Phoenix is a finalist at the global Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards 2024
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Kelsey Smith
June 26th, 2024
We’re thrilled to announce that we are the only UK organisation to be named a finalist in the Education Industry category at the global Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards 2024!
Every year, thousands of organisations from over 100 countries make submissions to the Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards. Acting as the biggest accreditation within the IT industry, the Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards are highly esteemed and designed to showcase the Microsoft partners that really stand out from the crowd.
Competing with organisations across the globe to be recognised by Microsoft, this achievement highlights our dedication to serving the UK education sector with modern, transformative IT solutions and managed services spanning:
- Modern work and security
- Business applications
- Application and infrastructure
- Data and AI
Dedicated to supporting our education customers
Since we began serving the education sector over 30 years ago, we have supported over 1,800 education institutions with modern technology. Spanning K12, colleges, universities, and research institutes, we’ve empowered organisations like yours to drive change, accelerate modernisation, and improve experiences for students, teachers, and staff.
We care deeply about the future of education, even more so during this time of turbulent development and change. Our specialists don’t just deploy transformative solutions – they support you every step of the way to ensure your technology not only performs as expected but goes above and beyond.
Being a finalist in the Microsoft Education Partner of the Year category highlights our specialist skillset in supporting education customers in the best way possible. Our deep understanding of the inner workings of the sector and its needs is why so many customers in this industry trust us to implement, deploy, and manage Microsoft solutions. Through our longstanding relationship with Microsoft, we have leveraged the power of Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft Surface, Microsoft Intune, Windows, Power Platform, Azure, Copilot for Microsoft 365, and more to support our education customers.
Why Phoenix and Microsoft?
Phoenix Software has been a Microsoft partner since 1990, working together to deliver transformative solutions that drive success for organisations across the UK. Our partnership with Microsoft is built on a foundation of shared values, mutual trust, and a commitment to empowering our customers with cutting-edge technology solutions.
Phoenix is one of the most recognised and accredited world-leading Microsoft partners with a focus on transforming organisations across the UK.
- 2024 Global Microsoft Education Award Finalist
- Solutions Partner for Microsoft Cloud
- 50+ dedicated education-focused specialists
- Dedicated in-house resources aligned to sustainability, accessibility and digital skills/ inclusion
- Sole supply of Azure to the education sector via OCRE with 174 institutions onboarded
- 11 Microsoft Advanced Specializations
- Purpose-built Accessibility Centre of Excellence
- Microsoft Azure Expert MSP
- Partnerships with educational institutions and charities to deliver career talks, digital skills enablement, mentoring, interview skills, and encouraging girls to study STEM
Contact our Microsoft Specialists today to explore our Microsoft solutions portfolio
We have multiple Education Specialists dedicated to providing organisations like yours with modern technology to accelerate impact and change. Contact us today to discuss the Microsoft solutions portfolio to accelerate impact and change.
Our Microsoft accreditations
About the author
Kelsey joined Phoenix in 2022 as the Content and Social Media Apprentice, working closely with the Marketing Team to develop her skills in digital marketing. Kelsey’s passion lies in content creation, which is reflected in her contributions across all areas of the business, from external and internal campaigns to our social media accounts.
Kelsey is not only keen to learn about marketing, but also the challenges organisations face and how Phoenix helps them overcome these.