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Metalogix Announces Best of Breed Showcase Awards Winners at
Star-Studded SharePoint Conference 2014 Gala
WASHINGTON, March 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- This evening, Metalogix,
along with its Best of Breed SharePoint Showcase Partners, revealed
the winners of the prestigious Best of Breed SharePoint Showcase
Awards at Microsoft's global SharePoint Conference 2014. Winners were
heralded at the star-studded and high-energy Metalogix Best of Breed
Showcase Awards party, which was held at the Las Vegas Marquee
nightclub with more than 2,500 guests in attendance. The Best of Breed
Showcase Awards is a cornerstone of Metalogix' Best of Breed Showcase
Partnership that brings together SharePoint industry thought leaders
and solution providers to foster industry collaboration and promote
better business value for SharePoint deployments.
Winners in six categories were selected from a field of 19 finalists,
who were selected from more than 70 outstanding case study nominations
submitted for consideration. A distinguished panel of nine industry
expert judges comprised of Microsoft MVPs, journalists, technology
executives and other SharePoint thought leaders, reviewed and
evaluated the submissions. Winners were selected based on their
abilities to conceive, develop and deploy SharePoint tools and best
practices that improve and enhance SharePoint deployments and deliver
significant benefit to the organizations they support. Best of Breed
Showcase Awards winners are SharePoint architects, collaboration teams
or companies demonstrating exceptional use and innovation of
SharePoint and its complementary technologies to deliver robust and
high-quality SharePoint deployments.
"The innovation and focus on business impact for SharePoint
deployments exhibited by the Best of Breed Showcase Awards winners is
astounding. I am impressed by the quality of the more than 70
submissions we received," said Trevor Hellebuyck, Metalogix CTO for
Product Management and Architecture, and Best of Breed Showcase Awards
Judge. "All of the winners presented innovative approaches and
technologies that have transformed the quality of SharePoint
deployments."
"Tonight we celebrated the SharePoint architects, collaboration teams
and companies, who have distinguished themselves from their peers as
Best of Breed Showcase Awards Winners. These winners are fulfilling
our vision for the Best of Breed Showcase Awards as they successfully
inspire high quality SharePoint deployments and demonstrate how
businesses benefit from improved knowledge sharing and collaboration
within a secure content management platform," said Steven Murphy,
Metalogix CEO. "We will be showcasing these innovative solutions and
technologies globally, across the SharePoint collaboration community,
to support our mission to improve the state of SharePoint deployments
that increase business value."
Best of Breed SharePoint Showcase Awards Winners include:
-- Best Adoption and Empowerment of Business Users: Nationwide
Insurance
-- Best Business Process Solution for SharePoint: MOEITS
-- Best Cloud or Hybrid SharePoint Deployment: Deluxe Corporation
-- Best Global Deployment of SharePoint: Freeport-McMoRan Copper &
Gold Inc.
-- Best Governance and Compliance: Carpenter Technology
-- Best Use of Storage Technology to Drive Performance Gains: Chemical
Bank
Winning entry descriptions and a list of Best of Breed SharePoint
Showcase Awards winners, finalists, partners and judges can be found
at: http://www.metalogix.com/BestOfBreed.
Metalogix Best of Breed Showcase Metalogix Best of Breed Showcase
brings together top SharePoint solution and technology partners, and
industry influencers to drive innovation and inspire high quality
SharePoint deployments. The Best of Breed Showcase creates expanded
opportunities for industry collaboration through leading edge
knowledge sharing forums and recognition of the SharePoint ecosystem's
most inventive solutions. Best of Breed Showcase Partners include
platinum partners Avnet, Beezy, EMC@ Corporation, K2, and
KnowledgeLake; gold partners BrightStarr, Concept Searching,
Equilibrium, Gimmal, and Neudesic; and silver partners Avanade,
HiSoftware, Kapow Software, and Portal Solutions. Visit
http://www.metalogix.com/BestOfBreed for more information about the
Best of Breed Showcase.
SharePoint Conference 2014 Metalogix is a silver sponsor of
Microsoft's SharePoint Conference 2014. The company is exhibiting and
demonstrating its powerful suite of best of breed products to
companies looking for a better way to manage their SharePoint
deployments, with specific new announcements on how to streamline
migration of email, files and SharePoint to Office 365. See and try
our expanded portfolio of SharePoint management tools at booth #509.
Also, Christian Buckley, Metalogix Director of Product Evangelism,
Microsoft MVP and Best of Breed Showcase Awards Judge is presenting at
SPC14 on Thursday, March 6, 2014, from 10:30-11:45 a.m. in the Bellini
room 2001-2106. Buckley's session, "SharePoint in the clouds - select,
mix, and deploy what's right for you," is designed to help ITIs and
ITDMs find the right cloud deployment formula based on practical
business and technical considerations.
About Metalogix Metalogix is the leader in management tools for
Microsoft content and collaboration platforms, including SharePoint,
Exchange, and Office 365. Metalogix tools provide a better way to
monitor, migrate, store, synchronize, archive, govern and backup
content. 14,000 customers on 7 continents rely on Metalogix' best of
breed suite of tools and 24x7 LIVE support to improve availability,
reduce risks, and lower costs of their mission-critical Microsoft
platforms.
Metalogix is a Microsoft Gold Partner, Microsoft Public Sector managed
partner and certified GSA provider. Headquartered in Washington, DC,
Metalogix is backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture
Partners.
SOURCE Metalogix
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/CONTACT: Kevin McGorry, 703-777-4322
/Web Site: http://www.metalogix.com/BestOfBreed
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