Microsoft would like to congratulate the 2011 SAM Partner of the Year Award winners on their achievements. The awards, presented at the 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles, California, United States, recognizes partner excellence and innovation in delivering Software Asset Management solutions with a focus on ensuring outstanding customer experiences.
Software Asset Management Market Acceleration Partner of the Year Award
Softline Trade - Russia
Softline differentiates themselves from the rest of the SAM partners by betting on marketing activities aimed at popularizing software asset management in their market. At the beginning of 2011, a survey of 3,000 companies resulted in 70 percent of the respondents indicating a high level of understanding of SAM, demonstrating the positive impact of their approach. Their continued success in accelerating the SAM market comes from their focus on helping customers plan and implement SAM practices that enables them to gain control over their IT environment. By leveraging all of the SAM tools and readiness resources Microsoft offers to further expand the skills of their SAM certified consultants and deploy the full scope of SAM Baseline and SAM Assessment Services, they have been able to provide a superior experience to their customers and drive further adoption of SAM in the Russian market.
The following companies were finalists for the award:
Software Asset Management Innovation Partner of the Year Award
Civica - United Kingdom
Civica deeply understands the unique challenges faced by Public Sector customers and has developed a reputation for excellence in delivering SAM solutions that reduce cost, increase control, and enable ever-improving service levels. Civica’s customers can expect thorough analysis coupled with credible ROI calculations as the basis for implementing processes and systems that enable them to actually realize the identified savings. Their approach begins with SAM Service engagements, to gain an initial understanding of the current environment and existing processes. They go further to offer SAM Managed Service offerings, which are tailored to suit each customer’s specific needs, ranging from the provision of a basic license management solutions to fully hosted, multi-faceted Strategic Software Partnership solutions. Civica’s managed service offerings help customers minimize software and hardware costs, limit business and legal risk related to ownership, and maximize IT responsiveness and end-user productivity to make SAM a fundamental part of an organization’s information technology business strategy.
The following companies were finalists for the award:
