Microsoft Malta launches new awards

The five awards namely Partner of the Year Award, Innovation in the Enterprise Award, Partner in SMB Award, Retail Partner of the Year Award and Sales Person of the Year Award were announced by Adrianna Zammit, Country Manager of Microsoft Malta during a networking meeting hosted at Palazzo De Piro in Mdina. Zammit said "Microsoft Malta is committed to nurture the ongoing strong synergies that already exist with local partners who like Microsoft, believe that today's technology has the power to transform lives for the better. We help our clients get better business results, by helping them to gather better data and turn it into better insight, for them to take advantage of new opportunities in media and technology, enabling them to thrive and support a healthy software ecosystem."

Referring to Microsoft Malta's local operations, Zammit noted how many business organisations still do not realize the full potential of their IT platform and that much of this potential is still untapped.

One of Microsoft Malta's main priorities is cloud technology. In this regard, we are currently focusing on four main strategic solutions namely virtualisation, customer relationship management, unified communications and hosted cloud services. Microsoft is also engaging in a number of activities through an awareness campaign that seeks to highlight the risks of mis-licensed software whilst promoting the importance of adopting genuine software.

Systec won the Partner of the Year Award for year on year growth over 2 consecutive years in terms of Microsoft related revenue, across various Microsoft business segments and for its strategic partnership engagement with Microsoft Malta on virtualization technology.

The Innovation in Enterprise Award went to APS Bank's IT team in recognition for the successful delivery of 3 key projects focused on helping the bank create exceptional customer experiences and simplifing internal business processes.

Kinetix was awarded with the Partner in SMB Award for a number of Core Infrastructure Optimisation initiatives with their existing SMB customers, upgrading them to up-to-date and introducing newer technologies such as Microsoft virtualization in SMBs.

The Sales Person of the Year Award went to Reuben Caruana for continuously communicating Microsoft's core value messages throughout his communication with customers whereas the Retail Partner Award went to Forestals based on the company's drive and commitment to completing an array of Microsoft Licencing training as well as placing increased importance on the Sales Development of its Retail Sales People.