Winning together at Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards 2025

Eight accolades for SoftwareOne and Crayon

SoftwareOne and Crayon have secured multiple Microsoft Partner of the Year awards for 2025, demonstrating the respective strengths of our organizations. The recognition spans six country awards, the category award in ‘Secure Productivity,’ as well as finalist status in the ‘Scale Solutions’ category.

This wide range of awards showcases real customer impact. Each represents real projects that have delivered measurable business outcomes and solved complex technical challenges. 
This is what our integrated excellence will continue to deliver in the future - and why our customers are already noticing that we’re “better together.”

Category excellence

The breadth of recognition we’ve achieved this year reflects the depth of our combined capabilities. Microsoft's Partner of the Year awards honor organizations that demonstrate exceptional innovation in delivering customer value through Microsoft technologies. 

SoftwareOne achieved distinction in two global categories:

• Our Category Award for Secure Productivity recognized our leadership in protecting productivity environments while enabling secure collaboration.
• Our Scale Solutions submission earned Finalist status, acknowledging our innovative approaches to enterprise-scale cloud transformation.

In the Secure Productivity category, SoftwareOne Thailand demonstrated how to prepare organizations for AI integration while maintaining rigorous security standards across complex enterprise environments.

Thai organizations in finance, education, and manufacturing faced a critical challenge: enabling hybrid work and AI-driven productivity without compromising security or regulatory compliance. SoftwareOne Thailand developed a consultative approach centered on Secure Productivity Proof of Value workshops that helped organizations identify endpoint vulnerabilities, assess identity risks, and address data governance gaps.

This diagnostic method led to targeted Microsoft 365 E3 deployments integrating Defender for Endpoint, Intune, and Entra ID. For organizations ready to advance, the team integrated Microsoft 365 Copilot into secure frameworks—launching AI capabilities on hardened security foundations. 

Impact across countries and continents

This year's results also show our strength across geographic markets and technical solution areas with our teams earning Partner of the Year status in six markets (Colombia, Bulgaria, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, Sri Lanka). Each country award represents recognition as the top Microsoft partner in that market.

To take a deeper dive on a couple of examples, SoftwareOne Colombia earned Partner of the Year recognition for HCN Connect. This cloud-native platform has transformed how a leading energy company manages crude and gas commercialization. The solution replaced a costly, inflexible legacy system with a modern Azure-based platform built using Container Apps, Azure SQL Database, and Azure DevOps. The business impact for the client was immediate. The customer achieved over 65% cost reduction with ROI delivered in under six months. 

In another country win on another continent, Crayon Bulgaria earned Partner of the Year recognition for demonstrating how advanced security and cloud infrastructure solutions can drive business transformation in specialized industries. The team achieved 69.5% year-over-year CSP revenue growth and 27.4% growth in Microsoft 365 E5 deployments.

It’s a partnership proven to drive growth, innovation, and success, empowering customers to thrive in the digital economy.