Microsoft Announces Finalists for the 2010 Awards

Microsoft Announces Finalists for the 2010 Partner Awards

Microsoft New Zealand today announced the finalists for the 2010 Microsoft New Zealand Partner Awards.

The Awards offer Microsoft Partners the opportunity to showcase work to their peers and also help to improve brand recognition, recruitment and staff retention.

“We have been impressed with the high-calibre of work that our partners have delivered over the past year and these awards give us an opportunity to recognize and reward our partners for the great work they do,” says Brent Colbert, Director, Partner Strategy at Microsoft.

The 2010 Partner Awards contains 20 awards split into four sub-categories – Solution, Individual, Partnering and Supreme. This year’s ceremony will also feature two new awards; the Partners Choice CIO of the Year Award and Business Impact Solution of the Year Award.

“We felt it was important to expand the scope of the awards this year to demonstrate and celebrate more of the top-quality work produced by the industry,” says Colbert.

The 2010 Microsoft Partner Awards will be held in the Great Room at the Langham Hotel, Auckland on Wednesday the 18th of August.

Each finalist will receive five complimentary tickets to the awards evening with extra tickets available for purchase at $149. Tickets can be purchased from the Microsoft Partner Awards website.

2010 Microsoft Partner Awards nominations:

Solution Awards

Application Platform Solution of the Year
Finalists: Datacraft, Datacom, Hewlett Packard

Enterprise Content Management Solution of the Year
Finalists: Datacom, Enlighten Designs, IGA Systems

Portals & Collaboration Solution of the Year
Finalists: Datacom, Enlighten Designs, Intergen

Core Infrastructure Solution of the Year
Finalists: Datasouth (Catholic Diocese of Christchurch), Datasouth (Warren & Mahoney), Lexel Systems

CRM Solution of the Year
Finalists: Datacom, Magnetism, Markinson, OA Systems

ERP Solution of the Year
Finalists: Intergen, Koorb Consulting

Small Business Solution of the Year
Finalists: Datasouth, Kinetics (Jenkin Timber), Kinetics (Sistema Plastics), Maclean Computing

Citizenship Solution of the Year
Finalists: Intergen, Provoke

Unified Communications Solution of the Year
Finalist: Integral-Axon

Individual Awards

Solutions Architect of the Year
Finalists: Alex Taylor (Enlighten Designs), Carl Whitehead (Datacom)

Partners Choice CIO of the Year
Finalists: Julia Raue (Air New Zealand), Neville Richardson (Les Mills), Rob McNaughtan (Mighty River Power)

Partnering Awards

Distributor of the Year
Finalists: Express Data, Ingram Micro, NewLease
Learning Solutions Partner of the Year
Finalist: Auldhouse

Reseller of the Year
Finalists: Gen-i, Lexel Systems, NewLease

Online Services Partner of the Year
Finalists: Contrast Media, Provoke

Partnering of the Year Award
Finalists: Enlighten Designs & Integral-Axon (Tau Ora), Enlighten Designs & Integral-Axon (Vodafone), Markinson & App Serv

Supreme Awards

Business Impact Solution of the Year
Finalists: Datacraft, Enlighten Designs, Theta Systems

ISV Solution of the Year
Finalists: Aptimize, Serko Online

Platform Value Partner of the Year
Finalists: Gen-i, Softsource

ENDS

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