Photo Gallery: Winning Microsoft partners take to stage at MAPAs
By Heather Wright
Tue 6 Sep 2016
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In a night celebrating ‘the best of the best’, Microsoft’s Australian partners have taken to the stage in front of more than 1300 Microsoft partners to claim Microsoft Australia Partner Awards.
Rhipe was the big winner, taking out three awards, with MOQdigital, Readily, Kloud and Ionia snapping up two awards each.
Twenty-six awards were presented, including the inaugural awards for Excellence in Customer Lifecycle Management, won by Adopt and Embrace, and the Excellence in Surface Reseller Award, won by Ethan Group.
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