Ingram Micro Cloud Launches Fully Automated IBM Connections Services to Accelerate Cloud Reseller Growth.

Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) today announced the addition of IBM Connections to the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace, a leading automated cloud services platform that allows resellers to purchase, provision, manage, and invoice cloud technology with confidence and ease. Built on a single, open cloud platform, IBM Connections is a comprehensive digital business platform that offers collaboration tools designed to help companies increase productivity, augment decision-making, and become a digital business. The technology includes tools such as IBM Verse enterprise-class email, team rooms, file sharing and editing, e-meetings, and chat to allow people to work more efficiently within their company and beyond organizational boundaries with customers, partners and vendors. The Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace fully automates the service delivery, customer management, and invoicing of IBM Connections services, empowering resellers to quickly bring the offering to a wider client base by accelerating time-to-market and eliminating operational complexities.