Microsoft Announces Partner Awards in Advance of Worldwide Partner Conference

Microsoft Corp. has announced the winners and finalists of the 2011 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards. The annual awards honor Microsoft partners for delivering innovative solutions during the previous year that directly address customer challenges.

Award winners and finalists, chosen from nominations from around the world, will be recognized at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2011, July 10-14 in Los Angeles. More than 3,000 entries were submitted by partners from more than 100 countries.

Several award categories were reserved for Microsoft Dynamics-focused resellers and ISVs.  Each category has a winner and two finalists.  Here is a look at some of the Dynamics-related winners:

Microsoft Dynamics Cloud Business Excellence Partner of the Year

• Winner: Zero2Ten Inc., United States
• Finalist: Pareto Platform Inc., United States
• Finalist: Rose Business Solutions/RoseASP Inc., United States

This award was given to Microsoft partners for building a successful cloud practice as well as for exhibiting innovation and results related to selling and delivering Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online or ERP partner hosted offerings. 

Eligible candidates had to prove that they could meet customer demands by: packaging intellectual property (IP) (product and/or services) to create a sustainable annuity stream, driving scale through an accelerated sales motion, establishing branding and constructing a marketing engine optimized for web based activity to support a cloud service, and building a delivery model based on fixed bid, highly repeatable offerings. 

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Solution of the Year

• Winner: proMX GmbH, Germany
• Finalist: ClickDimensions, United States
• Finalist: CWR Mobility, Netherlands

ProMX's proRM 2011 ...