Accenture: Recognized by Microsoft

By Rob Starr, Content Manager, Big4.com

Accenture and Avanade, a business technology solutions and managed services provider, have been honored with three Microsoft Partner of the Year awards for 2012.

Accenture and Avanade’s France business was honored with the Country Partner of the Year award for demonstrated business excellence in delivering Microsoft solutions to customers and for driving customer satisfaction and innovation.

The two companies were jointly recognized with the Mobility Partner of the Year Award for their proven ability to deploy, integrate and support breakthrough solutions that help accelerate clients’ business cycles, increase productivity, reduce operating costs, and extend their infrastructures with the Windows Phone platform.

Accenture and Avanade received the Alliance Partner of the Year – Application Platform award for their demonstrated leadership in driving Microsoft-based application platform solutions to enterprise customers that best integrate the infrastructure, database, business logic, user experience and server management layers for on-premises or cloud-based mission critical applications.

Scott Harrison, global lead for Accenture’s Microsoft alliance commented:

“We’re pleased that Accenture and Avanade have once again been honored with Microsoft partner of the year awards in recognition of our ability to deliver outstanding results for clients on the Microsoft platform,” she said. “Our consistent showing in these awards year after year is clear evidence of the joint commitment by our two companies to delivering business value and outcomes for our clients around the world.”