Aspective, a Vodafone company, Honored as Partner of the Year for Microsoft Dynamics CRM at 2007 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Program Awards

July 20, 2007

Today, Aspective, a Vodafone company, proudly announced it has won the Partner of the Year Award for Microsoft Dynamics CRM at the 2007 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Program Awards. The company was chosen out of an international field of top Microsoft Partners as delivering market-leading customer solutions built on Microsoft technology. The awards were distributed at a ceremony on July 11th in Denver, CO at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.

Dean Carroll, VP, Aspective said, “We’re clearly delighted to be recognised by Microsoft as their leading global CRM Partner. This recognition is a reflection of the investment Aspective has made over a number of years in technology, innovation and training for the benefit of our customers. With over 80 Microsoft CRM projects completed, including some of the largest in the UK and Europe, Aspective has gained valuable best practice experience that we can bring to bear from the moment a new customer engages with us.”

Awards were presented in a number of categories, with winners chosen from a pool of more than 1,800 entrants worldwide. Aspective was recognised for superior technology and innovation in both hosted and non-hosted CRM solutions and the technology areas provided around them. Expertise in application integration, mobile CRM, business intelligence, extranets and portals has been gained implementing over 80 Microsoft Dynamics CRM projects around the UK.

Martin Joy, CIO of Control Risks, an Aspective customer and Microsoft Dynamics CRM user commented, “We’re very proud of this project and grateful to Aspective for their professionalism and the strength of their implementation team. Their depth of experience allowed them to gain a deep understanding of Control Risks requirements and ensured a successful outcome. The hard work put in over the last 12 months has helped make this an example of how CRM can scale globally. The expectations of our multi-national clients mean that we must have all relevant information at our fingertips at all times wherever we may be. Microsoft Dynamics CRM has met this challenge and gives us a secure, consistent, consolidated and accurate view of client related activities across the entire company.”

The MBS Microsoft Dynamics CRM Partner of the Year award honours a partner who has exhibited unsurpassed leadership in providing Microsoft CRM solutions to customers. This partner is a true champion of the Microsoft Dynamics value proposition. They provide consistent, quality and predictable service to Microsoft CRM customers to ensure immediate benefits out of CRM investments. This Partner demonstrates business leadership through aggressive demand generation, nurture marketing, new customer additions, and revenue growth.

“Aspective’s vertical solutions on Professional Services provides a broad platform of CRM, document management, collaboration, management information and mobile worker technology all of which is based on core Microsoft technology specially (SharePoint, SQL Server 2005 and Windows Mobile). Aspective’s winning solution uses the Microsoft technology stack as a clear differentiator when dealing with CRM point competitors and pure-play ASPs,” said Scott Dodds, GM, SMSP, Microsoft UK.

The Microsoft Partner Program Awards recognize Microsoft Partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the last year.