CROZ finalist of the IBM's Rational 2011 Business Partner Innovation award

Zagreb, June 16, 2011 – CROZ has been named finalist of IBM's "Rational 2011 Business Partner Innovation Award" which is awarded once a year to IBM partners worldwide for their quality and innovation in the application of IBM technologies and services. CROZ is a finalist in the category ''Innovation in Enterprise Modernization''.

Awards in this category are given for solutions which streamline existing information systems that enable the deepening of performance values for existing systems, knowledge and processes. CROZ's project, which competed in this category, is a project for the modernization of the batch environment in FINA. This project included the migration of the mainframe batch processing from COBOL language to JAVA language that enabled the further development of modern application solutions built upon innovative software technologies while concurrently using existing legacy mainframe applications.

Receiving such global recognition is a great achievement and an honor for a Croatian company, especially when taking into consideration that most of the finalists were companies from larger markets. This year's award serves as confirmation of the continuity of CROZ's quality, and it succeeds awards it received in previous years: in 2010, finalist of the ''IBM Beacon Award'' in the category Outstanding Software Delivery in Product and Service Innovation with Rational; in 2008, awarded the ''IBM Rational Award'' in the category Outstanding Rational® Requirements & Portfolio Management Solution and finalist of the ''IBM Beacon Award'' in the category Rational® Excellence in Software Delivery.