At its recent Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) last month in New Orleans, Microsoft (MSFT) announced the winners of its 2009 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards. The annual awards honor Microsoft Registered, Certified and Gold Certified partners for delivering exemplary solutions for their customers during the past year.
Nearly 2,000 entries were submitted by partners worldwide; the award finalists and winners were selected from a group of nominations based on their dedicated use of Microsoft technologies to provide solutions for their customers’ needs.
“Partners are the key to igniting business innovation through great technology as well as helping customers drive down costs,” said Allison L. Watson, corporate vice president of the Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft. “Congratulations to the 2009 Partner Award winners, who have demonstrated a superior level of expertise as well as a focus on delivering customer value. We look forward to seeing these partners fulfill their limitless potential as they continue to provide customers with world-class Microsoft solutions.”
The partner award winners were:
- Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Active Directory Partner of the Year – Quest Software, United States
- Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Storage Solutions Partner of the Year – NetApp, United States
- Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Systems Management Partner of the Year – CDW, United States
- Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Windows Desktop Deployment Partner of the Year – Compugen, Canada
- Business Intelligence Partner of the Year – Solver, United States
- Citizenship Partner of the Year – Koenig Solutions, India
- Communications Sector Partner of the Year – Comcast, United States
- Custom Development Solutions, Application Infrastructure Development Partner of the Year – Kiandra System Solutions, Australia
- Custom Development Solutions, Smart Client Development Partner of the Year – L3, Brazil
- Custom Development Solutions, Web Development Partner of the Year – Catapult Systems, United States
- Data Management Solutions Partner of the Year – Orion Technology, Canada
- Digital Agencies Partner of the Year – AKQA, United Kingdom
- Distribution Partner of the Year – Workgroup, South Africa
- Enterprise Partner of the Year – Accenture and Avanade, United States
- Global ISV Consumer Partner of the Year – Corel, Canada
- Global ISV Industry Partner of the Year – OSIsoft, United States
- Global ISV Infrastructure Partner of the Year – CA Inc., United States
- Global ISV Line of Business Partner of the Year – Epicor Software Corp., United States
- Global ISV Technology Innovation Partner of the Year – FullArmor, United States
- Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year – MaximumASP, United States
- IAMCP Partner of the Year – L3, Brazil
- Information Worker Solutions, Data Visualization Partner of the Year – ProModel, United States
More winners can be found on the next page.
