Finalist Partner of the Year [EN]
Berlin, Germany, June 26, 2012 – Today, Helliwood media & education announced it has been selected as a finalist for the Microsoft Public Sector Education Partner of the Year Award.
Partner of the Year 2012
„We are honored that Helliwood was selected with its first educational app for children as a finalist in this fantastic global competition. This debut showcases our expertise in technologies relevant to Windows 8, while affirming that our didactic concepts and ideas lead to creative and interactive learning offers.“ said Thomas Schmidt, Head of Helliwood media & education and added, „for everything we do, the children and their individual learning needs are our focus.“
Awards were presented in multiple categories, with winners chosen from a set of nearly 3,000 entrants worldwide. The Public Sector, Education Partner of the Year Award recognizes a partner that exhibited excellence in providing innovative and unique services or solutions based on Microsoft technologies to education customers. The winner demonstrated industry knowledge and expertise, as well as consistent, high-quality, predictable service or solutions to education customers. They also demonstrated business leadership and success through strong growth in new customer additions and revenue such as integrating with Microsoft cloud-based technology like Live@edu and Windows Azure in addition to the Windows Phone platform.
“We are proud to recognize our 2012 Partner Award finalists for their outstanding commitments to solving customer challenges,” said Jon Roskill, corporate vice president, Worldwide Partner Group, Microsoft Corp. “Our partners are critical to our success as a company, and it is their creativity and innovative thinking in solving the unique needs of our customers that serves as the foundation for mutual, long-term success. We congratulate this year’s finalists on their achievements and look forward to following their continued success in the future.”
The Microsoft Partner Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions during the past year.
Press release Microsoft Partner of the Year
