Brivea LLC Selected for IBM's Global Entrepreneur Program

PRLog (Press Release) - Jul. 13, 2011 - IBM has accepted Brivea LLC into its Global Entrepreneur Program. IBM will assist with Brivea’s comprehensive IT cost analysis software by providing expert mentoring and global networking opportunities.

IBM’s Global Entrepreneur Program began in 2010 in the U.S., helping to launch more than 500 new businesses in emerging technologies, including health care, IT, and green energy. This year the program expanded to Germany and other European countries.

“For a start-up to access these kinds of capabilities from a major company like IBM is a tremendous opportunity,” said Ray Barratt, President and CEO of Brivea. “Developing this relationship with IBM gives us invaluable access to world-class resources, superior advice on tech-industry trends and innovations, and links to global IBM business partners.”

Brivea is utilizing IBM’s Global Entrepreneur Program to explore how IBM can host and run Brivea’s IT Financial Health Check application and database. This is a software suite that collects and analyzes all IT costs in an organization at a granular level, resulting in a 12-dial executive dashboard with specific actions for reducing money spent and maximizing ROI. "This delivers executives total transparency on their IT costs and in language they understand," Barratt said. "So for the first time in 25 years executives can make informed IT investment decisions."

For more information on Brivea LLC, visit http://www.brivea.com; for more information on the IBM Global Entrepreneur initiative, visit http://www-304.ibm.com/isv/startup/index.html.

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