Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) has been honored for its Outstanding Infrastructure Service Solutions by 2016 IBM Beacon Awards for second successive year at the IBM Partner World Leadership Conference that was held in Orlando, in the US state of Florida.

Mobily won the award for successfully implementing the business continuity project, under its business continuity resilience dervices (BCRS), executed in partnership with IBM.

Each year, this honor is awarded to a select number of IBM business partners who have delivered exceptional solutions to drive business value and transform the way clients and industries do business in the future.

IBM Beacon Awards recognize business partners who have consistently demonstrated exemplary achievement in a category and is the highest award a business partner can receive. The winners are selected by a panel of expert judges consisting of IBM executives, industry analysts and members of the press.

The 2016 awards recognize achievements across a wide range of solution areas, including IBM Watson, cloud and analytics that are helping to bring clients into the cognitive era.

Ismail Al-Ghamdi, chief business officer, Mobily, said: “We are proud to have received the prestigious IBM Beacon Award for second year in a row. The key to implementation of such successful and innovative projects is to be cognizant of customer needs and select a technology partner that can help deliver state-of-the-art, optimal solutions. We will continue working with partners to offer innovative infrastructure solutions along with our strategic partner IBM to customers in governmental and private sectors. Indeed, this partnership allows us to provide outstanding services to our customers, which is in line with our strategy.”

“The IBM Beacon Awards recognize business partners who continually deliver transformative solutions that help clients prepare for the cloud and cognitive era,” said Marc Dupaquier, HM, IBM Global Business Partners.