Dell Services, the IT Services division of the giant computing company, was honored with eight Microsoft “Partner of the Year” Awards at the 2012 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC).
The company was honored for providing outstanding services, demonstrating excellence in innovation and the implementation of global customer solutions based on Microsoft technologies.
Dell was awarded the Public Sector Education Partner of the Year for the Dell Education Data Management Solution in the worldwide award categories; it won among a global field of 3,000 top Microsoft partners.
This award recognizes excellence in providing innovative and unique services based on Microsoft technologies to education organizations or institutions.
“Microsoft is pleased to recognize Dell’s commitment to education customers within the public sector by awarding Education Partner of the Year,” said Laura Ipsen, corporate vice president, Worldwide Public Sector, Microsoft Corporation.
Ipsen continued “We are recognizing Dell because of its dedication to education and commitment to building solutions that serve the education community, such as the Education Data Management solution (EDM).
“As an integrated information management system for educational institutions, EDM transforms high-quality data into actionable knowledge that can be used to improve educational outcomes and track student information over multiple years (PK-20), across multiple schools, between organizations, and even into the workforce.”
The company was also a Finalist for two additional worldwide awards – the Worldwide Desktop Partner of the Year for innovative Windows 7 deployment solutions and Worldwide Content Management Partner of the Year for SharePoint-based web content management solutions.
Kevin Jones, vice president, Dell Services, said: “Dell and Microsoft have a successful history of working together to deliver world-class information technology solutions that help our customers grow and thrive. Dell and Microsoft have never been so aligned and we are greatly honored to be recognized for our collaboration with Microsoft to deliver end-to-end offerings for our customers across vertical markets.”
