Cisco Channel Partner Award 2007

Auch dieses Jahr verleiht Cisco Schweiz die renommierten Partner Awards in verschiedenen Kategorien. In einem anspruchsvollen Marktumfeld konnten sich die ausgezeichneten Firmen mit innovativen Lösungen und dank hervorragender Zusammenarbeit als führende Unternehmen im ICT-Markt positionieren. Aufgrund der strengen Auswahlkriterien sind die Cisco Partner Awards mehr als nur eine Anerkennung für erstklassige Leistungen: Für Entscheidungsträger im Bereich IT bedeutet der Preis auch eine nützliche und anerkannte Orientierungshilfe bei der Auswahl von Netzwerk-Business-Partnern.

Folgende Firmen werden mit einem Cisco Partner Award ausgezeichnet:

Swiss Partner Awards of the Year 2007

	Gold Partner of the Year 2007 Swisscom (Schweiz) AG Swisscom showed constant and fantastic growth numbers year over year. In the last year Swisscom went through a huge organisational change combining sales forces from all different units. With this, Swisscom educated more than 100 sales representatives on Cisco Technology including Unified Communications. All these efforts had a positive impact on their business results and led to the Gold Partner of the Year award.
	Innovation Award of the Year 2007 NextiraOne Schweiz GmbH Education, experience and risk taking are the three main components of innovation. NextiraOne Switzerland decided to enter the Datacenter market in Switzerland together with Cisco. This is a new business area where traditional System Integrators are not usually involved. But they invested a great deal into Advanced Services and focussed on WAAS technologies. This has enabled them to take a risk and the first successes are already here with more to come! Congratulations and well done!
	Unified Communications Partner of the Year 2007 Getronics Switzerland Getronics have continued to focus on Unified Communications. They have an enviable reputation for innovative applications development and an ability to establish close and meaningful relationships with their customers, which has paid off considerably. Many customers are readily changing their installed telephony because of the innovative customized solutions of Getronics. Very simply, accurately understanding the needs of the customer creates additional business for both Getronics and Cisco. They delivered another fantastic performance during FY07 and deserve this award!
	Mobility Partner of the Year 2007 Netcloud Switzerland Netcloud is one of Cisco’s fastest growing Partners and 100% loyal. They consistently deliver highly innovative Solutions. For example, Violier, a blood analysis laboratory wanted fast, 24/7 analysis results. They successfully implemented a Unified Communications collaboration platform for Mobile User, Tele and Home Workers. One service even lets Doctors en-route to analyse the Blood-Picture from their Nokia device. This saves time and it saves lives! The strong Vertical commitment and technical expertise makes Netcloud this year’s well deserved winner!
	Outstanding Customer Satisfaction Partner of the Year 2007 Clounet Switzerland To sell the Cisco Vision you don’t just need technical expertise, you also need to genuinely understand your customer’s needs. Clounet is one Cisco’s most dedicated and loyal Partners, successfully selling value-add via your consulting work. Small and agile, they are able to implement new technologies with ease. Even more, they often deliver much faster than most of our bigger Partners. Uniquely focussed on Security, NMS, UC and extremely strong in core, Clounet have won many happy customers and this award!
	Premier Partner of the Year 2007 Bechtle AG Just over a year ago, Bechtle decided to expand their portfolio with Cisco products in order to be able to offer complete solutions into our markets. Your integration capabilities in terms of all the aspects of business requirements made them very successful as system integrator. With their strong engagement and focus Bechtle is this year’s well deserved winner!
	Select Partner of the Year 2007 DDS Netcom Switzerland DDS Netcom has shown a strong commitment to Cisco by joining our single vendor strategy. They are now a valued and trusted partner with an enviable reputation for creating innovative, often exceptional solutions in Unified Communications. Their loyalty and strong revenue growth in Unified Communications from innovative as well as standardised, user-oriented Solutions, has been exceptional and is celebrated with this award. Congratulations and well done!
	Services Partner of the Year 2007 ALSO Schweiz AG It is not common to award a Distributor as the Service Partner of the year. However, this year we learned from them that a Distributor can play a significant role in terms of services. Their engagement in the SMS3 area was a great success, helped Cisco to increase the service business and is the insurance for their customer’s business continuity. In addition it brings them this very well deserved award.
	Silver Partner of the Year 2007 ECONIS AG Switzerland Econis is differentiating itself from other Partners through its strong focus on Outsource/Managed Services. These are dedicated to the MidMarket. They have successfully developed benchmarking methodology and a tool to assess MidMarket companies against similar organisations. With this they are able to provide the recommendations needed to evolve existing infrastructure towards Intelligent Information Networks. This has successfully led to customers with competitor systems migrating to Cisco. This innovative approach has delivered Econis good wins and this award!
	Solution Partner of the Year 2007 Hewlett-Packard Schweiz GmbH During FY07, HP clearly demonstrated the power with their combined organisations. With no other Partner we have been able to address the entire business architecture of a customer in the way we did it with HP. Their capabilities to combine forces and to integrate all technologies available are clearly the proof that you are the Solution Partner of the year. This delivers great business results, customer loyalty and deserves them this award.