Imaginatik Joins IBM’s Software as a Service Specialty

BOSTON – 13 July 2009 – Imaginatik plc (AIM: 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.

For further information please contact:

Imaginatik plc
Tel: +1 866 917 2975 / +44 20 7917 2975

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.