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Datasouth dominates Microsoft Partner Awards
Thursday, 24 July 2008Datasouth has been named a finalist in five categories of the upcoming 2008 New Zealand Microsoft Partner Awards, which are due to be announced on the 14th August.
The awards are designed to honour Microsoft Gold, Certified and Small Business Specialist Partners who, over the past year, demonstrated an impressive level of innovation in using Microsoft technologies to deliver excellence to their clients.
“This is the first time Datasouth has submitted nominations for the New Zealand Microsoft Partner Awards, and to be a finalist in each category that was submitted, we are delighted”, comments Craig Gerken, Datasouth General Manager.
“For Datasouth the submission of the nominations was extremely important. We believed that we had been doing some exceptional work, and the Microsoft Partner Awards was an opportunity for us to showcase this and validate against our industry peers.”
“Datasouth has a very close working relationship with Microsoft New Zealand, and through this relationship we have been able to forge exceptionally strong relationships with our clients via the use of Microsoft Technologies that are providing real solutions to our clients’ business issues.”
Datasouth has been named a finalist in the following categories:
Application Platform Solution of the Year — Christchurch ReadyMix Concrete
Leveraging a client’s technology investments to build a flexible, scalable and adaptable solution, this award demonstrates how aligning IT with business goals can empower people to drive a business forward, and how this derived value can be measured and quantified by the client.
Business Productivity Solution of the Year — Mountainview High School, Timaru
This solution helped the client by improving the impact of their people by making it easier to work together, to manage content and find the information needed to improve insight and drive business success.
Citizenship Solution of the Year — Mountainview High School, Timaru
This award is for a project or initiative that delivers exceptional value to the community and helps improve the quality of life of all New Zealanders.
Core Infrastructure Solution of the Year — Advanced Feed, Methven
Server technologies are the heart of any robust and responsive IT environment. In line with the Microsoft Core Infrastructure Optimisation model this award recognises a solution that has delivered results beyond the client’s expectations and helped move the platform forward to deliver business wide transformation.
Small Business Specialist of the Year — Advanced Feed, Methven
This Small Business Specialist exemplifies the commitment and skill required to deliver great solutions to small business clients, and this solution highlights the innovative use of multiple Microsoft technologies to solve the client’s unique business challenge.
Further information via the Microsoft website »
For further information on the client projects that are finalists in the above nominations, please view the following case studies.
About Datasouth
Datasouth is an Information Technology Partner to innovative and leading businesses throughout New Zealand and Australia. Datasouth understands Business Intelligence, Software Development, Network Infrastructure and total System Design and Support.
Datasouth is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with achieved competencies in Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Information Worker Solutions, Licensing Solutions, Mobility Solutions, Networking Infrastructure Solutions, Security Solutions, and Unified Communications Solutions.
Established in 1993, Datasouth is based in Christchurch and maintains offices in Wellington, Auckland, Sydney and Melbourne.
