WPC Award Winners & Finalists
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Business Intelligence Partner of the Year
Slalom Consulting, United States
Slalom Consulting is a business and technology consulting firm combining local expertise with national reach - solving their clients' biggest challenges through insight, experience, and innovation. Slalom Consulting is being recognized for their Business Intelligence solution, the “Retail Real Estate Portal", which allows their customers to significantly reduce analytics support overhead needed to drive the planning and strategy for store locations. The client is able to reallocate employees providing analytics support to tasks that help drive revenue. As a result, the Portal is expected to create a 40 percent increase in employee efficiency and customer satisfaction. The Slalom Consulting staff used their skills and the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform, including Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, and Microsoft Excel 2007, as well as Bing Maps and Silverlight to create this solution.
Finalists:
- GrupoMas, Costa Rica
- 21C, United Kingdom
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Citizenship Partner of the Year
Computacion Olidata LTDA, Chile
After an earthquake hit Chile in February of 2010, the Original Equipment Manufacturer Computacion Olidata supported “ChileConect@Chile” to quickly restore public access to the Internet via semi-permanent Community Technology Centers (CTCs). These centers connect victims with their loved ones through digitally equipped mobile containers placed in some of the most devastated communities. The plan is to install 50 container CTCs in the earthquake zone. This initiative was carried out under the National Digital Literacy Program executed by the Rural Life Training Foundation (Fundacion Vida Rural) and is supported by the Chilean government. The effort builds upon Olidata’s commitment to social responsibility by providing digital literacy skills and expanding opportunities for those impacted by this natural disaster.
Finalists:
- CTTC, Pakistan
- Training Camp, United States
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Communications Sector Partner of the Year
Tribold, United Kingdom
As communications service providers struggle with the challenges of declining revenues and new competitors, they are offering a broader array of services to their subscribers. Tribold has identified a key emerging need for service providers with their Enterprise Product Management solution, and in a short span of time has become a market leader. Fully based on Microsoft technology, the Tribold EPM solution reduces the time from new product inception to launch, allows dynamic creation of customized service offerings, and improves performance of product management to drive increased profitability. Tribold exemplifies the Microsoft industry partner-led solution selling approach by providing industry expertise and utilizing Microsoft platform technology in a way that delivers value for communications service providers.
Finalists:
- CUBECORE Co., LTD, Korea
- Techpath LLC, United States
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Core Infrastructure Solutions
- Core Infrastructure Solutions, Desktop Partner of the Year
- Core Infrastructure Solutions, Identity and Security Partner of the Year
- Core Infrastructure Solutions, Server Platform Partner of the Year
- Core Infrastructure Solutions, Systems Management Partner of the Year
- Core Infrastructure Solutions, Virtualization Partner of the Year
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Core Infrastructure Solutions, Desktop Partner of the Year
CMS Consulting Inc., Canada
Through strategic planning, a conscious effort to continuously develop in-house skills through training and education, and careful program implementation, CMS Consulting helps many customers drive Windows deployments across a broad range of industries including healthcare, government, and the public sector. CMS Consulting develops top of the line programs to help companies deploy Windows 7 and Office, while also helping the customer realize the ultimate value Microsoft can deliver. Among CMS’s customers is the City of London, which was one of the Windows 7 launch case studies., CMS has shown world class capabilities in deploying Windows to thousands of desktops, as well as a great understanding of customer needs throughout the process.
Finalists:
- Dimension Data, United Kingdom
- ATEA, Denmark
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Core Infrastructure Solutions, Identity and Security Partner of the Year
Certified Security Solutions, Inc., United States
Microsoft is recognizing Certified Security Solutions as the Identity & Security Partner of the Year due to its successful delivery of Microsoft-based security solutions to mutual customers, and its strong collaboration with Microsoft field organizations. Certified Security Solutions has developed three core business practices that tightly align with Microsoft’s Identity and Security technologies- Identity and Access Management, Infrastructure Security, and Security Strategy and Management Services. They have also built security software tools that integrate and strengthen their clients’ utilization of Microsoft’s products and solutions. Through its diverse portfolio of practices and software tools, Certified Security Solutions has proven itself very effective at creating client satisfaction by delivering the full line of Microsoft Business Ready Security solutions.
Finalists:
- Oxford Computer Group, United Kingdom
- Edgile, Inc., United States
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Core Infrastructure Solutions, Server Platform Partner of the Year
ALAN Company, Russia
ALAN Company focuses on the deployment of integrated solutions for the common information space of the Yaroslavl Region’s government in Russia. The main efforts of the company are aimed at popularizing modern information technologies for state and municipal organizations. ALAN Company has extensive experience in deploying a variety of solutions based on Windows Server and other Microsoft technologies. With their knowledge and experience, the company has won the Microsoft Partner of the Year award in Russia twice. ALAN Company’s active participation in the Microsoft Partner Network and their positive results serve as a good example for other partners.
Finalists:
- Ensynch, United States
- NetApp, United States
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Core Infrastructure Solutions, Systems Management Partner of the Year
CDW Corporation, United States
CDW is being recognized for their advanced experience with System Center technologies, their breadth of solution offerings across the System Center portfolio, and the strength of their solution selling skills. CDW has built standard, repeatable offerings to deliver services around each of the System Center technologies by incorporating custom management packs and Solution Accelerators that have helped their customers reduce their total cost of ownership, provide a quick return on investment, and maximize their software investments. CDW has also demonstrated expertise in using System Center to help customers monitor and manage heterogeneous and virtual environments.
Finalists:
- Dimension Data – Victoria, Australia
- Veeam Software, United States
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Core Infrastructure Solutions, Virtualization Partner of the Year
Avanade UK Ltd., United Kingdom
Avanade UK Ltd. is being recognized for scoring a huge win against a Microsoft competitor in Great Britain. Avanade UK Ltd. will enable their customer to achieve both business agility and total cost of ownership reduction through the provision of a Next Generation Data Center (NGDC) for their European Windows Server estate. This initiative will be completed over 12 months, and will focus on the delivery of a new data center platform comprised of Hyper-V and System Center, with the planned migration of 1600 physical and VMware virtual servers. This project will result in the client achieving tangible business outcomes, including potential savings in the area of £4-5m and an overall ROI of 140%.
