2025 IBM Partner Plus Awards

Congratulations to the six Global Winners of the 2025 IBM Partner Plus Awards selected for their demonstration of outstanding expertise, impact, innovation and partnership.

EY developed three solutions built with watsonx and powered by AI open-source models, including IBM Granite, to  automate their client’s foreign tax compliance process. The solutions automated data ingestion from multiple source systems, extracted data from unstructured invoices, and automated tax rate determination. These AI-driven solutions have delivered significant labor cost savings, enhanced data quality, reduced the risk of tax non-compliance, and saved tens of thousands of hours annually for the client. 

Scaleup Consultoria helped a large investment institution serving 4 million clients and nearly USD 1 trillion in revenue manage cloud spending and optimize application performance by adopting IBM Turbonomic. Within four months of implementation, the solution executed over 540,000 automated tasks, nearly half of which focused on performance, resulting in USD 4 million of revenue savings. The client is projected to save nearly USD 10 million by the end of the year. 

Glasshouse Systems helped  a major automotive aftermarket retailer transform their IT infrastructure by moving them from an on-premise environment to IBM Power Virtual Server on IBM Cloud  with integrated access to AWS cloud services for additional functionalities. The multi-cloud shift accelerated store onboarding from weeks to minutes, enhanced resiliency, centralized disaster recovery capabilities and drove down costs by 40%. By implementing direct connection to AWS Cloud, the retailer achieved significant time and cost savings while gaining the scalability and agility needed to meet strategic objectives for rapid expansion. The company has significantly reduced the time and cost of provisioning and operating stores and gained access to advanced analytics and AI tools for better decision-making. 

GAVS Technologies Pvt. Ltd. implemented an Identity and Access Management (IDAM) solution for a public sector bank in India using IBM Security products to address manual, file-based data management challenges. The solution provided Single Sign-On (SSO), automated user creation and removal, enhanced security and compliance and streamlined operations. As a result, the bank experienced a 90% improvement in efficiency, reduced employee onboarding time from 1-2 weeks to 2 days and reduced operational costs. 

Prolifics helped a leading university-affiliated research institution modernize its production processes, improve quality control and enhance sustainability using IBM Maximo Visual Inspection and IBM watsonx.ai. The solution increased production throughput by 30%, optimized energy consumption, and reduced scrap by 20%, leading to savings of USD 100k annually and a 25 ton reduction in CO₂ emissions. The client also gained a comprehensive view of their data journey, from equipment performance to quality control, and also empowered their team to proactively address issues. Designed for adaptability, the system can be replicated and scaled across other production lines within the institution as needs grow and evolve. 

NEC Corporation, a major IT system integrator in Japan, adopted Turbonomic to optimize their own internal systems running in a multi-cloud environment. The solution streamlined management of IT resources, reducing the need for employees to manually collect and analyze data. Employees also have more visibility into how performance is impacted and are better able to communicate the reasons for change requests. Within six months of implementation, the company experienced a 10% reduction in cloud costs, and within one year achieved a 200% ROI. 

The Partner Plus Awards are IBM’s award program for business partners. Partners eligible to win an award are part of IBM Partner Plus, a program designed to help deepen partners’ technical expertise, accelerate time to market and win with clients with AI and hybrid cloud.