FYI - I think that there are few world-class innovators in this group here worthy of some recognition!
Dear ________________ More than ever before, organizations are using IBM iSeries systems to drive new levels of IT and business innovation. Earlier this year COMMON introduced the IBM eServer iSeries Innovation Awards to showcase and share best practices, and to recognize outstanding customer achievements. The award program was a huge success with more than 50 customers nominated in five categories and culminating in an exceptional event where the five winners were honored for their innovation (link to url for 2005 winners -- http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/innovationawards/). We are pleased to announce that the nominations for the 2006 iSeries Innovation Awards are now open. We will recognize customer award winners in five categories: * Application Deployment Award: Best practice award for the innovative deployment of industry and business applications or custom applications, including RPG, COBOL, Java and other custom solutions running on the IBM eServer iSeries or eServer i5 systems. * Business Resiliency Award Best practice award focused on business continuity and resiliency, and demonstrating high availability, security and compliance, and business protection solutions using IBM eServer iSeries or eServer i5 systems. * Infrastructure Simplification Award: Best practice award that demonstrates cost-effective server management, as well as application integration, capacity on demand, and overall IT simplification solutions deployed on eServer iSeries or eServer i5 systems supporting multiple operating environments such as Linux, AIX, and Windows. * i5/OS Focus Award: The magic of iSeries is captured in the innovation of i5/OS solutions. This award is for the best practice of using i5/OS as 'the' strategic and primary operating environment for running your entire business. * Education Excellence Award: Best practice in education excellence for an iSeries customer, college or university that has demonstrated outstanding commitment to the IBM eServer iSeries community and provided ongoing education support of iSeries technology and solutions. The award winners and their teams will be honored at our iSeries Innovation Award banquet, to be held at the Spring 2006 COMMON Conference and Expo in Minneapolis on Monday, March 27, 2006. Nominations are open now and are extended through Tuesday, January 31, 2006. To submit a nomination or to get more information, please visit the awards site at: www.ibm.com/iseries or www.common.org. The iSeries Innovation Awards recognize business and IT innovation at the highest level. We encourage you to submit a nomination today. Mark Shearer General Manager IBM Systems & Technology Group, iSeries Beverly R. Russell President, Board of Directors COMMON ******************************************************** You are receiving this e-mail because you and/or your company are a current or recently expired member of COMMON. If you don't want to receive COMMON's e-mail communications, please forward this note to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . COMMON A Users Group 401 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 2100 Chicago, IL 60611 Phone: 800.777.6734 or 312.279.0192 Fax: 312.279.0227 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.common.org Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Easy400Group/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
