Microsoft Partner Award Winner 2010

Microsoft Partner 2010

Enlighten Designs - Double success at Microsoft Partner Awards

Enlighten Designs have received six finalist positions in the Microsoft New Zealand Partner Awards 2010, which is the highest among all Microsoft partners this year.

The awards won by Enlighten Designs are:

Business Impact Solution of the Year
This award recognises a partner who has helped customers achieve significant cost savings and productivity improvements through the deployment of Microsoft technologies.

Enterprise Content Management Solution of the Year
This award recognises a partner who has created a breakthrough solution which took a customer from the chaos of unstructured data to a world of increased employee productivity.

"To win one Partner Award is an achievement, but to win two is testimony to the world class standards we set ourselves and our on-going commitment to customers. What's more, the industry recognition of all the hard work these awards represent makes the night even sweeter. We'd like to thank Microsoft for the fantastic support."
Damon Kelly CEO, Enlighten Designs.
"We are absolutely rapt Rob McNaughtan won ‘Partners Choice CIO of the Year' - as one of our long-standing customers, it is great to see him awarded for his commitment to gaining a competitive advantage through IT for his company."
Damon Kelly CEO, Enlighten Designs.

Damon believes this award will help the Enlighten Designs gain further recognition as a leader in the industry. It will encourage its staff to keep striving to be the best while continuing to offer customers innovative software solutions and top quality service.

"The Enlighten Designs submission rated highly in all the criteria required. The savings made by the organisation were substantial and clearly increased employee productivity, with an outstanding business impact. The submission, supporting case study and testimonial from key stakeholders demonstrated the innovative thinking, clear strategy and superb execution by Enlighten Designs on this project."
Judge Microsoft New Zealand Awards

Twenty awards were presented this year from four sub-categories - Solution, Individual, Partnering and Supreme. The Partners Choice CIO of the Year, MSN Advertising Partner of the Year and Business Impact Solution of the Year Awards were newly introduced for the 2010 Partner Awards.

"We are thrilled to recognise our partners in these awards. We have over 3,500 partners and this is one way we are able to thank them for the work they do - it is a very exciting evening."
Misti Landtroop Director Small, Midmarket Solutions and Partners Microsoft New Zealand

To read the infonews article on the awards click here

Microsoft Awards 2010
From left to right: Brent Colbert - Microsoft NZ Partner Group Director, Travis Houghton - Enlighten Sales Manager, Damon Kelly - Enlighten CEO, Paul Muckleston - Microsoft NZ Managing Director.

For more information, contact Enlighten on 0800 499 933 or via email on travis@enlighten.co.nz