NEW YORK, 12/21/06 -- Gemini Systems is proud to announce we were named a finalist by IBM Lotus for the 2007 IBM Lotus Award: Best Portal Solution, for our Enterprise Portal Platform with SOA. This award recognizes a solution that leverages IBM WebSphere Portal to create a dynamic internet, intranet, and/or extranet work environment. Nominated solutions needed to demonstrate how they met customer requirements (both from an IT and an end-user's perspective) and delivered business value. Special consideration was given to solutions that position the customer to leverage SOA today or in the future.

Gemini's Solution - Enterprise Portal Platform with SOA & IBM WebSphere Portal for Intranets and Extranets - serves as the home for business applications, supports virtual office functionality and business continuity, enables communication & collaboration, and provides a single point of access to corporate knowledge. One of Gemini's customers, whose name cannot be disclosed, served as a reference for their implementation of the Enterprise Portal Platform with SOA.

By leveraging portal platforms, Gemini's customers have achieved tremendous return on investment by leveraging common infrastructure, common services, quicker time to market by having one entry point to the entire intranet, reduced corporate surfing by enabling search and other utilities on the portal. Integrating mail, web and non-web applications, content and data on the portal has enabled them to achieve their business continuity objectives as well as their ability to support a virtual office bringing about tremendous efficiency.

Gemini Systems, an IBM Premier business partner, has been designing, developing, implementing and maintaining sophisticated technology solutions since 1987. Gemini Systems is headquartered in New York City with offices in St. Petersburg, Russia and Chennai, India. We help mid-market through Fortune 1000 companies realize their full potential by creating business solutions utilizing unique best practices, Gemini's global delivery model, and best of breed IBM technologies.