Microsoft New Zealand has the distinct pleasure of honouring Gold, Certified and Small Business Specialist Partners who, over the past year, demonstrated an impressive level of innovation in using Microsoft technologies to deliver excellence to their customers. Recognition will be conferred to this elite group of top performers in the shape of The 2008 New Zealand Microsoft® Partner Awards.
Microsoft Partner of the Year
This is the highest accolade that Microsoft will grant to partners in the Microsoft community and is won through strong advocacy, breadth of capability and impactful solutions delivered to the NZ market. We believe it is important that we have grown our businesses together and at an executive level we have engaged to drive significant impact with our joint customers.
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Small Business Specialist of the Year
This Small Business Specialist exemplifies the commitment and skill required to deliver great solutions to small business customers, and this solution highlights the innovative use of multiple Microsoft technologies to solve the customer’s unique business challenge. Any Small Business Specialist can specifically enter a submission in this category, however submissions in other categories from Small Business Specialists for customers with less than 50 employees will also be considered.
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- Kinetics Group | | Finalists: |
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CodeBlue Limited
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Datasouth Business Solutions Limited
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Application Platform Solution of the Year
Leveraging a customer's technology investments to build a flexible, scalable and adaptable solution this award demonstrates how aligning IT with business goals can empower people to drive a business forward, and how this derived value can be measured and quantified by the customer.
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- Axon Computer Systems Limited | | Finalists: | - Datacom Systems (Wellington) Limited | | - Datasouth Business Solutions Limited |
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Business Productivity Solution of the Year
This solution helped the customer by improving the impact of their people by making it easier to work together, to manage content and find the information needed to improve insight and drive business success.
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- Datacom Systems (Wellington) Limited | | Finalists: | - Business Mechanix Limited | | - Datasouth Business Solutions Limited |
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Citizenship Solution of the Year
This award is for a project or initiative that delivers exceptional value to the community and helps improve the quality of life of all New Zealanders.
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- The Simpl Group Limited | | Finalist: |
- Datasouth Business Solutions Limited
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Core Infrastructure Solution of the Year
Server technologies are the heart of any robust and responsive IT environment. In line with the Core Infrastructure Optimisation model this award recognises a solution that has delivered results beyond the customers’ expectations and helped move the platform forward to deliver business wide transformation.
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- Datasouth Business Solutions Limited | | Finalists: |
- Axon Computer Systems Limited
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Distributor of the Year
Distribution provides the Microsoft business with scale, broad awareness, education, warehousing and logistics. This award recognises the contribution and impact this winning partner has made over the last 12 months.
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Learning Solutions Partner of the Year
This award recognises the unique delivery of a training or readiness solution by a partner that has dramatically impacted the understanding and business impact of Microsoft technologies within customers or partners.
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- Auldhouse | | Finalist: |
- Ace Training Limited
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Licensing Partner of the Year
Helping customers understand their licensing options to ensure they maximise short and term benefits to support their business is a real skill. This partner has consistently demonstrated this across their customer engagements.
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- Gen-i | | Finalists: |
- Axon Computer Systems Limited
| | - Softsource Limited |
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM Solution of the Year
Connecting and managing relationships is critical to business success, and this partner has successfully implemented Dynamics CRM into a broader technology environment and helped their customer grow revenues, improve profitability or strengthen stakeholder, customer or constituent relationships.
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- Complete Solutions | | Finalists: |
- Gen-i
| | - The Simpl Group Limited |
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Microsoft Dynamics ERP Solution of the Year
Tracking and managing financial and supply chain information is imperative to running a successful and growing business. By integrating Dynamics ERP into a complex business situation this partner has delivered real business impact and value in conjunction with other Microsoft technologies.
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- Adaptable Solutions Limited | | Finalists: |
- Koorb Consulting Limited
| | - Olympic Software NZ Limited |
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Microsoft Rising Star of the Year
This individual or emerging partner business uses all facets of its Microsoft relationship – technology, programs and - to deliver exceptional customer satisfaction and drive strong growth for their partner business. An individual or company going places in the industry and one to watch!
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- Complete Solutions | | Finalists: |
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Altaine Limited
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CodeBlue Limited
| | - Enlighten Designs Limited |
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Microsoft Software + Services Solution of the Year
This new award recognises innovation and success in the emerging software + services category. This partner (or partners in a consortium approach) have provided Microsoft technologies over the internet and broadened their customer offering and relevance with new high value services that have shown strong demand and uptake.
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- ActionThis Limited | | Finalists: |
- CNS Treasury Limited
| | - Enlighten Design Limited | | - PolyMEDIA Limited |
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Microsoft Technology Advocate of the Year
Successfully using Microsoft technologies in your own business is critical to positioning and implementing high value solutions to customers, and getting the full benefit from your Microsoft partnership. This award recognises the best partner that is doing this to improve their productivity and grow their business.
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- Provoke Solutions Limited | | Finalists: |
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Kinetics Group
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Maclean Computing Limited
| | - The Simpl Group Limited |
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Partnering Award of the Year
This joint submission shows how 2 or more Microsoft partners working together can deliver a greater customer result, widen their solutions and grow their business faster than if operating alone. The strength of the Microsoft partner ecosystem is highlighted by these partners leveraging the skills and resources of others so everyone wins.
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- Axon Computer Systems Limited & Enlighten Designs Limited | | Finalists: |
- Fujitsu NZ Limited & Provoke Solutions Limited
| | - Kinetics Group, Interactive Systems & Cogita Business Services |
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Software Solution of the Year
ISV and customer development partners use the Microsoft platform and developer tools to build software solutions that can meet very specific individual customer needs, or solve the business and technology challenges of many customers across the globe. In winning this award the successful partner has demonstrated great innovation and strong business and product understanding to solve their customers challenge.
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- Fronde Systems Group Limited | | Finalists: |
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Datacom Systems (Wellington) Limited
| | - SERKO Limited |
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