Finalists:
- CDW Corporation, United States
- NetApp, United States
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Custom Development Solutions
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Custom Development Solutions, Application Infrastructure Development Partner of the Year
daenet, Germany
daenet has created a set of composite solutions for a leading airfreight container firm, helping them manage and track more than 80,000 unit load devices or ULDs (specialized containers and pallets used to carry luggage and cargo) and 12 million annual ULD moves among 500 airports. The challenge included seamlessly interfacing with various organizations in order to receive and process all relevant tracking information. The solutions, built on top of Silverlight and Windows Mobile technology, were created using service-oriented-architecture (SOA) with Windows Server AppFabric hosting the services. While BizTalk Server is used as the integration layer, the SOA workflow in the application layer was created using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). The SOA solution, deployed on HP and Dell multiprocessor servers, includes a number of design elements, such as services hosting, caching, persistence and application monitoring using Windows Server AppFabric and a BI Data warehouse hosted on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 running on Windows Server 2008. The user interface for the solution was created using Microsoft Silverlight 4. daenet’s solution has enabled its customer to manage global operations much more accurately and efficiently, winning more airline customers in the process.
Finalists:
- Solidsoft LTD, United Kingdom
- Bennett Adelson, United States
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Custom Development Solutions, Smart Client Development Partner of the Year
Asseco South Eastern Europe, Serbia
Asseco SEE. created Experience Desktop Client, an outstanding next-generation banking client written using Microsoft.NET technologies on the client side, and the full Microsoft stack on the server side. The solution goes beyond “just” relational data in the business tier, making use of SQL Server reporting services, analysis services, integration services, full text search, and more. In addition, it is surfaced in a beautiful and easy-to-use Windows application. Asseco SEE is pushing the curve with updates to the application built on Silverlight and Power Pivot. All in all, the application goes beyond just the client, and shows the great value achieved when using the full Microsoft stack from end user through ownership to administration.
Finalists:
- Agito, Slovenia
- Avanade Inc., Australia
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Custom Development Solutions, Web Development Partner of the Year
Macaw, Netherlands
Macaw’s Van Duuren Media's YINDO application combines the power of user experience and the reach of the web into one great solution. The application delivers an electronic library and bookshop that allows people to select, borrow, buy, and read books online with a very rich user experience. The web-based application uses (but doesn't overuse) social patterns in providing intelligence about books that the user might enjoy. It succeeds in returning recommendations that puts the user's interests first, rather than presenting loosely relevant books, as is often the case with similar sites.
Finalists:
- Codify, United Kingdom
- Infusion, United States
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Data Management Solutions Partner of the Year
Mareigua, Colombia
Mareigua has created a web-based solution that enables employers and independent workers across Colombia to make unified payments for their social security, health, and welfare systems. It integrates, validates, consolidates, and sends all the payment information to more than 150 private and government entities. Aportes en Linea also orchestrates all the funding processes, interaction, and integration with more than 17 banks across Colombia. It was developed and is currently operated using the latest Microsoft technology (SQL Server 2008 R2, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008, SharePoint Server 2007 and Office 2007). The solution, created to fulfill the requirements of millions of workers and entities, receives payments of more than 200 million dollars every month from over 365,000 individuals. It also processes nearly 2000 transactions per second. On a monthly basis, it integrates and consolidates more than 4 million files.
Finalists:
- Otsuka Corporation, Japan
- Execplan, Brazil
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Distribution Partner of the Year
Express Data New Zealand Limited, New Zealand
During the global economic downturn in 2008 and 2009, Express Data New Zealand recognized an opportunity to strengthen their market position by growing their Microsoft non-managed partner base. Their plan contained three pillars: A) Licensing education; B) Non-managed partner reach and C) Growing non-managed retail fully packaged product (FPP). Express Data designed and ran Microsoft Certified Professional-level licensing courses throughout the country, leading to a 7x increase in the number of MCP certifications monthly during the campaign. Express Data also developed a non-managed retail sales and education strategy, resulting in a market share gain from 5% to 29% in just one year. Overall, Express Data grew their total Microsoft business 40% year over year, grew FPP revenue 192%, increased partner satisfaction scores, and achieved double-digit increases in profitability for the Microsoft line.
Finalists:
- Tech Data GmbH & Co. OHG, Germany
- D&H Distributing Co, United States
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Enterprise Partners of the Year
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Accenture and Avanade, (Global)
Microsoft’s alliance with Accenture and Avanade combines the strong industry business advisory services of Accenture, the dedicated and deep Microsoft technical skills of Avanade, and Microsoft’s software value proposition to enable customers to realize their full potential. A key benefit of this alliance is the ability to create unique and differentiated solution offerings that combine the power of the three companies to achieve exceptional results. This year, the alliance has had considerable success in growing its business together by over 20% and expanding into new offerings such as Digital Marketing and Health Services. The alliance is driving significant, industry-specific, line-of-business solutions, expanding horizontal/industry offerings and deepening key relationships. These successes represent a new level of forward momentum, further enabling enterprises worldwide to improve their performance, increase strategic advantage, and create real business value.
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Capgemini Group (Capgemini & Sogeti), (Global)
Cap Gemini S.A. is comprised of Capgemini and Sogeti. Together, they make one of the world’s foremost global providers of consulting, professional technology, and outsourcing services, operating in 30 countries with over 90,000 employees in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region. Capgemini and Sogeti provides their clients with insights and capabilities that enable them to transform and perform through technologies. They boost their customers’ freedom to achieve superior results through a variety of technologies, with a focus on getting the right balance of the best talent from multiple locations working as one team to create and deliver the optimum solution for clients. Capgemini and Sogeti are Microsoft’s top partners in the delivery of Window 7 ACF & MDOP, as well as having a strong focus in ERP + and SharePoint solutions. They are experiencing strong organic growth with Microsoft Practice and their investment in the Microsoft Cloud strategy, and they are prepared to market and deliver the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite with confidence.
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Hewlett-Packard, (Global)
2010 was a year of significant product, solution, and strategy launches showing the strength of the HP/Microsoft Alliance. Two significant sales programs, Unified Communication & Collaboration, and Infrastructure-to-Applications Model Initiatives, jointly funded at over $400M, include engineering and development roadmaps that set the stage for new, profitable engagements between HP and Microsoft over the next three to five years. Additionally, key programs to enhance internal communication and sales and marketing program alignment with executive support have elevated the value and effectiveness of this alliance internally. Microsoft and HP will finish FY10 delivering more Microsoft revenue than any other partner, closing $1.7B in FY10. HP has also executed Alliance Initiative agreements this year which total $500M in joint investments and over 100 new HP Sales and Solution Architects hired between the two initiatives with significant incentives to drive sales and pipeline.
