3fifteen has been chosen as Microsoft South Africa's first Digital Marketing Partner of the Year in the annual Microsoft Partner Awards for 2011.
The award recognises the Microsoft business partner that has excelled in creating business solutions for its customers based on Microsoft SharePoint for Internet Sites (FIS), Microsoft FAST Search Server technology and the Microsoft Silverlight browser plug-in.
During the year, 3fifteen used Microsoft SharePoint 2010 to create innovative Web properties for six blue-chip companies across industries as diverse as local government, finance, retail and hospitality. It also helped a number of existing customers in the academic, financial services and academic sectors to revamp their Microsoft Share Point 2007 sites.
Says Vanessa Black, e-business development manager at 3fifteen: “The Digital Marketing Partner of the Year Award highlights the depth and richness of our expertise in Microsoft's Sharepoint platform. It confirms that we hold ourselves to rigorous standards in terms of our project delivery and post project support.
“We appreciate the support of all the customers who asked us to help them build solutions based on this technology during the course of the past year, and gave us the opportunity to shine. We also thank Microsoft for its support throughout the years.”
3fifteen has been nominated for and won numerous awards at the annual Microsoft Partner Awards since it was established. This award reconfirms 3fifteen's position as one of the country's leading Microsoft Gold partners, gauged across areas such as its skills base and ability to innovate.
The Microsoft Partner Network Awards are highly regarded by Microsoft and its partners, and hold winners and finalists to extremely high standards. The criteria for each award is divided into six criteria areas: winning new customers, driving customer satisfaction, growing the business, innovation, enabling people and bonus factors.
3fifteen was also a finalist in the Business Intelligence and Software Application Development Partner of the Year categories for 2011.
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Local Microsoft development powerhouse, 3fifteen, is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and has competencies that include information worker (collaboration, portals and enterprise content management), business intelligence, data management, SOA and business process, customised application development and Microsoft business solutions specialising in customer relationship management (CRM).
The company is 57% owned by Britehouse and 43% owned by its management team. Britehouse is in turn 40% owned by Dimension Data; 30% owned by a BEE consortium (made up of Convergence Partners and Safika Holdings); and 30% owned by Venfin, ensuring that 3fifteen in turn has strong BEE credentials.
3fifteen considers its sound understanding of the entire software development life cycle, its multi-disciplined skills base, innovative customer engagement models, strong adherence to deadlines, costs and quality, as well as its ability to play a role across an entire software project's life cycle as key tenets that set it apart from its peers in the market.
For more information, go to: http://www.3fifteen.co.za.
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