MICROSOFT has announced the winners and finalists of its 2009 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards, which 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 and the awards 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.
Amongst South African Companies, Workgroup won the distribution partner of the year while AccTech systems was finalist in the Enterprise partner of the year and ISV/Software Solutions partner of the year.
“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. “We congratulate 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.”
Award winners and finalists were chosen from nominations from around the world. Winners and finalists will also be recognized at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2009, the company’s premier annual event for industry partners, being held July 13–16 in New Orleans.
Mpendulo Ngwenya
AccTech systems was also nominated as the Newly Recruited Partner of the Year.