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Nihilent wins 2020 Microsoft US partner award for Azure – Internet of things


Johannesburg, 31 Aug 2020

Microsoft announced that Nihilent, a global consulting and services company, has won the 2020 MSUS Partner Award for Azure – Internet of things. The award recognises Nihilent’s leadership in customer impact, solution innovation, deployment and exceptional use of advanced features in Microsoft technologies over the past year and stood out as a model to other US partners.

Nihilent has been a Microsoft Gold Partner for over 15 years and has successfully enabled customers on data analytics initiatives using Microsoft’s Data and Cloud Platform. Besides this award, Nihilent, in the past, has been named the 2019 Power BI Partner of the Year Winner, 2016 Cloud Packaged Solutions Partner of the Year Finalist, and 2011 Business Intelligence Partner of the Year Finalist. Nihilent is dedicated and committed to building innovative solutions with Microsoft on its industry-leading platforms.

The Microsoft US (MSUS) Partner Awards programme focuses specifically on the impact of partners in the US and was created to supplement the Microsoft Partner of the Year programme, which Nihilent was named the Microsoft Power BI Partner of the Year in 2019. Winners of the MSUS Partner Awards programme were officially recognised at this year’s Microsoft Inspire MSUS general session led by Dave Willis, Microsoft Corporate Vice-President, One Commercial Partner on 22 July 2020.

Commenting on the win, LC Singh, Director, and Executive Chairman, Nihilent, said: “This award is an acknowledgement of Nihilent’s dedication towards its customers in their digital transformation journey. This is also a reiteration of Nihilent’s Design Thinking approach to problem-solving and providing a personalised and delightful customer experience which is at the core of everything we do.”

Reflecting on the recognition, Minoo Dastur, Director, President and CEO, Nihilent, said: "We have leveraged Microsoft’s cutting-edge technologies and co-created solutions for diverse industries. Indeed a proud moment for us to receive this award and we will continue to deepen our engagements with Microsoft in the ongoing year and our synergies will only foster more innovative and relevant solutions.”

Prasoon Singh, Vice-President, Customer Advocacy, North America, Nihilent, said: “We are honoured to receive this award and recognition from Microsoft. Nihilent is committed to our collaboration with Microsoft through years of innovation and delivering state-of-the-art solutions and services for our customers, enabling them in their business and digital transformation. We look forward to achieving greater heights in the years to come!”

About Nihilent

Nihilent is a global consulting and services company that uses a human-centered approach for problem-solving and change management. Nihilent’s comprehensive range of expertise in customer research, process and technology enables newer heights of business performance. Nihilent enables customers to realize these strategic goals through its comprehensive Business Consulting, Analytics and Technology offerings.

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