Australian Partner Conference Awards - Final chance !
Please note that the closing date for submissions for awards for Australian Partner Conference is:
THIS FRIDAY - 27th !!
Click here for the submission tool: https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/40043064
So please do take a moment to submit your solutions and great customer stories for this prestigious award.
As a reminder, here are the categories:
Custom Development Solutions, Application Infrastructure Development
The Custom Development Solutions (CDS) Award recognises exceptional, innovative partners who focus on the development of customised solutions, web solutions, and tools built on Microsoft technologies leveraging the Visual Studio family of development tools. Specifically, custom development partners may deliver highly customised solutions to support customer unique business practices, deliver one-off enhancements that allow customers to integrate existing systems with new technologies, or develop extensions to existing Microsoft solutions that the customer may already employ. All partners who develop customised solutions for customers using Visual Studio should consider applying for this award. Our desire is to honour partners who are serving unique customer needs by developing on and with Microsoft technologies and solutions in the areas of application infrastructure development, smart client development and Web development
Data Management Solutions, Database Management
The Data Management Solutions, Database Management award recognises exceptional partners who support customers with their mission critical applications. Showcase how SQL Server 2005 reduced application downtime, increased scalability and performance, and tightened security controls. This award is open to partners who have a Database Management Specialisation under the Data Management Solutions (DMS) Competency.
Licensing Solutions, Software Asset Management
The Licensing Solutions, Software Asset Management award recognises partners who consistently seek to improve their SAM solutions and services, and provide ongoing attention to customer service excellence. Successful entries will include descriptions of innovative solutions, services and/or marketing strategies used to provide outstanding service, as well as achieved results and appropriate customer supporting evidence.
Mobility Solutions
The Mobility Solutions award is designed to provide recognition for partners who specialise in developing, deploying, supporting and marketing software solutions and / or services based on Microsoft Windows Mobile technologies. Companies and organisations worldwide are implementing mobile business solutions to accelerate business cycles, increase productivity, reduce operating costs, and extend their business infrastructure. Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), System Integrators (SIs), VARs and related Services partners are utilising this unique opportunity and very effectively developing, deploying, and supporting breakthrough mobility solutions.
Business Process and Integration Solutions
The Business Process and Integration Solutions - - award recognises best practices for selling and deploying business process management (BPM) and integration solutions. This award is intended for system integrators, solution and service providers, and software developers that concentrate on service oriented architectures (SOA), enterprise application integration (EAI), business-to-business application integration (B2B), business process management (BPM), and adapter development using Microsoft BizTalk Server and may include other Microsoft technologies such as Windows Communications Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation.
MBS Microsoft Dynamics AX
The MBS Microsoft Dynamics AX award recognises partners who demonstrate excellence in delivering value to our mutual customers. These partners are champions in delivering solutions to delight customers and drive business productivity. They consistently exceed customer expectations and have earned great loyalty from their customers. The winner demonstrates leadership within the Microsoft Dynamics AX Partner community in terms of adding new customers, driving revenue growth and contributing to the overall success of the Microsoft Partner community.
MBS Microsoft Dynamics CRM
The MBS Microsoft Dynamics CRM award recognises partners who have exhibited unsurpassed leadership in providing Microsoft CRM solutions to customers. The winner is a true champion of the Microsoft Dynamics value proposition. They provide consistent, quality and predictable service to Microsoft CRM customers to ensure immediate benefits out of CRM investments. They also demonstrate business leadership through aggressive demand generation, nurture marketing, new customer additions, and revenue growth.
MBS Microsoft Dynamics NAV Solutions
The MBS Microsoft Dynamics NAV award recognises partners who have exhibited unsurpassed leadership in providing Microsoft Dynamics NAV solutions to customers. They are true champions of financial management, supply chain management and/or customer relationship management solutions whose energy, persistence, and integrity have allowed us to strengthen our leadership across multiple verticals and geographies. They provide consistent, quality and predictable service to Microsoft Dynamics NAV customers to ensure immediate benefits out of Dynamics NAV investments. The winner demonstrates business leadership through aggressive demand generation, nurture marketing, new customer additions, total revenue and revenue growth.
