Distinctions include One Worldwide Award, Two U.S. Countrywide
Awards, Three U.S. Regional Awards and Two U.S. District Awards
Dell Services received eight
Microsoft “Partner of the Year” Awards at the 2012 Microsoft Worldwide
Partner Conference (WPC) in Toronto last week. The company was honored
for providing outstanding services, demonstrating excellence in
innovation and the implementation of global customer solutions based on
Microsoft technologies.
In the worldwide award categories, Dell was honored among a global field
of 3,000 top Microsoft partners as Public Sector Education Partner of
the Year for the Dell Education
Data Management Solution. This award recognizes excellence in
providing innovative and unique services or solutions based on Microsoft
technologies to education customers. Dell was also a Finalist for two
additional worldwide awards – the Worldwide Desktop Partner of the
Year for innovative Windows 7 deployment solutions and Worldwide Content
Management Partner of the Year for SharePoint-based web content
management solutions.
In the U.S. market, Dell received two country-wide awards: the Microsoft
Windows business team honored Dell as the Windows Deployment Partner
of the Year and Microsoft Consulting Services honored Dell as the Services
Alliance Partner of the Year.
Also in the U.S., Dell received the highest award in each of Microsoft’s
three regions (West, Central and East) with the Enterprise Alliance
Partner of the Year awards. These awards recognize the partner that
exemplified the overall “best in class” characteristics tied to revenue,
marketing, ROI, customer satisfaction and loyalty, and has displayed
significant innovation, commitment and overall teaming.
Finally, in the Mid-Atlantic States district, Dell was recognized with
two awards. The Dynamics CRM Partner of the Year award recognized
Dell for working innovatively to produce exceptional results across its
Microsoft Dynamics practice. Additionally, Dell was recognized as the Virtual
Technical Sales Professional (VTSP) Partner of the Year in this
region for advanced Microsoft specialization and a VTSP practice that
has demonstrated technical leadership and driven significant impact for
customers.
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“Microsoft is pleased to recognize Dell’s commitment to education
customers within the public sector by awarding Education Partner of the
Year,” said Laura Ipsen, corporate vice president, Worldwide Public
Sector, Microsoft Corporation. “We are recognizing Dell because of
its dedication to education and commitment to building solutions that
serve the education community, such as the Education Data Management
solution (EDM). As an integrated information management system for
educational institutions, EDM transforms high-quality data into
actionable knowledge that can be used to improve educational outcomes
and track student information over multiple years (PK-20), across
multiple schools, between organizations, and even into the workforce.”
“The global stage at WPC is ideally suited for recognizing this
outstanding caliber of partners with Microsoft’s 2012 Field Partner
Awards,” said Jack Braman, vice president, East Region Small and
Midmarket Solutions and Partners, Microsoft Corporation. “These
partners have served their customers with such incredible focus,
passion, and ingenuity this past fiscal year that we want to share how
extraordinary they are.”
“Dell and Microsoft have a successful history of working together to
deliver world-class information technology solutions that help our
customers grow and thrive. Dell and Microsoft have never been so aligned
and we are greatly honored to be recognized for our collaboration with
Microsoft to deliver end-to-end offerings for our customers across
vertical markets,” said Kevin Jones, vice president, Dell Services.
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