News
August 6 , 2010
Zap Named AIIA ICT Exporter of the Year
Brisbane, Australia – (August 6, 2010) – Zap has taken home the Australian Information Industry Association's (AIIA) ICT Exporter of the Year award for 2010 at a gala dinner in Melbourne last night.
The iAwards honour winners in 18 categories for providing outstanding technology innovation, with entries judged on uniqueness, market potential, functionality and features, quality and application of technology, and application.
“Winning an iAward from Australia's peak IT body is validation of Zap's strategy to become a leading global business intelligence (BI) vendor and a major exporter of Australian intellectual property,” said Garth D. Laird, President of Zap. “This is the basis for our entire business, and we aim to make a significant contribution to the Australian economy and prove that Australian IT businesses can take on the world.”
Zap creates BI software that helps mid-market companies through to enterprises improve corporate performance.
Headquartered in Brisbane, Zap has undertaken major global expansion in the last two years, selling its BI solutions to customers in 17 countries. The company has recruited more than 130 Microsoft partners around the world to sell and implement its solutions, and in June was awarded 2010 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year for Australia.
Zap creates BI solutions for the Microsoft SQL Server platform that are user friendly and provide capabilities such as reports, analysis, dashboards, key performance indicators (KPIs), scorecards, and business templates. Zap's solutions support data from many different business systems, and out-of-the-box solutions specifically for Microsoft Dynamics business solutions are also available.
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