BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aplicor LLC, an on-demand CRM and ERP business software applications manufacturer today announced that IDG’s Computerworld has selected Aplicor as one of the top Green IT Organizations for 2009.

"Smart organizations know that there are energy and money savings beyond data center walls, and even beyond the IT department. Green-IT efforts are found up and down the supply chain, from the data center to the desktop, from the mainframe to the end user,” said Scot Finnie, editor in chief, Computerworld. “The organizations recognized in our second annual Top Green-IT issue have explored new ways to apply technology to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions in every part of their operations."

“As part of being a global business software hosting company supporting online CRM and ERP software users in over 100 countries, Aplicor has both an opportunity and responsibility to demonstrate environmentally responsible behaviors which promote power savings and reduced carbon emissions,” commented Chuck Schaeffer, Aplicor CEO. “Aplicor’s Global Reach for Energy and Efficiency Next Generation (GREEN) program has reduced carbon emissions through several incremental, measurable and sustained collective efforts including cooling efficiency, re-engineered power distribution, server virtualization and new footprint schemas for improved equipment density.”

For the second consecutive year, Computerworld identified the top organizations that implement smart, efficient strategies to achieve environmentally friendly green IT. The Top Green IT Vendors published in April 20 issue of Computerworld include the following:

1. IBM (number 1 last year)

2. Hewlett-Packard Co. (number 7 last year)

3. Fujitsu America Inc. (number 5 last year)

4. Microsoft Corp. (number 6 last year)

5. Qualcomm Inc. (number 3 last year)

6. Dell Inc.

7. Aplicor Inc. (number 4 last year)

8. BT Group PLC (number 2 last year)

9. Applied Materials Inc.

10. Entrust Inc.

11. Compellent Technologies Inc.

12. Terremark Worldwide Inc.

About Aplicor

Aplicor is a global software publisher of web-based CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) business software systems for high growth, middle-market and enterprise companies. Aplicor key benefits include an intuitive user interface to promote a positive user experience, business process automation to achieve dramatic improvements in user productivity and a business intelligence suite to help decision makers make better decisions. For more information, visit http://www.aplicor.com/ or contact Pete Koltis at 561-347-0300.