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Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year
Outsourcery®, United Kingdom
Outsourcery developed a hosted solution for Unified Communications (UC) and collaboration built on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, SharePoint 2007, Exchange Server 2007, and Office Communication Server (OCS) 2007. It’s a turn-key, end-to-end Microsoft UC solution that includes both mobile integration and connectivity – all on one bill and with a single point of contact. Focused on the UK small and medium business (SMB) market, Outsourcery’s hosted OCS offer is also integrated into their hosted iPBX product and smart phones. This gives customers advanced features like click 2 call, call forwarding, and call routing-based services, which provides OCS presence and status on the user’s desktop and mobile devices.
Finalists:
- Fasthosts Internet LTD, United Kingdom
- Fpweb.net, United States
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IAMCP Partner of the Year
Rock Solid Technologies, Inc., Puerto Rico
The International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners (IAMCP) is recognizing Rock Solid for its innovative and timely, high-value solution that uses the Microsoft Dynamics platform as the foundation. Rock Solid has demonstrated to follow the IAMCP Pillars (PACE)—not only in its own region, but also across borders. Rock Solid has been a very active partner who has concerns about the community, and also in improving better solutions for their customers. Rock Solid has achieved a recognized role in the Microsoft ecosystem as an organization that knows how to develop, implement and deliver quality solutions. -
Information Worker Solutions
- Information Worker Solutions, Collaboration Partner of the Year
- Information Worker Solutions, Communications and Collaboration Solution Partner of the Year
- Information Worker Solutions, Enterprise Content Management Partner of the Year
- Information Worker Solutions, Enterprise Project Management Partner of the Year
- Information Worker Solutions, Office Business Application Partner of the Year
- Information Worker Solutions, Search Solution Partner of the Year
- Information Worker Solutions, Visio Partner of the Year
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Information Worker Solutions, Collaboration Partner of the Year
Slalom Consulting, United States
Slalom Consulting is a business and technology consulting firm combining local expertise with national reach. Slalom Consulting solves its clients' biggest challenges through insight, experience, and innovation. Slalom Consulting is being recognized for its solution, USOC PressBox, built for the United States Olympic Committee (USOC). This solution expands the USOC media capabilities, giving journalists better access to news, rich search functionality, and Twitter feeds from Team USA athletes. It also allows non-technical users to create and manage content. A previously resource-heavy IT function is now an integral part of the normal workflow, delivering more content to more people in real time.
Finalists:
- Neudesic, LLC, United States
- PTC, United States
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Information Worker Solutions, Communications and Collaboration Solution Partner of the Year
Avanade Inc., United States
Avanade’s solutions, leveraging Microsoft Office Communications Server and Microsoft SharePoint Server technologies, streamline communications and collaboration.They created a solution for a telecommunications firm with operations in 14 countries and more than 174 million mobile phone subscribers that was expanding into Asia and Central and Eastern Europe. Existing information and collaboration tools were not integrated, feature-rich, or scalable enough to support their global expansion. Avanade deployed Office Communications Server 2007 R2, providing instant messaging and presence information. Additionally, Avanade envisioned, architected, and deployed a customized SharePoint-based portal and collaboration platform supported by rich OCS-based communication services. Avanade built a custom solution on top of SharePoint Server 2007, enabling records management and personnel search to merge local and corporate news. The solution is hosted in both European and Asian datacenters and replicates data between the two sites. This infrastructure is the foundation of an initiative to assist the organization with more effective and environmentally-friendly internal communications.
Finalists:
- Preferred One Stop Technologies, United Kingdom
- Aspect, United States
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Information Worker Solutions, Enterprise Content Management Partner of the Year
Content and Code, United Kingdom
Content and Code is being recognized for the Enterprise Content Management Solution they built for The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB). RNIB wanted to improve services for customers and staff via three distinct streams of work: an intranet, a new website, and an e-commerce platform. The solution Content and Code developed takes advantage of the Microsoft stack of technologies, including Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, and Microsoft Office. The final solution allowed RNIB to reduce processing time by 70%, as well as increase productivity and end-user satisfaction by 27%.
Finalists:
- Concept Interactive, Canada
- KnowledgeLake, United States
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Information Worker Solutions, Enterprise Project Management Partner of the Year
UMT Consulting Group, United States
UMT Consulting Group contributes to their clients’ success by linking business, product, and IT strategies to day-to-day activities - leading to improved performance and tangible results. The UMT Financial Benefits Calculator integrates standardized financial valuation modeling into Microsoft’s Enterprise Project Management solution, enabling its clients to easily prioritize investments, align resources and strategies, and effectively manage the execution of projects given the financial valuation of each project. UMT Consulting Group released this solution on Microsoft Office Portfolio Manager 2007, and upgraded and ported its capabilities into the new Microsoft Project Server 2010, taking advantage of the merging of project, program, and portfolio management.
Finalists:
- AccTech Systems (Pty) Ltd, South Africa
- Pcubed, United States
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Information Worker Solutions, Office Business Application Partner of the Year
Diamante Spa, Italy
Diamante demonstrates an excellent grasp of the full range of Information Worker (IW) products and technologies, creating an impressive product that takes full advantage of their capabilities. They use Office as their user interface, which integrates between different information worker capabilities. This powerful solution combines communication and collaboration, as well as the ability to help firms better serve customers. It is already built with Software plus Services in mind, making it an even more compelling product. Its BPOS integration enables Diamante to reach multiple small business customers and provide them with an efficient and effective scalable solution.
Finalists:
- Oconics PTY LTD., Australia
- Invensys Skelta, India
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Information Worker Solutions, Search Partner of the Year
Hitachi Consulting, United States
Hitachi Consulting is a business and technology consulting firm that helps companies leverage their investments in ERP platforms by connecting transaction platforms to the Microsoft suite of technology. Hitachi Consulting is being recognized for their Search and Information Access solution framework and methodology, which allows customers to take advantage of the powerful out-of-the-box capabilities of Fast Search for SharePoint 2010, enables quick time-to- market to demonstrate immediate business value, and is built on a platform that enables future extensibility for wider adoption across the enterprise.
Finalists:
- IT-Dev sp. z o.o., Poland
- B-S-S Business Software Solutions GmbH, Germany
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Information Worker Solutions, Visio Partner of the Year
Global 360, Inc., United States
AnalystView from Global 360 brings modeling and simulation to Visio 2010 and uses Microsoft SharePoint 2010 to enable process improvement collaboration with a broader audience. By leveraging Visio as the process modeler, Global 360 is making Visio 2010 an integral part of the BPM process life cycle. It is bringing BPM support to business analysts, simplifying the simulation process, and making Visio models and simulation results more accessible to the entire BPM community through native SharePoint-based collaboration. Global 360 can now take millions of desktop-bound Visio process models and make them fully- functioning, automated process and document management applications.
