OASIS Member News : Microsoft recognises IVIS Group as CertifiedPartner Award Finalist

[Scott McGrath <scott.mcgrath@oasis-open.org>]

NEWS RELEASE

Microsoft recognises IVIS Group as Certified Partner Award
Finalist
Worldwide Innovation using Microsoft Technologies

27 June 2001 - IVIS Group today announced it has been recognised
by
Microsoft Corporation as the finalist for Western Europe in the
E-Commerce
Solution of the Year category, in this year's Microsoft Certified
Partner
Awards.  Now in its fourth year, the awards attracted nearly 800
entries and
cover twelve different categories with one finalist for each
continent now
officially nominated as "best of breed" for their region.

 IVIS Group was selected because of its innovative use of
Microsoft's latest
technologies which offer clear benefits to customers.  "It was an
honour for
us to receive so many amazing business applications of our
products," said
Ian Rogoff, vice president, Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft,
"but IVIS
Group clearly stood out among the many high-quality entries we
received."

 Qusai Sarraf, CEO of IVIS Group explains: "IVIS Group pioneered
the
business use of XML in designing and developing Tesco.com
<http://www.tesco.com>, which is now the world's largest on-line
grocery
store. This award is in recognition of IVIS Group's innovation and
solid
performance in delivering the robust, scalable infrastructure
which has
enabled Tesco.com to handle all-time record volumes of E-Commerce
transactions, expand its product offerings and roll out its
E-Commerce model
internationally, including this week's announcement of Tesco's
entry into
the US market. Our technology and infrastructure design has stood
up to the
rapid growth of Tesco's E-business. With this Microsoft
nomination, our work
is recognised as the best of breed in E-Commerce in Western
Europe."

 Award Finalists will be honoured at Microsoft's Fusion 2001
partner event
in Anaheim, California, USA (July 13-16).  The worldwide winner in
each of
the twelve award categories will be announced July 15th during an
Opening
Keynote Session by Ian Rogoff, Vice President, Worldwide Partner
Group at
Microsoft.

 About the Microsoft Certified Partner Program.
 To help partners build successful Microsoft-based businesses,
Microsoft
offers its Certified Partners a variety of resources including
training,
technical support, early access to Microsoft products and
peer-networking
opportunities that allow a variety of partners to come together
and provide
end-to-end customer solutions.   All Microsoft Certified Partners
maintain a
staff of Microsoft Certified Professionals or have certified
products which
have been tested compatible with Microsoft's Windows platform.

 About IVIS Group  www.ivisgroup.com
 IVIS Group, formed in May 1994, has been involved in some of the
most
successful and challenging eBusiness solutions in the world.  The
company
designs and delivers mission-critical business solutions using
leading-edge
technologies and open standards. It is a member of the
international
standards consortia, W3C and OASIS. IVIS works throughout the
enterprise to
deliver better service to customers, empower employees and improve
the
effectiveness and cost performance of the supply chain. IVIS has
been at the
forefront of creating web services and business webs for its
clients.

 Ends

 For editorial information contact:
 Sue Starie - Resource PR
 Tel: +44 (0) 20 8998 7089
 Fax: +44 (0) 20 8998 9696
 Mobile: +44 (0) 79 7340 6469
 Email: suestar@cix.co.uk


 For company information contact:
 Andrew Long, Senior Vice-President of Sales and Marketing, IVIS
Group
 Tel: +44 (0) 20 8579 3335
 Fax: +44 (0) 20 8579 9731
 Mobile: +44 (0) 78 1018 5334
 Email: andrew.long@ivisgroup.com
<mailto:andrew.long@ivisgroup.com>








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