Enlighten Designs Win at Microsoft Partner Awards

Enlighten Designs - Win at Microsoft Partner Awards

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
28th August 2008

Enlighten Designs Ltd (www.enlighten.co.nz) are thrilled to have been named the winner of the Partnering Award of the Year at the New Zealand Microsoft Partner Awards 2009.  Enlighten has won this award for the second year in a row. The awards evening, at which the award category winners were announced, was held last night and played host to New Zealand's leading Information Technology providers.

The award won by Enlighten Designs is:

Partnering Award of the Year
This joint submission shows how two or more Microsoft partners working together can deliver a greater customer result, widen their solutions and grow their business faster than if operating alone.

Enlighten Designs and Axon Computer Systems Ltd are the joint winners of the Microsoft Partnering Award of the Year for 2008 and now 2009.

Enlighten Designs' information collaboration experience, SharePoint expertise and application development skills combine seamlessly with Axon's technical and infrastructure knowledge, strength in process, project management and governance. Together this strategic partnership delivers more efficient, higher value solutions for clients.

"Enlighten Designs and Axon's innovative SharePoint solution means our more than 1000 staff members nationwide can collaborate and share information efficiently and effectively in a way that was not previously possible. We are impressed by their commitment to understanding our business needs and finding and implementing functional, affordable solutions." - Lindsay Baxter, Project Manager, Te Wananga o Aotearoa

Enlighten Designs were also named as a finalist for the category of: Business Productivity Enterprise Content Management Solution of the Year.

"It is truly fantastic to receive recognition and praise for our hard work, especially when competing against New Zealand's best. We form partnerships with clients who want exceptional work and we always deliver." - Damon Kelly (CEO).

Enlighten is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. This accreditation recognises the highest level of technological excellence, marketplace impact and satisfaction of customers through using Microsoft products and services. Enlighten has also been awarded specific competencies in:

Information Worker Solutions
Enlighten Designs has received this competency for Portal and Collaboration development specialisation based on Microsoft Information Worker technologies.

ISV Solutions
This competency acknowledges Enlighten Designs proven competency in and commitment to developing software solutions based on Microsoft technologies.

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