Finalists:
- ProModel, United States
- Visibility.biz, United States
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ISV/Software Solutions
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ISV/Software Solutions Partner of the Year
Jack Henry & Associates, United States
Jack Henry & Associates has an extensive array of products and services that processes ATM/debit card/ACH transactions, automates business processes, and manages mission-critical information for financial institutions and corporate entities. The company shows a wide adoption of Microsoft technologies and has several business models which include traditional on-premise, but most importantly new cloud computing services. Jack Henry & Associates played an important role in both the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 adoption programs, providing invaluable feedback so Microsoft could better serve joint customers. As a partner, they also played a pivotal role promoting the new technologies in industry specific shows and publications.
Finalists:
- Mybiz.net, Malaysia
- NewsGator® Technologies, Inc., United States
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ISV/Software Solutions Innovation Partner of the Year
1E, United Kingdom
1E developed a solution that mitigates the issue of energy consumption in large data centers through a process that monitors and makes intelligent decisions to reduce the poor consumption of energy across their customer's servers, without any loss of availability. Through the extensive use of Microsoft platform technologies, such as Windows Server, SQL Server, 1E's solution continually analyzes how much power is being used by business applications and how much is being wasted on unproductive processes. The product NightWatchman® Server Edition revolutionizes data center efficiency by measuring Useful Work™ across both physical and virtual servers.
Finalists:
- Omnivex Corporation, Canada
- AtHoc, Inc., United States
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Large Account Reseller Partner of the Year
CDW Corporation, United States
CDW, which covers the US and Canada, currently ranks third among LARs globally in licensing revenue only. In a difficult economy, CDW managed to have double digit growth in the annuity business, driving high market share and value. CDW provided cutting-edge solutions to our joint customers with its teams in cloud applications, new and renewal enterprise agreement advisory services, and Microsoft Open Value licensing program sales, demonstrating the value of Microsoft licensing expertise. In addition, CDW worked hand-in-hand with regional Microsoft sales teams to profile accounts and has since closed hundreds of new sub-500-seat Enterprise Agreements worth millions of dollars in revenue. In Microsoft Fiscal Year 2010, CDW has grown net new EA Revenue by 24% year-over-year, compared to the rest of the channel which has grown at 4% year-over-year. CDW leads the channel in almost every major channel comparison measure provided by Microsoft. In 2009, CDW grew the Microsoft Business 8.59% and EAs by 33% in difficult economic conditions.
Finalists:
- Brasoftware Informática LTDA, Brazil
- SoftwareONE, United States
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Learning Solutions
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Learning Solutions, Impact Partner of the Year
Academy of Networking LANIT & Microinform, Russia
The project goal for Academy of Networking was to increase the Russian Federal Treasury (FT) personnel’s awareness of IT systems based on Microsoft solutions in time for the Federal Treasury Automated System (AS FK) modernization project. Approximately 10,000 specialists of the Federal Treasury of Russia had instructor-led training in basic computer skills and advanced IT topics. An important requirement of the project was that all the training be delivered as instructor-led classes on basic computer skills delivered in the cities where FT Regional Branches are located - a total of 87 Russian cities. Based on training materials, an e-learning course was developed in order to extend the scope of training and provide ongoing training for employees. The training project is now completed, and over 10,000 completion certificates are in the hands of trained IT professionals as a result of this national government technology initiative.
Finalists:
- Educacion y Tecnologias de Informacion, Colombia
- Torque IT Computer Training, South Africa
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Learning Solutions, Innovative Partner of the Year
I.T. Intellect Training Solutions, South Africa
I.T. Intellect Training Solutions created a revolutionary product stack called a “Skills License”, which creates a strong relationship with their local licensing partners to resell training. The Skills License is an annuity based, three-year training license offering 44 instructor-led courses ranging from MS Office courses to the entry-level MS Desktop Support courses. Utilizing the Skills License, licensing partners were able to differentiate themselves to their customers by driving skills, certification, and deployment to their customers. For the customer, this licensing model enables volume discounts and the flexibility to attend training on any course offered over the period of the agreement, including refresher courses to fully master the subject. Since the launch of the this offering, IT Intellect engaged with 106 partners nationally, reaching 124 individual customers and 40,000 end users.
Finalists:
- QA Limited, United Kingdom
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License Delivery Partner of the Year
Bytes Software Services, United Kingdom
Bytes has made a significant investment in licensing across its business, people, and solutions. They have demonstrated positive customer impact with a well equipped sales and licensing workforce by investing in MCP. They drive a deeper engagement with their customers at every level, and in every conversation.
Finalists:
- SoftwareOne Comércio e Serviços de Informática LTDA, Brazil
- Dell Inc - Global Headquarters, United States
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Microsoft Country Partner of the Year
The Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Award recognizes partners at the country level that have demonstrated business excellence in delivering Microsoft solutions to our mutual customers over the past year. Partners who applied for this award showed effective engagement with their local Microsoft office that showcased driving customer satisfaction, innovation, winning new customers, and business impact.
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Microsoft Dynamics Industry Solutions
- Microsoft Dynamics Distribution Partner of the Year
- Microsoft Dynamics Financial Services Partner of the Year
- Microsoft Dynamics Manufacturing Partner of the Year
- Microsoft Dynamics Professional Services Partner of the Year
- Microsoft Dynamics Public Sector Partner of the Year
- Microsoft Dynamics Retail Partner of the Year
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Microsoft Dynamics Distribution Partner of the Year
HSO Nederland B.V., Netherlands
HSO has achieved outstanding growth in the last year through their continued focus on the distribution vertical, a focus that includes targeted sales, marketing and events backed by a team that brings years of experience to the needs of distribution companies. HSO delivers packaged, repeatable solutions with the HSO Business Platform for Wholesale, which is Certified for Microsoft Dynamics (CfMD), minimizing the amount of customized code required to meet the needs of an individual customer. All of these factors combine to produce a high level of customer satisfaction as proven by independent surveys, as well as continued growth and competitive wins over the past year.
Finalists:
- AND Project, Russia
- Qurius Spain, Spain
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Microsoft Dynamics Financial Services Partner of the Year
VeriPark, Turkey
VeriPark has been selected as the Microsoft Dynamics Financial Services Partner of the Year in recognition for their tremendous work in delivering innovative Dynamics CRM solutions to customers throughout the Middle-East and Africa. VeriPark Retail Banking Customer Centric Front Office Solution is based on Microsoft Dynamics CRM and is certified for Microsoft Dynamics (CfMD). Their solutions for retail banking, branch automation, and call center productivity are based on Dynamics. VeriPark has a proven track record with references in the MEA region includingDubai Islamic Bank, Dexia Moscow, Finansbank, Anadolu Life & Pension Insurance, and Garanti Life & Pension Insurance Turkey.
