LINCOLN - Lighthouse Computer Services has been named winner of the 2008 IBM Business Partner Excellence Award for North America. The award is given to one business partner from each of IBM's six geographies. Lighthouse was chosen from among all IBM Business Partner communities, including resellers, consultants and integrators, and independent software vendors. The selection was based upon Lighthouse's impact on the marketplace, innovative solutions using IBM offerings and customer satisfaction and value delivered.

Lighthouse, with $114 million in sales of IBM offerings in 2007, offers a solutions-based business model that employs a wide range of IBM hardware, software and solutions. Equipped with more than $2 million in hardware and software available for demonstration, Lighthouse's BPIC is leveraged to stage both IBM events and customized events for its clients.

In the past two years, Lighthouse has planned, promoted and conducted more than 35 technology seminars and Webcasts as part of its "Lighthouse Learning Series" for both customers and prospects.

More than 600 technology professionals have attended these events with greater than half of the attendees representing small and midsize businesses.

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