The new development, sales and marketing tools
are part of IBM's continuing focus on increasing Business Partners' success
in deploying on Demand solutions to SMB customers through the company 's IBM
PartnerWorld program. IBM also unveiled additions to PartnerWorld Industry
Networks including four new industries and a web-based showcase for
Business Partner applications. Now Business Partners can more
quickly build and deploy solutions leveraging IBM's Express middleware
through a single installation and take advantage of a simplified technical
support structure.
With NeedTEXT Monitor , coreFusion administrators will be able to define event
thresholds and alert notification settings specific to the health of
BlackBerry Enterprise Server and the physical hardware on which it resides .needtext.

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As part of today's announcements the company also detailed a new
development initiative which is designed to simplify the building of
applications using IBM Express middleware technology .

As part of these efforts, IBM unveiled the Business Partner Application
Showcase, a customer -facing tool that will help them easily locate and
select IBM Business Partners and their solutions by industry and country. Business
Partners can gain real-time access to education, technical papers and best
practices examples around solution design recommendations.net/besmon.

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About coreFusion

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The new industries are Fabrication and Assembly,
Wholesale Distribution, Media and Entertainment, and Education and
Learning.

IBM's Express Portfolio

The IBM Express Portfolio offers hardware, middleware , services and
financing -- all tailored to the needs of mid-size businesses -- that can
be acquired , installed and managed quickly, are cost-effective, and deliver
a rapid return on investment (ROI ).

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Simplified Selling into SMB Market

IBM today launched a servers and storage Business Partner program, called
SystemSeller, which was created specifically to meet the needs of small and
medium-sized businesses. For more
information on teaming with IBM, please visit
http://www . coreFusion is also exhibiting their hosted
BlackBerry solutions at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium , at booth No. This includes
enabling IT departments to monitor and manage their BlackBerry Enterprise
Server and BlackBerry devices, as well as giving system administrators the
ability to access and troubleshoot network infrastructure systems directly
from BlackBerry Wireless Handhelds.

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Also , IBM announced today at PartnerWorld 2005 the addition of industry
sales support for IBM Business Partners through an expansion of the IBM
Small and Medium Business Advantage (SMBA) initiative with the addition of
SMB Industry Insights.

The new emblem will be available for eligible IBM Business Partners, ISVs
and Regional Systems Integrators to use as they market and sell their
qualified solutions and services. IBM Business Partners utilizing the
emblem will have the opportunity to leverage significant investment in
advertising and demand generation to build awareness of the IBM Express
Portfolio. In addition, the company announced new initiatives and resources
to build relationships between ISVs and systems integrators to deliver
industry-aligned solutions, country -by-country, in the world's fastest
growing markets. The Showcase will be available in nine languages
on IBM Web sites around the globe, further extending Business Partner reach
into new and emerging markets.com, or call us
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, a leading provider of software solutions that enhance
the capabilities of organizations responsible for the support of the
BlackBerry(R ) wireless platform, developed by Research In Motion (RIM)
(Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM), today announced that its BlackBerry infrastructure
solutions have been chosen by coreFusion to help the company ensure
high-performance hosted services to its customers. In addition, coreFusion provides hosting for
Research In Motion's BlackBerry Enterprise Server as well as traditional web
and application hosting on high end servers using Linux and Microsoft
technologies.

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For organizations that prefer
not to host BlackBerry Enterprise Server(TM) within their own data center,
coreFusion provides a cost-effective , fully managed alternative."
Epoch Integration is exhibiting NeedTEXT Monitor for BlackBerry
Enterprise Server this week at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium, at booth
No.

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IBM PartnerWorld 2005 -- IBM today at
PartnerWorld 2005 announced a new set of enablement initiatives designed to
assist Business Partners selling into the lucrative small and mid-size
business (SMB) marketplace .
Customers can quickly search for and find these applications, and through a
"Contact Me" button will be able to connect directly with Business Partners
to speed the sales cycle.

Additionally , IBM will offer a new online mid-market consultant tool to
help business partners accelerate the solution design process. In
addition, NeedTEXT Monitor for BlackBerry Enterprise Server captures critical
system and user performance statistics that can be used for analysis,
optimization and performance tuning of the BlackBerry solution. coreFusion Inc.

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Marketing of SMB Solutions Made Easy

IBM's new "Built On IBM Express Portfolio" emblem is designed to enhance
the marketing efforts of IBM Business Partners whose solutions and services
include IBM Express Portfolio offerings . The program will also provide expanded incentives for
IBM systems Business Partners and new marketing initiatives to generate
business opportunities. To learn more about IBM's
Express Portfolio visit: http://www.ibm.
The application will also gather key performance data about BlackBerry
Enterprise Server and BlackBerry handheld users that coreFusion will use to
optimize their hosted service. 126 in the Solutions Showcase.

More about NeedTEXT Monitor for BlackBerry Enterprise Server:

NeedTEXT Monitor for BlackBerry Enterprise Server is specifically
designed to monitor and report on the performance of BlackBerry deployments
and BlackBerry Enterprise Server. The company 's products, including the popular NeedTEXT suite, are
focused on enhancing the capabilities of organizations responsible for the
implementation, management and support of BlackBerry solutions.

