Noblesville, IN, May 7, 2013 - BlueSky Technology Partners was again honored at the Indiana Chamber of Commerce 8th Annual Best Places to Work in Indiana awards banquet on May 2. This year, a record 100 companies were designated a Best Place to Work; BlueSky ranked #3 in the newly created small business category, up from #13 in last year’s small to medium sized business category.
Companies competing as a best place to work completed a questionnaire where important information was captured about the company policies, practices and demographics. Company employees also completed the Employee Engagement & Satisfaction Survey. The results of the survey were analyzed and categorized according to eight core focus areas: Leadership and Planning, Corporate Culture and Communications, Role Satisfaction, Work Environment, Relationship with Supervisor, Training and Development, Pay and Benefits and Overall Engagement.
Workplaces were ranked based on this data and those companies who were determined to be a best place to work were recognized at the awards banquet and received a Best Places to Work Award of Excellence. This is the third consecutive year that BlueSky received the award. This year, in addition to the Award of Excellence, BlueSky was also recognized via a special section in the Indiana Chamber’s BizVoice magazine .
“BlueSky strives to create an environment where employees love coming to work each day and know that they are valued,” stated Todd Irwin, BlueSky CEO. “Our employees all help to create our culture here so being named as a top three small business is a reflection on everyone at BlueSky.”
Indiana Chamber President and CEO Kevin Brinegar said, “All companies making the list recognize how important it is for the success of a business to make employees feel valued. Each one should be very proud of the positive environment they have created.”
BlueSky is an eCommerce consultancy implementing solutions that are tightly aligned to IBM’s market leading Smarter Commerce portfolio. With consultants across the United States and Canada, BlueSky’s solution delivery teams have developed numerous enterprise b2c and b2b solutions with global reach for the retail, manufacturing/CPG, distribution and life sciences industry segments. BlueSky focuses entirely on IBM Smarter Commerce solutions, is Smarter Commerce Authorized, and has achieved Premier Business Partner status with IBM. Most importantly BlueSky has realized unrivaled client satisfaction with its clientele. For more about BlueSky, please visit us on Twitter , LinkedIn , and Facebook
(February 21, 2013) BlueSky Technology Partners, Inc., a national eCommerce consultancy headquartered in Noblesville, Indiana, announced today that Dave Greene has been promoted to Vice President of Business Development.
Greene joined BlueSky in 2006 as Director of Program Management Office handling all service delivery and execution. In 2008 Greene was promoted to Vice President of Operations and was responsible for BlueSky’s program management, service delivery methodology, process improvement and the overall operating aspects of BlueSky’s business.
In his new role, Greene will be directly responsible for driving BlueSky’s revenue growth and brand awareness. Greene has a team of sales and marketing executives across North America under his guidance and he will work closely with new and existing BlueSky clients as BlueSky continues to grow.
Todd Irwin, CEO of BlueSky, said, “Dave understands that business development is a process and he is eager to use his process expertise to help grow our market share. I have the utmost confidence that Dave will lead our business development efforts in the same manner in which he developed our approach to program management. As a result BlueSky will be able reach our revenue growth targets and most importantly to grow profitably.”
Greene is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.
BlueSky is an eCommerce consultancy implementing solutions that are tightly aligned to IBM’s market leading Smarter Commerce portfolio. With consultants across the United States and Canada, BlueSky’s solution delivery teams have developed numerous enterprise b2c and b2b solutions with global reach for the retail, manufacturing/CPG, distribution and life sciences industry segments. BlueSky focuses entirely on IBM Smarter Commerce solutions, is Smarter Commerce Authorized, and has achieved Premier Business Partner status with IBM. Most importantly BlueSky has realized unrivaled client satisfaction with its clientele. For more about BlueSky, please visit us on Twitter , LinkedIn , and Facebook
(December 12, 2012) BlueSky Technology Partners, Inc., a national eCommerce consultancy headquartered in Noblesville, Indiana, today announced that Terri Kershner has joined the company as Director of Channels and Marketing.
Kershner, a 15 year veteran in the Information Technology channel, comes to BlueSky from Avnet Technology Solutions, a global leader in technology distribution, where she was the client executive responsible for one of the largest solution providers in the country. As the client executive, Terri was responsible for the management of multiple brand relationships including IBM, HP, VMWare, EMC and NetApp.
Prior to Avnet, Kershner served as the Director of Partner Relations at Haverstick Consulting, a business and information technology consulting firm in Indianapolis.
