Microsoft South Africa recently announced the winners at Microsoft African Partner Summit (MAPS) 2002, a gathering of all Microsoft`s partners that was held from 14 to 17 August 2002 at Sun City. The nominees were judged according to set criteria that included strategic value, revenue impact, reference ability and customer satisfaction, which was based primarily on customer feedback.
Gordon Frazer, Managing Director at Microsoft South Africa, says: "It was encouraging to see the level of expertise at the African partner summit and more particularly the progress our partners make year-on-year. The Microsoft Partner Awards give us the opportunity to recognise and award partners who have delivered excellent customer solutions. We will continue our customer-centric approach with all our partners and look forward to what the next African partner summit has to offer."
Categories, nominees and winners included the following:
System Integrator of the Year: Accenture
Nominees: Dimension Data, Accenture, Siemens Business Services, AST and Business Connexion
Independent Software Vendor of the Year: Sourcecode
Nominees: Syspro, Sourcecode, Intervate and Ultimate Connection
Development Partner of the Year: Accenture
Nominees: 3fifteen, Aqua Online, nVisionIT and Accenture Technology Solutions
.NET Solution of the Year: nVisionIT
Nominees: nVisionIT, Aqua Online, 3fifteen, Greenjar Solutions, Siemens Business Systems, Dimension Data and AST
Gold Partner of the Year: Business Connexion
Nominees: Netscope, Business Connexion, Siemens Business Services, Dimension Data, Intervate, Solit, Oakwell and Integr8 IT
CTEC of the Year: Netscope
Nominees: Netscope, Torque IT, CS Education and Inobits
Distributor of the Year: Finished Goods: Comztek; OEM: Mustek
Nominees for OEM System Builder Distributor: Mustek and Aziz
Nominees for Finished Goods Distributor: Comztec and Workgroup
Mid-Market Infrastructure Integrator of the Year: Intergr8 IT
Nominees: Intergr8 IT, Artec and Network Alliance
Anti-Piracy Advocate of the Year: First Technology Cape Town
Nominees: First Technology, Cape Town and Galdon, Johannesburg
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