News
June 24 , 2010
Zap Honored as 2010 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year for Australia
Brisbane, Australia –
(June 24, 2010) – Today, Zap proudly announced it has won the 2010 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Award for Australia.
The company was chosen out of an international field of top Microsoft partners as delivering market-leading customer solutions built on Microsoft technology.
“After being awarded the 2009 Microsoft Independent Software Vendor/Software Solutions Innovation Partner of the Year, Zap is proud to once again be singled out by Microsoft as world leaders for our innovative solutions, this time as Microsoft Partner of the Year,” said Garth D. Laird, Zap President. “We are pleased especially to be acknowledged as leaders in Australia, the country of our foundation.”
Zap is a global software company that creates business intelligence (BI) software that helps improve corporate performance. Zap software is used by mid-market companies through to enterprises, across many industries and business systems.
Awards are presented in a number of categories, with winners chosen from a pool of almost 3,000 entrants worldwide. Zap was recognized for superior technology, innovation, and subsidiary engagement for the Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Award. The Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Award recognizes partners at the country level that have demonstrated business excellence in delivering Microsoft solutions to mutual customers over the past year. This award recognizes Zap for demonstrating effective engagement with their local Microsoft office in driving customer satisfaction, innovation, winning new customers, and business impact.
“We are pleased to recognize Zap of Australia as Microsoft’s Country Partner of the Year,” said Allison Watson, Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Partner Group, Microsoft Corp. “Zap has demonstrated the highest level of excellence and innovation, by combining local market expertise with superior solutions and services that fulfill our customers’ needs.”
“These awards provide us with the opportunity to celebrate the success of our local partner network,” added Microsoft Australia's Managing Director, Tracey Fellows. “Zap's achievement is a testament to the expertise, dedication and innovation it demonstrates in delivering first class BI solutions to our customers. We offer our wholehearted congratulations to Zap and look forward to continued success in our partnership in the future.”
The Microsoft Partner Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the last year.
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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