PointBridge, a leading Microsoft solutions provider, announced today that it has been selected as the 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards winner in the category of Online Services.
PointBridge was chosen out of an international field of top Microsoft partners for its delivery of market-leading customer solutions built using Microsoft technology. The Online Services Partner of the Year award recognizes partners who have successfully adopted, embraced, developed, and delivered solutions based on Microsoft Online Services (including Microsoft Office SharePoint Online, Microsoft Office Exchange Online, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Office Communications Online).
The award specifically recognizes PointBridge’s groundbreaking work with several large organizations:
For a well-known national retailer PointBridge migrated approximately 1300 email users from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange Online. The email accounts were migrated over a weekend, eliminating the need to implement a co-existence strategy.
For a global automotive manufacturer PointBridge migrated 1400 users from Lotus Notes to the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite. The global mail migration was completed in a single weekend without interruption to the business users. It’s calculated that the move to Exchange Online will help the customer realize a 30% annual cost savings. Based on the success of the email migration, this manufacturer is moving their intranet to SharePoint Online and has already deployed several business-critical applications on the platform.
For the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, PointBridge developed an internal collaboration platform based on SharePoint Online. The SharePoint solution will cost-effectively enable MBA students, faculty and administrative staff to find, use, share, manage, search and store information.
For Manpower, Inc., PointBridge created a virtual global leadership planning meeting using SharePoint Online technology. The multi-day virtual meeting for 160 senior executives from around the world facilitated interactive learning and information sharing and garnered positive reviews from participants. It also saved executives considerable time and travel expenses.
The solution PointBridge created for Manpower, a global employment services firm headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was particularly innovative. In a seven-week timeframe, PointBridge designed and deployed a virtual solution for Manpower that replicated the traditional in-person management team meeting in an online environment. The virtual meeting included kick-off and wrap up keynotes, individualized daily schedules for attendees, announcements, video presentations, work assignments, discussion groups, surveys and a board that tracked participant progress. The meeting content is cached online for future reference. Manpower’s Global Leadership Team intends to use the SharePoint online solution again for the 2010 meeting.
“This is a tremendous honor from Microsoft and a significant victory for our consultants, who built innovative and cost-effective solutions using forward-looking technologies surpassing our client’s expectations,” said Mike Gersten, chief executive officer and co-founder, PointBridge. “This award is particularly meaningful to us as it fuels our focus on improving our clients’ business performance with hosted solutions.”
“PointBridge has created significant value for their customers by developing custom solutions built on Microsoft Online Services, demonstrating the flexibility and extensibility of the suite of services,” said Ross Brown, vice president, solution partners and ISVs, Microsoft Corp. “PointBridge’s incredible customer service and commitment to the software-plus-services platform has made the company one of Microsoft’s top-selling Microsoft Online Services partners.”
The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the last year. PointBridge will be presented with the Online Services award at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference which will be held July 13-16 in New Orleans.
About PointBridge
PointBridge (www.pointbridge.com) is a consulting company that connects people to people and people to information. The company builds award-winning collaboration and business intelligence solutions with Microsoft technologies including, SharePoint, Exchange, Office Communications Server and SQL Server.
PointBridge is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and was named the 2007 U.S. Central Region Partner of the Year. PointBridge was also honored in 2005 as the worldwide Microsoft Partner of the Year for Advanced Infrastructure Solutions and won the Microsoft Exchange Solution of the Year award.
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