The full list of finalists for Microsoft’s 2010 New Zealand Partner Awards has been announced.
“We have been impressed with the high-calibre of work that our partners have delivered over the past year and these awards give us an opportunity to recognise and reward our partners for the great work they do,” said Brent Colbert, Director, Partner Strategy at Microsoft.
There are 20 awards split into four sub-categories – Solution, Individual, Partnering and Supreme. This year’s ceremony will also feature two new awards; the Partners Choice CIO of the Year Award and Business Impact Solution of the Year Award.
“We felt it was important to expand the scope of the awards this year to demonstrate and celebrate more of the top-quality work produced by the industry,” added Colbert.
The awards will be held in the Great Room at the Langham Hotel, Auckland on August 18th.
2010 Microsoft Partner Awards nominations:
Solution Awards
Application Platform Solution of the Year
Finalists: Datacraft, Datacom, Hewlett Packard
Enterprise Content Management Solution of the Year
Finalists: Datacom, Enlighten Designs, IGA Systems
Portals & Collaboration Solution of the Year
Finalists: Datacom, Enlighten Designs, Intergen
Core Infrastructure Solution of the Year
Finalists: Datasouth (Catholic Diocese of Christchurch), Datasouth (Warren & Mahoney), Lexel Systems
CRM Solution of the Year
Finalists: Business Mechanix, Datacom, Magnetism, Markinson, OA Systems
ERP Solution of the Year
Finalists: Intergen, Koorb Consulting
Small Business Solution of the Year
Finalists: Datasouth, Kinetics (Jenkin Timber), Kinetics (Sistema Plastics), Maclean Computing
Citizenship Solution of the Year
Finalists: Intergen, Provoke
Unified Communications Solution of the Year
Finalist: Integral-Axon
Individual Awards
Solutions Architect of the Year
Finalists: Alex Taylor (Enlighten Designs), Carl Whitehead (Datacom)
Partners Choice CIO of the Year
Finalists: Julia Raue (Air New Zealand), Neville Richardson (Les Mills), Rob McNaughtan (Mighty River Power)
Partnering Awards
Distributor of the Year
Finalists: Express Data, Ingram Micro, NewLease
Learning Solutions Partner of the Year
Finalist: Auldhouse
Reseller of the Year
Finalists: Gen-i, Lexel Systems, NewLease
Online Services Partner of the Year
Finalists: Contrast Media, Provoke
Partnering of the Year Award
Finalists: Enlighten Designs & Integral-Axon (Tau Ora), Enlighten Designs & Integral-Axon (Vodafone), Markinson & App Serv
Supreme Awards
Business Impact Solution of the Year
Finalists: Datacraft, Enlighten Designs, Theta Systems
ISV Solution of the Year
Finalists: Aptimize, Serko Online
Platform Value Partner of the Year
Finalists: Gen-i, Softsource
Each finalist will receive five tickets to the bash. Extra tickets are available for $149 and tickets can be purchased from the Microsoft Partner Awards website.
And just in case you're wondering, where there is only one finalist for a category "this partner will be judged against previous winning submissions in this category".