In her new role, Kershner will be responsible for the strategy, tactics and programs that help BlueSky maintain and grow their market leadership position. She will focus on marketing, branding, communications, event management and BlueSky’s collaborative relationship with key strategic partners such as IBM, Avnet and eSpirit.
“Terri joining BlueSky represents a significant milestone for our company”, comments Todd Irwin, BlueSky’s CEO. “Her astute understanding of partner channels combined with her experience in developing growth-programs for consulting firms will be instrumental in BlueSky’s next phase of growth. We’re proud Terri is on our team as she will bring significant value to our company, our customers and our partners.”
BlueSky is an eCommerce consultancy implementing solutions that are tightly aligned to IBM’s market leading Smarter Commerce portfolio. With consultants across the United States and Canada, BlueSky’s solution delivery teams have developed numerous enterprise b2c and b2b solutions with global reach for the retail, manufacturing/CPG, distribution and life sciences industry segments. BlueSky focuses entirely on IBM Smarter Commerce solutions, is Smarter Commerce Authorized, and has achieved Premier Business Partner status with IBM. Most importantly BlueSky has realized unrivaled client satisfaction with its clientele. For more about BlueSky, please visit us on Twitter , LinkedIn , and Facebook
(December 3, 2012) BlueSky Technology Partners, Inc. has been honored as a finalist for the Noblesville Chamber of Commerce “Small Business of the Year” award. This award acknowledges businesses for their superior customer satisfaction, positive economic impact on the community and community spirit and support.
BlueSky was recognized at the annual Enterprise Awards dinner which was co-hosted by the City’s Economic Development Department and the Noblesville Chamber of Commerce. The 9th Annual Awards program featured businesses in four categories: Business of the Year, Business Person of the Year, Best New Construction or Renovation and Best Small Business.
“BlueSky has benefited greatly from our relationship with Noblesville and we enjoy giving back to the community. We are proud to be recognized for our contributions and offer our sincerest congratulations to all of the finalists and winners,” stated Eric Warne, BlueSky’s COO and co-founder.
About BlueSky Technology Partners
BlueSky is an eCommerce consultancy implementing solutions that are tightly aligned to IBM’s market leading Smarter Commerce portfolio. With consultants across the United States and Canada, BlueSky’s solution delivery teams have developed numerous enterprise b2c and b2b solutions with global reach for the retail, manufacturing/CPG, distribution and life sciences industry segments. BlueSky focuses entirely on IBM Smarter Commerce solutions, is Smarter Commerce Authorized, and has achieved Premier Business Partner status with IBM. Most importantly BlueSky has realized unrivaled client satisfaction with its clientele. For more about BlueSky, please visit us on Twitter , LinkedIn , and Facebook.
Industry veteran and well-known software executive Bill Montgomery has joined BlueSky Technology Partners (BlueSky) to continue growing BlueSky’s business in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Montgomery is bringing his over thirty-years of experience with him to help BlueSky to continue its solid pace of growth in the East. Montgomery was most recently a senior member of the Commerce and Supply Chain Solutions software business unit at IBM. While at IBM, Montgomery was the leader of the business development teams responsible for many of the largest and most successful eCommerce wins for IBM with companies such as VF Corporation, Advance Auto, JoS. A. Bank and QVC. Prior to IBM, Montgomery had similar roles at Oracle and JD Edwards.
“We’re honored to have Bill Montgomery join us here at BlueSky to help us ascend in the marketplace”, comments Todd Irwin, BlueSky’s CEO. “Having worked with Bill in a partnering capacity we know that he is a professional that will represent all that BlueSky embodies and deliver results. Bill exemplifies an entrepreneurial business acumen and carries broad experience across multiple industries and business solutions over to BlueSky. Plus his success in eCommerce solutions is unparalleled. We’re thrilled he’s on our team.”
“BlueSky is the perfect fit for me”, states Montgomery. “I’ve been following them for years and know the quality of people and quality of work they bring to the market. I wanted to be part of it and now I am, which is exciting for me. I’m proud to be part of this great company.”