MBS Microsoft Dynamics GP
The MBS Microsoft Dynamics GP Partner award recognises a Partner who demonstrates excellence in delivering value to our mutual customers. This Partner is a champion in delivering solutions to delight their customers and drive their business productivity. They consistently exceed customer expectations and have earned great loyalty from their customers. This Partner demonstrates leadership within the Microsoft Dynamics GP Partner community in terms of adding new customers, driving revenue growth and contributing to the overall success of the Partner community.
Microsoft ISV/Software Solutions
The ISV/Software Solutions Partner Award recognises the ISV Competency partner who excels at developing and delivering “People Ready” packaged software to customers. The software solution(s) must work together with one or more of latest server based platforms from Microsoft and middleware products including SQL Server 2006, Windows Server 2003, BizTalk 2006, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Business Solutions (all products and versions) and Exchange Server 2007. The solution must also be built utilising Microsoft .NET development framework(s) and tools including Visual Studio 2005. A qualified “People Ready” software solution will help customers make better informed decisions and facilitate effective collaboration with colleagues, customers and partners. Companies applying for this award should also have demonstrated effective partnering with Microsoft by utilising Microsoft Partner Program benefits and/or engaging with Microsoft to develop, create demand for, and sell its software.
Microsoft Learning Solutions
The Learning Solutions Award recognise partners’ commitment and ability to deliver high quality learning services using a consultative engagement model. It also validates the impact skills assessment; technical training, student mentoring, and Microsoft Certified Professional exam preparation have on customer satisfaction, and the application of Microsoft technology to solve business problems.
Microsoft Small Business Specialist
The Small Business Specialist Award honours those partners who are using Microsoft technology to deploy innovative small business solutions. This award is only for partners actively enrolled in the Microsoft Small Business Specialist Community. Small Business Specialists serve all customer types and sizes. However, the purpose of this award is demonstrating innovation for deploying a small business Microsoft-based solution (fewer than 50 employees or fewer than 25 PCs). Key Microsoft products in the small business solutions stack include Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office Accounting 2007, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Microsoft Small Business Financials. Submissions should focus on how the partner provides ways for a small business to better connect with customers, partners and employees, to manage business processes productively and to reply on dependable, flexible and secure software.
Microsoft Information Worker Solutions
The Information Worker Solutions award recognises exceptional partners who have excelled in offering breakthrough Microsoft Office system solutions. Have your technology and marketing offerings increased your customers' workforce productivity, enabling teams to work more effectively across boundaries with partners and customers? Has your innovative thinking helped to solve a technical challenge or helped to address your customers' business needs and empower their people? Submit your solution and showcase the unique and positive impact you have had on your customers' business pain points through your expertise in the Information Worker Solutions Competency.
Information Worker – Unified Communications
The Information Worker - Microsoft Unified Communications and Collaboration award recognises partners who have improved customer workforce productivity, and enabled teams to work more effectively, through the use of Microsoft technologies. These technologies include, but are not limited to, Unified Messaging, Live Meeting, and federation and telephony integration through Live Communications Server.
Microsoft Networking Infrastructure Solution
The Networking Infrastructure Solutions award honours partners who have infrastructure practices with proven proficiency in implementing solutions based on the Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 or Windows Server 2003 Operating Systems. This award also recognise partners with innovative services-based solutions that help small and midsize customers realise their potential by providing operational efficiencies with the help of Windows Server and other related infrastructure technologies. Have you provided these companies with technology solutions that have resulted in core infrastructure transformation? Whether this was their first server or it was a migration from competitive or legacy systems, did you help them build a strong infrastructure foundation layer that supports their business goals? If yes, submit your solution and showcase how you have uniquely and positively impacted customers by solving tough business pain points.
Microsoft Security Solutions, Infrastructure Security
The Security Solutions, Infrastructure Security award recognises exceptional partners who have demonstrated expertise in providing services focusing on developing security strategies, governance, policies, procedures, risk assessments, and risk management, while providing overall security management services Submit your solution and showcase the unique and positive impact you have had on your customers’ business pain points through your expertise in the Security Solutions Competency.
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Anonymous
July 23, 2007
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July 24, 2007
Looking at Nick's blog , I noticed this deadline to submit your award for the Australia Partner ConferenceAnonymous
July 24, 2007
My APC gadget says it's 35 days until the APC. Looking at Nick's blog , I noticed this deadline