A range of newcomers and old hands have been named as finalists in Microsoft NZ's fifth annual Partner Awards.
The awards – 23 in all, across four categories – recognise the work of solution developers as well as distributor and reseller partners.
Chris Ichter, director small, midmarket solutions - partners group for Microsoft NZ, says the company's partners have raised the bar this year.
"The high calibre of work is reflected in the number of quality entries submitted this year,” Ichter says.
"We received a number of first-time entries and have a great mix of finalists.
The winners will be announced on November 17, at an event at the new Viaduct Events Centre, with winners to have the opportunity to enter in the 2012 World Wide Partner Awards.
A list of the finalists is below.
Solution awards
Core Infrastructure Desktop Deployment Solution of the Year – Fujitsu, Gen-i and Softsource Virtualisation and Management Solution of the Year – Datacom, Lexel Systems and Softsource Hosting and Data Center Solution of the Year – Dimension Data and Softsource Application Platform Business Intelligence Solution of the Year - Datacom, Enlighten Designs and Montage Business Intelligence Web Development Solution of the Year – Enlighten Designs, Intergen and NV Interactive Windows Azure Platform Solution of the Year – Contrast Media, GreenButton and Intergen People and Productivity Portals and Collaboration Solution of the Year – Enlighten Designs, Intergen and Provoke Unified Communications Solution of the Year – Dimension Data, Gen-i and Provoke Windows Phone Solution of the Year – Marker Ltd (A), Marker Ltd (B) and Touch Maniacs Business Applications Dynamics CRM Solution of the Year – Fujitsu, Intergen and Magnetism Dynamics ERP Solution of the Year – Intergen, Koorb Consulting and Theta Systems Individual Awards Solutions Architect of the Year – Dimension Data, Elite Business Systems and GreenButton Partners' Choice CIO of the Year – Dimension Data, Enlighten Designs and Theta Systems
Partner Awards
MSN Advertising Partner of the Year – Winner to be announced at Awards Ceremony MSN Campaign of the Year – Winner to be announced at Awards Ceremony Distributor of the Year – Express Data and Ingram Micro Reseller of the Year – Dimension Data, Gen-i and Lexel Systems Training Solutions Experience of the Year – ACE Training(A), ACE Training(B) and Kinetics Group Online Services Partner of the Year – Kinetics Group, Provoke and Quay Corporate
Supreme Awards
BizSpark Partner of the Year – Contrast Media, GreenButton, Help4U, Pingar Citizenship Solution of the Year – Enlighten Designs, NV Interactive and Provoke Software Exporter of the Year – Agile, GreenButton, SERKO Limited and Vista Entertainment Solutions Small Business Solution of the Year – Fujitsu, Kinetics Group(A) and Kinetics Group(B)