BlueSky is an eCommerce consultancy implementing solutions that are tightly aligned to IBM’s market leading Smarter Commerce portfolio. With consultants across the United States and Canada, BlueSky’s solution delivery teams have developed numerous enterprise b2c and b2b solutions with global reach for the retail, manufacturing/CPG, distribution and life sciences industry segments. BlueSky focuses entirely on IBM Smarter Commerce solutions, is Smarter Commerce Authorized, and has achieved Premier Business Partner status with IBM. Most importantly BlueSky has realized unrivaled client satisfaction with its clientele. For more about BlueSky, please visit us on Twitter , LinkedIn , and Facebook
On May 3rd, BlueSky was honored as a top place to work in Indiana for the second year in a row. At the 7th Annual Best Places to Work in Indiana ceremony, BlueSky received recognition as the 13th best place to work in Indiana in the small to medium sized business category. This is an extraordinary honor for BlueSky and shows what an outstanding group of professionals make up this company. It is a testament of the hard work that the leadership team puts into being an exceptional company for employees to work at. The awards go to companies that provide their employees with a sense of empowerment, a great work/life balance, and many other benefits that make a great workplace. This is one of the many goals of BlueSky and we're very honored for such an accomplishment. It truly shows the culture we promote and we're very proud of our position as the 13th best place to work in Indiana. Click Here to read the full press release. http://www.indianachamber.com/index.php/2012-best-places-to-work-in-indiana-rankings-announced
Noblesville, IN– BlueSky Technology Partners, a consulting firm delivering eCommerce solutions to mid-sized and enterprise markets has entered into a new strategic partnership with e-Spirit to address the need for a content integration platform in the eCommerce marketplace. e-Spirit, headquartered in Dortmund, Germany and with US offices in Boston, MA, is the manufacturer of the content integration platform FirstSpirit. With its new partnership, BlueSky looks to add content integration as a core competency while driving further expansion of their eCommerce solutions in the US market. BlueSky is an IBM Premier Business Partner with legacy as a top-tier consultancy specializing in solutions involving IBM's WebSphere Commerce for strategic eCommerce implementations. BlueSky has created a solid foundation with experience as e-Spirit's principal "trained partner" in the US who has a solution integrating FirstSpirit with WebSphere Commerce at a well-known retail chain.
FirstSpirit as a Content Integration Platform for successful online merchants
Integrated with FirstSpirit as a content integration platform, companies can quickly transform their international web strategies, efficiently manage website content, intranets and extranets, as well as distribute content through different channels or integrate in complex portal structures like IBM WebSphere Portal, SAP, SharePoint and others. Thereby FirstSpirit is much more than a Content Management System (CMS). FirstSpirit is the central content integration platform permitting quick and easy expansion of data from client applications with editorial and social content, as well as integration of marketing instruments. This ensures the optimized editing processes and the quick time to market.
Synergy of BlueSky and e-Spirit
The goal of the new partnership is to bring together two focused organizations to fill a gap in the market. The strength of BlueSky's eCommerce consulting practice and e-Spirit's world-class CMS creates a combined technological solution for content integration within the eCommerce environment. "We are very happy to have in BlueSky another strategic partner in the USA, which has recognized the unique selling characteristic of FirstSpirit as a real Content Integration Platform and wants to establish it together on the US market", says Robert Bredlau, COO North America. "BlueSky has a long and wide experience in the implementation of eCommerce projects on the basis of IBM WebSphere Commerce and also has excellent access to the retail sector." In parallel to the first project in operation at a large US retail chain, BlueSky has already trained additional consultants to work with FirstSpirit. "The strategic partnership we've created puts us in position to offer a best in class solution that didn't exist prior", says Todd Irwin, CEO, BlueSky. "Additionally the roadmap we've put together with e-Spirit will open up new opportunities for both parties in the US retail market and we're very excited about that".
On November 3rd, Gartner revealed their Magic Quadrant for E-Commerce research report, and this year, we see new trends that are especially noteworthy. The e-commerce industry is steadily increasing and one of the most important desires for organizations is for a single vendor to provide as many e-commerce and customer experience capabilities as possible. The complexities of this industry create challenges for many smaller platforms, but as seen in the magic quadrant matrix, the market leaders continue to invest in encompassing all e-commerce needs into one platform.
Gartner named IBM as the leader in the e-commerce industry based on two primary criteria: Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. Gartner's definition of the e-commerce market continues to expand beyond simply B2B and B2C commerce to include the entire customer experience throughout the entire sales process. IBM Smarter Commerce encompasses the entire value chain, and the processes that contribute to the overall customer experience which is why their "sell" side solutions, including WebSphere Commerce, lead the industry. To read the entire Gartner Magic Quadrant report, click here .
The National Retail Federation (NRF) Foundation offers a number of professional certifications and credentials for business partners and consulting firms that service the retail industry and promote standards of excellence in this industry. The NRF Foundation's professional certifications confirm a company's exemplary industry knowledge of critical skills identified by the industry. BlueSky Technology Partners (BlueSky) is proud to announce they recently obtained the Professional Retail Business Credential.
