Five or­gan­i­sa­tions based in T&T and the east­ern and south­ern Caribbean were among the win­ners of the 2014 Mi­crosoft Part­ner of the Year Awards, which cel­e­brates top part­ners solv­ing cus­tomer chal­lenges with cre­ative tech­nol­o­gy so­lu­tions.Lo­cal soft­ware de­vel­op­er Teleios Sys­tems Lim­it­ed was named the glob­al as well as LATAM New Mar­kets win­ner of the YouthSpark Cit­i­zen­ship Part­ner of the Year Award for its an­nu­al Teleios Code Jam pro­gramme.

The YouthSpark award recog­nis­es a part­ner that cre­ates unique tech­nol­o­gy or sup­ports an em­ploy­ee en­gage­ment pro­gramme to serve the needs of youth be­tween six and 24 years old.

"Teleios is re­al­ly very ho­n­oured to have been recog­nised by Mi­crosoft for our Teleios Code Jam pro­gramme be­cause it rep­re­sents the heart of who we are. We have al­ways felt that Trinidad and To­ba­go and the wider re­gion have the ca­pa­bil­i­ty to be pro­duc­ers of tech­nol­o­gy and not just con­sumers of tech­nol­o­gy. It is our hope that through the Teleios Code Jam we can do our part to help build that ca­pa­bil­i­ty," said Kevin Khelawan, chief op­er­at­ing of­fi­cer, Teleios Sys­tems Lim­it­ed.

In­fotech Caribbean Lim­it­ed was named a Cloud Part­ner of the Year for the LATAM New Mar­kets, which means they've suc­cess­ful­ly pack­aged Mi­crosoft cloud and part­ner so­lu­tions solv­ing an end cus­tomer's chal­lenge. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, Davyn Lim­it­ed, In­o­va So­lu­tions/Net­pro, and In­fodom, based in T&T, Cu­ra­cao and Mar­tinique re­spec­tive­ly, all won the Coun­try Part­ner of the Year Award for their abil­i­ty to grow cus­tomers by dri­ving im­pact and sat­is­fac­tion.

Awards were pre­sent­ed in mul­ti­ple cat­e­gories, with win­ners cho­sen from a set of more than 2,800 nom­i­na­tions from 117 dif­fer­ent coun­tries for the 46 glob­al award op­por­tu­ni­ties.Der­rick Vil­leneuve, found­ing di­rec­tor/di­rec­tor of strat­e­gy Davyn Lim­it­ed, which fo­cus­es on de­liv­er­ing en­ter­prise re­source plan­ning so­lu­tions to clients in T&T and the Eng­lish-speak­ing Caribbean, said the an­nounce­ment was wel­comed with en­thu­si­asm by every­one in the or­gan­i­sa­tion.

"We con­tin­u­al­ly strive to de­liv­er in­no­v­a­tive, best-in-class so­lu­tions and the high­est de­gree of ser­vice pos­si­ble. This award is a val­i­da­tion of our com­mit­ment to build­ing an ex­cep­tion­al team and putting our cus­tomers first. We stand by our tag line of mak­ing their busi­ness­es bet­ter," Vil­leneuve said.The lo­cal and re­gion­al win­ners and fi­nal­ists, com­pris­ing the 93 coun­try win­ners in the 46 cat­e­gories re­viewed, will re­ceive their awards at the Mi­crosoft World­wide Part­ner Con­fer­ence (WPC) that takes place from Ju­ly 13-17 in Wash­ing­ton, DC.