Genus Technologies Selected as the IBM(R) Lotus(R) Chief Technology Officer Innovation Award Winner at IBM Lotusphere 2010

ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Genus Technologies (www.genusllc.com), a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based IBM Premier Business Partner, has been selected by a panel of judges as the winner of the IBM Lotus Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Innovation Award Winner at IBM's 2010 Lotusphere conference for its Genus Media Upshot™ product.  Genus Media Upshot extends the capability of IBM Lotus Connections™, Lotus Web Content Management™ (WCM) and WebSphere Portal to process, manage and deliver rich media files.  A comprehensive rich media management solution, Media Upshot helps organizations share and deliver a broad range of rich media files including video, audio, IBM Lotus Symphony, Microsoft® Office, OpenOffice.org and Adobe® PDF files.

"IBM Business Partners' creativity and ingenuity help customers apply Lotus collaboration software to address business opportunities," said Alistair Rennie, general manager, IBM Lotus Software.  "IBM Lotus CTO Innovation award winner, Genus Technologies, and its Media Upshot product provide tight integration between Lotus products to create a rich media management solution that helps improve the quality of customer collaboration."

Jamie Page, Director of Information Services for Slumberland Furniture (www.slumberland.com), states, "The rich media processing, management and delivery capabilities of Genus Media Upshot will improve the effectiveness and efficiency of training delivery to our sales associates.  With 120 locations in eleven states, we needed Media Upshot to deliver the necessary product and sales process training to provide a superior customer experience."

About The Award

According to the IBM Lotusphere Awards website, the CTO Award "recognizes those visionary IBM Business Partners who are leading the technology charge by exploiting Lotus' and WebSphere Portal's latest capabilities in innovative, leading-edge, and exciting new ways. These ground-breaking solutions are positioned to be drivers in tomorrow's new markets, fostering innovation, and at an ingenuity level that stands out above their peers." (Source: https://www-304.ibm.com/events/wwe/lotus/lotusawards2010.nsf/$staticcontent/AwardCategories)

About Genus Technologies

Genus Technologies designs and implements pre-packaged and custom solutions built on IBM (www.ibm.com) and Kofax (www.kofax.com) technologies that simplify the capture, storage, management and delivery of all types of content.  From lower volume corporate content to higher volume transactional data, Genus addresses the entire range of an enterprise's content management needs.

SOURCE Genus Technologies