On May 1, 2008, IBM announced at the IBM Business Partner Leadership Conference, under the code name Blue Business Platform (or BBP), a broad initiative to combine hardware, software and services to tackle the cost and complexity of IT for small and medium businesses (SMBs). This new, strategic initiative aims to provide a new and compelling choice to simplify IT delivery for companies that lack the time and resources to manage computer systems. It is designed to offer software and solution providers access to new customers on a global scale and help reduce the high costs of new client acquisition, technology integration and support.

On October 7, 2008 IBM announced IBM Smart Business as the official name for this strategic initiative. This new, open platform solution has successfully launched with some of IBM’s Independent Software Vendor (ISV) business partners.

Icicle had registered with IBM as an IBM Independent Software Vendor and after completing all Icicle has been nominated as an ISV on the IBM Smart Business Platform. With this initiative Icicle has ported our dMine Business Dashboard product on the IBM Smart Business Server and the dMine Product would be bundled along with the IBM servers and other products which could be procured by SMB’s through channel partners. Looking at the proactive involvement that icicle has been maintaining with IBM, Icicle has also been granted the IBM Advanced Business partner status.

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