Velarde-led Now Corp. has entered into a partnership with IBM to provide software solutions for businesses. “By partnering with IBM, we can now offer a unified collaboration platform for our clients. This allows businesses with distributed workforce to embrace a new way to work that improves personal productivity and team collaboration,” said Kristian Pura, head of Enterprise Marketing at NOW. NOW offers IBM collaboration solutions software licensing, technical maintenance and support, user-training services, applications development to a host of companies. “We are helping our clients implement IBM Verse, a cloud business email hosting platform and messaging software. It allows our clients to not just use traditional emails but to also host audio and video conferences, make information and background about the people and companies within the email network more accessible. Most importantly, it also serves as a social networking platform since Verse is tightly integrated to IBM Connections, a collaboration platform for businesses,” said Maneth Libid, managing director of NOW’s software collaboration group. Among NOW’s clients are Meralco, SM Retail, Banco De Oro, Chinabank, Phinma Properties, Development Bank of the Philippines, and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. Source : http://bilyonaryo.com.ph/2017/09/21/now-corp-ibm-team-offer-software-solutions/