NPS received a Microsoft award for best BI product in the CEE region

Huston, 8. July 2008   

NPS Group received a Microsoft award for best business intelligence solution in the Western and Middle Europe region. The award was collected by NPS representatives on Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 in Huston USA. The awarded solution, BI4Dynamics is an innovative business intelligence solution, which can be deployed in any company, regardless of its size. NPS expects that the award will help them with expanding BI4Dynamics on the global market through a partner network, they are building. A video clip with NPS management statement can be viewed on http://www.msinfo.si/.

Microsoft has awarded NPS for their product BI4Dynamics on special event within the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008. BI4Dynamics was selected for the best business intelligence solution in western and middle Europe region. With selecting NPS, Microsoft has awarded their hard work and devotedness to BI4Dynamics development. BI4Dynamics is successfully present on Slovenian market, in the near future NPS is planning to expand the product on the global market through the partner network they are establishing.

Video: Mladen Gvozdenović, NPS general manager

“The received award is a great success for NPS and it proves that BI4Dynamics can compete with the best” said Mladen Gvozdenović, NPS general manager. “The award will bring us great opportunities and on the same time proves that with our knowledge and the right orientation we can gain success on global market as well.

BI4Dynamics is a standardized business intelligence solution, which enables the companies to deploy an effective analytical and reporting tool, based on Microsoft Dynamics business solution data. Standard BI4Dynamics installation consists of predefined OLAP cubes and predefined reports. The solution is independent of front-end tool, so users can use different tools to analyze data (for example Microsoft Excel).

“With standardization of different components we achieved that BI4Dynamics can be deployed in less than one hour, which is great result for business intelligence solution,” explained Grega Jerkič, head of BI at NPS. “We developed BI4Dynamics mainly in NPS, but we cooperated with Slovenian business intelligence experts who shared their knowledge and experience as well.”

NPS has accomplished numerous successes on Slovenian market. In the past year NPS has established first contacts with partners across the Europe. Microsoft award is an important recognition to their solution, which will help NPS to breakthrough on global market. NPS is preparing an important BI4Dynamics project, where BI4Dynamics will be used on the biggest Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation on the world. At NPS they strongly believe that the project will be successful.

“NPS received an important award, which is granted by Microsoft on a global level. This means that competition is extremely strong,” said Matej Potokar, general manager of Slovenian Microsoft subsidiary. We are enthusiastic about that Microsoft can help their partners all over the world with promotion of solutions like BI4Dynamics. We are convicted in BI4Dynamics further success, and we congratulate NPS for this really big accomplishment.

Foto: Mladen Gvozdenovič, NPS general manager and Allison Watson, Corporate VicePresident, Worldwide Partner Group, Microsoft.

Microsoft has granted the awards in 23 different categories, the award winners were selected out of 47.000 partners in the region. NPS received the award for their innovativeness and commitment to cooperation with Microsoft. The awards were designated for partners in the region, who identified a new business opportunity on the market and took advantage of it by using the latest Microsoft Technology.