Today, ITWorx proudly announced it has won the Partner of the Year Award for Custom Development Solutions, Web Development at the 2007 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Program Awards. The company was chosen out of an international field of top Microsoft Partners as delivering market-leading customer solutions built on Microsoft technology. The awards were distributed at a ceremony on July 11 in Denver, CO at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.

"We are extremely thrilled to be recognized by Microsoft as the ‘2007 Web Development Partner of the Year’, this crowns the success we have had with Microsoft in our Portal Development practice and validates our customers’ choice as the best Web Development Microsoft partner in the world”, said Wael Amin, President, ITWorx.

Awards were presented in a number of categories, with winners chosen from a pool of more than 1,800 entrants worldwide. ITWorx was recognized for superior technology and innovation in Custom Development Solutions, Web Solutions. The Custom Development Solutions, Web Development Partner of the Year award recognizes exceptional, innovative partners that focus on the development of customized solutions, web solutions, and tools built on Microsoft technologies leveraging the Visual Studio family of development tools. Specifically, custom development partners may deliver highly customized solutions to support customer unique business practices, deliver one-off enhancements that allow customers to integrate existing systems with new technologies, or develop extensions to existing Microsoft solutions that the customer may already employ.

"ITWorx winning solution provides an online number registration and booking system to coincide with its "055 My Number" pre-launch marketing campaign to enable UAE potential consumers and business customers to book and purchase their 055-prefixed mobile phone number online. With over 100,000 booking requests received within just the first two days of the campaign, this solution, based on key products within the Microsoft application platform stack; Visual Studio, MS SQL, MS Reporting Services, and the .NET framework, makes this solution an excellent choice for customers," said Ali Faramawy, Area Vice President, Microsoft Middle East & Africa and Vice President, Microsoft International.

The Microsoft Partner Program Awards recognize Microsoft Partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the last year.