Brisbane, AUSTRALIA – 5 September, 2012 – At Microsoft’s Australian Partner Conference (APC) in Brisbane late yesterday afternoon, 900 Microsoft partners gathered at a ceremony to recognise 24 partners for their outstanding contribution of innovative solutions and services to customers during the past 12 months.
Celebrating its 20th year, the Microsoft Australia Partner Awards (MAPA) is the premier event to highlight partner’s achievements using Microsoft based technological solutions to address customer business needs.
The winning partners were chosen out of a national field of 300 plus nominations from Australian partners, with MAPAs presented in 24 categories.
“The MAPAs celebrate Australia’s local partners working at a world class level,” said Pip Marlow, managing director, Microsoft Australia. “The awards provide the opportunity to celebrate the success of our local partner network and given the exciting year ahead with some much anticipated launches, it’s important for Microsoft and our partners to be showcasing how innovation and outstanding solutions are helping customers. We offer our congratulations to all of the 24 winners, as well as all of the finalists, and we look forward to continued success in our partner ecosystem in the future.”
2012 MAPA recipients are:
Business Intelligence Partner of the Year
Winner: WARDY IT Solutions
Finalists: BizData and Antares Solutions
Business Productivity Partner of the Year
Winner: Data#3 Limited
Finalists: Ensyst and Computers Systems Australia (CSA)
Communications Partner of the Year
Winner: Generation-e
Finalists: Kloud Solutions and Ensyst
Data Platform Partner of the Year
Winner: Red Rock Consulting
Finalists: Wardy IT and BizData
Desktop Partner of the Year
Winner:Thomas Duryea Consulting
Finalists: Dilignet and Data#3
Device Partner of the Year Award
Winner: HP
Finalist: Asus
Distributor Partner of the Year Award
Winner:Express Data
Finalists: NewLease and Synnex
Education Partner of the Year Award
Winner: ClickView
Finalists: Janison and Data#3 Limited
Enterprise Partner of the Year
Winner: Dimension Data
Health Partner of the Year
Winner: Generation-e
Finalists: Computer Systems Australia and Fred IT Group
IaaS Hosting Partner of the Year
Winner: BlueFire Corporation Pty Ltd
Finalist: Datacom and Emantra
ISV Software Development Partner of the Year
Winner: Readify
Finalist: Breeze Training and Consultancy and Nintex
LAR Partner of the Year
Winner: Insight
Learning Partner of the Year
Winner: DDLS
Finalists: MIS Global Technologies and New Horizons
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Partner of the Year
Winner: eSavvy
Finalists: OBS and SGS Professional
Microsoft Dynamics ERP Partner of the Year
Winner: Eclipse Computing (Australia) Pty Ltd
Finalists:Sable Systems and Renown
Microsoft Online Services Partner of the Year
Winner: Ensyst
Finalists: Barwon Computer Solutions and Paradyne
Microsoft Private Cloud Partner of the Year
Winner: Dimension Data
Finalists: Ensyst and Data#3 Limited
Public Sector Partner of the Year
Winner: OBS
Finalists: Velrada and Object Consulting
SaaS Hosting Partner of the Year
Winner: OBT
Finalists:Emantra and Datacom
Small Business Specialist Partner of the Year
Winner: Comcity
Finalists: OnQ Software and Hospitality Information Systems
Software App Partner of the Year
Winner: Readify
Finalist: Newsgator
Windows Azure Platform ISV Partner of the Year
Winner: Janison
Finalists: Breeze and OpenText
Windows Azure Platform SI Partner of the Year
Winner: Kiandra IT
Finalists: Readify and Object Consulting
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