Microsoft South Africa hosted a virtual Partner Awards event last night to recognise and acknowledge the performance of partners, who have worked through the challenges of the year.
A stand-out partner at the awards was Global Computing and Telecoms, which scooped the MD Partner of the Year award.
Lionel Moyal, commercial partners lead at Microsoft South Africa, comments: “Global Computing and Telecoms understands the importance of focusing equally on technology and people to enable effective digital transformation, and they have built strong capabilities in adoption and change management, as well as training, to ensure that our technologies deliver on the promise of empowering our customers.
“As a participant in our Emerging Partner programme, they demonstrated clarity of purpose, dedication and tenacity with the objective of becoming a leader in deployment and implementation of cloud solutions for our customers.”
Despite being a relatively small organisation, Global Computing and Telecoms attained 13 Gold Competencies and featured in the top 10 South African partner list with the most individuals certified on Microsoft Azure, Modern Work and Security.
Since the last Partner Awards, Microsoft has seen the market change with the acceleration of digital transformation. Partners have demonstrated resilience and innovation, building technologies across the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge that allow organisations to connect, operate and carry on.
Moyal concludes: “As we congratulate this year’s winners and finalists, we acknowledge the displays of agility and creativity from our partners that are helping to reimagine a new world for businesses. We look forward to continued partnerships that build new products and services and support our customers as they become more digitally resilient.”
Partner of the Year award finalists and winners:
| CATEGORY | FINALIST | WINNER |
| MD’s Partner of the Year | Global Computing and Telecoms | |
| ISV Partner of the Year |
|
Nebula |
| New or Emerging ISV Partner of the Year |
|
Boxfusion |
| New or Emerging Services Partner of the Year |
|
Phakamo Tech |
| Modern Workplace Partner of the Year |
|
BUI |
| Security Partner of the Year |
|
BUI |
| Azure Infrastructure Partner of the Year |
|
BUI |
| Data & Analytics Partner of the Year |
|
Altron Karabina |
| Artificial Intelligence Partner of the Year |
|
Mint Group |
| Application Development Innovation Partner of the Year |
|
Tangent Solutions |
| Dynamics Business Applications Service Partner of the Year |
|
Mint Group |
| Dynamics Finance & Operations Partner of the Year |
|
Yellow Professional Services (Pty) Ltd
|
| Business Applications Power Platform Partner of the Year |
|
Mint Group
|
| Retail Partner of the Year |
|
Incredible Connection |
| Commercial Devices Partner of the Year |
|
Mustek |
| Learning Partner of the Year |
|
CTU Training Solutions |
| CSP Indirect Provider of the Year |
|
Tarsus On Demand |
| Commercial Channel Partner of the Year |
|
First Technology (Pty) Ltd |
| Microsoft Consulting Services Partner of the Year |
|
Mint Group |