Microsoft Recognizes U.S. Partners with Awards in Dozens of Categories

• Related: Microsoft Names 2018 Partners of the Year

Microsoft on Friday honored 39 partner companies with an inaugural set of MSUS Partner Awards.

"Designed to supplement the Microsoft Partner of the Year program, both award programs use the same nominations and nomination tool; however, the MSUS Partner Award program focuses on US-specific partner impact," according to a blog posted by the Microsoft U.S. Partner Team listing the winners.

The U.S. awards come a few weeks after the release of the annual worldwide Partner of the Year winners list and precede the Microsoft Inspire 2018 conference for partners next month.

As with the worldwide awards, Microsoft is using the U.S. awards to recognize partners who are contributing to the four new business areas that emerged as part of the massive Worldwide Commercial Business reorganization last summer. Those include Modern Workplace, Business Applications, Applications & Infrastructure, and Data & Artificial Intelligence. Each of those business areas has between four and six award categories.

Microsoft also handed out awards for the six vertical industries that, as part of that reorg, were supposed to be strategic: manufacturing, financial services, retail, health, education and government. Additionally, there is a U.S. partner vertical industry award for communications and media.

Other categories recognize partners who made contributions around strategic-for-Microsoft initiatives, including Azure, the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program, co-sell initiatives and the Partner Seller, or P-Seller, program.

The list also names the finalists for Microsoft U.S. Partner of the Year. Icertis was announced as the U.S. Partner of the Year in early June along with all the other country winners, but the new list reveals that Quisitive and 10th Magnitude were finalists for the award.

Here are the 2018 MSUS Partner Award winners:

• App Innovation: Sada Systems
• Datacenter Transformation: 10th Magnitude
• DevOps: Insight BlueMetal
• SAP on Azure: Wharfedale Technologies
• Open Source Applications & Infrastructure on Azure: Cardinal Solutions

• Dynamics 365 for Field Service: eLogic
• Dynamics Customer Service: HCL PowerObjects
• Dynamics for Finance and Operations: Merit Solutions
• Dynamics Sales: Hitachi Solutions
• Platform: Cognizant
• Power BI: Seismic

• Artificial Intelligence: EY
• Modern Data Estate: Neudesic
• Big Data Analytics: BlueGranite
• Internet of Things: Insight

• Communications and Media: Avid
• Education: BrightBytes
• Financial Services: Jack Henry & Associates
• Government: AvePoint
• Health: Jvion
• Manufacturing: PROS Inc.
• Retail: AVA retail

• Intelligent Communications: Enabling Technologies
• Microsoft 365 Powered Device: CDW
• Modern Workplace Transformation: LiveTiles
• Project and Portfolio Management: Cal Net
• Security and Compliance: iCorps
• Teamwork: Managed Solution

• Azure Compete: Catapult
• Indirect Provider: Tech Data
• Partner for Social Impact: AKA Enterprise Solutions
• Partner Seller: Workspot

• Highest CSP Indirect Revenue Growth: Arrow Electronics
• Highest Co-Sell Volume & Growth: Veeam
• Top Go To Market Engagement - Azure Everywhere: Henson Group
• Top Go To Market Engagement - Azure Go Fast: Planet Technologies
• Top Go To Market Engagement - Customer Immersion Experience: New Signature

Posted by Scott Bekker on June 29, 2018