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Ingram Micro’s Xvantage™ Digital Platform Wins Three 2025 iF DESIGN AWARDS for Excellence in User Experience and Innovation

By: via Business Wire

Awards highlight leading B2B platform company’s commitment to leveraging AI, automation, and intelligent design to drive customer centricity, efficiency, and business success for its channel partners worldwide

Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: INGM) today announced that its Ingram Micro's Xvantage™ digital experience platform has been recognized with three iF Design Awards 2025 in the User Experience category for its Mobile, Email to Order, and Insights & Recommendations features. For over 70 years, the iF DESIGN AWARDS from the iF International Forum Design GmbH have been among the most prestigious global design competitions, honoring excellence in UX/UI, product design, and innovation. Past award winners and honorees include Google, Meta, and Samsung.

Reflecting Ingram Micro’s commitment to redefining distribution and removing friction from typical B2B transactions through cutting-edge UX/UI design, these award-winning solutions help channel partners streamline operations, make data-driven decisions, and enhance efficiency. With innovations including AI-driven insights, mobile accessibility, and seamless ordering experiences, Ingram Micro’s customers can more easily generate and capture value, realize opportunity, and accelerate business growth.

This year’s competitors included almost 11,000 submissions from 66 countries, which were thoughtfully evaluated by an international jury of 131 independent expert design professionals from 23 countries.

Ingram Micro’s award-winning entries included:

  • Xvantage Mobile: Brings the power of Ingram Micro’s AI-driven Xvantage platform to mobile, enabling solution providers to place orders, track shipments, manage payments, and access real-time insights on the go.
  • Email to Order: Simplifies the purchasing process by allowing solution providers to seamlessly convert emailed quotes into orders, reducing friction in the procurement and purchase journey with AI-enabled efficiencies.
  • Insights & Recommendations: Uses AI models to provide personalized Insights, helping channel partners optimize their business decisions and contextualize recommendations across the purchase journey to improve customer engagement.

“These three significant, highly-valued awards are a testament to Ingram Micro’s continued transformation from technology distributor into a platform company,” said Sanjib Sahoo, President of Global Platform Group, Ingram Micro. “The user experience and speed to value are critical components of platform companies, and these honors validate the hard work and focus our teams have placed on driving innovation in this crucial area. We thank iF International Forum Design GmbH for their recognition of our achievements in design and elevating the user experience to a new level of engagement.”

"Winning three iF Design Awards is an incredible honor. This prestigious recognition is also excellent validation of the customer-centric design and user experience of our Xvantage digital platform, as well as a testament to the collaboration across our Ingram Micro Xvantage teams—including Product, UX, Engineering, Data, and more,” said Ambrish Verma, Chief Product Officer, Ingram Micro. “It’s exciting to see our work in design and innovation recognized globally, and even more rewarding to know we’re creating seamless, intelligent experiences that make a real difference for our channel partners."

Further information about the winning solutions can be found here:

These awards reinforce recent findings about Ingram Micro’s Xvantage digital experience platform in the IDC ProductScape: Worldwide Technology Distributor Platforms, 2025, which compares the digital platform capabilities of technology distributors. The report noted the key elements, capabilities, and differentiators of the platform and how they are empowering organizations to accelerate digital transformation, optimize IT investments, and drive innovation.

About the iF DESIGN AWARD

Since 1954, the iF DESIGN AWARD has been a globally recognized trademark when it comes to design excellence. The iF Design brand is internationally established as a symbol of outstanding design achievements. The iF DESIGN AWARD is one of the most important design prizes in the world. It honors design achievements in all disciplines: product, packaging, communication and service design, architecture and interior design as well as professional concept, user experience (UX) and user interface (UI). All award-winning entries are presented on ifdesign.com.

About Ingram Micro

Ingram Micro (NYSE: INGM) is a leading technology company in the global information technology ecosystem. With the ability to reach nearly 90% of the global population, we play a vital role in the worldwide IT sales channel, bringing products and services from technology manufacturers and cloud providers to a highly diversified base of business-to-business technology experts. Through Ingram Micro Xvantage™, our AI-powered digital platform, we offer what we believe to be the industry’s first comprehensive business-to-consumer-like experience, integrating hardware and cloud subscriptions, personalized recommendations, instant pricing, order tracking, and billing automation. We also provide a broad range of technology services, including financing, specialized marketing, lifecycle management, and technical pre- and post-sales professional support. Learn more at www.ingrammicro.com.

"These three significant, highly-valued awards are a testament to Ingram Micro’s continued transformation from technology distributor into a platform company,” said Sanjib Sahoo, President of Global Platform Group, Ingram Micro

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