Odyssey has won the 2008 IBM trophy for the best Performing Software Group Solutions Business Partner, which rewards the best collaboration with IBM’s partners in the business industry in terms of revenues and opportunities. The awards ceremony took place at the IBM Belux Business Partner University on February 4th 2009 at the IBM Belgium Head Office and assembled more than 200 professionals from the Belux IT and financial sector.

Odyssey and IBM have been partners for more than 5 years and have developed their partnership across different product lines, covering software, hardware, and services. Odyssey embeds or supports IBM products such as Websphere Transformation eXtender™ or Websphere Java Application™ server. The partnership includes common optimization operations and benchmarks, as well as joint implementation projects. Odyssey works continuously with IBM to ensure that its solutions are optimized on IBM servers and always implements the latest and best IBM software.

This excellent result shows that the partnership has become particularly fruitful for both parties.

Antoine Duchateau, Odyssey’s CEO and Chairman, comments, “We are really pleased to have won the IBM trophy. It is the achievement of a long-standing, effective collaboration between Odyssey and IBM. We look forward to improving our results in the long term and to further extending our partnership with IBM’s offices worldwide, which will add greater value globally to the quality of the services and maintenance we deliver to our clients.”