On December 16, 2008 ELEKS Software was announced among the 20 winners of the 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards in Kyiv, Ukraine. All in all, award-winners were chosen out of 1300 Microsoft partners in Ukraine and honored in 20 nominations representing business achievements in promoting different tools and products of Microsoft.

ELEKS Software has won the prestigious award and become the best company in the nomination “For the contribution to the development of the market of software solutions based on the Microsoft platform”. ELEKS has once again demonstrated its outstanding capability of creating software solutions which use the possibilities of Microsoft advanced products and technologies to a maximum extent. As Oleksiy Skrypnyk, Director and CEO at ELEKS Software said, “the partnership with Microsoft Corporation opened to us entirely new possibilities for business growth and allowed to deliver the most innovative software solutions to our customers.”

It is worth mentioning that ELEKS Software first became a Microsoft Certified Partner in 2001 and in 2006 the company was recognized as the Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. In 2007 after passing the Microsoft platform tests by its software product, ELEKS Software earned the ISV/Software Solutions Competency in Microsoft Partner Program thus demonstrating its strong expertise and proven ability in creating solutions with Microsoft technologies that meet customers’ needs.

At the award ceremony Eric Franke, General Director of “Microsoft Ukraine” noted that the development of Microsoft partner network was one of the major priorities of Microsoft activity in Ukraine. He also added that presently Microsoft has been focusing on close cooperation with Ukrainian partners to provide feasible consulting and financial support and to favor the sustained development of the Ukrainian IT market.

The award ceremony also provided a marvelous chance for IT professionals to exchange views on tendencies and plans concerning the national IT market development in the current economic conditions.