Finalists:
- Computer Solutions & Software International, Inc., United States
- Travi@ta, Belgium
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Microsoft Dynamics Manufacturing Services Partner of the Year
Fullscope, United States
For the second year in a row, Fullscope has won the "Manufacturing Partner of the Year” award, showing more than 40% growth in both total and license revenue. Fullscope was able to achieve this through their manufacturing expertise, deep investments in vertical marketing, and superb ROI realized by their clients, resulting in higher customer satisfaction and loyalty. While best known for their expertise with process manufacturing, Fullscope also excels in high tech manufacturing, and has won a number of high profile discrete manufacturing opportunities against competing platforms.
Finalists:
- eBECS, United Kingdom
- mcaConnect, LLC, United States
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Microsoft Dynamics Professional Services Partner of the Year
Client Profiles, United States
Clients ranging from small law practices to multi-national AMLAW 200 law firms have benefited from Client Profiles flagship product, CRM4Legal, which has revolutionized the way law firms benefit from CRM technology. It focuses on the legal marketplace, and has a client base of more than 1,600 law offices, governmental legal agencies, and corporate legal departments. Delivering the right mix of functionality and ease of use to the attorney desktop, the CRM4Legal solution works the way a lawyer works – which drives user adoption. CRM4Legal system’s powerful relationship intelligence technology mines a firm’s relationship data to easily identify new business opportunities. Client Profiles surrounds CRM4Legal with a professional services consulting team with more than 120 years of law firm experience. With over 8,000 users currently running the software, they have begun to expand rapidly throughout the world, with installations in the UK, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong.
Finalists:
- proMX GmbH, Germany
- Computer Generated Solutions, Inc., United States
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Microsoft Dynamics Public Sector Services Partner of the Year
CIBER UK, United Kingdom
CIBER serves the local and regional government market with the CIBER Local Regional Government Solution (LGRS) which provides a multi-channel citizen interaction solution built upon Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Microsoft Dynamics AX. LGRS enables efficiencies in service delivery both from the point of view of the internal authority and customer. Using data from existing systems, LGRS creates a central, single view of citizens’ vital information, independent of source. The CRM layer handles letter/fax, telephone, face to face, email and SMS text contact channels, while the authority’s website or kiosks provide self-serve access points. Without the CIBER LRGS solution, this depth of integration and information access would not be feasible or cost effective for many customers. CIBER LRGS uses Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, and Microsoft BizTalk to integrate accurate, up-to-date data and coordinate activities across various council departments. Customers benefit from diminished call backlogs, fewer calls forwarded, and increased capacity to handle calls without adding staff.
Finalists:
- CSG Limited, Australia
- INFOMA® Software Consulting GmbH, Germany
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Microsoft Dynamics Retail Partner of the Year
Junction Solutions, Inc., United States
Junction Solutions is being recognized for providing outstanding customer success and satisfaction through the delivery of innovative solutions in today’s challenging retail market. Visibility across all channels of the retail organization is critical to service today’s empowered consumers and create a truly connected retail experience. By extending Microsoft Dynamics AX with powerful multi-channel capabilities, the Junction Solutions MCR product suites give retailers the control needed to react quickly and better serve customers across all aspects of the retail organization. Industry leaders are seeing significant value and business success with the Junction Solutions product suite.
Finalists:
- K3 Business Technology Group plc (RBS), United Kingdom
- IGNIFY, United States
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Microsoft Dynamics Product Solutions
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Microsoft Dynamics AX Partner of the Year
Eclipse Computing (Australia) Pty Ltd, Australia
Eclipse Computing focuses on delivering deep, vertical solutions that address the unique needs of customers in specific niche vertical markets. Their key to success is to utilize and combine repeatable IP from established Microsoft Dynamics Independent Software vendors while providing a single partner with strong knowledge of the industry, who then delivers the software along with project management, implementation services, and on-going support,. One such market, the mining industry, has fueled global expansion for Eclipse over the past 12 months, including the establishment of Eclipse North America Operations. Their vertical offering, MinePoint, is a completely integrated solution built on Microsoft Dynamics AX, which delivers the functionality required by customers in this specific vertical. MinePoint, along with the associated project management, consulting services, and support, allows their customers to solve real business issues with Microsoft Dynamics AX.
Finalists:
- Fullscope, United States
- I.B.I.S., United States
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM Partner of the Year
Avanade Inc., United States
Avanade challenges organizations of all kinds to think beyond traditional CRM, utilizing the flexibility and extensibility of Microsoft Dynamics CRM to expand into extended scenarios. Avanade has helped clients become advocates of the development framework within their industries as they see the impact CRM solutions have had across their businesses. With the recent acquisition of Ascentium, Avanade is now the largest global Microsoft Dynamics CRM partner, with over three-hundred dedicated personnel. They have incorporated Ascentium’s portfolio of solutions including the TMT asset for Public Service, which will be enhanced and offered through Avanade Online Services (AOS) for Dynamics CRM. Avanade recently launched Avanade Online Services (AOS), its software-as-a- services offering for Microsoft Dynamics CRM which offers customers the option to deploy Dynamics CRM on their own internal IT systems or in the cloud offered as a service through AOS.
Finalists:
- Customer Effective Inc., United States
- Columbus IT Norway, Norway
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Microsoft Dynamics GP Partner of the Year
Rock Solid Technologies, Inc., Puerto Rico
With a 44% Dynamics GP revenue growth and 25% customer add growth, Rock Solid Technologies is committed to developing and successfully implementing innovative solutions using Microsoft Dynamics. Their solutions enable midsize organizations to automate their processes, make more profitable decisions, and accelerate growth. Their extensive government sector experience led them to develop Ingresys®, based on the Microsoft Dynamics GP platform, which serves the collection process needs of Puerto Rico’s municipalities. Ingresys® complies with regulatory entities and allows municipalities to manage every aspect of the collection process; reducing collection transaction time, and therefore, reducing administrative costs. The collection process in the Juana Diaz municipality accelerated approximately 80%, moving from a complex, manual process that took 3 days to complete, to one that can be done within minutes. They have seen incredible success this year, with Microsoft Dynamics GP revenue growth of 313% and 193% revenue growth on Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
Finalists:
- InterDyn AKA, United States
- Rose Business Solutions, Inc., United States
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Partner of the Year
Angila Business Solutions, United Kingdom
Anglia provides end-to-end solutions based on the Microsoft stack. The company’s strategy is to focus on the food supply chain arena in the mid-market. Their product, LINKFresh, addresses the needs of the fast growing global food manufacturing sector. Developed using the worldwide version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, the product has achieved the Certified for Dynamics accreditation. The fully integrated suite includes supply chain management, distribution, logistics, finance, BI, advanced forecasting, capacity requirements planning, full manufacturing, shop floor monitoring, pallet tracking, warehouse management, and sophisticated management reporting. It also includes advanced integrated mobility applications covering QC, livestock monitoring, and label checking. LINKFresh helps customers avoid punitive fines, reduce packaging & food waste, optimize transport resources, improve cash flow, refine production processes, and increase profitability. It is now the leader in the UK market and has won the Vertical Product of the Year for the last three years.
