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LPG INNOVATIONS AND IBM FORM PARTNERSHIP

Added: (Tue Nov 27 2001)

Pressbox (Press Release) - LPG Innovations’ service brokering platform extends IBM offerings

Finnish mobile software company LPG Innovations’ fixed and mobile Internet service brokering platform sBroker is to be integrated into IBM’s WebSphere product family as the result of a partnership agreement between LPG Innovations and IBM. LPG’s sBroker enables operators, service providers and large corporations to manage third-party services, gather usage and billing information and effortlessly add new services to existing environments.

The agreement between IBM and LPG will enable IBM:n WebSphere Everyplace Suite (WES) and WebSphere Portal Server (WPS) users to build more flexible and mobile services for different end-devices.

Using sBroker, customers can add third-party wireless and Internet services without separate integration work and end users benefit from improved level of service. The product centrally monitors network traffic and produces usage information for purposes such as billing and advertising, amongst others. Through this agreement LPG sBroker is administered with WebSphere management tools. The products have been integrated using Portlet technology and Apache JetSpeed architecture

Pekka Hirvi, vice president strategy and business development at LPG Innovations, said: “Our cooperation with IBM in integrating the two products will enable WebSphere customers worldwide to use sBroker’s intelligent agent technology thus broadening the functionality of both existing and new IBM environments. The market response to sBroker has been very positive and the product has answered customers’ needs to dynamically manage their service portfolios”.

Riz Khaliq, business development manager at IBM Wireless e-Business, said: “LPG Innovations' sBroker offers existing and new IBM customers a fast and flexible way to add third-party mobile Internet services to their existing environments. The solution will further enhance and boosting the WebSphere product family”.


LPG sBroker™ is a device independent service brokering platform. Targeted at operators and service providers, the solution improves the level of service by allowing users to see which services are functioning properly. LPG sBroker utilizes intelligent agent technology, which enables content delivery into different end devices and service addition without extra software coding. The software also includes advanced profiling tools for adapting the service selection according to different customer groups, end devices and user profiles.

About LPG Innovations
LPG Innovations Oy, founded in 1994, is one of mobile Internet’s early pioneers. The company provides service level enhancing solutions for corporations, operators and service providers. LPG Innovations focuses on transforming new technologies to highly scalable solutions with open interfaces and inbuilt fault tolerance. LPG Innovations' customers include mobile operators in the USA and Europe, b-to-b service providers (End2End, LCI Mobile), and large corporations (BMW, Ericsson Finland). LPG Innovations’ partners include Nokia, Hewlett-Packard, Cap Gemini Ernst Young, and Oracle. The company is owned by employees and the venture capital company CapMan Capital Management and Softbank Europe Ventures. LPG Innovations has offices in Finland (HQ), UK, Germany and Singapore. www.lpginnovations.com

About IBM
IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of e-business. The fastest way to get more information about IBM is through the IBM home page at http://www.ibm.com.

For further information, please contact

David Pincott/Lis Walton, Pirate Communications
Tel: 020 7760 7052/54
david@piratecomms.com / lis@piratecomms.com

Pekka Hirvi, Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, LPG Innovations Oy
Tel. +358 30 600 6336
pekka.hirvi@lpginnovations.com

Riz Khaliq, Business Development Manager, IBM Wireless e-Business
Tel +46 (0) 87931716
riz.khaliq@se.ibm.com

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