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 |
Microsoft names 2011 Partner Award winners
Matt Tucker of Les Mills named Partners' Choice CIO of the Year.