CGS Recognized as Microsoft® U.S. Public Sector Partner of the Year in Education
Award recognizes outstanding use of Microsoft technology and industry expertise in the education market.
New York, NY - July 27, 2010 — Computer Generated Solutions Inc. (CGS) has been named as the 2010 Microsoft U.S. Public Sector Partner of the Year in Education. Announced this month at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington, DC, the award recognizes CGS for its expertise and innovative use of Microsoft technology to deliver solutions in the K-12 and higher education market. The foundation for this award includes CGS’ work with over 150 education customers in the design and deployment of SharePoint-based faculty and student portals, e-mail migrations to Microsoft’s cloud-based Live@edu solution and the CGS Unlimited Mailbox™ solution, which delivers enterprise class e-mail archiving and eDiscovery capabilities to Live@edu customers.
“We are honored to be named as the Microsoft Partner of the Year in Education,” stated Michael Wilding, Senior Vice President of Technology Solutions & Training Division at CGS. “The Education market has been a key focus for CGS as it provides us the opportunity to support future generations with the best of today’s technology. We thank Microsoft for this award and their recognition of the CGS team effort that made this possible.”
Microsoft’s 2010 U.S. Public Sector Partners of the Year were awarded to government, education and healthcare industry partners in a variety of categories. Award winners and finalists were selected from nominations received from Microsoft’s U.S. Public Sector team working throughout the nation.
“We rely on our education partners to implement and customize our technology to meet the needs of schools, educators and students across the country,” said Sig Behrens, general manager for U.S. Education at Microsoft. “We’re honoring Computer Generated Solutions because of their incredible commitment to innovation on behalf of public education over the past year.”
As a leading Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, CGS leverages its broad range of industry expertise and the power of Microsoft technologies to offer integrated solutions that support critical business and organizational processes and collaborative information management. Based on its proven record of accomplishment, CGS was selected in 2009 as one of the first technology providers to offer Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) cloud computing solution. Additionally, in February of this year, CGS launched a new cloud-based version of its Unlimited Mailbox email archiving and e-discovery solution that has been delivered through the cloud-based Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS).
About Microsoft and the Worldwide Partner Conference
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference provides Microsoft’s partner community with access to key marketing and business strategies, leadership and information regarding specific customer solutions designed to help partners succeed in the marketplace. Along with informative learning opportunities covering sales, marketing, services, and technology, the Worldwide Partner Conference is an ideal setting for partners to garner valuable knowledge from their peers and from Microsoft. More information can be found at http://www.digitalwpc.com and on the Partner Network home page at http://microsoftpartnernetwork.com.
About CGS
For over twenty-five years, CGS has enabled global enterprises, regional companies and government agencies to drive breakthrough performance through technology. With global delivery capabilities, expertise across leading platforms and deep experience in multiple industries, CGS has become the IT partner of choice for thousands of organizations worldwide. CGS delivers a wide array of proprietary and third-party business applications, technology and business services, outsourcing solutions and learning & communications platforms. Headquartered in New York City, CGS maintains a worldwide presence with 20 offices in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit http://www.cgsinc.com.
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