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SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Slalom Consulting announced it has been selected as a finalist for the Microsoft Business Intelligence and Digital Marketing Partner of the Year Awards.

Awards were presented in multiple categories, with winners chosen from a set of more than 3,000 entrants worldwide. The Business Intelligence Partner of the Year Award honors a partner who has delivered a Business Intelligence solution based on the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform. This award recognizes Slalom Consulting, who has empowered a customer's resources with self-service analysis and enabled the customer to create more aligned and informed decisions with better team collaboration.

“Working together with Microsoft, Slalom Consulting provides powerful business intelligence solutions to clients from global leaders to emerging companies. Customizable, scalable, and cloud-ready, Slalom’s BI solutions help businesses empower workers, streamline decision making, and turn data into actionable customer insights. We are honored to be named finalist for Microsoft’s Global Business Intelligence Partner of the Year,” said Eric Winton, Managing Director, Technology Solutions, Slalom Consulting.

The Digital Marketing Partner of the Year Award honors an exceptional partner who has excelled in developing rich Internet solutions that are highly functional, scalable, flexible, and secure through a unified platform for intranet, extranet, and Internet sites. This award recognizes Slalom Consulting as successfully developing innovative solutions that helped create engaging user experiences, cut costs, increased business agility, and delivered familiar authoring tools and processes for customers; and also have provided solutions that help customers develop a compelling web presence including social marketing, rich media and applications, search, digital marketing integration, and analytics.

“The shift in marketing from traditional media to online channels is driving companies to invest heavily in their retail portal platforms. Slalom’s deep user experience and SharePoint expertise enables us to deliver world-class retail portals and brand experiences to clients from global leaders to emerging companies. We are honored to be named finalist for Microsoft’s Global Digital Marketing Partner of the Year,” noted Joseph Davey, Managing Director at Slalom Consulting.

“We are proud to recognize this outstanding group from our highly valued worldwide partner network as our 2011 Partner Award finalists,” said Jon Roskill, corporate vice president, Worldwide Partner Group, Microsoft Corp. “We applaud the unique perspective and creativity each of these companies brings to solving customer business and technology challenges. Our strong partnership along with their commitment to customers plays an essential role in our mutual, long-term success.”

In addition to being named Finalist for Business Intelligence and Digital Marketing, Slalom Consulting also received the 2011 Global Online Services Solution Partner of the Year Award. These partner awards add to seven regional Microsoft awards won by the Slalom Consulting over the last twelve months, including:

• Northwest Area, Winning on Value Award (Seattle, Q2)
• Southwest Area, Winning on Value Award (Denver, Q2)
• Northwest Area, Best Practice Award (Portland, Q2)
• Northwest Area, Winning on Value Award (Seattle, Q3)
• Northwest Area, Winning on Value Award (Portland, Q3)
• Mid-West Area, Cloud Power Award (Chicago, Q3)
• South Central Area, Cloud Power Award (Dallas, Q4)

The Microsoft Partner Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the past year.