By Alice Chambers |
Microsoft has named its Partner of the Year Awards winners and finalists for 2025. The awards acknowledge outstanding achievements and innovations form the Microsoft partner ecosystem across a range of sectors and industries.
This year’s award recipients were selected from 4,600 nominations from 100 countries and regions for awards in eight categories including Azure, Business Applications, Modern Work, Security, Industry, Social Impact, Partner Innovation and Business Transformation.
“Every submission showcased innovation, technical excellence and inclusion as partners bring transformative solutions to market,” said Nicole Dezen, chief partner officer and corporate vice president of global channel partner sales at Microsoft. “These awards recognise the partners who have set a new standard for excellence by activating frontier firm’ capability, advancing business transformation, creating customer success and contributing to positive change in their communities.”
Some of the winners and finalists include 3Cloud, Accenture/Avanade, AVEVA, Blue Yonder, BioCatch, Coretek, EY, Fractal, IBM Consulting, KPMG, MongoDB, Ontinue, PwC, Sight Machine, Siemens and Valorem Reply.
“We’re proud to be named Microsoft’s 2025 Manufacturing Partner of the Year,” said Rob McGreevy, chief product officer at AVEVA. “The award and our work together validates what we’re seeing on factory floors around the world: pairing deep industrial domain expertise with hyperscale cloud intelligence can fundamentally reimagine what’s possible in manufacturing and industry.”
Read how AVEVA is using Microsoft technology to design and deliver new products for manufacturing in our Autumn 2025 issue, and our report from AVEVA’s booth at Hannover Messe 2025
“Winning the Microsoft Partner of the Year Award for Retail & Consumer Goods is a testament to our commitment to delivering enterprise-grade GenAI solutions at scale,” said Pranay Agrawal, co-founder and CEO of Fractal. “With Azure AI Foundry as our backbone, we’ve moved beyond proof-of-concept to production-ready deployments that are transforming consumer engagement, operational efficiency, and decision intelligence for our retail and consumer goods clients.”
Read how Fractal is helping retailers boost customer loyalty, trust and return on attention with AI-powered hyperpersonalisation in our Summer 2025 issue
“We’re incredibly proud to be recognised by Microsoft for our commitment to the healthcare and life sciences community,” said Geoff Haydon, CEO of Ontinue. “Healthcare organisations face unique pressures: protecting patient data, maintaining compliance, and keeping critical systems available around the clock. Our partnership with Microsoft allows us to deliver scalable, agentic AI-driven security operations that give CISOs and their teams the confidence to focus on what truly matters: advancing patient care and innovation.”
Microsoft will celebrate the winners and finalists at Microsoft Ignite 2025.
“I look forward to connecting with many of you there as we recognise success, share insights, and continue to accelerate opportunity and innovation together,” said Dezen.