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And because cash flow is one of the most pressing issues
for mid-sized businesses, the IBM Express Portfolio is more affordable with
a series of attractive financing options. is a leading developer of enterprise software for
businesses using the BlackBerry wireless platform, developed by Research In
Motion. The company currently provides network
management solutions to such high-profile customers as TD Securities,
Walmart. To learn more about coreFusion, visit us at
info@corefusion.

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IBM Accelerates Development of Express-based Applications

IBM also announced a new IBM Express Portfolio development initiative that
enables Business Partners to more easily build, manage and deploy fully
integrated applications based on IBM's Express middleware portfolio.

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SystemSeller will allow Business Partners to rapidly acquire competitively
priced and readily available product that is configured to address the
needs of the end-user SMB customer.ibm.
To ensure that their BlackBerry offering is as robust as possible ,
coreFusion will use Epoch Integration's NeedTEXT Monitor for BlackBerry
Enterprise Server to monitor their BlackBerry infrastructure on a 24/7 basis.
"We specialize in providing best of breed hosting solutions and it is
imperative that we maintain a reliable, high-performance BlackBerry service
for our customers," said Pete McPhedran, president at coreFusion.epochintegration.

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The initiative is part of IBM's
investments in building the IBM Express Portfolio into the premier solution
set for mid-size businesses. Now Business Partners can follow
simple steps to help them develop customized applications through a new set
of enablement tools. More than 70 offerings in the IBM
Express Portfolio enable customers to improve the responsiveness and
flexibility of their IT infrastructure , so they can concentrate on their
core businesses.com/partnerworld

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Toronto-based coreFusion is an Application Hosting Provider offering
hosted BlackBerry solutions to its customers. It gives organizations the ability to
proactively manage their BlackBerry infrastructure, helping them maintain a
highly available and efficient service to their BlackBerry end users. (http://www.

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PRESS RELEASE IBM Unveils New Enablement Initiatives to Assist Business Partners Selling Into SMB Marketplace

IBM also rolled out an expansion of IBM SMB Advantage with the addition of
SMB Industry Insights, an industry specific sales enablement initiative for
Business Partners focused on vertical marketplaces. Founded in 1997, Epoch Integration is
headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

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As part of the IBM Express Portfolio development initiative, IBM is also
launching new enhancements to IBM Solution Builder Express, an enablement
tool that is designed to help business partners more easily build industry
specific applications. Visit http://www.

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the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited .

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Also included are customer deliverables,
practical sales and marketing resources, and a wealth of other tools that
help to reduce the sales cycle and make sales into SMB easier.

The enhanced Express Runtime delivers a simplified approach to helping
Business Partners leverage IBM's Express middleware portfolio.com/businesscenter/us/express

About IBM PartnerWorld

PartnerWorld is a comprehensive program that offers marketing and sales
resources, training, certification and technical support to help create new
revenue and market opportunities for IBM Business Partners.

More information is available at
http://www.

Epoch Integration Inc. is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and
has offices in New York City.

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To assist with marketing Express Portfolio solutions and services, IBM
announced the Built On IBM Express Portfolio initiative which allows IBM
Business Partners to market their qualified Express solutions using an IBM
approved emblem. The program will facilitate faster
product sales and allow for greater ease of doing business for IBM's
Business Partners. The new initiatives
provide a quick study on marketplace issues including challenges and
solutions opportunities. The software
also increases IT efficiency by automating BlackBerry administrative tasks
that today need to be manually performed.com and the U .

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IBM SystemSeller will be available globally this year and will include
TotalStorage and eServer xSeries, OpenPower, pSeries, and BladeCenter
systems. "NeedTEXT
Monitor for BlackBerry Enterprise Server will be instrumental in maximizing
the uptime of our hosted BlackBerry solutions .com) is an Application Hosting Provider
specializing in Lotus and IBM technologies such as Domino , QuickPlace,
Sametime, WebSphere and DB2.

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In addition, IBM rolled out the SystemSeller
initiative which provides Business Partners with competitively priced and
pre-configured models of market-leading IBM eServers and TotalStorage
products for the SMB market.

The growing SMB Industry Insights portfolio currently includes: Banking,
Wholesale Distribution, Automotive, Retail, Fabrication and Assembly,
Healthcare and Life Sciences. The new offerings include enhancements to Express Runtime ,
new IBM Solution Build Express starting points and an online mid-market
consulting tool.

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The
new open standards based offerings will allow Business Partners to build
solutions without vendor lock-in, enabling customers to protect their IT
investments. New
features include improved security plus simplified deployment and
management capabilities as well as the latest version of DB2 Express and
WebSphere Application Server Express.S.

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IBM today launched four new industries to mark the one-year anniversary of
PartnerWorld Industry Networks, the company's broad enablement program
through which it goes to market industry-by-industry with thousands of ISVs
across 60 countries . This new IBM program enables more TotalStorage and
eServer products to be readily available for Business Partners, making it
easier to sell IBM server and storage technologies to their customers . IBM is introducing 10 new solution starting points
to help business partners deploy applications in vertical industries
including Retail, Banking and Healthcare.

Epoch Integration Chosen By coreFusion To Enable 24/7 Monitoring of Hosted BlackBerry Solutions

Service provider will use Epoch Integration 's NeedTEXT Monitor for
BlackBerry Enterprise Server to ensure high availability BlackBerry
service to its customers

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Epoch Integration Inc. 124. Army, in addition to small and medium-sized
businesses around the globe.com .