Bangalore: IBM India on September 3 announced the Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) Advantage Initiative, reinforcing its commitment to deliver solutions to the small and medium business (SMB) market.

The initiative is designed to provide ISVs with technical and marketing support to help meet the needs of SMB customers, an IBM statement said.

As part of the initiative it said, ISVs work with IBM India to port their applications to IBM's open infrastructure, with a special focus on IBM WebSphere Express and IBM DB2 Express running on Linux, as well as IBM WebSphere and IBM DB2 Universal Database.

IBM India intends to broaden the scope of ISV advantage program over time to include new IBM Express software, hardware and services offerings as they become available. This will further enable ISV Advantage participants to build comprehensive solutions to better serve SMB customers, the statement added.

PTI