WPC Awards Archive: 2009 Awards
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Advanced Infrastructure Solutions
- Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Active Directory Partner of the Year
- Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Storage Solutions Partner of the Year
- Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Systems Management Partner of the Year
- Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Windows Desktop Deployment Partner of the Year
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Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Active Directory Partner of the Year
Quest Software, United States
Quest Software offers a suite of solutions that enables migration to Active Directory service from competing platforms, and delivers directory consolidation by extending Active Directory into heterogeneous IT environments. The suite also provides compliance by compiling an audit of system access events and secure dual-factor authentication through one-time password tokens, and creates a single sign-on solution using Active Directory. Quest implemented its solution, replacing a competing platform, to deliver dual-factor authentication of remote users at a lower cost and with zero impact to users. Seamless collaboration across Quest, Microsoft, and a key systems integrator partner enabled the Active Directory migration to be completed quickly and with no system downtime. Quest Software solutions have enhanced thousands of enterprise Active Directory environments, including Dell, Movado, Siemens, ADT, and Shell.
Finalist: Centrify, United States
Finalist: Likewise Software, United States
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Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Storage Solutions Partner of the Year
NetApp, United States
NetApp offers a unique storage solution for Hyper-V environments, combining thin provisioning, deduplication, cloning, snapshot backup, and disaster recovery. NetApp’s solution includes a unified storage architecture and tools to provide simplified data management. When paired with Hyper-V, this solution can help enterprise customers create virtualized environments that dramatically reduce costs and increase availability. NetApp has also published a number of best practices guides, deployment guides, technology overviews, and validation papers featuring this solution, making it easy to understand and deploy.
Finalist: Commvault, United States
Finalist: Compellent, United States
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Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Systems Management Partner of the Year
CDW, United States
CDW is being recognized for its advanced experience with Microsoft System Center technologies, its breadth of solution offerings across the System Center portfolio, and the strength of its solution selling skills. CDW has built standard, repeatable offerings to deliver services around each of the System Center technologies—incorporating custom management packs and Solution Accelerators— that have helped its customers reduce their total cost of ownership, realize quick returns on investment, and maximize the value of their software investments. CDW has also demonstrated expertise in using System Center technology to help customers monitor and manage heterogeneous and virtual environments. CDW’s proven implementation methodology focuses on designing a stable, robust, and scalable infrastructure that allows customers to realize the maximum value from their System Center investments.
Finalist: Dimension Data, Australia
Finalist: Accenture and Avanade, United States
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Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Windows Desktop Deployment Partner of the Year
Compugen, Canada
Compugen created a successful campaign that appealed to Software Assurance customers and that had them activate vouchers for desktop deployment planning services with Compugen. This multifaceted campaign not only created awareness of Compugen’s services, but also enabled the company’s account managers to follow up with customers, strengthening these crucial business relationships. Compugen was chosen for its unique approach to using a wide variety of Microsoft technologies in its desktop deployment solutions, along with its successful marketing efforts and high levels of customer satisfaction.
Finalist: Dimension Data, Australia
Finalist: SIVECO Romania, Romania
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Business Intelligence Partner of the Year
Solver, United States
Solver created a business intelligence solution to help state and local governments track performance according to stated goals, reduce costs, improve business processes, and increase government accountability and citizen satisfaction. This scalable solution was built leveraging the full stack of business intelligence tools from Microsoft, including Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server, Microsoft Office Excel, and many Microsoft Dynamics business management software products. With this solution, Solver was able to help the Chicago Department of Public Health maximize its grants, reduce costs, and increase revenue. Because the solution was delivered through a software-plus-services model and hosted for the city of Chicago, it reduced infrastructure costs and resulted in a quicker implementation time.
Finalist: BlueGranite, United States
Finalist: Information Management Group, United Kingdom
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Citizenship Partner of the Year
Koenig Solutions, India
Koenig Solutions is working to alleviate unemployment and poverty in Delhi, India, through technology training and education. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions, Koenig Solutions conducts Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer training in the evenings for unemployed adults at no charge. The company has adopted the microcredit system for voluntary repayment after candidates start a job. Through the program, 120 adults found skilled jobs in 2008, and Koenig aims to double its capacity next year. Koenig Solutions also provides tutoring and computer literacy classes to 250 students and has seen a decrease in dropout rate and significant improvement in grades. The community provides space for the classes, and teachers and parents encourage their children to attend. Corporate social responsibility is a key priority for Koenig Solutions, and the company is committed to supporting and expanding projects that have a positive impact on its local community.
Finalist: Focal Technology Solutions, United States
Finalist: FullArmor, United States
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Communications Sector Partner of the Year
Comcast, United States
Comcast is one of the first U.S. service providers to offer Microsoft Communications Services as part of a bundled offering, combining its services and Microsoft software into a unique co-branded package for its customers. Comcast’s small- to midsize-business customers can equip their employees with a variety of communication and productivity solutions, including high-speed Internet connectivity, business class Microsoft Exchange–based e-mail, an Office SharePoint portal site, virus scanning, domain name registration, and Web hosting. All services are supported by Comcast’s 24/7 Business Class support. Comcast is one of the world’s fastest-growing providers of Microsoft Communications Services.
Finalist: Equilibrium, United States
Finalist: Metratech, United States
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Custom Development Solutions
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Custom Development Solutions, Application Infrastructure Development Partner of the Year
Kiandra System Solutions, Australia
Kiandra System Solutions has created a vertical industry solution that has become widely available outside its targeted industry of physiotherapy and physical therapy. This solution is described as “OneNote meeting the mesh” with the rich experience and capabilities of the PC leveraged through Web-connected systems that enable individuals to communicate and capture data in unprecedented ways. The solution shows how the software-plus-services model creates a multiplier effect—when client and server systems are combined for the benefit of the user and the organization, it results in new ways of working in a range of industries. The core application is available on the Internet as a free download and has a business model based on usage measured by data synchronization. This solution clearly demonstrates what can be accomplished by experimenting with business models.
