Westcon Southern Africa has been awarded Microsoft’s Top MEA Distributor in Reach Growth for Hosting at the recent Microsoft MEA SPLAR Awards 2014 hosted in Istanbul, Turkey.
The award recognises the efforts made by the local team’s Software Solutions division, which has managed to consistently grow the hosting side of its Microsoft business, achieving a staggering 98% growth over the last year. Matt Haynes, World Wide Strategic Programs Director for Hosting at Microsoft and Karim Kalaawi MEA hosting director at Microsoft, presented the award to the local team.
“We are delighted to be bringing this award home to a well deserved local SPLA team who consistently pour everything into growing the hosted software side of our Microsoft business,” says Leane Hannigan, Software Solutions director at Westcon Southern Africa.
As an official distributor of Microsoft’s Services Provider Licence Agreement (SPLA) solutions, Westcon’s customers have access to the vendor’s Web hosting, hosted applications, messaging, collaboration and platform infrastructure offerings. What’s more is that they are able to offer these as a customised service with a flexible cost structure, that has no startup costs.