Intervate scoops multiple honours at Microsoft Partner Network Awards 2014 for eighth year running

Johannesburg, 06 Oct 2014

Enterprise Information Management (EIM) solution provider Intervate, a T-Systems company, is proud to announce that it has been recognised with multiple accolades at the 2014 Microsoft Partner Network, Partner of the Year Awards and gala dinner, held at the Inanda Club in Sandton, Johannesburg on 2 October 2014. The annual awards ceremony honours Microsoft partners for delivering innovative solutions that directly address customer challenges.

Intervate won a total of six awards. Including: Collaboration and Content Partner of the Year; Application Development Partner of the Year; Industry Partner of the Year - Public Sector; Industry Partner of the Year - Commercial; and Services Partner of the Year. In recognition of this achievement, the company was also presented with the prestigious Managing Director's Partner Award, the highest accolade awarded at the event.

"The Collaboration and Content Partner of the Year is a highly contested award, and winning it is a high accolade. We are proud to have come out on top in this category for the eighth year in a row, as this is our core line of business. We are also pleased to have walked away with the Application Development Partner of the Year Award - a first for Intervate - as this is a milestone in the transformation of our business to delivering meaningful and impactful solutions that leverage cloud and mobility to transform the user experience. Receiving the Managing Director's Partner Award was an incredible tip of the hat to our team's achievements for the year," says Lionel Moyal, Managing Director of Intervate.

The winners were selected based on their dedication to innovation and use of Microsoft technologies to provide solutions for their customers' needs.

This year's awards were broken down into Business Awards, Competency Awards, Cloud Awards and Application Awards, each of which contained a number of different categories. In each of the various categories, Microsoft partners need to prove their success in winning new customers, driving customer satisfaction, growing the business, showing innovation and enabling people. Intervate achieved awards across the different categories, effectively demonstrating its success as a multi-disciplinary technology focused organisation with a focus on improving the customer experience.

"The way we as consumers interact with the world has been revolutionised by the emergence of apps, but this has not yet filtered through effectively into the enterprise space. Intervate focuses on harnessing technology such as apps and cloud environments to improve productivity and deliver great user experiences in the customer, enterprise or public sector spaces," says Moyal.

The Application Development Partner of the Year acknowledges an app built for the Windows 8 platform that has proven successful at fulfilling Microsoft's awards criteria. Intervate was nominated and awarded based on its groundbreaking Find & Fix app for the Johannesburg Roads Agency, the first of its kind in the whole of the southern hemisphere.

"These awards serve as an acknowledgement that we are delivering value to our customers and our partners. We wish to thank Microsoft as well as other Microsoft partners for fostering a successful ecosystem of collaboration that inspires us to deliver great solutions," Moyal concludes.

Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom is one of the world's leading integrated telecommunications companies with over 142 million mobile customers, 31 million fixed-network lines and more than 17 million broadband lines (as of 31 December 2013). The Group provides fixed network, mobile communications, Internet and IPTV products and services for consumers and ICT solutions for business customers and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in around 50 countries and has approximately 229 000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenues of EUR 60.1 billion in the 2013 financial year - more than half of it outside Germany.

T-Systems

Drawing on a global infrastructure of data centres and networks, T-Systems operates information and communication technology (ICT) systems for multinational corporations and public sector institutions. T-Systems provides integrated solutions for the networked future of business and society. Some 50 000 employees at T-Systems combine industry expertise and ICT innovations to add significant value to the digitization strategies and core business of customers all over the world. T-Systems generated revenue of around EUR9.5 billion in the 2013 financial year.

Since the inception of T-Systems in South Africa in 1997, the company has cemented its position as one of the most successful T-Systems companies outside of Europe. A leading ICT outsourcing service provider locally, T-Systems offers end-to-end ICT solutions in both the ICT Operations and Systems Integration markets. Their extensive portfolio of services covers the vertical, horizontal, IT and TC space. T-Systems South Africa's head office is located in Midrand with another major office in Cape Town, and 20 further representative offices in locations throughout southern Africa.

T-Systems in South Africa:
Head of Marketing & Communications
Lebohang Thokoane
Lebohang.Thokoane@t-systems.co.za
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Intervate

Intervate, a T-Systems business unit in South Africa, is a specialist provider of enterprise information management (EIM) and process automation solutions that improve productivity and collaboration, reduce costs and increase legal compliancy. The company has over 14 years' experience in delivering solutions to enterprise customers in both government and private sectors. Its technical expertise is supported by an understanding of the strategic drivers and challenges relating to EIM. This enables it to provide customers with professional guidance regarding the best practices proven to deliver successful projects and business benefits.

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