Finalist: Programmer’s, Brazil
Finalist: EMC, United States
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Custom Development Solutions, Smart Client Development Partner of the Year
L3, Brazil
The L3 solution, implemented for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, is an excellent example of how Microsoft Office Business Applications can add significant value to an organization. The Enterprise-wide Risk Intelligence System and Knowledgebase (Ew-Risk) solution combines the best of the Microsoft technology stack by including Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Office, Windows Server, and SQL Server. This system provides the best of the Web, rich clients, mobile, and back-end server systems. With its ability to combine these platforms, L3 has proven to be a very important partner in the Microsoft ecosystem, and L3 was recently recognized as a key partner by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
Finalist: Iconexa, Chile
Finalist: E Smart Systems, Serbia
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Custom Development Solutions, Web Development Partner of the Year
Catapult Systems, United States
By combining the best of the Web with a rich-client solution and Microsoft technologies, Catapult Systems delivered a system that is so effective that it eliminates three days of work for each estimate the tool helps build—and Catapult Systems delivered the solution 60 percent faster than expected. The solution is made up of two systems designed to support Wisenbaker Builder Services. The first, VEO Concierge, is a Web-based system leveraging the Microsoft Silverlight browser plug-in to engage new home buyers and home owners who are planning home-improvement projects. In addition to being available in design centers, the plan is to make VEO Concierge available as an Internet-based, self-service solution for home buyers. The second system, VEO, built with Windows Presentation Foundation, is for estimators who need to generate and assign material quantities for flooring, wall, and countertop bills of material..The impact of these applications on Wisenbaker and its customers has been significant, creating greater productivity for estimators, increased revenue, and closer relationships with customers and partners.
Finalist: Altius Consulting, United Kingdom
Finalist: Schematic, United States
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Data Management Solutions Partner of the Year
Orion Technology, Canada
Orion Technology created OnPoint, a geospatial solution that brings the power and sophistication of a geographic information system (GIS) solution to a broad customer base. It is easy to configure without the need for programming. OnPoint is built on the Microsoft application platform, including SQL Server 2008 Enterprise, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft Visual Studio, and the Microsoft .NET platform. As a GIS, OnPoint can also meet customers’ enterprise information system (EIS) needs by providing a centralized, fully compliant management solution for the disparate data silos of a business or government entity. The rapid benefits achieved by using OnPoint are attractive to customers in today’s challenging economy, and its applicability spans multiple industries—from government and telecommunications firms to transportation companies.
Finalist: Agilysys, United States
Finalist: Idera, United States
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Digital Agencies Partner of the Year
AKQA, United Kingdom
AKQA builds innovative digital solutions that improve brand positioning to increase client revenues, while also enhancing customer experience. By using advanced development processes that integrate innovative technology and creative ideas, AKQA has leveraged Office SharePoint Server 2007, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation, and Windows Live Services in unique ways to achieve business excellence for a wide array of global clients. The company is also committed to Office SharePoint Server 2007 as a Web content management system. AKQA developed a solution for Ferrari that provided exceptional design, increased developer productivity by 30 percent, and satisfied rigorous accessibility compliance requirements. In another project, AKQA used Windows Live Maps to provide an innovative user experience to locate Nike-sponsored soccer games. It has also used SQL Server 2008 and .NET 3.5 for the data management of the Fiat eco:Drive solution. As part of the Surface Advisory Council, AKQA is driving the development of several solutions for global clients—extending its brand reach and enhancing customer experience.
Finalist: EMC, United Kingdom
Finalist: 2nd Factory, Japan
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Distribution Partner of the Year
Workgroup, South Africa
Workgroup created an innovative approach to capturing volume licensing renewals and driving reseller readiness. Leveraging in-house tools and resources such as the total cost of ownership tool, renewals desk, licensing quoting tool, and new benefits calculator, Workgroup has cultivated a systematic and process-driven renewals business that accounts for nearly 50 percent of its Microsoft revenue. Workgroup has also joined with local Microsoft resources and a third-party training company to deliver a series of reseller-facing workshops designed to promote Microsoft solution and licensing knowledge. The company led a campaign that uses resellers’ Microsoft purchase history to assist them in offering new solutions to their end customers.
Finalist: Tech Data, Belgium
Finalist: Esprinet, Italy
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Enterprise Partner of the Year
Accenture and Avanade, United States
Accenture and Avanade combined the strong business advisory services of Accenture, the deep technical skills of Avanade, and Microsoft software to help mutual customers realize their full potential. A key value of this alliance is the ability to create unique and differentiated solution offerings that combine the power of these three companies to achieve exceptional results. This alliance has had considerable success this year in developing innovative new programs, 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, which will enable enterprises worldwide to improve their performance, increase strategic advantage, and create real business value.
Finalist: Hewlett-Packard, United States
Finalist: Dell, United States
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Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year
MaximumASP, United States
MaximumASP clearly demonstrated its in-depth knowledge of Microsoft technologies with the MaxV platform. By working closely with Microsoft, MaximumASP contributed to the development of the Microsoft Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit, which enables hosting providers to deploy on-demand managed services and virtualized servers powered by Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and System Center. The toolkit provides instructions to offer managed hosted services and enables the foundation for the hosted cloud. Through this toolkit, MaximumASP has proven its ability to offer instant scalability, disaster recovery, higher customer satisfaction, and increased support through advanced monitoring.
Finalist: Hostbasket, Belgium
Finalist: 7global, United Kingdom
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IAMCP Partner of the Year
L3, Brazil
The International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners (IAMCP) is recognizing L3 for its innovative and timely, high-value solution that uses the Microsoft platform as the foundation. L3 has demonstrated partner-to-partner collaboration—not only in its own region, but also across borders. L3 was highlighted during the Microsoft TechEd Brazil 2008 keynote address by Steve Ballmer as a company that understands how software-plus-services can be utilized in ways that make sense for both vendors and end-user organizations. L3 has—in a very short time—achieved a recognized role in the Microsoft ecosystem as an organization that knows how to deliver quality solutions.
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Information Worker Solutions
- Information Worker Solutions, Data Visualization Partner of the Year
- Information Worker Solutions, Enterprise Content Management and Forms Development Partner of the Year
- Information Worker Solutions, Enterprise Project Management Partner of the Year
- Information Worker Solutions, Office Deployment Partner of the Year
- Information Worker Solutions, Office Solutions Development Partner of the Year
- Information Worker Solutions, Portals and Collaboration Partner of the Year
- Information Worker Solutions, Search Partner of the Year
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Information Worker Solutions, Data Visualization Partner of the Year
ProModel, United States
The ProModel solution features quick and easy simulation of Microsoft Office Visio flowcharts, value stream maps, and workflow diagrams in ProModel’s Process Simulator 2007, which enables customers to predict outcomes in process design, capacity, costs, and cycle times. By testing alternatives and applying what-if scenarios based on real attributes within their organizations, customers can optimize key performance indicators and maximize success in Six Sigma, Lean, and business process re-engineering engagements. The combined power of the Process Simulator predictive analytics and the Office Visio electronic flowchart graphical user interface enables users to accelerate their performance improvement initiatives. Users can visualize, analyze, and optimize processes and systems in a risk-free environment, without costly interruptions to live operations.
