Cape Town-based Space Age Technologies (SAT) and Johannesburg-based Netsurit have walked away from the Microsoft Global Partner Awards 2007 as winners in their respective categories.
SAT won the networking infrastructure solutions partner of the year award and Netsurit scooped the award in the Linux/LAMP category.
The awards - which were presented in Denver on Wednesday evening - comprised about 40 categories, with companies from around the world competing. Four South African firms (the others were i5 and BUI) made the short-list.
"We're very proud to be seen as one of Microsoft's top partners worldwide. This year, we've seen software sales grow almost 550% - which shows our participation in Microsoft's partner programme has produced significant benefits," explains Tom Bramwell-Jones, marketing manager at Netsurit.
"Our client is the fastest-growing instant messaging company in the country, and is expanding rapidly into international markets. We were able to show them that Microsoft was the logical choice to handle this exceptional growth and increasing complexity," says Bramwell-Jones.
The end-result was Netsurit's largest software deal and one of Microsoft's largest "wins" in SA, he adds.
Next frontier
Mark Geschke, MD of SAT, said: "It feels awesome to be recognised as a company of international calibre."
SAT entered the awards last year, but did not even make the short-list, Geschke adds. "This year has seen a more visible drive towards achieving our goals. It's an articulation of our vision to provide enterprise-class IT services to small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
"The SME market is the next big frontier in the IT market - but it is difficult to achieve success there."
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