International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) develops and manufactures information technology (IT) products and services and is operating in more than 170 countries worldwide.

Its Global Technology Services segment offers IT infrastructure and business process services, such as strategic outsourcing, integrated technology, business transformation outsourcing, and maintenance.

The company's Global Business Services segment provides professional services and application outsourcing services, including consulting and systems integration, and application management.



Oracle provides the world’s most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems, with more than 370,000 customers—including 100 of the Fortune 100—representing a variety of sizes and industries in more than 145 countries around the globe. Oracle's product strategy provides flexibility and choice to our customers across their IT infrastructure.

Now, with Sun server, storage, operating-system, and virtualization technology, Oracle is the only vendor able to offer a complete technology stack in which every layer is integrated to work together as a single system. In addition, Oracle's open architecture and multiple operating-system options gives our customers unmatched benefits from industry-leading products, including excellent system availability, scalability, energy efficiency, powerful performance, and low total cost of ownership.

Avnet Technology Solutions worldwide is a value-added distributor of enterprise-computing products, software and services with locations in more than 34 countries. As a global technology sales and marketing organisation, Avnet Technology Solutions has sales divisions focused on specific market segments and a strategy enabling an exceptional level of attention to the needs of its customers and suppliers.

As a leading distributor of computing technologies and services, Avnet Technology Solutions connects its partners to more customers and more solutions. Our comprehensive suite of services and established partnerships with leading technology providers, ensures that you have the right combination of resources to capture new revenue generating opportunities.

Our customers include:
• Value-Added Resellers (VARs)
• Independent Software Vendors (ISVs)
• Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs)
• System Builders
• System Integrators
Avnet Technology Solutions is an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT) representing US$ 8.19 billion in annual revenue for fiscal year 2010.

About Avnet
Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT) is one of the largest distributors of electronic components, computer products and embedded technology serving customers in more than 70 countries worldwide. Avnet accelerates its partners' success by connecting the world's leading technology suppliers with a broad base of more than 100,000 customers by providing cost-effective, value-added services and solutions. For the fiscal year ended July 3, 2010, Avnet generated revenue of $19.16 billion. For more information, visit www.avnet.com (AVT_IR).



SuadaSoft is an IBM Premier Business Partner & IBM Certified Support Provider specialized in the Information Management, InfoSphere, WebSphere and Optim product suites, and as such, is especially well placed in offering both the Software and the Services that are required by our customers.

Our activities:
• Licensing & License Renewals
• IBM Certified Support Provider
• Services (DB administration, installation, upgrades, migrations,    troubleshooting, tuning, training, auditing)
• Mainframe system management, installation, tuning and application    development (COBOL, REXX, JCL, etc.)

For products:
• InfoSphere: Discovery, DataStage, QualityStage, Change Data Capture,    Information Analyzer, Warehouse, Replication Server, ..
• Data Management: DB2, DB2 Tools, Informix, ..
• WebSphere Core products (MQSeries, WebSphere App. Server, CICS Trx    gateway, ..)
• Optim Lifecycle Management (Archiving, Test Data Mgmt, Data Privacy)

SuadaSoft is actively involved in a number of DB2 user groups (IMUG Belgium founder, GSE Belgium board member, IDUG Europe chairman, IDUG Europe Planning Committee member) and some of our consultants are regular speakers on international conferences in Europe and North America.



INFOCURA is young and ambitious company, specialized in the distribution, consulting, installation, migration, tuning, auditing and education of IBM Information Management products, both on distributed platforms as well as the z/OS platform.

Our mission is to provide the highest possible level of customer service and satisfaction within the IBM Business Partner program. The company's "one-stop-shop" approach aims to provide our customers with a complete hardware, software and services offering, where we aim to exceed all expectation levels and at the same time provide in-depth technical expertise.

We invest considerable time, energy and resources into training and educating our staff to ensure that the advice given or the products, services or solutions offered are of the highest quality. This focus is your assurance that the INFOCURA professionals know what IBM solutions to recommend, how to help you implement the solutions, and how to provide you with the support you need. Together, IBM and IBM Business Partners are committed to delivering greater value to enable your success in evolving to the next generation of e-business and creating competitive advantage.

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