Microsoft names 2011 Partner Award winners

Matt Tucker of Les Mills named Partners' Choice CIO of the Year.

Gen-i took home three awards, including Reseller of the Year, at the 2011 Microsoft New Zealand Partner Awards on Thursday night.

Matt Tucker of Les Mills was named Partners' Choice CIO of the Year, and software developer GreenButton went home with three awards and Express Data edged out Ingram Micro for the Distributor of the Year award.

Hundreds of people gathered for the awards presentation at the Viaduct Events Centre in Auckland.

Twenty three award-winners were announced, across four sub-categories: solutions, individual awards, partner awards and supreme awards.

“This night is always very special as it gives us an opportunity to recognise the fantastic work our partners develop for their clients over the year. It was very exciting to see a number of first-time entries this year, and as usual the high calibre of entries certainly made the judging process very difficult," says Chris Ichter, director small, midmarket solutions & partners group for Microsoft, in a statement released Thursday night by Microsoft.

"I would like to congratulate all of the winners tonight, and also take the time to thank all of our partners, who consistently develop creative and innovative solutions for New Zealand organisations.”

The full list of winners from the Microsoft New Zealand 2011 Partner Awards is below.

Microsoft Partner Awards 2011 Winners

Solution Awards

Desktop Deployment Solution of the Year

Winner: Gen-i

Virtualisation and Management Solution of the Year

Winner: Datacom

Hosting and Data Centre Solution of the Year

Winner: Softsource

Business Intelligence Solution of the Year

Winner: Datacom

Web Development Solution of the Year

Winner: NV Interactive

Windows Azure Platform Solution of the Year

Winner: Intergen

Portals & Collaboration Solution of the Year

Winner: Enlighten Designs

Unified Communications Solution of the Year

Winner: Gen-i

Windows Phone Solution of the Year

Winner: Marker Ltd

Dynamics CRM Solution of the Year

Winner: Fujitsu

Dynamics ERP Solution of the Year

Winner: Theta Systems

Individual Awards

Solutions Architect of the Year

Winner: Dave Fellows (GreenButton)

Partners' Choice CIO of the Year

Winner: Nominated by Dimension Data: Matt Tucker (Les Mills)

Partner Awards

MSN Advertising Partner of the Year

Winner: OMD New Zealand

MSN Campaign of the Year

Winner: Spark phdiq

Distributor of the Year

Winner: Express Data

Reseller of the Year

Winner: Gen-i

Training Solution Experience of the Year

Winner: ACE Training

Online Services Partner of the Year

Winner: Provoke

Supreme Awards

BizSpark Partner of the Year

Winner: GreenButton

Citizenship Solution of the Year

Winner: Provoke

Software Exporter of the Year

Winners: Vista Entertainment Solutions and GreenButton

Small Business Solution of the Year

Winner: Kinetics Group

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