Finalist: Oculus Info, Canada
Finalist: Shoothill, United Kingdom
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Information Worker Solutions, Enterprise Content Management and Forms Development Partner of the Year
KnowledgeLake, United States
Content Management Solution from KnowledgeLake extends the enterprise content management (ECM) capabilities of the Office system with its best-in-class document imaging and capture solutions for Office SharePoint Server. The KnowledgeLake solution can be integrated with the new workflow on the Office SharePoint Server 2007 platform and provides solutions for Office SharePoint Server, Office SharePoint Server 2007, and all versions of Windows SharePoint Services. KnowledgeLake extends the document management capabilities of Office SharePoint with enterprise-volume document imaging and capture solutions that effectively eliminate the need for traditional, high-cost ECM vendors such as FileNet/IBM, Documentum/EMC, and Stellent/Oracle.
Finalist: Concept Interactive, Canada
Finalist: Open Text, Canada
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Information Worker Solutions, Enterprise Project Management Partner of the Year
EPM Live, United States
EPM Live offers two project management, software-plus-services solutions: Workgroup and Enterprise. These online project management solutions are designed to meet the needs of project management professionals at every level. The solutions are built on Office Project 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and Microsoft Office Project Server 2007. Workgroup combines effective project management functionality with team collaboration and reporting. Enterprise adds strategic project management to the robust collaboration, reporting, and project management capabilities of Workgroup. The EPM Live Online Services enable organizations of all sizes and complexities to focus on building their businesses and managing projects rather than servicing and supporting an enterprise project management (EPM) system.
Finalist: Siemens, Germany
Finalist: Pcubed, United States
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Information Worker Solutions, Office Deployment Partner of the Year
Dimension Data, Australia
Dimension Data’s solution, Dynamic Systems, demonstrates a modular, end-to-end solution for taking an enterprise from its current state to a fully managed and automated environment, customized to its business-driven deployment and management needs. The Dynamic Systems solution offers a suite of service-based solutions for streamlining the deployment and management of desktops and servers that run the Windows operating system, and the software and services they host. In addition, the Dynamic Systems solution presents significant cost-saving opportunities for customers, by reducing deployment and operational costs, and eliminating redundant, nonintegrated solutions.
Finalist: AccTech Systems, South Africa
Finalist: Citrix Systems, United States
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Information Worker Solutions, Office Solutions Development Partner of the Year
CDC Software, Canada
CDC Software developed a solution that enables customers to create a corporate-wide, universal user interface by embedding other enterprise applications directly within the customer relationship management (CRM) system. The increased efficiency enables users to complete the majority of their daily tasks in a single application and to close the loop on end-to-end business processes. Pivotal 6, a Smart Client Office Business Application (OBA) built on the Microsoft .NET Framework, empowers customers to extend the value of their Microsoft investments and lower their total cost of ownership.
Finalist: Macro View Business Technology, Australia
Finalist: Bitscape IT Solutions, India
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Information Worker Solutions, Portals and Collaboration Partner of the Year
Content and Code, United Kingdom
The solution from Content and Code is built on the Interactivity Technical Advice and Contracts Unit on Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows Workflow Foundation. Content and Code offers an integrated solution used for competition votes based on any type of interactivity, including short message service (SMS) vote, telephone vote, and red button vote. It resolves the inconsistencies in telephone voting by delivering an intuitive, visually appealing, enterprise-wide, Office SharePoint Server 2007–compliant solution that has been proven to streamline existing processes by up to 75 percent. This increases productivity, simplifies access to information and people, and enables a more effective workforce.
Finalist: MTS Allstream, Canada
Finalist: Accenture and Avanade, United States
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Information Worker Solutions, Search Partner of the Year
GESFOR OSMOS, Peru
GESFOR OSMOS’s solution is based on the search functionality in Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise. It uses a centralized platform for searching and indexing content that generates results quickly and enables classification for different data sources, such as file servers, databases, mail servers, and Web pages. The result is an enterprise search tool that gives users maximum flexibility to find any type of information in a logical and intuitive way.
Finalist: Concept Interactive, Canada
Finalist: Caturano and Company, United States
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ISV Software Solutions
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ISV/Software Solutions Innovation Partner of the Year
Zap, Australia
Zap Business Analytics for Microsoft Dynamics enables business users to create Web-based dashboards, key performance indicators, scorecards, management reports, and ad hoc analyses on their Microsoft Dynamics data, without IT support. The use of a powerful, flexible, and central solution for reporting reduces reliance on unsecured spreadsheets, shortens reporting cycles, and enables staff in different international locations to collaborate easily through the Web—giving companies’ decision makers more agility in planning performance. Zap has a tradition of creating innovative solutions that resolve practical problems and has thousands of customers around the globe.
Finalist: Mamut, Norway
Finalist: Upside Software, Canada
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ISV/Software Solutions Partner of the Year
KnowledgeLake, United States
KnowledgeLake, a leader in enterprise content management, enables organizations of any size to leverage Office SharePoint for solving today’s complex document problems. Its solution is based on .NET and extends the native capabilities of Office SharePoint with a powerful suite of applications that enables users to capture large quantities of mission-critical documents and transform them into easily consumable business information. KnowledgeLake Capture enables users to scan and index large quantities of documents, then deposit them into the appropriate Office SharePoint repository. KnowledgeLake document imaging software for Office SharePoint Server 2007 eliminates the need for paper and the associated costs and business process limitations.
Finalist: Acctech Systems, South Africa
Finalist: OSISoft, United States
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Global ISV/Software Solutions
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Global ISV Consumer Partner of the Year
Corel, Canada
Corel is at the forefront of the digital media revolution, delivering a broad and innovative portfolio of photo, video, and DVD software with more than 100 million active users in more than 75 countries. The company is committed to delivering its core applications for the Windows 7 operating system, and is currently developing its next generation of creative consumer products to take advantage of features such as Windows Touch, Jump Lists, and Libraries. Corel’s use of the Windows platform is completely changing how Corel’s users will interact with creative software, providing consumers with a more engaging and expressive computing environment.
