Imaginatik Joins IBM's Software as a Service Specialty

BOSTON, MA, Jul 13 (MARKET WIRE) --
Imaginatik plc (LSE: IMTK) today announced that it has joined the IBM
Software as a Service (SaaS) Specialty partner program within IBM
PartnerWorld.

Imaginatik's Idea Central is an award-winning, enterprise-scale SaaS
solution for collaborative cost reduction and innovation management, which
is used by many of the world's top companies. Imaginatik's solution
leverages IBM Lotus Notes and Domino and IBM Tivoli software and runs on
IBM System x servers.

"We are pleased that IBM has accepted our company into its SaaS
Specialty," said Mark Turrell, CEO of Imaginatik. "Our SaaS strategy has
been central to the way we deliver our collaborative innovation and
enterprise crowdsourcing solutions, combining cloud computing with the
'human cloud.'"

IBM offers hardware, software and infrastructure technologies to help its
Business Partners deliver secure and scalable cloud services. IBM can
support its partners' initiatives to design, build, deliver and market
SaaS solutions to help clients transform their business.

"SaaS is one of the fastest growing segments of the IT industry because it
provides companies of all sizes with access to innovative solutions
delivered remotely via a subscription model," said Dave Mitchell, director
of strategy, IBM Developer Relations. "Imaginatik's commitment to SaaS can
provide its customers with a powerful way to reduce implementation costs
while rapidly deploying business applications."

The IBM SaaS Specialty partner program provides valuable benefits,
resources, technical enablement and marketing support. In addition,
Business Partners gain access to over 40 worldwide IBM Innovation Centers,
providing them with technical support and expertise for helping them test,
build and optimise cloud services based on open platforms.

For more information on the IBM SaaS Specialty partner program, please
visit: www.ibm.com/partnerworld/saas.

About Imaginatik

Imaginatik is the leading provider of collaborative cost reduction,
process improvement and innovation software and processes to the world's
top organizations. More than 100 clients in industries as diverse as
aerospace, insurance, manufacturing, high technology, services and
pharmaceuticals rely on Imaginatik's software, consulting and research to
support their enterprise crowdsourcing initiatives.

Imaginatik, named as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for 2008,
is committed to developing strategic solutions in the areas of innovation,
cost control and sustainability, working with academic institutions such
as IXL Center at Hult International Business School, and leading
practitioners of corporate innovation.

Imaginatik is a public company traded on the London Stock Exchange.

For further information about Imaginatik, please visit www.imaginatik.com.

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