Microsoft Awards ePartners with CRM Excellence

ePartners Recognized as Top Global Microsoft CRM Partner

(Dallas, TX) ePartners®—a leading business solutions provider and IT consultant for middle market companies—announced today it was named the winner of the Customer Relationship Management (Microsoft CRM) Excellence Award by Microsoft, as part of Microsoft’s annual Microsoft Certified Partner Awards. ePartners accepted the award at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference 2003 in New Orleans, LA.

“The entire ePartners Team is thrilled to be awarded the CRM Excellence Award from Microsoft. Winning the CRM Excellence Award is equivalent to winning the World Series…it takes lots of teamwork and dedicated preparation. Our team has been training for over eight years for this. With the introduction of Microsoft’s CRM solution, we have an offering that squarely addresses what our clients are seeking, a “safe” solution that leverages the Microsoft platform with immediate return on investment. We are very pleased to be recognized by Microsoft for our commitment to being the industry leader in delivering CRM solutions to clients that view information technology as a competitive advantage,” says Dan Duffy, president of ePartners.

ePartners has delivered over 12,000 business solutions and over 500 CRM solutions to clients over an 11 year period, which made ePartners a logical partner for a leadership role in Microsoft’s CRM Beta program. ePartners was the first partner to build integration from Microsoft CRM to SharePoint, and now offers SharePoint as an integral part of their 100% Guaranteed Solution Series. ePartners has also consistently been a top Microsoft partner based on new client engagements and customer loyalty.

In the first half of 2003, ePartners added more Microsoft CRM customers than any of Microsoft's other 2,000+ channel partners. The Company leveraged its experience gained through over eight years of deploying solutions to its customers. "We offer deep CRM experience and reliability... we also guarantee that the Microsoft CRM solution will be fully implemented in 60 days or 100% of your money back… no one else can touch this offer,” continued Duffy.

The awards recognize Microsoft Certified Partners and Microsoft Certified Business Solutions Partners that delivered exemplary solutions for their customers during the past year.

More information about ePartners can be found at www.epartnersolutions.com.

About ePartners, Inc.

As the largest global partner for Microsoft Business Solutions (Great Plains, Solomon, Axapta) and Best Software (PFW, MAS and SalesLogix), ePartners is the leading provider of Microsoft-based business solutions in North America. The company implements, deploys, develops and manages the leading Microsoft-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP/Accounting), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Professional Services Automation (PSA), Business Analytics, eBusiness Integration and Infrastructure technologies on the market. Backed by Texas Growth Fund, Austin Ventures, Capital Resource Partners and Liberty Mutual, the company has assisted more than 8,800 customers in 50 industries and 45 countries. In 2001, ePartners was recognized by Inc magazine as the fifteenth fastest-growing private technology company in America. ePartners celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2002.

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