Finalist: Nuance Communications, United States
Finalist: Cakewalk, United States
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Global ISV Industry Partner of the Year
OSIsoft, United States
OSIsoft is recognized as one of the most reliable, real-time data historians in the world, with 65 percent of global production and utility companies using its PI Infrastructure. OSIsoft has become a key partner for Microsoft by implementing Office Business Applications, Microsoft Unified Communications, and Office PerformancePoint, and enhancing Microsoft’s strategic marketing initiatives, such as sustainability, cloud infrastructure, and focused-industry events. Recently, OSIsoft and Microsoft jointly announced product development based on SQL Complex Event Processing. OSIsoft’s sales organization is aligned with Microsoft sales teams and management around the world, engaging with account team unit members and using Microsoft Training Centers, Executive Briefing Centers, and vertical-industry events. These investments in the Microsoft platform and vision have resulted in double-digit revenue growth for both OSIsoft and Microsoft.
Finalist: Epicor, United States
Finalist: SunGard, United States
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Global ISV Infrastructure Partner of the Year
CA, Inc., United States
With more than 75 products running on SQL Server, CA has one of the largest portfolios of products built to work on the latest Microsoft platforms. The collaboration of CA and Microsoft enables customers to maximize the value from their IT investments with industry-leading enterprise management, storage, security, and information management tools and solutions that support and extend Microsoft platforms and technologies. Now in its sixth year of intense technology enablement, CA has come together with Microsoft to integrate marketing messaging, build Web presence, create joint advertising, and develop videos, white papers, and solution briefs. The two companies have also participated jointly in shows and worked together at industry events and symposiums.
Finalist: Quest Software, United States
Finalist: Citrix Systems, United States
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Global ISV Line of Business Partner of the Year
Epicor, United States
Epicor 9 offers choices that are not available in other enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions. Customers have the option to deploy solutions that are on premises or on demand, Windows-based or Web-based, centralized or decentralized, and end-to-end or individual suites. End users can choose several options for interacting with their systems—from standard application .NET forms to Internet and intranet Web applications served from Internet Information Services to integrated document management and analytics through Office SharePoint Server 2007. Epicor 9 embodies the evolution and convergence of the company’s award-winning, best-selling ERP solutions.
Finalist: Environmental Systems Research Institute, United States
Finalist: Open Text, Canada
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Global ISV Technology Innovation Partner of the Year
FullArmor, United States
FullArmor delivers innovative, leading-edge solutions that extend the native capabilities of Microsoft virtualization technologies (Hyper-V, Application Virtualization [App-V], and Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization [MED-V]), cloud technologies (Windows Azure and .NET Services) and security technologies (Group Policy and Federated Identity). FullArmor has proven its leadership in building solutions on top of the latest Microsoft technologies, with the latest example being PolicyPortal for Windows Azure. More than five million users and 1,500 organizations worldwide rely on solutions developed by FullArmor.
Finalist: Schlumberger, United States
Finalist: iSoft, Australia
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Large Account Reseller Partner of the Year
Dimension Data, Australia
By demonstrating the value of Microsoft licensing expertise, software life-cycle asset management skills, and professional services, Dimension Data has seen the highest year-over-year growth in its market. It has driven significantly higher desktop deployments by using a creative sales approach to large customers. When Dimension Data identified a challenge with its customers’ continued investment in Software Assurance, it implemented the Microsoft Home Use Program. This single benefit redemption helped support technology adoption across 22,567 desktops, proving the value of continuing with Software Assurance and maintaining Enterprise Agreements (EAs) through a calculated benefit to customers of Aus$1.2 million. In addition, Dimension Data further quantified the value of training days and cold back-up servers to secure the highest rating of satisfaction for its customers. Dimension Data’s consistent message to customers is that the Microsoft EA is not an expense to minimize, but an asset to be used for deploying and leveraging software to solve business problems.
Finalist: CDW, United States
Finalist: Softchoice, Canada
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Learning Solutions
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Learning Solutions, Impact Partner of the Year
QA, United Kingdom
QA worked with Dell to create an effective training solution for trainees, as well as the whole organization. The solution included assessments, beta Official Microsoft Learning Products, customized content specific to Dell, and certification workshops for Windows Server 2008 Microsoft Certified IT Professionals (MCITPs). The solution met the customer’s objective—creating a leading-edge senior team of subject matter experts (SMEs) who have the skills to enable Dell to be first to market in developing and building customer solutions on Windows Server 2008. It has also created opportunities for QA to deliver more training and certification solutions within Dell on System Center, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, and Windows 7.
Finalist: CompuEducación, Mexico
Finalist: Solartech, United States
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Learning Solutions, Innovative Partner of the Year
Netcampus, South Africa
Netcampus moved from a traditional instructor-led training (ILT) model to a collaborative learning solutions model using tools such as Web Portal, Mentors LiveChat, and Virtual Labs. With the new model, Netcampus created a learning collaboration ecosystem, where students support each other across geographical boundaries. To attract prospects, Netcampus has done effective and innovative marketing using tools such as Netfiliate, which builds a referral network, and NetCafé, which leverages Internet cafés to provide online communities for students. With the new model, Netcampus is able to offer the equivalent ILT at a 50 percent reduction in price and has seen a 400 percent increase in new customers in the first year, along with a 70 percent increase in net profit.
Finalist: Benchmark/New Horizons Learning, United States
Finalist: NIIT, India
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Licensing Solutions
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Licensing Solutions, License Delivery Partner of the Year
DAQUAS, Czech Republic
DAQUAS, a value-added reseller (VAR), has diversified its offerings to incorporate a combination of software-plus-services solutions, delivering greater customer purchasing flexibility. The company also became the first Services Provider License Agreement (SPLA) Reseller for the Czech Republic, giving SPLA providers local language support and generating an increase in SPLA revenue by 633 percent (5 percent of total revenue), 42 new SPLA agreements, and 13 renewals. As a License Delivery advisor and infrastructure optimization analyst, DAQUAS realized the need to form a strong and reliable partner base to support customers in technology implementation while addressing cost and compliance needs. DAQUAS harnessed the power of partnering to provide a high-quality, one-stop-shop customer experience. Value – Inspiration – Partnership (V.I.P.) was launched as a strategic initiative to develop a more mature sales approach and maximize value and satisfaction for the customer by providing complete coverage for the most demanding areas of today’s IT needs. DAQUAS’s fully certified licensing staff specializes in licensing solutions and educates its V.I.P partner sales force about licensing. DAQUAS has emerged as an innovator, uniquely positioning itself for continued growth by embracing cutting-edge, customer-centric business practices.
