Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards honor Dynamics and Power Platform wins and solution advances

Microsoft announced their annual Partner of the Year awards this week, covering the company's major technology and business focus areas, both globally and at the country level. Awards span Azure, business applications, industries, Modern Work, security, social impact, and business transformation, with winners and finalists identified for each.

In the Business Applications global awards, US-based firms took home the most awards, including double wins for both Accenture-Avanade and Hitachi Solutions. Business intelligence winner 3Cloud noted their wins for BI projects with global clients that incorporated Azure Data Factory, SQL, Data Lake, Synapse, Power BI, Power Platform, and more. Microsoft noted the firm's success in "driving customers to Azure Data and Power BI" thanks to their methodology, scripts, and analytics playbook.

Business Central winner Abakion, based in Denmark, were recognized for their success in reducing implementation times through their templates and apps. Microsoft also noted their investment in training development and pre-built integrations and applications that reduces Business Central deployment times.

Netherlands-based HSO, the Dynamics 365 Finance winner, also uses a rapid implementation model that they say can be delivered in 8 weeks for manufacturing scenarios.