The NRF Foundation's Professional Retail Business Credential measures and validates knowledge of key retail disciplines. The credential aims to foster deeper industry familiarity among business consulting professionals and sets standards for the retail industry. To receive this credential, non-retailers must complete a proctored assessment that tests their knowledge and understanding of seven key areas of retail operations:
BlueSky's continuous education of key industry skills is part of our consulting success. This credential demonstrates BlueSky's commitment to understating our retail clients' needs. As a result, BlueSky now continues to consult retailers with key insights into their business.
"This is another step in our continuous improvement activities and we are extremely proud to have received this professional credential. BlueSky is extremely proud of our talented and extremely valued consultants who helped earn this accreditation."
Todd Irwin, CEO, BlueSky.
IBM has released an overview of feature pack 2 for WebSphere Commerce V7. Feature Pack 2 has many new functional enhancements that can improve enterprises deliver more personal shopper experiences. This feature pack delivers an intuitive storefront experience for your customers. Some features include:
V7 Feature Pack 2 will be available December 17, 2010, for electronic distribution and January 14, 2011, for physical distribution.
BlueSky hosted our 5th Annual Customer and Partner Appreciation Day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Carb Day, Friday, May 28th. Each year, BlueSky hosts this event by private invitation for everyone within BlueSky's value chain. We choose Carb Day to leverage the spirit of motorsports in the capital of motorsports, Indianapolis. It is a great opportunity for us to strengthen our relationships with the people that mean the most to us, our clients and business partners. Carb Day makes for the perfect setting. We keep solution profiles/case studies of our clients and allow our partners to showcase a little something about them while we enjoy the confines of the Bill Lukovich suite in Gasoline Alley where all of the action is. This event is truly a great way to catch up with all of our colleagues who come from out of town and those clients and partners as Indianapolis prepares for the Greatest Spectacle in Racing, The Indy 500. Visit http://www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com/indy500 to see more about the Greatest Spectacle in Racing.
Noblesville, IN, September 15, 2009 - BlueSky Technology Partners, one of Indiana’s fastest growing consulting companies, was the recipient of the best B2C Deployment award for a Systems Integrator during the 2009 IBM WebSphere Commerce Leadership Summit held in Toronto, Canada, from September 14 - 17. The awards ceremony was held on September 15 when BlueSky was chosen the winner by an IBM executive committeeefihjef for the e- commerce site deployed for Kotulas, a brand of Northern Tool & Equipment (NTE).
The eCommerce site www.kotulas.com was selected by IBM over other well known brand sites that were nominated in the category. BlueSky attributes its success to CodeBlue Frameworks, BlueSky’s pre-built WebSphere Commerce assets and methods. Using these assets and methods allowed the team to achieve the desired business results and served as the catalyst for IBM’s selection of BlueSky as the winner.
In 2008 NTE’s brand development group for Kotulas was challenged with the need to test-bed their new brand initiative on a limited budget and an aggressive time table. The new initiative for Kotulas was a completely new concept for NTE as it went after the market for selling unique gifts and gadgets. NTE has been working with BlueSky for several years on various WebSphere Commerce initiatives. To meet the challenge facing the Kotulas brand team, NTE leveraged BlueSky’s lean WebSphere Commerce solution called CodeBlue Frameworks. CodeBlue Frameworks leverages pre-built frameworks and the out-of-the-box functionality of WebSphere Commerce to deliver a solution in a short timeframe and for limited budgets. NTE and BlueSky agreed that CodeBlue Frameworks was the perfect fit for NTE’s initiative, and two months later NTE launched www.kotulas.com.
The CodeBlue Frameworks solution for Kotulas delivered the core capabilities of WebSphere Commerce including marketing functions such as eSpots and promotions; integrations to pricing and inventory; and customizations to tax, freight and promo/key code interfaces. The initial launch leveraged the out of the box search capability that comes with WebSphere Commerce.
Kotulas.com proved to be a very successful venture for NTE as they were able to achieve their 12 month revenue goals ahead of budget. Since achieving the better than expected ROI, NTE has reinvested in the site to include social media forums, ratings and reviews, and additional Web 2.0 features. The CodeBlue Frameworks solution built with WebSphere Commerce gave them the architecture capable of extending capabilities over time. NTE has risen to # 74 (based on their on-line sales revenue) of the 500 largest US-based e-retailers by Internet Retailer and #2 in the Hardware / Home Improvement web retailers category.
"BlueSky is honored to have won this prestigious award by IBM," states Todd Irwin, CEO, BlueSky Technology Partners. "I’m even prouder of the achievement since the nomination for the award was provided by our client Northern Tool. Anytime your client provides you this type of acknowledgement it means the world to a consultancy. We’re very proud."
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