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Robert Derby
Vice President, Worldwide Marketing
Computer Generated Solutions, Inc.
200 Vesey Street, 27th Floor
+1 (212) 261-2063
rderby@cgsinc.com
CGS Recognized as Microsoft® U.S. Public Sector Partner of the Year in Education
Award recognizes outstanding use of Microsoft technology and industry expertise in the education market.
New York, NY - July 27, 2010
— Computer Generated Solutions Inc. (CGS)
has been named as the 2010 Microsoft U.S. Public Sector
Partner of the Year in Education. Announced this month at
Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington, DC, the
award recognizes CGS for its expertise and innovative use of
Microsoft technology to deliver solutions in the K-12 and higher
education market. The foundation for this award includes CGS’ work
with over 150 education customers in the design and deployment of
SharePoint-based faculty and student portals, e-mail migrations to
Microsoft’s cloud-based Live@edu solution and the CGS Unlimited
Mailbox™ solution, which delivers enterprise class e-mail archiving
and eDiscovery capabilities to Live@edu customers.
“We are honored to be named as the Microsoft Partner of the
Year in Education,” stated Michael Wilding,
Senior Vice President of Technology Solutions & Training Division at
CGS. “The Education market has been a key focus for CGS as it
provides us the opportunity to support future generations with the
best of today’s technology. We thank Microsoft for this award and
their recognition of the CGS team effort that made this possible.”
Microsoft’s 2010 U.S. Public Sector Partners of the Year were
awarded to government, education and healthcare industry partners in
a variety of categories. Award winners and finalists were selected
from nominations received from Microsoft’s U.S. Public Sector team
working throughout the nation.
“We rely on our education partners to implement and customize
our technology to meet the needs of schools, educators and students
across the country,” said Sig Behrens, general
manager for U.S. Education at Microsoft. “We’re honoring
Computer Generated Solutions because of their incredible commitment
to innovation on behalf of public education over the past year.”
As a leading Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, CGS leverages its
broad range of industry expertise and the power of Microsoft
technologies to offer integrated solutions that support critical
business and organizational processes and collaborative information
management. Based on its proven record of accomplishment, CGS was
selected in 2009 as one of the first technology providers to offer
Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) cloud
computing solution. Additionally, in February of this year, CGS
launched a new cloud-based version of its Unlimited Mailbox email
archiving and e-discovery solution that has been delivered through
the cloud-based Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS).
About Microsoft and the Worldwide Partner
Conference
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader
in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses
realize their full potential.
Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference provides Microsoft’s
partner community with access to key marketing and business
strategies, leadership and information regarding specific customer
solutions designed to help partners succeed in the marketplace.
Along with informative learning opportunities covering sales,
marketing, services, and technology, the Worldwide Partner
Conference is an ideal setting for partners to garner valuable
knowledge from their peers and from Microsoft. More information can
be found at http://www.digitalwpc.com and on the Partner Network home page
at http://microsoftpartnernetwork.com.
About CGS
For over twenty-five years, CGS has enabled global enterprises,
regional companies and government agencies to drive breakthrough
performance through technology. With global delivery capabilities,
expertise across leading platforms and deep experience in multiple
industries, CGS has become the IT partner of choice for thousands of
organizations worldwide. CGS delivers a wide array of proprietary
and third-party business applications, technology and business
services, outsourcing solutions and learning & communications
platforms. Headquartered in New York City, CGS maintains a worldwide
presence with 20 offices in North America, Europe and Asia. For more
information, please visit
http://www.cgsinc.com.
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Unlimited Mailbox is a trademark of Computer
Generated Solutions, Inc.
Microsoft and SharePoint are registered trademarks
of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other
countries.
