27 March 2006
Logicalis Wins Top Awards Including Cisco Worldwide Enterprise Partner of the Year
Global service-driven strategy wins plaudits from Cisco and IBM
Logicalis announced today that it has won seven prestigious awards from Cisco and IBM, validating the company's commitment to developing strong partnerships, highlighting its global reach, and proving its ability to deliver world class solutions that meet customer needs. The awards were presented during March at the Cisco Partner Summit 2006 in San Diego and at IBM's Partner World 2006 in Las Vegas.
Cisco awards
Logicalis received two of Cisco's most prestigious citations:
- The ‘Cisco Worldwide Enterprise Partner of the Year 2005' award, Cisco's top award for its enterprise partners, was presented to Logicalis Argentina.
- The ‘Cisco European Services Partner of the Year 2005' award, an award which is testament to the skills, dedication and passion for service delivery within the Logicalis team.
In addition Logicalis received:
- The ‘Cisco Gold Partner of the Year Award' in the UK.
- The ‘Cisco Services Partner of the Year Award' in the UK.
- The ‘Cisco South America Enterprise Partner of the Year 2005' and the ‘Cisco South America Partner of the Year 2005' award.
The awards were given to Logicalis for consistently leading the way in providing customers and partners with innovative, market leading services, solutions and applications. In addition, Logicalis was recognised for gaining expertise in Cisco's specialisations and achieving a consistent high level of customer satisfaction.
IBM award
Logicalis was presented with the ‘Best IBM xSeries On Demand Solution' award at the annual IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards. This honours IBM Business Partners for their innovation, customer satisfaction and outstanding achievements in providing on demand business solutions.
Jens Montanana, CEO of Logicalis Group said, "These awards are testimony to our commitment to delivering excellence to the global marketplace and to our ability to deliver cutting edge innovative value to our customers." He continued, "We are committed to making Logicalis a top five IT business solutions provider in our core markets, and these accolades are a sure sign that we are well on our way to achieving that goal."
About Cisco Global Partner Awards
The Cisco Global Awards are conferred to partners who meet a specific set of requirements, which are designed to identify the best channel partner in each category. Cisco has also built a formalized nomination and selection process that begins with each sales theatre identifying and nominating a channel partner for each category. These nominations are reviewed and a collective group that includes Cisco worldwide channels and theatre channel executives makes final selections. All of the global and theatre Partner of the Year awards are in compliance with the requirements of the Cisco Channel Partner Program and customer satisfaction is a foundational criterion.
For more features, news, videos, and photos relating to the Cisco 2006 Partner Summit, held in March in San Diego visit http://newsroom.cisco.com/partnersummit/.
About IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards
862 nominations were judged by a team of leading industry journalists, analysts, and IBM executives, who selected winners and finalists in 36 award categories. IBM Business Partners were honoured during the IBM PartnerWorld 2006 Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada in March. For more information about the IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards please visit
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About Logicalis
Logicalis is an international provider of high-performance IT integration solutions. The Logicalis Group employs 1000 people worldwide, including highly-trained service specialists who specify, design, deploy and manage IT infrastructure to meet the needs of over 5,000 corporate and public sector customers. Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with technology leaders such as IBM, HP and Cisco.
The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, a $3 billion revenue business listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. With its international headquarters in the UK, Logicalis has annualised global revenues of approximately $700 million from operations in the U.S., UK, Germany, and South America. For more information, visit www.uk.logicalis.com.