Microsoft today announced that Softline Malaysia has won the 2021 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award for Malaysia. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.

Atul Ahuja, Softline Group’s Senior Vice President for Asia Pacific, India and MEA said, “In recent years, we’ve seen digital transformation and cloud adoption taking prime seat and become a priority for every industry, businesses, and government(s) as well. In the times ahead, digital transformation and hyper cloud adoption will continue to accelerate in all fields.”

He added, “The award is a strong recognition for the hard work of the team in Softline Malaysia, and the joint successes with our customers’ projects and digital transformation initiatives. It is also a strong testament that our strategies of Glocal (Global Practices & Local Execution), Customer First, Focused Solutions and Services offerings are in the right direction.”

Softline’s global collaboration with Microsoft helps complete the solutions and offered that group makes for its customers. Together with Microsoft, the company is able to accelerate innovation and offer the best-in-class technical services and product offerings to all segments of the business, in a diverse country such as Malaysia.

The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered outstanding Microsoft-based solutions during the past year. Awards were classified in various of categories, with honorees chosen from a set of more than 4,400 submitted nominations from more than 100 countries worldwide.

“I am honored to announce the winners and finalists of the 2021 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards,” said Rodney Clark, corporate vice president, Global Partner Solutions, Channel Sales and Channel Chief, Microsoft. “These remarkable partners have displayed a deep commitment to building world-class solutions for customers—from cloud-to-edge—and represent some of the best and brightest our ecosystem has to offer.”

“The Microsoft partner community is a powerful ecosystem, being at the forefront of how we deliver technologies and drive innovation for customers in Malaysia and around the world,” said K Raman, Managing Director of Microsoft Malaysia. “We congratulate our 2021 Microsoft Partner of the Year for Malaysia, Softline Malaysia, as well as our finalists for their fine display of agility and creativity as they navigate a new normal for their businesses, bringing innovative solutions and services to customers through the adoption of Microsoft’s cloud services and technology.”

Among other finalists for Malaysia’s Partner of the Year Award 2021 are Enfrasys Consulting and Crayon Software Experts Malaysia. Meanwhile, Alfa Connections was also named a finalist as Microsoft’s Education Partner of the Year.