Finalist: Softmart Management Services, United States
Finalist: Dimension Data, Australia
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Licensing Solutions, Software Asset Management Partner of the Year
Dimension Data, Australia
Dimension Data makes it easier and less expensive for customers to manage their software assets through a combination of tools, professional services, and customized guidance. Its modular solutions are based on industry standards—including ISO/IEC 19770 and ISO/IEC 20000 (ITIL)—and set the stage for successful customer adoption of key software asset management (SAM) competencies. The solutions also extend into specialized areas that include virtualization, process improvement, and automation. Placing customers at the center of everything it does, Dimension Data applies its deep knowledge of the subtleties of licensing and solution-oriented technical expertise to help customers improve their SAM optimization levels, make informed decisions about their ongoing purchase and deployment plans, and extract the maximum value from their investments throughout the software life cycle.
Finalist: Phoenix Software, United Kingdom
Finalist: IPR-Insights, Hungary
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Microsoft Dynamics
- 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
- Microsoft Dynamics AX Partner of the Year
- Microsoft Dynamics CRM Partner of the Year
- Microsoft Dynamics GP Partner of the Year
- Microsoft Dynamics NAV Partner of the Year
- Microsoft Dynamics Point of Sale Solutions Partner of the Year
- Microsoft Dynamics SL Partner of the Year
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Microsoft Dynamics Distribution Partner of the Year
Young & Partners, Belgium
Young & Partners has developed a compelling solution that focuses on the third-party logistics, transportation, and warehousing market segment and has been implemented by more than 200 customers and used by more than 2,500 people. The firm has also gained Certified for Microsoft Dynamics status for its solution. Young & Partners has continued to expand its indirect independent software vendor (ISV) business across more than 10 countries, most recently opening a U.S. office in Atlanta, which already shows significant progress in pipeline and sales. Customers and partners appreciate the comprehensive vertical knowledge and partnership approach that Young & Partners brings to its solution. After implementation, customers report being able to increase their volume by between 25 and 30 percent with the same staff.
Finalist: Columbus IT, United States
Finalist: Lanham Associates, United States
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Microsoft Dynamics Financial Services Partner of the Year
Customer Effective, United States
Customer Effective develops all-encompassing business process automation and collaboration solutions for financial services to help its customers achieve business goals. Its solution, Capital Effective, is based on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform and serves financial services professionals across all three core subvertical segments within the industry: insurance, banking, and capital markets. Its User First Design Formula is a field-proven implementation approach for delivering performance improvement and promoting user adoption.
Finalist: E-consulting, Ukraine
Finalist: IMGROUP, United Kingdom
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Microsoft Dynamics Manufacturing Partner of the Year
Fullscope, United States
Fullscope’s process industry solution for Microsoft Dynamics AX business software supports the core business processes of manufacturers within vertical market segments such as food and beverage, life sciences, and pulp and paper. Advanced features include inverted bill-of-material handling and by-product management, as well as safety, health, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirements. Fullscope’s focus on manufacturing and its acknowledged leadership within the process industry continue to drive solid double-digit growth despite a tough economic environment. Fullscope has also expanded its reseller network to more than 230 partners in more than 50 countries, creating a large global impact. Recently, Fullscope showed further leadership by establishing a process industries ecosystem, partnering with other leading technology providers who offer complementary solutions.
Finalist: Columbus IT, United States
Finalist: Tectura, Germany
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Microsoft Dynamics Professional Services Partner of the Year
Client Profiles, United States
Client Profiles developed its flagship product, CRM4Legal, in conjunction with several early adopter law practices, revolutionizing the way law firms implement and benefit from CRM technology. Delivering just the right mix of functionality and ease of use to the attorney desktop, the CRM4Legal solution works the way lawyers work. At the core of the CRM4Legal system is a robust relationship intelligence technology that mines a firm’s relationship data to deliver critically important business intelligence, enabling the law practice to identify where new business opportunities exist, what type of cross-selling opportunities are available with existing clients or industries, and where to focus marketing and business development efforts. To complement the CRM4Legal software application, Client Profiles has assembled a professional services consulting team with more than 120 years of law firm business development, marketing, and best practices experience. With more than 8,000 users currently running the software, the organization has begun to expand rapidly throughout the world, with installations in the U.K., the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong.
Finalist: CGS Redmond Technologies, United States
Finalist: Synergy Business Solutions, United States
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Microsoft Dynamics Public Sector Partner of the Year
Infoma Software Consulting, Germany
Infoma’s Microsoft Dynamics NAV solution, newsystem kommunal, is a well respected, pervasive, public sector solution that demonstrates how industry commitment and a strong, repeatable solution combine to produce excellent results, even during difficult economic times. With more than 50 customer additions during this fiscal year alone, Infoma is now installed at more than 850 German authorities, with more than 55,000 users. The solution is designed for both public authorities and nonprofits, including municipal administrations, religious institutions, cultural institutions, and universities.
Finalist: LINK Development, Egypt
Finalist: GMCS, Russia
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Microsoft Dynamics Retail Partner of the Year
Columbus IT, Denmark
Columbus IT is being recognized for its proven ability to deliver outstanding customer success and satisfaction, from start to finish, in the challenging retail market. The company represents a true global Microsoft Dynamics partner, with more than 32 offices in 101 countries. By combining best-of-breed implementation practices with a strong focus on return on investment and customer satisfaction, Columbus IT is driving the Microsoft Dynamics retail industry platform into major retail accounts, including hundreds of stores for industry leaders like Team Sportia and Pepco.
Finalist: Positive Technology.com, United States
Finalist: K3 Business Technology Group, United Kingdom
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Microsoft Dynamics AX Partner of the Year
Hitachi Consulting, Japan
Hitachi Consulting creates innovative solutions for field services that serve industries like construction, agriculture, oil and gas, and utilities. Hitachi Consulting is a global systems integrator with the depth and breadth of Microsoft solutions and industry experience that enables it to serve as a single source solution provider and trusted business advisor. The company’s international presence has been critical to its success in winning multinational Microsoft Dynamics AX deals.
