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The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards celebrate the incredible impact our partners make by driving innovation and delivering customer success with Microsoft solutions. From AI to security, sustainability to industry transformation—this is your chance to be recognized! 🌍🏆 📅 Nominations open on June 18, 2025. Mark your calendars and get ready to showcase your achievements! Guidelines will be published this spring to allow plenty of time to plan your submissions ahead of nominations being accepted. We will also be hosting a LIVE AMA (Ask Me Anything) event here in the future. Join to ask your questions of the POTYA team in real time! Stay tuned for more details coming soon. In the meantime, you can review our 2024 winners on the POTYA homepage1.2KViews5likes5CommentsUpdates to the Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards! 🏆
The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards acknowledge outstanding successes and innovations by partners in over 100 countries and in a wide variety of categories and industries, including cloud to edge technologies, entrepreneurial spirit and social impact. In 2025 we’re shifting the awards timeline to later in the calendar year to give our partners more time to showcase their innovations and achievements. Watch this space for more updates on nomination details coming later this spring and mark your calendars to celebrate the winners and finalists during Microsoft Ignite. Thanks to all the partners who submitted nominations for this year's awards! Explore the winners and finalists now. Meet the 2024 Partner of the Year Award winners883Views5likes5CommentsPartner Case Study | EY redefines sustainability performance management with Microsoft
July 11, 2024 Organizations around the world are under pressure to make their operations more sustainable, but a sustainable business transformation is a complex process. First, it requires a multitude of views into a company's data; then, the analytics prowess to drive decision-making; and finally, a solution to combine fragmented processes into one manageable roadmap. Businesses need a strong partner with the technical expertise to simplify a complicated transformation journey. EY, winner of the 2024 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award for Sustainability Changemaker in the Social Impact category for a second year in a row, has harnessed the power of Microsoft technology to become that partner. EY creates sustainability strategies that provide competitive business opportunities and long-term value for all stakeholders. "This recognition is a testament to our team's focus on creating impactful and forward-looking sustainability solutions for our clients powered by Microsoft," said Jim Little, Global Microsoft Alliance Leader at EY. Put simply, the EY and Microsoft collaboration operationalizes sustainability performance management. Their work helps customers strengthen enterprise-ready decarbonization efforts and accelerate advancement toward environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals. Continue reading here Explore all case studies or submit your own Subscribe to case studies tag to follow all new case study posts.64Views0likes0CommentsPartner Case Study: Accenture & Avanade are reinventing the way forward with Microsoft Copilot solutions
Accenture and Avanade have a long history of helping customers implement cutting-edge solutions worldwide. Their leadership in the AI space and early adoption of Microsoft Copilot have helped them realize value across the enterprise, and they've used that knowledge to help others reinvent how they work. What puts them in such a unique position to help their customers, though, is their seamless partnership with Microsoft, which allows them to collaboratively build, test, and expand on their advanced work—together. These continued efforts have earned Accenture and Avanade this year's prestigious Microsoft Global Systems Integrator (GSI) Partner of the Year Award for an unprecedented 19th time. Their trailblazing work with AI apps utilizing Microsoft technologies has also garnered a brand-new win for 2024: the Copilot award in the Business Transformation category. "Our 19th recognition as Microsoft Global SI Partner of the Year underscores the exceptional value our partnership with Microsoft and Avanade delivers to our clients," said Chris Howarth, Senior Managing Director and Accenture Microsoft Business Group Lead. "By interoperating Microsoft Copilot and advanced generative AI technologies, we are not only enhancing our service offerings but also creating new opportunities for our clients to innovate and accelerate growth in their respective markets." Accenture and Avanade's continued success cements their leadership in innovation and makes them a trusted partner for those looking to solve challenges and scale their business in the digital age. And with numerous AppSource offers for Copilot already in the market and more on the way, Accenture and Avanade are primed to introduce customers across industries to the potential of generative AI. "[Our] strategic focus empowers them to harness the full potential of their digital transformation, driving significant business outcomes," added Howarth. Continue reading here Explore all case studies or submit your own Subscribe to case studies tag to follow all new case study posts.298Views0likes0CommentsPartner Case Study: PrimeKey decodes customer growth for its cryptography-based security solution with Microsoft Azure Marketplace and Marketplace Rewards
PrimeKey by Keyfactor helps organizations bolster cryptographic-based security through the Microsoft commercial marketplace PrimeKey is part of Keyfactor, a professional services company that was founded in 2001 and won Microsoft Partner of the Year in 2007. PrimeKey simplifies public key infrastructure (PKI) implementations by eliminating repetitive tasks and costly infrastructure through self-service certification solutions and automation for teams without PKI expertise. Whether for Internet of Things (IoT) product security or enterprise information technology initiatives, PrimeKey’s modular, cloud-first architecture makes it easier for customers to deploy quickly without reengineering infrastructure or reissuing certificates. PrimeKey’s solutions are horizontally applicable and span verticals. PrimeKey customers can manage every key and certificate because there are no per-certificate fees. The company is driven by a technology-agnostic approach that allows organizations to integrate their PKI with the best available technology. The platform is built for rapid change and agility. PrimeKey’s flagship product, EJBCA Enterprise Cloud, is hosted solely on Microsoft Azure and is available in the Azure Marketplace. Continue reading here51Views1like0CommentsMicrosoft Ignite 2024: Empowering partners to drive growth and innovation
Today marked the start of Microsoft Ignite, our biggest customer and partner event of the year, showcasing the latest innovation, product updates, and breakthroughs across our business. Partners from around the world joined us to learn how Microsoft is investing in partner success and creating new opportunities to accelerate growth and help customers transform their businesses with AI. Today, we are announcing upwards of 80 new products and features, including new capabilities in Microsoft 365 Copilot, additions to the Copilot + AI stack and new Copilot+ devices offerings. Underpinning each of these innovations is our commitment to security. Microsoft 365 Copilot – Microsoft 365 Copilot is your AI assistant for work, and we have seen the momentum grow as more organizations are moving to Copilot and using it successfully to increase employee productivity. Microsoft is continuing to supercharge productivity with new capabilities in Microsoft 365 Copilot designed to help simplify the workday. Copilot + AI Stack – The Copilot stack empowers users to build more ambitious products by leveraging advanced technology at each layer of the stack. Today we’re announcing Azure AI Foundry, where organizations design, customize, and manage the next generation of AI apps and agents at scale. Azure AI Foundry brings together our wide collection of foundation, open, industry, and task models, AI tooling, and safety and monitoring solutions into a single experience. Foundry helps businesses efficiently and cost-effectively design and scale their AI applications while empowering IT pros to manage AI safety, reliability, and performance. Security – Since launching our Secure Future Initiative (SFI) one year ago, we have made security the No. 1 job of every employee at Microsoft, dedicated 34,000 engineers to this focus and, at Ignite, we are announcing innovations that are rooted in our SFI principles: secure by design, secure by default, and secure operations. These are just some of the over 200 announcements made at Microsoft Ignite today. For the full list be sure to check out the Microsoft Ignite blog and the event Book of News. Continue reading here402Views1like1Comment