Cisco Partner Awards: WWT, Logicalis, Ingram Micro, Others Win Big

Cisco Systems handed out awards to its top resellers, MSPs, distributors, hyperscalers and other partner types at its annual Partner Summit last week.

CDW claimed the title of Americas Partner of the Year, while World Wide Technology won Enterprise Partner of the Year. In addition, Cisco recognized Ingram Micro as Distributor of the Year.

The list of winners reflects the large ecosystem Cisco runs. The traditional “resale” partner firms one might expect to see, such as CDW and ePlus, won awards from Cisco. However, the list also includes a large facilities-based service provider in Orange Business Services to, a public cloud provider in Amazon Web Services and the IT behemoth Microsoft (which recently teamed with Cisco around collaboration).

Cisco’s Oliver Tuszik

“Eevery year we take time to recognize our top-performing partners and their respective achievements. This year is a bit special. Not only because we were able to celebrate our winners in person in Las Vegas, but because becoming one of the top partners achieving a global award in these times of unpredictable challenges is even more impressive,” said Oliver Tuszik, Cisco’s senior vice president of global partner sales and general manager of routes to market.

The Winners

Cisco recognized 19 partners in 21 different categories. Cisco recognized the winners at the summit through a video presentation underlayed by a live drum line that Tuszik joined. Read the list of winners below.

Application Experience Partner of the Year: Accenture

Americas Partner of the Year: CDW

Software Partner of the Year: CDW

Security Partner of the Year: Data#3 Limited

Marketing Partner of the Year: ePlus

Cloud Partner of the Year: e-Tech System Co., Ltd.

Distributor of the Year: Ingram Micro

Enterprise Networking & Meraki Partner of the Year: Logicalis

EMEA Partner of the Year: Mannai Trading Company

Value Extend Partner of the Year: Microsoft

APJC Partner of the Year: Net One Systems Co., Ltd.

Managed Services Partner of the Year: NTT

Collaboration Partner of the Year: Orange Business Services

Customer Experience Partner of the Year: Presidio

Mass Scale Infrastructure Partner of the Year: PT MASTERSYSTEM INFOTAMA

IoT/Industry Partner of the Year: Rockwell Automation

Social Impact Partner of the Year: SEVENET S.A.

SMB and Commercial Partner of the Year: Softcat Plc

Transformation Partner of the Year: VELOCIS SYSTEMS PVT LTD

Enterprise Partner of the Year: World Wide Technology

Service Provider Partner of the Year: World Wide Technology

Cisco also released a deep list of geographically oriented partner awards. One highlight is ePlus winning U.S. Partner of the Year.

Furthermore, Cisco on Monday recognized its Marketing Velocity Award award winners:

Partner Marketing Innovator of the Year, EMEA: Emircon

Partner Marketing Innovator of the Year, Americas: ePlus

Distributor Marketing Innovator of the Year, Americas: Ingram Micro

Partner Marketing Innovator of the Year, APJC: Logicalis

Distributor Marketing Innovator of the Year, EMEA: Silicon21

Global Marketing Partner of the Year: ePlus

Partner Summit

Cisco at its annual partner summit unveiled multiple new incentives and offerings. That included an entirely new track of partner specializations, expanded access to sell Cisco’s contact center offering, and multiple financial incentives for selling cybersecurity. Read Channel Futures’ in-depth recap of the event.