IMGroup Wins Prestigious Microsoft Global Award for Second Year Running

IMGroup Wins Prestigious Microsoft Global Award for Second Year Running

LONDON, July 17/PRNewswire/ --

- Company is Recognised for its Work With ITV

IMGroup, a business intelligence specialist and Microsoft Gold Certified
Partner last night won the Microsoft Technology Innovation Partner of the
Year award in Data Management / Business Intelligence (BI) Solutions. The
award highlights IMGroup's second year of success after winning the same
award last year.

IMGroup was selected from 2,700 entries during an award ceremony at
Microsoft's annual Worldwide Partner conference in Boston. The award is in
recognition for its reporting and analytics solution developed with ITV, the
UK's largest commercial broadcaster, to effectively assess the performance of
its programmes.

"Since the start of our relationship with IMGroup we have been impressed
with the team's professionalism and excellent level of customer service
delivered throughout the project. To come away with the award for the second
year in a row is commendable and I am delighted for them," said Ian
Whitfield, Director of broadcasting technology at ITV.

The application uses the entire Microsoft SQL Server 2005 BI platform and
ProClarity's Analytics in this end-to-end BI solution. The scalability of SQL
Server 2005, combined with the enhanced analytical benefits allows ITV to
effectively calculate the profitability of its television programmes and
perform the high level of analytics necessary to achieve this.

"We are thrilled that our solution has once again won this
coveted award and very proud to be continually recognised by Microsoft for
our proven ability to provide industry leading BI solutions. It is an
outstanding achievement for IMGroup to achieve this level of global
recognition for two consecutive years," said Nakis Papadopoulos, joint CEO at
IMGroup.

The Technology Innovation awards are presented to top Microsoft partners
who excel in delivering innovative, technical solutions and teams. The
ability to package together, at a technical level, and creatively use
different Microsoft products is recognised as a driving force behind the
successful partners.

"It is a privilege to recognise IMGroup as this year's
Microsoft Partner of the Year Award for Technology Innovation in Business
Intelligence Solutions. It is this level of effectiveness in reaching out to
our shared customers regarding the value of solutions built on Microsoft
technology that enables continued success for us and our partners. We applaud
IMGroup for their achievements this year and offer gratitude for our ongoing
collaboration through the Microsoft Partner Program," said Allison Watson,
Vice President of the Worldwide Partner Sales and Marketing Group at
Microsoft.

About IMGroup

Information Management Group Ltd (IMGroup) provides end to end
business intelligence, data warehousing and collaborative solutions to help
global organisations across a range of sectors to improve business
performance by gaining an accurate insight into their business operations.
The company delivers information management systems and services to enable
businesses to analyse and report critical information in order to use their
data to make better business decisions.

IMGroup's clients span across various industries including
Petrochemicals, Retail, Media and Advertising, Insurance, Transport and
Pharmaceuticals. The company has successful partnerships will all major
technology vendors in the information management and analytic sector and is a
Microsoft Gold Certified Partner (having been awarded Microsoft Worldwide
Partner of the Year for Technology Innovation in Business Intelligence
Solutions for 2005). IMGroup is based in Ealing, London. For further
information please visit: www.imgroup.com

For Further Information Contact:
Angela Woodward or Laura Scott,
Berkeley PR,
Tel: +44-(0)118-988-2992,
Fax: +44-(0)118-988-6911,
Email: angela.woodward@berkeleypr.co.uk

Source: Information Management Group (IM GROUP)

For Further Information Contact Angela Woodward or Laura Scott, Berkeley PR, Tel: +44-(0)118-988-2992, Fax: +44-(0)118-988-6911, Email: angela.woodward@berkeleypr.co.uk

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