist SMB's - companies with between 100 and 1,000 employees that often have fewer IT skills and tighter budgets than larger enterprises - in their transformation to on demand businesses using IBM's open standards - based technology.

Mr. Thomas said it was a major shift for IBM both internally and externally. IBM had designed the entire portfolio based on customer and partner feedback across its line of products and services for the SMBs marketplace. The company had planned to enhance the skills of hundreds of business partners to work and deliver Express-based solutions.

IBM India's Country Executive (Small and Medium Business), R. Dhamodaran, said many SMBs were looking to improve the efficiency of their core business processes. IBM's Express portfolio would enable these companies to operate in a more responsive, flexible and cost effective manner.

With the new Express portfolio IBM would further enable its network of over 750 business partners, independent software vendors, systems integrators and consultants to deliver complete solutions to SMB businesses.

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