{"id":2725,"date":"2020-02-19T10:59:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T10:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prolifics.com\/us\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2025-09-08T13:12:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:42:19","slug":"prolifics-recognized-2016-ibm-beacon-laureate-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prolifics.com\/usa\/resource-center\/blog\/prolifics-recognized-2016-ibm-beacon-laureate-award-winner","title":{"rendered":"Prolifics Recognized as 2016 IBM Beacon Laureate Award Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Prolifics Acknowledged for Achievements in Technical Excellence <\/h3>\n<p><strong>CALABASAS, CA, USA\u2013 February 17, 2016 \u2013<\/strong>&nbsp;Prolifics announced today that it was named the winner of the IBM Beacon Laureate Award, which recognizes a Business Partner that has consistently demonstrated excellent achievement in a single Beacon Award category. Prolifics, an IBM Business Partner, was selected for the award for its exceptional accomplishments in the Technical Excellence category.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For Prolifics to be presented with the Beacon Laureate Award for Technical Excellence is truly an honor,&#8221; stated Sam Ourfalian, President of Prolifics. &#8220;The award is one of the highest recognitions an IBM Business Partner can receive and it\u2019s a great accomplishment for Prolifics. It recognizes our commitment to providing the most innovative, complete, best-in-class solutions to our clients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIBM Beacon Laureate Award winners are chosen for their ability to help clients solve problems and unlock value by consistently delivering transformative solutions,\u201d said Marc Dupaquier, General Manager, IBM Global Business Partners. \u201cThis year, I\u2019m pleased to bestow Prolifics with the Beacon Laureate Award for Technical Excellence and look forward to continuing to lead together in the cognitive era.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Beacon Laureate Award and 24 additional Beacon Award winners were announced at the IBM PartnerWorld Leadership Conference 2016 in Orlando, Florida. More than 1,500 Business Partners and IBM executives from around the world attended the conference.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the IBM Beacon Awards, including information about winners and finalists, please&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www-304.ibm.com\/partnerworld\/wps\/servlet\/ContentHandler\/pw_com_prb_beacon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Prolifics Recognized as 2016 IBM Beacon Laureate Award Winner<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about IBM PartnerWorld, 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, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/partnerworld\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/partnerworld<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"post-video\"><iframe title=\"Sam Ourfalian - Beacon Award Acceptance\" width=\"1165\" height=\"874\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n_znD4Brbtc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h3>About Prolifics<\/h3>\n<p>Prolifics creates a competitive advantage for organizations around the world by implementing customized, end-to-end IT solutions that achieve business success, leveraging IBM, Microsoft and Open Source technologies in a global delivery model. For more than 35 years, the company&#8217;s technology expertise, industry-specific insights and certified technology accelerators have transformed organizations around the world by solving complex IT challenges. For more information, visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prolifics.com\">https:\/\/www.prolifics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h5>Media Contact<\/h5>\n<p>Kirsten Craft<\/p>\n<p>Prolifics<br \/>+1 646 380 3769<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:Kirsten.Craft@prolificsdev.wpengine.com\">Kirsten.Craft@prolificsdev.wpengine.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prolifics Acknowledged for Achievements in Technical Excellence CALABASAS, CA, USA\u2013 February 17, 2016 \u2013&nbsp;Prolifics announced today that it was named the winner of the IBM Beacon Laureate Award, which recognizes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":28630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"acf":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prolifics.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prolifics.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prolifics.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prolifics.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prolifics.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prolifics.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prolifics.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prolifics.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prolifics.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prolifics.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}