Intel Announces APJ and India Partner Awards

What’s New: Today, Intel announced the recipients of its prestigious Intel Partner Alliance Partner of the Year awards, recognizing 24 outstanding partners in Asia Pacific, Japan (APJ) and India.  These awards honor the achievements of member companies within the Intel Partner Alliance, highlighting their utilization of Intel’s latest products and technologies. Winning partners have demonstrated exceptional technology innovation in developing solutions and innovative marketing strategies. These partners offer the total cost of ownership and time-to-value customers need to win, as they address escalating demands of computing and artificial intelligence.

What It Signifies: Winning companies showcased their commitment to customer success with deep collaboration across hardware, software and service partners throughout the channel ecosystem. Their remarkable achievements exemplify the visionary spirit driving Intel and our industry. Through their deep collaboration and groundbreaking solutions, these partners have established themselves as pioneers, driving synergy within ecosystems in APJ and India.

How Winners are Selected: The Intel Partner Alliance’s Partner of the Year awards are given to companies that achieve the highest standards of design, development, integration and technology deployment. Intel evaluated partners based on their significant contributions in revenue growth, technology innovation and market acceleration.

Partner of the Year Winners: This year’s winners show leadership across the ecosystem with Intel’s technologies in multiple categories, including Hall of Fame, Breakthrough Innovation, Market Acceleration and Outstanding Growth.

Hall of Fame

Individuals that made significant contributions in advocating and driving Intel priorities with industry, government or ecosystem partners. Hall of Fame winners lead with an active voice at Intel forums with market insights and help make Intel more customer-obsessed.

• Hall of Fame CxO: Don Tan, World Peace International (South Asia) Pte Ltd.
• Hall of Fame Ops Manager:  Joe Zhou, Synnex Australia Pty Ltd.

Breakthrough Innovation

These partners continuously improve and enable the ecosystem to be more curious, bold and innovative. They demonstrate a commitment to innovation and have a proven track record of bringing new products and solutions to the market that feature the latest Intel technologies.

• Breakthrough Innovation – Distributor: INTECH&Company
• Breakthrough Innovation – OEM/ODM: Bits & Bytes Integrators Pvt Ltd.
• Breakthrough Innovation – ISV: Bud Ecosystem Inc.
• Breakthrough Innovation – SI/GSI/MSP:  SHINSEGAE I&C

Market Acceleration

These partners deliver Intel products to market effectively and drive ongoing go-to-market improvements. They demonstrate a clear understanding of market intelligence, market segmentation and product messaging around Intel products. These partners build successful strategies for driving brand awareness of Intel product launches and engage in co-branded activities to advance joint business goals.

• Market Acceleration – Distributor: TEKWIND Co., Ltd.
• Market Acceleration – OEM/ODM:  SNS Network (M) Sdn Bhd
• Market Acceleration – ISV:  LAB³
• Market Acceleration – SI/GSI/MSP: HCL Technologies Ltd.

Outstanding Growth

These partners are making significant contributions to revenue and increasing the number of channel partners reached on Intel’s behalf. These partners apply their expertise in ways that help Intel’s products outshine competitors and win customers.

• Outstanding Growth – Distributor Data Center & AI Group: WPG C&C Computers and Peripherals India
• Outstanding Growth – Distributor Network & Edge Group:  UNIQUEST
• Outstanding Growth – Distributor Client Computing Group: World Peace Industrial Co., Ltd.
• Outstanding Growth – Data Center & AI Group:  Netweb Technologies India Limited
• Outstanding Growth – Network & Edge Group: Getac Technology Corp.
• Outstanding Growth – Client Computing Group: VAIO Corp.
• Outstanding Growth – Branded Distributor:  OTSUKA Corp.
• Outstanding Growth – IACS:  Arihant Computers
• Outstanding Growth – OEM/ODM:  THIRDWAVE Corp.
• Outstanding Growth – ISV:  Fortinet Asia Pacific
• Outstanding Growth – Solution Provider: Yokogawa Rental & Lease Corp.
• Outstanding Growth – Managed Service Provider: Cloud Kinetics Services Pte Ltd.
• Outstanding Growth – Service Integrator:  Logicalis APAC
• Outstanding Growth – Global Service Integrator: Wipro Ltd.