Organizations depend more and more on IT and as they do, their IT infrastructures can constrain or enable their business processes. Often times, business leaders learn the hard way that their ability to innovate is limited by inflexible systems that are difficult to enhance and costly to replace. To move forward, they must find ways to increase their infrastructure flexibility and that is where both of us can help - with IBM Software.

Software is a major area of investment for IBM - we continue to grow organically and through strategic acquisitions. IBM Software is a healthy and growing business, and is strategic to IBM's growth strategy. Business Partners and the work that we do with you are a critical element of this strategy. The winning combination of IBM's world-class middleware with your services are key. To succeed together, we require industry expertise, technology skills, deep deployment capabilities and ensure that this knowledge is continuously updated. This is super critical and at IBM, we want to ensure that you are continuously updated.

To facilitate this, we are launching a comprehensive enablement portal " Skill Yatra" to help our partner community stay updated with IBM technology, products and solutions. Skill Yatra is designed to maximize your potential through continuous skill updation. We are excited delivering this to you. We hope you will find this very useful

For any feedback, queries or more details please contact your Channel Marketing Manager - Sunil Wangnoo- Sunil Wangnoo (swangnoo@in.ibm.com).

The work we do together is a continuing source of inspiration for all of us at IBM. Participate actively at Skill Yatra.

Happy Selling!

Anil Menon