Finalists:
- Qurius UK Ltd. United Kingdom
- Pleasant Valley Business Solutions, United States
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Microsoft Dynamics Point of Sale Solutions Partner of the Year
New West Technologies, Inc., United States
New West Technologies drives process efficiencies and business success for retailers across both North and Latin America. Their innovative solutions for point of sale mobility help address some of today’s most difficult challenges including speed of service, cost of labor, and customer data retention. The New West Web Integrator solution seamlessly connects on-line and on-premise experiences – giving retailers accurate, consistent data and enhanced customer experience that builds loyalty. New West Technologies is being recognized for their ability to deliver innovative retail solutions on the Microsoft Dynamics platform, while helping drive significant business benefits for customers like the Portland Children’s Museum and U.S. Space & Rocket Center.
Finalists:
- MS POS GmbH, Germany
- Positive Technology.com, United States
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Microsoft Dynamics SL Partner of the Year
Queue Associates, Inc., United States
Queue Associates has developed an industry-focused approach which has resulted in more than 340 customers worldwide, mainly focused on professional services. Their solution, Q Project Central, serves the needs of Microsoft Dynamics SL customers that require global project accounting functionality and the need to share projects, resources, budgets, and rates among offices that have locations in different countries using different currencies. The result of this focus has been strong customer add performance, even during a difficult two years in the professional services industry, and a 95%+ client retention rate.
Finalists:
- Gonzalez Cortina Glender Y CIA, Mexico
- Synergy Business Solutions Inc., United States
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Microsoft Global ISV Partner of the Year
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The Microsoft Global ISV Cloud Partner of the Year
Cumulux, United States
Cumulux offers a unique ISV Cloud Solution for the Microsoft Windows Azure Platform. Cumulux has been a pioneer in developing innovation on the Windows Azure platform through enterprise-ready products and technologies that will accelerate the adoption of Azure in the enterprise. They are playing a key role in driving the adoption of Microsoft's Cloud technologies into enterprise accounts, ISVs, and start-ups. For over 18 months, Cumulux has been an early adopter, an evangelist, and a catalyst at growing the cloud ecosystem for Windows Azure. They have set themselves apart, not only in the quality of their products, but they have also proven to be active evangelists of the Microsoft Windows Azure Platform.
Finalists:
- FULLARMOR CORP, United States
- Intuit, United States
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Microsoft Global ISV Consumer Partner of the Year
Intuit, United States
Intuit’s early and very public adoption of the Microsoft Windows Azure platform demonstrates their commitment to emerging technologies for consumers. Intuit’s support for Windows 7, Office integration, and WPF for Silverlight demonstrates their deep commitment to Microsoft technology adoption. The Intuit Partner Platform unlocks a huge opportunity for ISVs and SaaS providers to reach and sell to millions of small businesses. Developers recognize the value of being listed on the Intuit Marketplace as a key component of their business strategy. Their joint partnership agreement with Microsoft is an industry changing initiative that will enable rapid adoption of Microsoft technologies for joint customers.
Finalists:
- CEWE COLOR AG & Co. OHG, Germany
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Microsoft Global ISV Industry Partner of the Year
PTC, United States
Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) is demonstrating leadership in joint sales, marketing, and technology engagement with Microsoft. Their level of commitment and alignment to collaborative sales and marketing activities across multiple regions sets them apart as a Global ISV partner. Their roadmap of technological innovation on the Microsoft platform includes SQL Server, SharePoint, and Project Server, and they have been able to develop innovative solutions that have exceeded industry growth. In just nine months, PTC was able to drive global go-to-market campaigns with Microsoft, winning market share with Windchill on SQL Server and ProductPoint on SharePoint, while driving social product development into the enterprise. Their targeted sales and marketing efforts resulted in benefits to joint customers through solutions that required significant use of Microsoft applications. PTC, a model of engagement, has raised the bar on the way Microsoft works with partners.
Finalists:
- Temenos, United Kingdom
- OSISoft Inc., United States
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Microsoft Global ISV Infrastructure Partner of the Year
Citrix Systems, Inc., United States
Citrix sets themselves apart from other Infrastructure partners with their significant investments in technology adoption, field sales efforts, and driving Microsoft technology in the market. Citrix builds on Windows as its “Innovation Platform” and continues to expand upon the successful alignment pioneered through the collaboration between Remote Desktop Services and XenApp. Citrix was strategically and globally engaged in more sales and marketing activities with Microsoft in FY10 than at any other time over their 21-year partnership, driving strategic go-to-market campaigns worldwide. This unique partnership creates outstanding opportunities for Microsoft and our joint partners.
Finalists:
- Commvault, United States
- NetApp, United States
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Microsoft Global ISV Line of Business Partner of the Year
Kronos Incorporated, United States
Kronos has engaged in a company-wide effort to ensure compatibility and scalability with the latest Microsoft launch products. In 2009, Microsoft and Kronos closed on a strategic alliance agreement to drive sales effectiveness of SQL Server for our joint customers. The value of the Kronos partnership is based on the shared wealth of business experience, best practices, and innovation that they bring to organizations of all sizes. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides the foundation for Kronos Workforce Central Solutions. Their Workforce Central Solution built on the SQL Server 2008 platform helps organizations control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. Kronos solutions built on the Microsoft platform deliver value, high-quality information, and ease of use to customers while ensuring reliability, scalability, security, and a lower total cost of ownership over competitive solutions in the market today.
