by Sylvester Addo | Aug 17, 2017 | 4Afrika, Developer, General, Microsoft Africa
Microsoft 4Afrika and Ceridian Mauritius launch 1st AppFactory in Mauritius as part of Smart Apps Internship Program.
The1st AppFactory by Microsoft 4Afrika in Mauritius is in partnership with Ceridian Mauritius under their Smart Apps Internship program. The 4Afrika initiative by Microsoft empowers African youths, businesses and civic leaders to turn great ideas into profitable tools for Africa by Africans. One of such initiatives is the AppFactory. The AppFactory is a Microsoft 4Afrika internship program that empowers local developers and technology entrepreneurs.
1st AppFactory in Mauritius as part of Ceridian Mauritius Smart Apps Internship Program.
by Sylvester Addo | Apr 23, 2017 | General, Microsoft, Microsoft Africa, Microsoft Nigeria, Microsoft South Africa
The Global Azure Bootcamp took place in many cities across the globe. With a number of them happening on the African continent. There were events in Lagos, Cape town, Nairobi, Durban, Johannesburg, Moka and Cairo.
The Global Azure Bootcamp is a days event which takes place in several worldwide venues each year since its inception. Yesterday 22 April 2017 was not different. There were over 250 scheduled events globally. The events are hosted by Microsoft Azure community enthusiasts, experts and Microsoft Valuable Professionals (MVP’s) from the various cities. These community enthusiast and MVP’s teach people with an interest in Microsoft Azure and cloud computing. There are deep dive’s in Microsoft Azure skills and knowhow, etc.
The Lagos event was held at the Microsoft Nigeria office, Civic Towers, Victoria Island. Sharing at this event was Andela developer and recently awarded 2017 Microsoft MVP, Toni Edward Solarin. Topics of discussion ranged from Micro services, Application Insights, Deploying Dot Net core apps on Azure and building Azure web apps.
In Nairobi the story wasn’t any different. The event was held at the Microsoft East Africa office.
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by Sylvester Addo | Jul 21, 2016 | 4Afrika, Events, General, Microsoft Africa, Microsoft Ghana, Microsoft Nigeria
Microsoft held it’s annual Worldwide Partners Conference in Toronto, Canada this month. The event is held yearly to appreciate the efforts of it’s partners in delivering Microsoft Services around the world.
Microsoft Partners in Africa have ben honoured locally and internationally by the Microsoft teams in Africa and Redmond. There was the Worldwide Partners Conference and the Hounouring Our Partners Awards ceremony held in Lagos.
“These partners and their award nominations were truly exceptional, and their accomplishments should be viewed as examples of excellence for every Microsoft partner. Their achievements have enabled clients to perform sufficiently and have given a unique level of autonomy to businesses that was just not possible before,” says Amr Kamel, General Manager (acting) for Microsoft WECA.
Of the many Microsoft Partners around the world 6 of them operating in Africa received recognition. These were honoured as the country Partner of the year at the Worldwide Partner Conference 2016;
- Softnet (Country Partner of The Year – Burkina Faso)
SOFTNET has been working with Microsoft in improving the e-gov project with the EPG team. They also worked with the EPG team in the SIGU project.
- INOVA (Country Partner of The Year – Côte d’Ivoire)
INOVA specialized in software development, system integration, networking infrastructure and Training. INOVA have been a Microsoft Certified Partner and training center (CPLS) since 2004. They are the first gold partner in The Cloud productivity in Cote d’Ivoire.
- Business Connexion Namibia (Pty) Ltd. (Country Partner of The Year – Namibia)
Business Connexion Namibia (Pty) Ltd continuously use Microsoft platform products and solutions to build innovation ICT solutions for their customers. Partners such as Business Connexion play a vital role in growing Microsoft’s footprint in countries such as Namibia through their focus Microsoft approach.
- Signal Alliance (Country Partner of The Year – Nigeria)
Signal Alliance are the most Cloud Competent partner in the ecosystem, accomplishing 1 Gold Cloud and 2 silver competencies this year. In FY16 they displayed a high level of commitment to our Cloud Transformation Journey, which is evident in their performance till date.
- Dimension Data (Country Partner of The Year – Rwanda)
Through consistent and strategic customer Engagement, Dimension Data have been able to “win over Rwanda as a country”. Working together with Microsoft, Dimension Data closed the 1st ever full Cloud banking deal in Rwanda, Bank of Kigali. Dimension Data is currently also engaged in the deployment of Office 365 Edu at the ministry of Education. A large transformative project that will impact millions of students.
- FTF (Country Partner of The Year – Senegal)
FTF is a solutions provider in complementary areas of computing covering cloud services, the design and the implementation of Basic Infrastructure services, infrastructure services supporting productivity, infrastructure services supporting the application platform, security, training, and support.
- Dimension Data (Country Partner of The Year – Tanzania)
Dimension Data has shown key strengths in understanding the Tanzania market therefore selecting strategically which sectors to play in. Dimension Data has been able to achieve significant progress in positioning additional products like share point.
At the Honouring Our Partner Awards ceremony the following companies received awards;
Microsoft West, East and Central Africa (WECA) also rewarded their Microsoft Partners for excellence in specific competencies:
- Techno Brain (Kenya) for application development
- eSolutions Consulting (Ghana) for cloud packaged solutions and education
- Dimension Data Solutions (Kenya) for communications and cloud productivity
- The Cloud Factory EMEA (Mauritius) received the data platform award as well as the data analytics award along with Currimjee Informatics (Mauritius)
- Full Technologies Formations (Senegal) received an award for hybrid cloud and infrastructure
- M-KOPA Solar (Kenya) received the Internet of Things (IoT) award
- ComputerPride (Kenya) got the learning award
- M2M Systems (Kenya) received the small and midmarket cloud solutions award
- Inova Solutions got the Windows and devices deployment award
- Elytis (Mauritius) was named distributor of the Year
- Eclectics International (Kenya) received the Microsoft Dynamics Industry award
- Novabase (Mozambique) received the government award
The Microsoft 4Afrika team received a special award for their contributions in upskilling interns and facilitating the MySkills4Afrika volunteer programme to bring skills from across Microsoft into Africa.
Finally, VeriPark received the General Manager Award for their partnership with Microsoft in developing products that drive great service and meet customers’ business needs.
Source: Microsoft Africa
