JOHANNESBURG: 1 October 2020 – Microsoft South Africa hosted its first ever virtual Partner Awards last night to recognise and acknowledge the excellent performance of its partners, despite the various challenges experienced by businesses across the country for the most part of this year.
This year’s MD Partner of the Year is Global Computing and Telecoms.
Lionel Moyal, Commercial Partners Lead at Microsoft South Africa, “Global Computing and Telecoms understands the importance of focusing equally on technology and people to enable effective digital transformation, and they have built strong capabilities in Adoption and Change Management as well as Training to ensure that our technologies deliver on the promise of empowering our customers.
As a participant in our Emerging Partner programme, they demonstrated clarity of purpose, dedication and tenacity with the objective of becoming a leader in deployment and implementation of cloud solutions for our customers.”
Despite being a relatively small organisation, Global Computing and Telecoms attained 13 Gold Competencies and featured in the top 10 South African partner list, with the most individuals certified on Microsoft Azure, Modern Work and Security.
Since the last Partner Awards, Microsoft has seen unprecedented change and the acceleration of digital transformation as well as resilience and innovation from partners, who have built technologies across the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge that allow organisations to connect, operate and carry on.
Moyal concludes,” As we congratulate this year’s winners and finalists, we acknowledge the displays of agility and creativity from our partners that are helping to reimagine a new world for businesses. We look forward to continued partnerships that build new products and services and support our customers as they become more digitally resilient.”
Partner of the Year award finalists and winners:
| CATEGORY | FINALIST | WINNER |
| MD’s Partner of the Year | Global Computing and Telecoms | |
| ISV Partner of the Year | – inQuba
– Nebula – Praelexis |
Nebula |
| New or Emerging ISV Partner of the Year | – Boxfusion
– Praelexis – iPulse Systems |
Boxfusion |
| New or Emerging Services Partner of the Year | – Boxfusion
– Global Computing and Telecoms – Phakamo Tech |
Phakamo Tech |
| Modern Workplace Partner of the Year | – BUI
– Altron Karabina – BCX |
BUI |
| Security Partner of the Year | – Phakamo Tech
– BUI |
BUI |
| Azure Infrastructure Partner of the Year | – Altron Karabina
– Gijima (Pty) Ltd – BUI |
BUI |
| Data & Analytics Partner of the Year | – Altron Karabina
– Ascent Technology (Pty) Ltd – Accenture |
Altron Karabina |
| Artificial Intelligence Partner of the Year | – Praelexis
– Mint Group |
Mint Group |
| Application Development Innovation Partner of the Year | – Accenture
– 4Sight AccTech – Tangent Solutions |
Tangent Solutions |
| Dynamics Business Applications Service Partner of the Year | – Enterprisecloud
– Mint Group – Altron Karabina |
Mint Group |
| Dynamics Finance & Operations Partner of the Year | – Altron Karabina
– Parity Software (Pty) Ltd – Yellow Professional Services (Pty) Ltd |
Yellow Professional Services (Pty) Ltd
|
| Business Applications Power Platform Partner of the Year | – Mint Group
– Altron Karabina – Ukuvuma Solutions (Pty) Ltd. |
Mint Group
|
| Retail Partner of the Year | – Game
– Incredible Connection |
Incredible Connection |
| Commercial Devices Partner of the Year | – First Technology
– Mustek – Esquire Technologies |
Mustek |
| Learning Partner of the Year | – CTU Training Solutions
– LGIT Smart Solutions – Mecer Inter-Ed |
CTU Training Solutions |
| CSP Indirect Provider of the Year | – 4Sight Dynamics Africa
– First Distribution – Tarsus On Demand |
Tarsus On Demand |
| Commercial Channel Partner of the Year | – 4Sight AccTech
– Dimension Data – First Technology (Pty) Ltd |
First Technology (Pty) Ltd |
| Microsoft Consulting Services Partner of the Year | – Mint Group
– BUI – Gijima (Pty) Ltd |
Mint Group |
