Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc. (http://copiers.toshiba.com),a leading managed print services provider and independent operating company of Toshiba Corporation, today announced that it made this year's InformationWeek 500, an annual listing of the nation's most innovative users of business technology. Toshiba earned its position on the list for its use of cloud technology to provide a common sales platform throughout the entire organization. The 2011 list was revealed at a gala awards ceremony at the exclusive InformationWeek 500 Conference taking place at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort, Dana Point, Calif.

"The implementation of using cloud technology to provide a common platform for our sales workforce shows how Toshiba America Business Solutions is not only tapping into the cloud for our customers, but also using the cloud internally to maximize resources," said Michael Torcaso, vice president, chief financial officer & chief investment officer for Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc. "Along with successfully bringing together more than 800 employees, this project provided increases in revenue per sales rep, productivity, and profit."

Toshiba America Business Solutions needed to link more than four-dozen acquired companies, each with their own processes and customer relationship management (CRM) systems. Toshiba chose the salesforce.com sales cloud and rolled its implementation out across the country in 20 office sites and four different phases. A key innovation leading to Toshiba's success was the speed of the implementation and ability of Toshiba's IT departments to partner with the business side to quickly identify and implement solutions. Among other successes, the cloud technology resulted in an annual sales increment of 14.6 percent and a 20-percent increase in sales rep revenue per month.

"For 23 years, the InformationWeek 500 has chronicled and honored the most innovative users of business technology," said InformationWeek Editor In Chief Rob Preston. "In this day and age, however, being innovative isn't enough. Companies and their IT organizations need to innovate faster than ever  to stay a step or two ahead of their customers, partners, and competitors. This year's ranking placed special emphasis on those high-octane business technology innovators."

InformationWeek identifies and honors the nation's most innovative users of information technology with its annual 500 listing and also tracks the technology, strategies, investments and administrative practices of America's best-known companies. The InformationWeek 500 rankings are unique among corporate rankings as it spotlights the power of innovation in information technology, rather than simply identifying the biggest IT spenders.

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About Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc.

Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc. (TABS) is an independent operating company of Toshiba Corporation, the eighth largest electronics/electrical equipment company in the world. TABS is a leading provider of managed print and professional services (MPS and PS), and manages product planning, marketing, sales, service, support and distribution of copiers, facsimiles, multifunction printing products, network controllers, and toner products throughout the United States, Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean. MPS and PS are strategic focus areas for the company, which first developed and began marketing the Encompass^TM MPS program in 2003.

Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., TABS has five divisions: the Electronic Imaging Division; the Toner Products Division; the Document Solutions Engineering Division; the International Division; and Toshiba Business Solutions (TBS), a wholly-owned subsidiary corporation of TABS, that operates a network of wholly-owned office equipment dealers throughout the United States.

Honored with the Channel's Choice top award for "Superior Performance" twelve times by the Business Technology Association (BTA), Toshiba's entire product line, customer support and marketing distribution policies are markers for the industry. For more information on Toshiba products, programs, solutions and services, please visit www.copiers.toshiba.com.