NEW DELHI: Mumbai-based TechGyan has been selected as Microsoft's Worldwide finalist for the 2007 Small Business Specialist partner of the year award. The awards are presented in a number of categories, with winners chosen from a pool of more than 1,800 entrants worldwide. The small business specialist partner of the year award honors those partners who are using Microsoft technology to deploy innovative small business solutions.

The winning partner will have demonstrated innovation in deploying a small business Microsoft-based solution (fewer than 50 employees or fewer than 25 PCs). The winning solution will have utilized key Microsoft products in the small business solutions stack including Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office Accounting 2007, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Microsoft Small Business Financials. The partner recognized by this award will have demonstrated how it provides ways for a small business to better connect with customers, partners and employees, to manage business processes productively and to reply on dependable, flexible and secure software.

"We have a diverse and talented partner ecosystem that each year raises the bar in the design and deployment of customer solutions built on Microsoft technologies," said Allison L. Watson, corporate VP, Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group. "We are pleased to recognize Techgyan as one of our partners leading the field in this category."TechGyan has two business units - networking services and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services. The BPO unit provides off shore services to mid sized businesses in the USA. The networking services unit provides end-to-end technology services around Microsoft platform to small and mid-seized businesses. Techgyan has also been nominated by Microsoft as partner area lead for India in the category of small business specialists.

DQC News Bureau