Oakton receives Microsoft’s first National Systems Integrator Award for Australia

Oakton, a leading Australian consulting and technology firm [ASX:OKN], has today announced that it has been recognised by Microsoft as one of only 12 organisations globally, and the only Australian systems integrator, to be awarded its National System Integrator (NSI) accolade. The award recognises Oakton’s contribution and commitment to driving solutions on Microsoft’s application platform.

Microsoft offers the NSI awards to acknowledge key partnerships globally. With approximately 80 NSIs in over 30 countries around the world, this distinction places Oakton as one of the leading systems integrators in the Asia Pacific region.

Oakton’s CEO, Neil Wilson commented: “Oakton has accepted this  award from Microsoft with great delight. It is a first for an Australian company. We are excited that such an award recognises our commitment to working with leading edge application platforms to deliver sustainable and robust business applications to our clients.”

Oakton architect, design and implement industry-focused, integrated solutions leveraging the Microsoft technologies across a variety of domains including portals and collaboration, application development, business intelligence, customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP).

Oakton is helping a wide range of clients across Australia mange the complexity of business interaction, through integrated business application deployment across the Microsoft technology stack (software, platform, infrastructure) into integrated solutions (or services). Key initiatives include the provisioning of single focused services including cloud capabilities on the Microsoft platform; managing subscriptions; seats and licenses as part of its application managed services business and solution development for big data, mobility, collaboration solutions and Windows 8 adoption.

Oakton currently has over 150 Microsoft Certified professionals on staff.