Microsoft Sri Lanka hosted the who’s who of the IT industry to a grand event held at Waters Edge, Battaramulla, where it recognized the achievements of its best performing partners of 2015. 

The Partner Awards, which is an annual event, is a platform that brings together and recognizes the contribution, dedication and commitment from Microsoft Sri Lanka’s partners.

Microsoft has changed the IT landscape for local enterprise both large and small as well as individual users since its beginnings in the country back in 2004. It is therefore, significant that this year’s Partner Awards was held just a day after the software company launched its signature Office 2016 in Sri Lanka and around the world combining it with the official local launch of its best yet operating system Windows 10, which had its world debut in July this year.   

In a Cloud First Mobile First world, Microsoft has made it its mission to provide more people-centric technology, in order to ‘empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more’. 

Microsoft General Manager New Markets South East Asia Michelle Simmons addressing the local partners said that it was this mission that drives the company strategy. “Microsoft’s strategy is to build best-in-class platforms and productivity services for a mobile-first, cloud-first world and with our new offerings we have come closer to our ultimate goal. We will continue to build our intelligent cloud platform to increase productivity and business processes and we are excited to see the business growth you, our partners, have already achieved with our cloud services. We will continue to create more personal computing experiences that help every individual to do and achieve more and we are sure you are eager to take these new innovations to market.”

This year, 17 industry stalwarts won awards for their engagement with Microsoft Sri Lanka in different categories. Best Office 365 partner in Enterprise was H-One whilst ZILLIONe Technologies won Best Office 365 Partner in the SMB sector. ZILLIONe also won Best Large Account Reseller of the year bagging the highest number of awards for the night. MS Technologies walked away with two awards for Best Partner in Public Sector and Best Managed Partner of the Year.  

Tech One Global won two awards for Best Distributor and Best ‘Attached at Source’ COEM Distributor for the Year. The Best ‘Attached at Source’ Named Partner was EWIS Colombo Limited and Best ‘Attached at Source’ COEM & FPP Partner was Barclays Computers; E-W Information Systems won Best Partner in Education. Softlogic Trading was the Best Reseller of the Year, IronOne Technologies, Best ISV Solution Partner; Enhanzer won the Best Start-up Solution/App of the Year and Jinasena Infotech was named the Best Dynamics Partner. Maxcom Technologies won the award for Best Partner in the Maldives.

The giving away of two special recognition awards concluded the awards ceremony.  Millennium Information Technologies (Pvt.) Ltd, which was the Country Partner award winner at Microsoft’s Global Partner Conference, held earlier this year won the Best Azure Solution Partner, while N-ABLE (Pvt.) Ltd was awarded for being the Best Enterprise Mobility Suite Solution Partner of the Year. 

Country Manager Microsoft Sri Lanka and Maldives Brian Kealey congratulated the winners, thanking all partners for their contribution and reemphasizing the important role they played in the company’s success.