Finalist: Fullscope, United States
Finalist: Eclipse Computing, Australia
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM Partner of the Year
Ascentium, United States
Ascentium marketing and technology agency focuses on helping executives sell and market their products and services to customers by using Microsoft technologies as a platform. Most of Ascentium’s customers use Microsoft Dynamics CRM as a line-of-business application platform for building additional functionality that goes beyond classic customer relationship management. Ascentium has helped customers become advocates of the platform within their industries as they see the impact CRM solutions have had across their businesses. In driving out this message, Ascentium has grown 611 percent year-over-year.
Finalist: Infinity Info Systems., United States
Finalist: CIBER UK, United Kingdom
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Microsoft Dynamics GP Partner of the Year
Cogsdale, Canada
With 44 percent Microsoft Dynamics GP revenue growth and 25 percent growth in added customers, Cogsdale Corporation is a leading provider of service-oriented business solutions to local governments and utilities. Cogsdale provides a fully integrated financial, asset, people, work, and customer management solution built on the Microsoft Dynamics platform. Because it is based on Microsoft Dynamics technology, the Cogsdale solution helps improve efficiency, manage cost through a paperless environment, and combine unstructured work with a structured business system. The solution also tightly integrates with Microsoft Office Outlook, the Office system, SQL Server, and Office SharePoint Server. Cogsdale is proud of its customer satisfaction rate and has renewed 100 percent of its existing clients on Microsoft Dynamics GP.
Finalist: Interdyn-Socius, United States
Finalist: ITQAN Al-Bawardi Computers, United Arab Emirates
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Partner of the Year
Sistemas de Gestión, Spain
Sistemas de Gestión’s solution, NAVIHOTEL, is a fully integrated hotel management system that has become the leading solution in Spain, with more than 600 hotels as customers. The completely integrated functions are built on the Microsoft platform and allow management of all areas of the hotel business, from reception to financial management, as well as point-of-sale system management—giving users more agility in making business decisions. The functions are also integrated with hotel peripherals, such as TV-Pay systems, service offices, and magnetic-stripe cards.
Finalist: Serenic Software, United States
Finalist: Pleasant Valley Business Solutions, United States
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Microsoft Dynamics Point of Sale Solutions Partner of the Year
POSitive Technology, United States
POSitive Technology is being recognized for its proven ability to drive strong customer success and satisfaction through partnering, development, and industry expertise. As the largest Microsoft Dynamics Point of Sale partner, POSitive Technology has leveraged best-of-breed implementation and customer support to build a strong base of Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS) customers—including the Microsoft Dynamics RMS customer of the year, the Philadelphia Eagles. POSitive Technology successfully works with other retail-focused Microsoft Dynamics partners to build complete solutions, while leveraging a strong software development capability to extend the Microsoft Dynamics RMS platform. The company’s OpSuite solution strongly complements Microsoft Dynamics POS 2009 and offer customers a compelling, hostable, multistore management solution.
Finalist: Retail Technology Experts, United States
Finalist: New West Technologies Southeast, United States
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Microsoft Dynamics SL Partner of the Year
SIS Software, United States
SIS Software offers customers a full range of services, including software evaluation, implementation, development, training, and support. SIS has demonstrated its leadership in industry sales and service, generating tremendous, proven return on investment for its clients. SIS’s winning solution is on track to provide a 100 percent return on investment in less than 16 months—based solely on cost savings, not including any increases in revenue or other growth factors. This solution moves customers from disconnected manual systems with insufficient capabilities to an interconnected solution based on Microsoft Dynamics SL, Visual Studio, the Office system, Windows, and SQL Server. SIS Software is valued for its contributions to Microsoft webcasts and marketing campaigns, SureStep implementation methodology, and vertical partner training.
Finalist: Synergy Business Solutions, United States
Finalist: Queue Associates, United States
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Mobility Solutions
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Mobility Solutions Business Application Partner of the Year
Client Strategy Group, United States
Client Strategy Group’s mobile point-of-sale and inventory solution combines Windows Mobile software and Microsoft Dynamics. It leverages real-time integration with a Microsoft Dynamics mobile framework, enabling a sales team to collect payment for inventory that is either on hand or in stock at a central warehouse, or to start the fulfillment process to support Lean manufacturing initiatives. The solution decreases customer wait times, reduces inventory shrinkage, improves delivery times, and improves cash management.
Finalist: Antenna Software, United States
Finalist: Blink Systems, Brazil
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Mobility Solutions Integration Partner of the Year
Ensyst, Australia
Ensyst created a seamless end-to-end mobile solution combining Windows Mobile with Microsoft Office Communicator, Exchange, and Office SharePoint. Ensyst’s solution delivers executive scorecards, messaging, and collaboration to its highly mobile customers—boosting delivery accuracy, enabling customers to be more flexible, and allowing faster decision making. Ensyst’s solution provided five hours per week of additional productivity to one customer’s executives through mobile devices, and reduced cross-site approval turnaround time by 50 percent with automated workflows.
Finalist: JL Mobile Systems, United States
Finalist: Logotec Engineering, Poland
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Mobility Solutions Partner of the Year
Spring Wireless, United States
Spring Wireless develops, deploys, supports, and markets breakthrough mobile solutions and services based on Windows Mobile technologies. A strong partner with an impressive customer base, powerful mobile solutions, and proven return on investment, Spring Wireless has developed strong partnerships in the mobile ecosystem with device manufacturers and systems integrators to deliver mobile solutions across the globe.
Finalist: Rayonnance Technologies, France
Finalist: ALK Technologies, U.K.
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Networking Infrastructure Solutions Partner of the Year
Know Technology, United States
Know Technology empowers its customers with innovative solutions to consolidate and simplify their core infrastructures by using Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V, System Center, and Microsoft Forefront security. One customer experienced an annual savings on electricity of more than US$3,000 and a 50 percent reduction in server management time valued at US$40,000, and eliminated the need to hire another IT employee at an annual salary of US$30,000. Using Hyper-V, the customer estimates that its current host servers could accommodate the company doubling in size.
Finalist: Kolari, Botswana
Finalist: SecurElement, United States
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Newly Recruited Partner of the Year
AccTech Systems, South Africa
AccTech has shown a tremendous effort in the adoption and evangelism of Microsoft products, specifically in the ERP industry, leading to double digit revenue growth. AccTech has 15 years of experience in the ERP industry and adopted the Microsoft ERP platform in 2006. The company’s growth into the ERP space has created new customers who deploy not just the Microsoft ERP platform, but also SQL Server database, Forefront security, Office SharePoint Server, and unified communication suites of technologies.
