SQUALIO is awarded with the prestigious Microsoft prize

SQUALIO is repeatedly awarded with the prestigious Microsoft Corporation prize  - Partner of the Year in Latvia 2016. The company was appreciated among the best Microsoft partners in the world who have shown their excellence in implementing innovative solutions that are based on Microsoft technologies. The award was presented in the course of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference that takes place in July 10-14 in Toronto, Canada.

SQUALIO was awarded with this distinguished prize for assessment of the potential of cloud solutions and implementation of the Office 365 solution in the wholesale company of oil products OVI. At the beginning of the project the software at the disposal of the company was counted and the environment of the IT infrastructure was assessed; this resulted in a detailed software report and suggestions from an expert for a further strategy of the company's IT infrastructure. According to the data acquired regarding the existing IT situation, the Office 365 was recognized as the most appropriate solution for a further operation of the organization.

"With every year it becomes more challenging to prepare and submit an application for the award as technologies develop at a rapid pace and the competitors are very active as well.  However, it is a pleasure that together with the company OVI we have managed to achieve a remarkable result which is also appreciated at an international level. A good partnership and trust is the cornerstone of every success, and I would like to thank the OVI team for this. We all invested a lot of work to find the most appropriate solution precisely for the needs and daily specifics of OVI; it will enable the company to become even more modern and competitive within its field in the future", says Gatis Ošs, Member of the Management Board at SQUALIO.

"Our aim was to find out the existing situation in the company and its readiness to migrate to cloud technologies in order to reduce the costs related to the existing IT management and become more productive on the daily basis. Together with SQUALIO we succeeded at this. Now we see the increase in productivity at all levels, and the employees can concentrate more on the strategic tasks. We are glad for the opportunity to work from any place and device, freely accessing our business data. We genuinely care for our business and we want to know how to manage the processes better, quicker and with increased quality", comments Jevgenijs Oderovs, Head of OVI. The nomination Partner of the Year is granted every year to a company that has shown excellent results on a national level, offering the most efficient Microsoft cloud solutions to its customers both in the private and public sector on an annual basis. Awards are presented in several nominations, and the winner is selected from more than 2500 applications from 119 countries.