Press release

2006-01-20

Tacton Selected as a Finalist for the IBM Beacon Award for “Best Industry Optimized Solution”

The IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards acknowledges the best solutions worldwide that IBM Business Partners have to offer across all IBM business areas and industries. With innovation in On Demand Business as the focal point, IBM Business Partners have a great impact on the IBM On Demand Business strategy.

According to the Beacon Award judges, “The Tacton Configurator is an excellent niche solution, allowing the unique capability for build-to-order products with the help of an innovative mix of IBM products."

The IBM Beacon Awards panel further describes the Tacton Configurator as follows:

"Tacton Configurator enables companies to sell custom-built products online, empowering customers to configure optimal products and allowing product managers to modify product configurations without costly and time-consuming programming. Tacton has integrated [with] the functionality of IBM WebSphere Commerce, WebSphere Product Center and WebSphere Portal along with IBM PLM and Dassault systems to allow interactivity that empowers end-users to configure optimal products without being technical experts."

"This is very powerful – being the only configurator supplier nominated for the IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Award”, says Christer Wallberg, CEO at Tacton Systems. “It validates our skills and demonstrates our leadership."

For more information go to:
www-1.ibm.com/partnerworld/pwhome.nsf/news/pw2006_beacon_cat.html

Further information:
Christer Wallberg, CEO, Tacton Systems AB. tel: +46 8 690 07 50, e-mail: christer.wallberg@tacton.com.

Anders Israelsson, Tacton Systems, tel: +46 8 690 07 50, e-mail: anders.israelsson@tacton.com

Stefan Pessirilo, Vice President North America - Tacton, tel: +46 8 690 07 50, stefan.pessirilo@tacton.com.

Susanne Fredriksson, Tacton Systems, tel +46 8 690 07 50, e-mail susanne.fredriksson@tacton.com

Tacton Systems AB
Tacton Systems develops and sells embeddable software for sales configuration. Customers including GE Healthcare, Ericsson, ABB, Getinge, Cardo Door, Black Box, PIAB and FlaktWoods use Tacton’s configurator solutions to sell their tailor-made, complex products effectively both off-line and on-line. Tacton’s configurator can be integrated with surrounding systems and has standard integrations with many leading e-commerce, ERP, CRM, PDM, PLM and CAD systems. www.tacton.com