June 17, 2008 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Software as a Service provider groupSPARK has been named Microsoft Partner of the Year for Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Hosting Solutions, it was announced yesterday. The company, a provider of solutions such as Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM, was selected from a group of international Microsoft partners.
The award recognizes Microsoft partners in a range of areas and those receiving the award must have a “proven track record of developing and delivering to their customers best-of-breed, comprehensive Microsoft-based solutions to help them achieve outstanding business success”.
“We are pleased to see groupSPARK present reselling partners with increased opportunity to deliver richer applications and the power of choice,” explained Microsoft Corporation’s Vice President, U.S. Partner Group, Mr. Robert Deshaies. “Partners of any size can now offer hosted Microsoft Exchange Server based on groupSPARK’s service in as little as 30 minutes to customers using their own brand, domain, and corporate look-and-feel.”
groupSPARK was chosen from over 2,000 entrants and the decision to choose the company was based on its “demonstration of both technical and business marketing innovation”, particularly, “integration of Microsoft technology such as Microsoft Exchange Server, Windows SharePoint Services and Dynamics CRM with proprietary, industry leading automation tools enables groupSPARK resellers to go to market more quickly and cost effectively with a full suite of private label hosted services under their own brands”.
“We are exceptionally honored to be selected from among thousands of Microsoft partners to receive the 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year award in the advanced infrastructure solutions, hosting solutions category,” added groupSPARK’s founder and Senior Executive Officer. “We are delighted that Microsoft has publicly recognized our proven success as the leading provider of private label SaaS applications – worldwide.”
