Crestron wins Microsoft Global IoT Partner of the Year award
Crestron has this week accepted the 2018 Microsoft Global Partner of the Year Award for Internet of Things (IoT) in a ceremony at the Microsoft Inspire event in Las Vegas.
Microsoft recognised Crestron for providing solutions in IoT in the form of Crestron XiO Cloud, an IoT-based provisioning and management solution built on the Microsoft Azure platform.
Crestron XiO Cloud is supposedly revolutionising provisioning and management of Crestron's popular open UC, room scheduling, AV, and content sharing solutions at the world's leading companies, resulting in up to 90% reductions in installation time, improvements in device uptime, and optimisation of people, space, and technology.
Powering the digital transformation
As businesses across every industry continue along their digital transformation journey, Crestron IoT enabled automation and control solutions enable facility management and IT staff to control entire environments with a push of a button or click of a mouse, integrating audio, video, digital signage, scheduling, lighting, building management systems (BMS), HVAC and security systems.
The strength of Crestron IoT-enabled devices and systems is their integration in the Crestron XiO Cloud, providing all-in-one monitoring, management and control from a single platform.
"Intelligent workplace solutions are the springboard for digital transformation- but managing the devices that enable it can be costly and complicated.
Crestron XiO Cloud reduces the complexities associated with deploying, tracking, managing and evolving the ecosystem of IoT enabled devices that make communication and collaboration seamless.
Crestron is honoured to be recognised by Microsoft for developing game-changing connected technologies that help propel digital transformation at Fortune 500 companies worldwide," said Ted Colton, Vice President of Unified Communication Strategies at Crestron.
Celebrating partner achievement
The annual Microsoft Partner of the Year awards celebrates top Microsoft partners who demonstrate excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.
Microsoft received more than 2,600 nominations from 115 countries for the 2018 program.
The IoT category was judged by a number of IoT stakeholders and leaders from Microsoft Common Data Service, One Commercial Partner, Windows and Azure.
The judges selected the winners based on their commitment to customers, the solution's impact on the market, and exemplary use of Microsoft technologies.
