By Staff Writer WINDHOEK In yet another in a string of achievement this year, Business Connexion Namibia’s Microsoft Competency division recently won the coveted Best Gold Partner in East South Africa award from Microsoft in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe on May 3, 2007. The Best Gold Partner in East South Africa award, grants the best Microsoft Certified Gold Partner the highest level of partnership from Microsoft in all thirteen countries that make up the East South Africa region of the Microsoft Africa operations. This reflects the world-class level of Microsoft solutions and services that Business Connexion Namibia provides customers in Namibia. This award was a direct result of the huge investment that Business Connexion Namibia has made in our local business model and technical skills base. Business Connexion Namibia has not only realigned our business model into a solution competency-based model that is aligned with our Solutions Integration Model, but has invested in the largest and most skilled Microsoft talent pool in Namibia. Best Gold Partner in South East Africa follows shortly on the heels of Business Connexion Namibia achieving Microsoft Enterprise Software Adviser status in Namibia. With a staff complement of more than 17 Microsoft Professionals in the Microsoft Competency arm of the business, Business Connexion now offers Namibian customers end-to-end Microsoft solutions. Our Microsoft Competency assists our customers through the whole sales cycle of software solutions including licensing, consulting, designing and implementing and supporting. Our track record includes the design and implementation of some of the largest networks in Namibia. Comments BCX Namibia’s Manager: Technology Infrastructure, PJ Kotze: “Our core business is around infrastructure solutions and the Microsoft portfolio. Our solutions are based on best-of-breed products but integrate skills from all our competencies such as storage, server, networking and security solutions that create flexible, integrated infrastructures for our customers that amount to more than the sum of the products. “As one of the biggest service providers in Namibia, we have a major push to bring vital Microsoft solutions to our corporate customers and government sector clients. The significance of the approach is that in the long term we will be able to rationalize and standardize infrastructures in Namibia to ensure that IT becomes a business-enabler for our customers.” Business Connexion Namibia (Pty) Ltd is one of the largest black empowered ICT companies in Namibia, with a proud 26-year track record. A leading integrator of competitive, innovative business solutions based on Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Business Connexion Namibia has offices in Windhoek, Oshakati and Swakopmund with third-party service-providers in other major centres throughout Namibia.