Microsoft announces Partner of the Year Award Winners and finalists ahead of its annual partner conference, Inspire. Microsoft Inspire 2019 is set to take place July 14-18 in Las Vegas. The award showcases Microsoft partner organization building innovative solutions for their customers leveraging Microsoft technologies. We bring you the Middle East winners in this post. Click to check out Africa partner winners.
“Virtually every entry we received showcased something remarkable” says Gavriella Schuster, Microsoft Corporate Vice President, One Commercial Partner. This year they received 2900 nominations from 115 countries. Winners were selected in 41 Partner of the year categories and country partner of the year category.
“We’re thrilled to celebrate the finalists and winners of the Microsoft 2019 Partner of the Year Awards. These companies are industry leaders helping businesses around the world connect and achieve more. I’m truly amazed by each winner and finalist, and I am honored to highlight the incredible work they are doing.” – Gavriella Schuster
2019 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Middle East Winners
Israel Partner of the Year U-BTech Solutions
Jordan Partner of the Year Optimiza
Lebanon Partner of the Year Exquitech
Oman Partner of the Year Bahwan IT LLC
Pakistan Partner of the Year Maison Consulting & Solutions
Qatar Partner of the Year Information & Communication Technology W.L.L
Microsoft announces its 2019 Partner of the Year Award Winners and finalists from about 3000 nominations from 115 countries. We bring you winning African partner organization building new and innovative solutions for customers using Microsoft technologies. These winners will be recognized in July at Microsoft Inspire 2019, set to take place July 14-18 in Las Vegas.
There are fewer African country winners compared to 2018. This year saw eight Microsoft partner organizations in Africa winning compared to nine the previous year. It also had the same companies retaining winning country partner positions. Senegal didn’t record any partner winner this year.
Kenya Partner, winner in Global award category
Cloud Productivity Solutions Limited, Kenya are the only winners in any of the global award categories. They won the global category for Teamwork. Cloud Productivity Solutions Limited are also winners in the country partner of the year category. Microsoft says they focused on helping customers realize the broad power of communication and collaboration. Delivering Office 365 services that let customers take advantage of Microsoft Teams to manage employee collaboration across files, chat and meetings, automated business processes, etc.
“We’re thrilled to celebrate the finalists and winners of the Microsoft 2019 Partner of the Year Awards. These companies are industry leaders helping businesses around the world connect and achieve more. I’m truly amazed by each winner and finalist, and I am honored to highlight the incredible work they are doing.”
– Gavriella Schuster, Microsoft Corporate Vice President, One Commercial Partner
Meet the 2019 Microsoft Partner of the Year Africa Award Winners country category
Côte d’Ivoire Partner of the Year INOVA Consulting Services
Egypt Partner of the Year HITS Technologies
Kenya Partner of the Year Cloud Productivity Solutions Limited
Morocco Partner of the Year CASANET
Namibia Partner of the Year Salt Essential IT
South Africa Partner of the Year Mint Management Technologies
Tunisia Partner of the Year Neoledge
Uganda Partner of the Year Britehouse / Dimension Data
Nigeria Partner of the Year Wragby Business Solutions and Technologies Ltd
The first Campus Connect Summit, A Microsoft Education Partner Summit takes place in Nairobi.
Microsoft hosted a 2 day education partner summit in Nairobi at the Villa Rosa kempinski hotel. The event brought together over a hundred Microsoft education partners, educators and from across the country.
Preparing graduates for 21st Century panel discussion led by (from Left) Michael Rasugu with panelist Audrey Cheng, Henry Hickman, Nancy Mokua and Sebuh Haileleul.
Conversations of the day higned on the theme; Digital Transformation in Higher Education – Future Trends and Best Practices. Through panel discussions and keynotes that explored Microsoft’s technologies enabling digital transformation in Education. Including Other Microsoft Education Partner solutions addressing challenges in Higher Education.
Claudia Johnston, Microsoft Education Sector Enterprise Channel Manager, Sub Saharan Africa speaking at event.
Sharing on Microsoft’s Vision in Education was Simon Ouattara, Education Lead MEA Multi Cluster Countries. He said “At Microsoft we have made a commitment to impart digital skills to 10 million youth across MEA in the next three years”.
The event saw Microsoft highlighting products like Microsoft Azure, LinkedIn and Microsoft 365.
Microsoft hosts event to celebrate partner achievement in South Africa.
The award event set aside each year recognizes the contributions of the Microsoft partner community. The community that enable and empower Microsoft’s customers do more.
