Barrachd have been awarded an IBM Centre of Technical Excellence (CoTE) for Business Partners Award.

In April '2009 IBM implemented the Business Partner Technical Vitality (BPTV) scorecard, providing a set of clear, visible and objective measures that can demonstrate the overall breadth and IBM product depth of a partner's skills in Sales, Technical, Architecture, Project Management, Solutions and other key internal processes and in October last year we announced that in early 2011 we would be recognising IBM Business Partners who have attained the highest BPTV Scores in two different Award

Categories:

• The IBM Centre of Technical Excellence for Business Partners -
  Overall Breadth Award, awarded to Business Partners who have achieved
  the highest "Overall Technical Vitality" scores in Europe.
• The IBM Centre of Technical Excellence for Business Partners - Brand
  Award, awarded to Business Partners who have achieved the highest
  Individual STG "Brand" scores in Europe.

Barrachd have been selected to win a special IBM Beacon Award - the North East Europe IBM Choice Award for Totality of IBM.

IBM Beacon Awards are a central and vital element of IBM’s Business Partner recognition program. They recognise the best solutions that IBM Business Partners deliver across our business and around the world. While IBM's Business Partners are invited to nominate themselves for most of the Beacon Awards, this award is is different as it is based on nominations from IBM's regional leadership team and awarded by a cross-IBM executive team from our region.

The conference brings together more than 1,500 Business Partners and IBM executives from around the world to share best practices for delivering innovation and value for our clients. It not only includes an opening keynote address from IBM Chairman Sam Palmisano, but also concludes with a dedicated session for European delegates on 17th February.