Cisco Live! Melbourne, Australia, March 6, 2013 – Cisco has acknowledged excellence within its Australian and New Zealand partner community in announcing the winners of the 2012 Cisco ANZ Partner Insight Awards. At a ceremony in Melbourne last evening, teams and individuals from 15 Cisco ANZ Partners were recognised across 19 categories for their innovation, leadership and best practice as a Cisco business partner.
“As a channel-oriented business, Cisco is deeply committed to supporting our partners to build their business, and to recognise those that have demonstrated outstanding achievement,” says Sara Adams, managing director, Partner Business Group for Cisco Australia and New Zealand.
“Cisco’s Partner Insight Awards celebrate exemplary business practice within our partner community. I congratulate all this year’s winners for demonstrating clever thinking, strong customer understanding and technical excellence across the breadth of our portfolio.”
The full list of 2012 Cisco ANZ Partner Insight Award winners are:
| Data Centre Partner of the Year |
Dimension Data |
| Collaboration Partner of the Year |
Telstra |
| Borderless Technologies Partner of the Year |
Data#3 |
| Cloud Partner of the Year |
Telstra |
| New Zealand Partner of the Year |
gen-i |
| Innovation Partner of the Year |
Datacom |
| Vertical Solution Innovation Partner of the Year |
Secure Agility |
| Architectural Excellence |
Fujitsu |
| Marketing Excellence |
Logicalis |
| Small Business Partner of the Year |
North Sydney IT |
| Distribution Innovation Partner of the Year |
Westcon Group, Australia |
| Services Partner of the Year |
Telstra |
| Smart Services Partner of the Year (APJC) |
Data#3 |
| Excellence in Post Deployment Support |
Logicalis |
| ANZ Acceleration Partner of the Year 2012 |
NEC |
| Alliance Manager of the Year |
Graham Robinson, Data#3 |
| Sales Excellence |
Anoop Dhankhar, EMC |
| Technical Excellence |
Chris Ross, UXC Connect |
| Technical Execution |
Adam Clark, Optus AlphaWest |
Cisco ANZ’s Partner Insight Awards celebrate innovation, leadership and excellence within the business partner community. Award criteria include: architecture-led approach successes, business differentiation and strategic outcomes, and deep customer understanding. All winners were selected by a group of Cisco Australia and New Zealand Partner and Country executives.
- Ends -
About Cisco
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Information about Cisco can be found at http://www.cisco.com. For ongoing news, please go to http://newsroom.cisco.com.
# # #
Cisco and the Cisco logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cisco and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. A listing of Cisco's trademarks can be found at www.cisco.com/go/trademarks. Third-party trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. The use of the word partner does not imply a partnership relationship between Cisco and any other company.
