Gen-i, Axon dominate among Microsoft award finalists

Several new categories, including business productivity awards, are on the list this year

By Reseller News Staff, Auckland | Friday, 31 July 2009
Large integrators Gen-i and Axon have taken finalist spots in a number of categories in this year's local Microsoft Partner Awards, for which nearly 100 entries were received from more than 30 partner firms.

Gen-i has taken seven finalist places, including Business Productivity: Enterprise Content Management Solution of the Year, Business Productivity: Portals and Collaboration Solution of the Year, Core Infrastructure Solution of the Year and Reseller of the Year. Axon is a finalist in the Business Productivity: Unified Communications Solution of the Year category, Deployment Partner of the Year, and the Partnering Award, and staff members Geoff Clow and Nigel Burn have won places in the Solutions Star of the Year category.

Intergen and Datacom have also taken several finalist spots, while retailer Dick Smith Electronics features in the Reseller of the Year category.

The awards are announced at a cocktail evening in Auckland on 27 August.

“I’m delighted to see a number of partners selected as finalists for the first time, while many of the organisations that were successful in previous years have again performed strongly in 2009," says Microsoft's partner group director Brent Colbert.

The full finalist list is:

Application Platform Solution of the Year
Datacom Systems (Wellington)
Datacraft New Zealand
Provoke Solutions
SQL Services

Business Productivity: Enterprise Content Management Solution of the Year
Enlighten Designs
Gen-i
Intergen

Business Productivity: Portals and Collaboration Solution of the Year
Business Mechanix
Datasouth Business Solutions
Gen-i
IGA Systems

Business Productivity: Unified Communications Solution of the Year
Axon Computer Systems
Maclean Computing

Community Impact Solution of the Year
Complete Solutions
Fronde Systems Group
The Simpl Group

Core Infrastructure Solution of the Year
Axon Computer Systems
Datasouth Business Solutions
Gen-i

Deployment Partner of the Year
Axon Computer Systems
Business Mechanix

Learning Solutions Partner of the Year
Ace Training
Auldhouse

Licensing Star of the Year
Amy Jackson - Gen-i
Jo Meban - Gen-i
Linda Te Maipi - Fujitsu

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Solution of the Year
Gen-i
Magnetism Solutions
Intergen

Microsoft Dynamics ERP Solution of the Year
Fujitsu New Zealand
Eclipse
Intergen

Microsoft Services Ready Partner of the Year
Datacom Systems

Partnering Award
Enlighten Designs and Axon Computer Systems
Koorb Consulting, Sato New Zealand and Flintfox International

Reseller of the Year
Dick Smith Electronics
Gen-i
Lexel Systems

Small Business Specialist of the Year
Datasouth Business Solutions
Kinetics
Quay Corporate

Software Solution of the Year
Agile Software
Intergen
Fronde Systems Group
The Simpl Group

Solutions Star of the Year
Ben Gracewood - Datacom Systems
Geoff Clow - Axon Computer Systems
Lance Garrett - Koorb Consulting
Nigel Burn - Axon Computer Systems