Finalist: 2E2, United Kingdom
Finalist: Infobox, Russia
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Notes Transition Partner of the Year
EMC, United States
EMC Corporation demonstrated in-depth understanding of the complexities of an IBM Lotus Notes to Microsoft migration with a compelling and comprehensive customer case study, proving its ability to handle enterprise-scale projects while addressing and managing critical risk factors. EMC’s solution received a near-perfect score from the awards judges, reflecting its understanding of migration methodologies, familiarity with best-in-breed tools, and commitment to cost-effectiveness and customer satisfaction.
Finalist: Quest Software, United States
Finalist: Casahl Technology, United States
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OEM Hardware Solutions
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OEM Hardware Solutions, Device Manufacturing Partner of the Year
Plantronics, United States
Plantronics developed a highly innovative hardware accessory that makes it easy for ordinary telephone users to switch to unified communications messaging. This device combines features including dialpad and speakerphone into a compact package, and it is designed to work with Microsoft Office Communicator on the PC, with custom controls to provide a seamless transition from analog telephone to unified communications. Plantronics’s solution has been widely adopted by large customers, including Sprint.
Finalist: Fujitsu, Germany
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OEM Hardware Solutions, System Building Partner of the Year
Third Wave, Japan
Third Wave Corporation’s product line provides a high level of customization to address a variety of customers, from PC gamers to small and midsize businesses. Early adoption of the Intel Atom CPU into the company’s Windows Home Server model helped create a device that is always powered but with low consumption, resulting in low heat generation and high reliability. In addition to being environmentally friendly, the Windows Home Server model offers a quiet PC desktop environment and a slim, easy-to-set-up PC case. For customers who require high-speed graphical data processing and the ability to manage large size files for digital design, a 64-bit PC running the Windows Vista operating system with a 12 gigabyte memory delivers high performance. Innovation, extended customization, quality, affordability, and delivery speed all contribute to the popularity of this product line with customers.
Finalist: Casper Bilgisayar Sistemleri, Turkey
Finalist: Olidata, Italy
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Office Business Application Partner of the Year
OSIsoft, United States
OSIsoft’s PI real time, a comprehensive solution for real-time management of an organization’s distributed physical assets, is a great example of a rich and effective OBA solution. The solution takes advantage of many of the components of the 2007 Microsoft Office system, including Office client programs, Office SharePoint Enterprise and all its services, and Open XML formats. By adopting an OBA strategy, OSIsoft has delivered more value to its customers and increased its revenue. The company’s current OBA offerings reduce deployment costs while providing customers with valuable visibility into their mission-critical process data.
Finalist: triomis, Germany
Finalist: Diamante, Italy
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Online Services Partner of the Year
PointBridge, United States
As an early adopter, PointBridge has grown into one of the top-selling Microsoft Online Services partners globally—assisting in some of the largest customer deals. PointBridge has been instrumental in providing partner and customer feedback, participating in strategy discussions and advisory councils, and providing ongoing sales assistance. The company specializes in delivering impeccable customer service, leading to top-notch customer and partner experiences with early adopter customers. Acting as a thought leader in this area, PointBridge has influenced high-level strategic decisions that impact the broader partner community. Additionally, it has created significant value by developing custom solutions built on Microsoft Online Services, showing the flexibility and extensibility of this suite of services.
Finalist: Business Engineering, United States
Finalist: Wortell, Netherlands
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Public Sector
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Public Sector, Education Partner of the Year
Datatel, United States
Datatel provides fully integrated administrative and academic solutions to colleges and universities, helping them build strategic academic enterprises in support of student success. A strategic academic enterprise addresses the complete business and academic needs of an institution, providing a campus-wide experience of enhanced user satisfaction, increased productivity, and greater institutional effectiveness. Serving five million students at more than 760 institutions throughout the world, Datatel’s comprehensive solutions include Colleague, which features user-interface enhancements in Silverlight, uses SQL Server and Windows Server, and leverages Web 2.0 features, including Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 and Microsoft ASP.NET. Other solutions include ActiveCampus Portal, built using Office SharePoint Server, as well as many other products used to help institutions be more successful in their mission of student success.
Finalist: RM, United Kingdom
Finalist: Synetrix, United Kingdom
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Public Sector, Government Partner of the Year
Spenta Consulting, Spain
Spenta Consulting developed an extended edition of the Microsoft Citizen Service Platform (CSP) to enable local and regional governments to deliver services effectively and efficiently in multiple channels. With this solution, citizens, civil servants, and politicians will have a better social interaction at a lower cost using the latest Microsoft technologies. The solution adds value with features such as multilanguage and accessibility support, a customizable look and feel, Web 2.0 capabilities, an extension toolkit, a tourism module, and Microsoft Surface applications to provide a new and better user experience. The CSP extended edition has had a major impact on communities, helping them to address a variety of challenges.
Finalist: Environmental Systems Research Institute, United States
Finalist: Information Strategies, United States
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Public Sector, Health Partner of the Year
iLink Systems, United States
Using the Connected Health Platform guidance and tools, and the guiding principles of the Connected Health Framework Architecture, iLink Systems was able to use HealthVault, Microsoft Health Common User Interface, and Silverlight to accelerate the design and implementation of a community-based health record platform. The solution features a highly efficient and secure graphical user interface that integrates personal health records with the HealthVault repository. The personal health record system provides easy and secure access to historical medical, dental, vision, immunization, mental, and hospital information by patients and their providers—enabling providers to make more informed decisions.
Finalist: Egton Medical Information Systems, United Kingdom
Finalist: Careworks, United Kingdom
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Security Solutions
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Security Solutions, Identity and Secure Access Partner of the Year
Omada, Denmark
The Omada Identity Manager solution is built exclusively on the Microsoft stack and includes a set of enterprise-class commercial software modules that fulfill key requirements for compliance reporting and advanced, role-based access control for organizations running Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 and its next version, Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010. Omada is a Technology Adoption Program partner for Forefront Identity Manager 2010 and has a long record of collaborating closely with the Microsoft Identity and Security engineering organization, marketing group, and field sales teams to bring complementary solutions to our joint customers. This is Omada’s second consecutive win for this category; it earned this award by covering the breadth of the partnership with many supporting customer success stories.
