Element Blue Recognized by IBM with Market Maker Award for Outstanding Customer Wins and Leadership in Marketplace

Excellence in Customer Delivery and Service is the Hallmark for Element Blue’s Ongoing Success

Houston, TEXAS, June 22, 2015—Element Blue™, a leading IT consulting firm and solution provider of IBM software products, was honored recently at an industry conference by IBM for outstanding  customer leadership and excellence among its business partners.  The conference, held in Orlando was attended by more than 1,000 IBM global business partners and customers.

“We are pleased and honored to be recognized by IBM for our IT work which spans more than 15 years of working with large and small enterprises to provide world class service and software solutions for our customers,” said Steven Gerhardt, CEO at Element Blue.  “The momentum continues to build for Element Blue as word gets out about our extraordinary customer service that exceeds customer expectations. Our customers are designing and deploying innovative based value-added solutions with our help everyday and so we’re delighted to have earned this prestigious industry recognition.”

“It gives me great pleasure to honor Element Blue with this leadership recognition, said Jeff Seifert, Global Business Unit Sales, Business Partner Channels – Social Business Solutions at IBM. “Our judges were very impressed with the continued ingenuity and leadership displayed by Element Blue in its groundbreaking work in the digital experience space.”

Element Blue’s Strengths include:

• Deep expertise in IBM’s digital experience practice with a highly focused and talented team of engineering; most with 8+ years of project consulting and delivery
• Element Blue digital experience team excels in Architecture, Infrastructure, WCM, User Experience and Theme Design
• Small, high performance teams leveraging Element Blue staff
• Top three providers in U.S. and highest level of customer support and strong accountability displayed by engagement team
• CEO and CTO directly involved in many aspects of delivery ensuring expectations exceeded
• Offering capabilities in mobile application development as well as analytics with the Watson analytics solution as well.