Enterprise information management solution provider Intervate IT has emerged as the major winner at Microsoft’s annual Partner Network Awards, announced at a gala dinner in Johannesburg last night. The annual awards honour Microsoft partners for delivering innovative solutions that directly address customer challenges during the past year.
Intervate won four awards on the night: Services Partner of the Year, Collaboration and Content Partner of the Year, and Industry Partner of the Year for both Commercial and Public Sector. The other big winner was Ascent Technology, whose two awards included the coveted Managing Director’s award for Partner of the Year.
The finalists in the 21 categories were chosen from hundreds of entries submitted by partners across the country, and the winners were selected on their dedicated use of Microsoft technologies to provide solutions for their customers’ needs.
Three other companies won two awards each. Karabina Business Technology Solutions won the Business Intelligence and Dynamics CRM awards; Gijima was named Deployment Partner of the Year and Messaging and Communications Partner of the Year; and First Technology won the Large Account Reseller of the Year and Volume Licensing Partner of the Year awards.
“The Partner of the Year Award winners and finalists represent some of the best and brightest our ecosystem has to offer,” says Munir Kundakci, head of Small and Midsize Solutions and Partners at Microsoft SA.
“We had hundreds of solutions that helped save costs, improve productivity and increase efficiencies. We are always amazed by the business understanding of our partners and how they use technology for addressing business needs.”
The full list of winners is:
* Application Integration Partner of the Year – nVisionIT;
* Business Intelligence Partner of the Year – Karabina Business Technology Solutions;
* Collaboration and Content Partner of the Year – Intervate IT;
* Core Infrastructure or Private Cloud Partner of the Year – BUI;
* Corporate Social Responsibility Partner of the Year – CTU Training Solutions;
* Data Platform Partner of the Year – Ascent Technology;
* Deployment Partner of the Year – Gijima;
* Distribution Partner of the Year – Comztek;
* Dynamics CRM Partner of the Year – Karabina Business Technology Solutions;
* Dynamics ERP Partner of the Year – AccTech Systems;
* Hosting Partner of the Year – PwC Exordia;
* Industry Partner of the Year – Commercial – Intervate IT;
* Industry Partner of the Year – Public Sector – Intervate IT;
* Large Account Reseller of the Year – First Technology;
* Learning Partner of the Year – Bytes People Solutions;
* Messaging and Communications Partner of the Year – Gijima;
* Software Asset Management Partner of the Year – Business Connexion;
* Services Partner of the Year – Intervate IT;
* Volume Licensing Partner of the Year – First Technology;
* SMB Customer Partner of the Year – GreenData ICT Solutions;
* Managing Director’s Partner of the Year – Ascent Technology.