Microsoft South Africa Managing Director, Zoaib Hoosen, speaking at the award ceremony said “Our partners are the lifeblood of our business. Bringing our platforms and solution areas to life and enabling the success of our customers”.
He reiterated words from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, from the Inspire 2018 partner event. “What binds us together is not our success, but the success our customers achieve”.
Zoaib Hoosen told partners they met their fiscal year 2018 targets as was also shared during the Microsoft Partner CEO Forum in Accra. Where Ibrahim Youssry said Microsoft recorded a record growth in Africa for the first time.
Here are the partners who were adjudged the best in the solutions and services they offer:
Microsoft South Africa FY18 Partner Award 2018 Winners
Managing Director’s partner of the Year
Winner : Mint Management Technologies
Cloud Solution Provider of the Year Tarsus On Demand
Licensing Solution Partner of the Year Dimension Data – Britehouse Group
Cloud Solution Reseller of the Year First Technology Group
Dynamics Customer Relationship Management Partner of the Year Mint Management Technologies
Dynamics Enterprise Resource Planning Partner of the Year Karabina Business Technology Solutions
Data, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Partner of the Year Karabina Business Technology Solutions
Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Platform Partner of the Year AccTech Systems
Industry Application Development Partner of the Year Karabina Business Technology Solutions
Modern Workplace Partner of the Year Mint Mangement Technologies
Microsoft Software Asset Management Partner of the Year First Technology group
IP Co-Sell Partner of the Year Ascent Technology
Microsoft Retail Partner of the Year Incredible Connection
Microsoft Intelligent Edge Device Partner of the Year Mustek
Best New Practice Partner Ascent Technology
Best Go-To-Market Execution Partner of the Year Award Xcontent Business Solutions
Consumer Distributor & Sub Distributor of the Year Axiz
Microsoft meets with Partners in Ghana at Partner CEO Forum to share Vision and Strategy
Microsoft hosts Partner CEO Forum event to show support and commitment to its business ecosystem in Ghana. This was evident with the high level representation of the Microsoft team in the room. From the General Manger Middle East and Africa Regional Multi Country Cluster, Ghana Country Manager and Partner Technical managers. As shared by Damola Solanke, Public Sector Sales Lead, it had been a long time since Microsoft spent time with partners in the country.
MCC CMO Enterprise Lead, Edmond Idoko getting the sessions underway said “We are here to show Support and commitment to our partners“.
Microsoft is committed to the success of our partner ecosystem. – Ibrahim Youssry
Our Success is to make you successful. It is a different mindset. – Ibrahim Youssry
For Ibrahim it was a pleasure to be in Ghana meeting with partners. Microsoft’s new subsidiary MCC covers 67 countries across Africa and the Middle East with a focus on enterprise business. Microsoft doesn’t have presence in all these 67 countries. He said our focus directionally behind the MCC is to leverage our partner ecosystem to drive their businesses so we scale our purpose.
“Microsoft wants to provide partners with much more assistance and support. With the new model Microsoft is committed to the success of our partner ecosystem. Our success comes with success to our partner ecosystem. To make you successful driving Microsoft business or your business on our technologies. It is a different mindset.” – Ibrahim Youssry
Ibrahim also shared that for the first time in Microsoft’s history in Africa it recorded an 18% growth.
Partners meet Ghana Country Manager at Partner CEO Forum
It is the value we can add to your organization. – Akin Banuso, Country manager Nigeria and Ghana
Partners were introduced to new Country Manager under the new MCC model Akin Banuso. Akin Banuso, Country manager for Nigeria and Ghana told partners “The future is bright”.
“In Ghana we want partners that are committed. Partners that will talk to customers about the solutions that really matter to them”. For Microsoft he said “it is the value we can add to your organization. The idea is we are going to scale through partners.”
Partners are the growth engine for Microsoft and Microsoft is the engine for partners.
– Ola Williams, Partner Technology Manager MCC
Microsoft MCC Partner Technology Manager Ola Williams told partners without you our partners, we can’t be successful. The new model is a desire to scale through partners across most of our markets. She mentioned Microsoft has made significant investments in new resources with capabilities to help partners achieve aim. The aim to jointly help customers in their digital transformation journey.
She iterated partners are the growth engine for Microsoft and Microsoft is the engine for partners. We want to scale through partners. We are investing to help partners and customers.
The whole conversation from speaker to speaker was on how Microsoft together with partners can achieve growth together.