Finalist: Oxford Computer Group, United Kingdom
Finalist: Certified Security Solutions, United States
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Security Solutions, Infrastructure Security Partner of the Year
Data#3, Australia
Data#3 is well established as a Microsoft partner in the Asia-Pacific region, with a particular strength in collaborating with Microsoft field teams to bring identity and security solutions to enterprise and corporate clients in Australia. Data#3 works with clients to tie security strategies to business objectives, so that security becomes an enabler for business, which mirrors the Microsoft Business Ready Security strategy. Data#3’s entry outlined several customer success stories, including one in which Microsoft Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 was deployed by a federal agency to displace a legacy portal solution and enable secure access to e-learning and other portal content housed in a new Office SharePoint Server environment. This solution has increased the richness of content available to users, significantly reduced the number of service desk calls, and improved the security of content publication to more than 84,000 users.
Finalist: CMS Consulting, Canada
Finalist: Sapphire Technologies, United Kingdom
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Small Business Specialist Partner of the Year
Evolve IT, Australia
When Australian Rules football clubs needed a technology solution for its business, it turned to Evolve IT, Microsoft’s leading Small Business Specialist Community partner in Australia. Evolve IT delivered a solid solution—based on the Microsoft small- to midsize-business stack—that included networking infrastructure deployment with Windows Small Business Server integrated with mobility, productivity, and security solutions from Microsoft. The Evolve IT business motto “we fix business problems, and not computer problems” shows how Evolve IT succeeds in satisfying the technology needs of its small- to midsize-business customers.
Finalist: Bulletproof InfoTech, Canada
Finalist: Quadrasystems.net, India
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SOA and Business Process Partner of the Year
Hitachi Consulting U.K., United Kingdom
The Hitachi Consulting U.K. solution provides an innovative and scalable infrastructure that serves as the central enterprise service bus (ESB) for one of the largest legal firms in the U.K. The solution comprises a single BizTalk Server group containing four servers running BizTalk Server Enterprise, arranged in a combination of clustered and load-balanced hosts, to provide maximum utilization and failover. Supporting an anticipated volume of 200,000 messages per day, the Hitachi Consulting solution provides a rich internal service catalogue, support for the composite application development model, and seamless communication across the customer’s infrastructure. This solution has significantly reduced the time and investment needed to develop, test, and deploy new projects.
Finalist: Xterprise, United States
Finalist: PNMsoft, United Kingdom
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Software-plus-Services
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Software-plus-Services, Development Partner of the Year
Mamut, Norway
Mamut is being recognized for its innovation in combining business software and hosted services based on the software-plus-services strategy. The company’s hybrid solution, Mamut One, combines the Mamut Business Software client and premium hosting services to develop a software-plus-services solution that offers increased choice and simplified use and management of business software and IT services. Based on Microsoft technology, the Mamut Business Platform has further strengthened Mamut’s ability to collaborate with existing partners and establish new partnerships in the Microsoft sphere, simplifying integration to form a powerful partner network. The solution includes accounting, finance, CRM, sales force automation, logistics, human resources and payroll, and e-commerce, all developed by Mamut with Visual Studio.
Finalist: ExactTarget, United States
Finalist: Hyland Software, United States
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Software-plus-Services, Integration Partner of the Year
IDE, Sweden
IDE provides the power and flexibility of software-plus-services in its Livingstone Express solution, which offers customers a mixture of on-premises and hosted applications. With System Center as the foundation, the Livingstone Express portfolio of services includes ServiceDesk, managed desktop, server surveillance, server monitoring, patch management, and backup. The integration between on-premises and hosted applications gives customers a cost-effective solution and an increased maturity in their IT infrastructures. Livingstone Express has been implemented with clients in Sweden as well as eight other countries, and helped IDE grow 80 percent last year.
Finalist: Accelare, United States
Finalist: IT Solution Partners, Netherlands
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Unified Communications Solutions
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Unified Communications Solutions, IM and Presence Partner of the Year
Enabling Technologies, United States
Enabling Technologies delivered instant messaging (IM) and presence capabilities to a medical services provider through federation and integration of Microsoft Office Communications Server with its existing business process. The integration reduced the time required for a service representative to reach physicians and caretakers, which resulted in better service to patients and increased the growth opportunity for the provider. Switching to Office Communications Server R2 and Exchange Unified Messaging (UM) from a competing solution, Enabling was able to provide better integration capabilities with Office SharePoint Server and lower total cost of ownership through the purchase of enterprise client access licenses (CALs). Enabling has demonstrated expertise in deploying Microsoft unified communications technologies and has the ability to combine any or all of the unified communications applications based on its customers’ needs. To date, Enabling has implemented more than 75 unified communications deployments of the solution.
Finalist: Eurodata Systems, United Kingdom
Finalist: Preferred One Stop Technologies, United Kingdom
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Unified Communications Solutions, Messaging Partner of the Year
Janalent, United States
Janalent’s solution combines modules focused on strategy and definition, design, deployment, migration, and management of Exchange Server 2007 messaging solutions for customers of practically any vertical market segment and size. Its solution expands Microsoft server platform penetration and has enabled customers to leverage the virtualization, management, virus protection, and monitoring components of the Microsoft server product line—resulting in reduced cost, greater interoperability between systems, and predictive and proactive maintenance processes. Janalent has migrated more than 100,000 mailboxes from competitive platforms to Exchange and has helped customers save more than US$4 million in license and maintenance costs. Janalent’s solution specifically addresses the need for privacy, which is lacking in solutions such as Google; storage management challenges commonly experienced with Novell GroupWise; integration and cost challenges common to IBM Lotus Notes and Domino; and consolidation opportunities associated with large Exchange Server 5.5 and Exchange Server 2003 organizations.
Finalist: Enabling Technologies, United States
Finalist: Apptix, United States
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Unified Communications Solutions, Voice Partner of the Year
Intrinsic Technologies, United States
The solution developed by Intrinsic Technologies focuses on reducing communications costs while enabling organizations to collaborate more effectively. Intrinsic Technologies helped Albany International Corp., a global manufacturer, slash international toll charges through the use of Voice over IP (VoIP), reduce travel through alternative communications, and consolidate voice mail and private branch exchange (PBX) infrastructure to a single platform for more than 5,000 users across 34 locations and 14 countries. Albany saved an estimated US$3.2 million and 18 months on deployment time compared to a replacement of all Cisco PBXs and end-point phones. This solution included Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging to deliver inbound faxing and reduce total cost of ownership on voice-mail systems, Microsoft RoundTable devices and Tandberg video conferencing for seamless audio and video experience, Office Communications Server, and Office Communicator as the primary end point to replace PBX phones.
Finalist: Dimension Data, United Kingdom
Finalist: Gold Systems, United States