Finalists:
- OSIsoft Inc., United States
- TXT e-solutions, Italy
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Mobility Solutions
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Mobility Solutions Partner of the Year
SOTI Inc, Canada
For the past 10 years, SOTI has been focusing on solutions to help customers deploy Windows Mobile devices and Windows Phones easier and at a lower cost. Working with the industry, SOTI has built methodologies to help lower costs when deploying mobile solutions on the Windows Mobile/Embedded platform over any other platform. SOTI has been a key influencer pushing customers away from web-based solutions on competing platforms by working with OEMs and carriers to deliver a value proposition of low cost, total control, and ease of use to customers. SOTI has deployments in over 120 countries and is used by top companies including Hertz and Air Canada.
Finalists:
- CDC, Ltd., Russia
- PocketMobile, Sweden
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Mobility Solutions, Business Application Partner of the Year
CWR Mobility BV, Netherlands
CWR Mobility BV’s Mobile CRM for Dynamics solution is a leading mobile application that enables rapid deployment of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM product to users with wireless handheld devices. CWR Mobile CRM leverages the power of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM system and the advanced connectivity of the Windows Mobile Platform to provide sales and service teams instant access to important customer information when and where they need it.
Finalists:
- CDC, Ltd., Russia
- Blink Systems Assessoria E Informatica LTDA, Brazil
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Mobility Solutions, Consumer Application Partner of the Year
SPB Software, Russia
SPB Mobile Shell allows customers to personalize Windows Phone to better meet their needs. With a variety of widgets available to customize the home screen of a Windows Phone, SPB Mobile Shell puts more functionality at customers’ fingertips. It brings the perfect usability balance to Windows Phonetouch screen devices, allowing users to access information, launch programs, make calls, and navigate their device in a simple and flexible manner.
Finalists:
- SOTI Inc., Canada
- Kabel Sistemas De Informacion S.L., Spain
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Notes Migration Partner of the Year
CASAHL Technology, Inc., United States
CASAHL Technology has demonstrated a deep commitment to help customers migrate their most critical IBM Lotus applications to the Microsoft platform. CASAHL has been a committed partner and continues to play a key role in the Microsoft Notes Transition Partner Program. Most recently, they aligned their efforts with the Enterprise Notes Migration (ENM) team and introduced a team of highly qualified professionals, “Blackbelt Experts,” who have been instrumental in driving a high volume of customer assessments and significantly reducing the number of applications involved in the migrations. CASAHL’s tools are recommended as part of the ENM methodology to help with various stages of the migration process. CASAHL is well regarded in the industry for providing best- in-breed solutions, continues to develop partnerships with other partners, and participates in Microsoft programs and initiatives.
Finalists:
- Binary Tree, Inc., United States
- Quest Software Inc., United States
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OEM Hardware Solutions
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OEM Hardware Solutions, Device Manufacturing Partner of the Year
YukYung Technologies, Ltd., Korea
With its Viliv S10 Tablet PC, Korean partner YukYung Technologies reached an even higher level of mobile performance in a family of products that has already received many industry awards. Key features include its very lightweight (1.21kg), optional integrated 3G connectivity, long battery life, HD display, multi-touch swivel screen, solid state storage, and market-leading design. The S10 tablet has an incredible 4-second wakeup from standby with Windows 7 and up to 10 hrs battery life, making it a must-have product for consumers or mobile executives.
Finalists:
- Plantronics, United States
- Jabra, United States
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OEM Hardware Solutions, System Building Partner of the Year
Casper Bilgisayar Sistemleri A.S., Turkey
Turkish PC powerhouse Casper Bilgisayar Sistemleri A.S. constantly innovates their technology as well as their business approach. With a focus on formulating the best experience for their customers, CASPER created a unique offer aimed at helping eligible customers upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7 on new PCs at no extra cost. In the lead-up to the Windows 7 launch, Casper converted most of their PCs in the market to Home Premium in order to make their customers eligible for the free upgrade to Windows 7 from Microsoft. A comprehensive marketing campaign promoted this offer through most national media, including television and national newspapers, driving awareness of Windows 7 and the CASPER solutions to the Turkish market.
Finalists:
- ARLT Computer Produkte GmbH, Germany
- Micro-Star INT’L CO., LTD., Taiwan
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Online Services Partner of the Year
Wortell, Netherlands
As one of the first Microsoft Online Services early adopters, Dutch partner Wortell quickly rose to the upper ranks of Online Services advisors. Wortell has proven themselves as the top Online Services partner through building a sustainable business with Microsoft Online Services, delivering managed services to customers of all sizes, and maintaining a quality track record of customer service and community outreach. Wortell not only delivers world-class marketing, but also community service through their "BPOS Rocks" blog. This blog, exclusively focusing on Microsoft Online Services, receives outstanding traffic within the Online Services community.
Finalists:
- Kyoritsu Computer & Communication Co., Ltd, Japan
- Clearway Technology Partners, United States
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Public Sector
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Public Sector, Education Partner of the Year
Gestar Tecnologia para Educação, Brazil
Gestar provides a Student Relationship Management (SRM) system which serves primary, secondary, and higher education institutions. Through integration with academic systems, it tracks and monitors the academic life of the student, enabling the institution to run proactive and preventive activities to make sure that the student is assimilating the lessons being taught. It has been developed for managing students as customers in private schooling systems. They have added “intelligent intervention” functions which exploit the underlying CRM system’s automated workflow capabilities to manage risks in the learning process. It puts into practice the concept of “Personalized Learning”, present in the academic module of the solution. The principle behind this method of teaching is to identify the students, or groups of students, who have a specific learning need or require extra attention in a given subject, and propose interventions with supervisors and tutoring activities to improve performance. The Gestar SRM solution was developed based on Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and it also uses Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server, and Microsoft Biz Talk.
Finalists:
- K12 Enterprise, United States
- Agilix Labs, Inc., United States
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Public Sector, Government Partner of the Year
Infusion, United States
Infusion is a Microsoft partner committed to scaling out the Citizen Service Platform (CSP) for government customers. Building upon their success with the City of London (UK), their next major implementation of CSP is for the city of Brampton including a portal and intranet solution providing powerful information management search and workflow using SharePoint. The scalable solution delivers benefits including a common collaboration platform, workflow for structured content management with centralized records management, and integration with other business applications. Infusion has since implemented solutions of varying scope based upon these reusable CSP capabilities including immigration portals for the regions of Niagara and Durham, incident reporting for Hamilton City Police, and forms automation for the cities of Mississauga, Calgary and Oakville.
Finalists:
- JayThom PTY LTD, Australia
- Axcentro GmbH, Germany
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Public Sector, Health Partner of the Year
System C, United Kingdom
System C’s Clinical Dashboard solution has delivered proven benefits in both quality of clinical outcomes and financial savings, meeting their set objectives. It was developed as a direct response to the “Next Stage Review of the NHS” by Lord Darzi, which highlighted the need for timely, high-quality information to drive the performance of clinical teams and to ensure the right services and best possible care is provided to patients. It follows the guidelines developed by NHS Connecting for Health (the agency responsible for eHealth in England) and gives clinicians, in a visual and usable format, easy access to the wealth of NHS data that is being captured locally, whenever a clinician needs it. It has been launched on nine sites throughout the NHS in England, including Lord Darzi’s own Imperial College Hospital.
Finalists:
- Eurodata Systems plc, United Kingdom
- gloStream, United States
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Public Sector, Public Safety & National Security Partner of the Year
Geodan, Netherlands
Originally, Geodan’s Eagle solution was developed for one of 25 public safety regions in the Netherlands. It was quickly discovered that the philosophy of this solution could be of great value for any organization involved in crisis response and disaster management. In brief, the Eagle solution uses software and infrastructural components to allow communication between organizations in extreme situations and facilitates complex geospatial analyses on available data. As a result of the solution’s success in the market, the Eagle team is developing the new generation of disaster management software in close cooperation with the Netherlands Ministry of Defense. Simultaneously, Geodan and ESRI Netherlands formed a new company called Eagle Inc. in order to coordinate development, sales, and support for the Eagle suite of products worldwide.
Finalists:
- Migesa, Mexico
- E-Sponder, LLC, United States
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Small Business Specialist Partner of the Year
Harbor Computer Services, United States
Harbor Computer Services works hard every day to help small-to-midsize customers align IT investments to their business goals. Their solution delivers small businesses with subscription-based licensing and cloud services from Microsoft to give the customer the tools they feel good about delivering. They created a unique solution with Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation and Microsoft Online Services (BPOS, and their customers are thrilled to have a fast network empowered by current technology and remote access that makes laptop users a cohesive part of their business.
Finalists:
- Quadrasystems.net, India
- N C I Technologies, United Kingdom
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SOA and Business Process Partner of the Year
Expertime, France
SINBAD is a strategic project created for the B2B market for office furniture and stationery. The SINBAD project intends to rebuild the Information System (IS), as it currently relies on mainframe and mid-range systems that limit the ability to face new market challenges. The project will quickly open new subsidiaries in new countries, expand market share objectives, grow internationalization, and handle multiple warehouses spread over Europe. In order to increase the agility of the company and face these new business challenges, the IT manager started the SINBAD project and selected the Microsoft platform as the only solution to build the new IS.
Finalists:
- QLogitek, Canada
- Xterprise Incorporated, United States
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Software Asset Management Partner of the Year
Concorde Solutions Ltd, United Kingdom
Concorde Solutions, Ltd. delivers real Software Asset Management (SAM) benefits through on-going asset management, where the information is used to better manage software assets throughout their lifecycle. Concorde provides holistic SAM solutions with a focus on optimizing their customers’ SAM maturity as benchmarked against the SAM Optimization Model. They are helping to push the industry forward with a focus on the right balance of technology, people, and process. Their Compliance Console is an innovative hosted solution which integrates with customers’ existing inventory tools to provide a comprehensive dashboard to easily reconcile deployment data with license entitlement records. Concorde partners closely with local Microsoft teams, leading license providers, and system integrators to provide specialist resources with deep expertise who can deliver on-going SAM support, either on an interim basis or as part of their managed service offering.
Finalists:
- Softwaremanagement.org, Germany
- Business Connexion , South Africa
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Software-plus-Services Partner of the Year
Avalara, Inc., United States
Avalara’s approach to providing customers with world-class solutions aligns closely to that of Microsoft. Built entirely on Microsoft technology, Avalara employs a distributed data center network which provides the “engine” for tax calculation and address validation in the cloud. Leveraging a high-availability architecture and industry certified software components, Avalara’s customers experience sub-second response times with 99.999% up time. Accessible via an array of devices including mobile phones, laptops, and desktop PCs, Avalara’s service is highly accessible and provides a like experience for the end-user customer. Avalara works with multiple partners in providing a broader, more complete offering, and has contractual agreements with hundreds of partners including Dynamics AX, GP, NAV, & CRM, as well as ISV partners.
Finalists:
- Infusion, United States
- Neudesic, LLC, United States
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Unified Communications Solutions
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Unified Communications Solutions, Instant Messaging/Presence/Conferencing/Voice Partner of the Year
Enabling Technologies Corp., United States
Enabling Technologies deploys and extends existing communications investments and enables business process innovation with customized applications. A consultancy firm selected Enabling Technologies to replace their legacy PBX and disparate voicemail systems with Enterprise Voice in Office Communications Server and Exchange Server Unified Messaging. In addition to cost savings incurred by migrating away from traditional telephony, the firm sought to connect their geographically-dispersed workforce face-to-face via video conferencing. In addition to deploying Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Enabling Technologies leveraged the extensible OCS platform to build a custom application that automated employees’ vacation/sick day accruals. The firm is projected to save $8 million in reduced business expenses and to see improvements in employee productivity and business processes that value approximately $4 million.
Finalists:
- Ensyst PTY Limited, Australia
- Eurodata Systems, United Kingdom
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Unified Communications Solutions, Messaging Partner of the Year
Janalent, United States
Janalent continues to deliver the value of Microsoft Exchange to joint customers. Their messaging solutions have resulted in the migration of over 150,000 additional seats from competing platforms and over 200,000 more from legacy versions of Exchange, saving organizations millions of dollars by driving costs down and achieving faster ROI. Janalent landed a premier gaming and hospitality organization with over 15 properties in the United States by articulating the advantages of Microsoft Exchange. Janalent is in the process of migrating 4,000 knowledge workers and 17,000 deskless workers to BPOS, and moving to Exchange Online for security and the enterprise-grade features it provides.
Finalists:
- EMC Corporation, United States
- Enabling Technologies Corp., United States
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Windows Azure Platform Partner of the Year
Lokad, France
Lokad.Cloud is an O/C mapper (object to cloud) as well as an execution framework for Windows Azure. Lokad.Cloud is released as a .NET/C# open source framework, and its primary goal is to facilitate the development of enterprise applications on Windows Azure. The whole cloud forecasting technology of Lokad has been built on top of this framework. Lokad.Cloud can offer substantial benefits to the growing community of ISVs targeting Windows Azure. In short, Lokad.Cloud does to Windows Azure what the Microsoft Entity Framework (or NHibernate) does to SQL.
Finalists:
- Active Web Solutions Limited, United Kingdom
- Cumulux, United States
