“This award reflects our commitment to quality, reliability, performance, and innovation in product design and development, and recognizes the success of our solution for our customer, Brandimensions,” said Leslie Goldsmith, director of Affinity Systems. “Our software development expertise, problem solving skills, and familiarity with the Microsoft-based platform allowed us to provide an extraordinarily high level of competence in addressing the Brandimensions business problem.”
Awards were presented in several categories, with winners chosen from a pool of more than 2,400 entrants worldwide. Affinity Systems won this year’s award in high-performance computing for its implementation of a massively-parallel and high-performance application. The application is used by Brandimensions to provide corporate brand protection and market intelligence services based upon data mined from the Internet.
“Our solution uses sophisticated proprietary technology to automate the collection of relevant data essential for delivering valuable and actionable information,” said Leslie Goldsmith. “Using our Internet monitoring technology, Brandimensions detects, analyzes, and generates intelligence on millions of relevant comments about its clients’ products and services.”
At the core of the solution is a high-performance, multi-terabyte database using SQL Server™. The database holds more than 50 billion links mapped for 7 billion URLs and 180 million web sites. Close to 1 billion pages are fetched and analyzed by the system each month.
“It is a privilege to recognize Affinity Systems as a winner of this year’s Winning Customer Award,” said Allison Watson, corporate vice president of the Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft. “It is this level of commitment in reaching out to customers and underscoring the value of the Microsoft Windows-based integrated software platform that enables continued success for us and for our technology partners. We applaud Affinity Systems for its efforts to implement solutions that successfully met its customer’s IT needs by building applications that take advantage of the Microsoft platform.”
“Affinity Systems and Brandimensions are a terrific example of how technology partners work in close collaboration with customers to solve complex problems on the Microsoft-based platform,” added Lora Gernon, Director, Partner Group, Microsoft Canada Co. “The nature of the problem and the innovative solution are just another testimonial to the vibrancy and effectiveness of Microsoft’s partner channel when it comes to helping customers to realize their potential. Microsoft is pleased with the international recognition that this solution has been awarded.”
The Microsoft Partner Program Awards recognize Microsoft technology partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the past year. Multiple awards are distributed in four categories: Partner of the Year for Technology Innovation, Partner of the Year for Sales and Marketing, the Specialization Excellence Awards and the Microsoft Initiative Awards, which include the Winning Customer Award and the Customer Experience Award.
About Affinity Systems Ltd.
Affinity Systems Ltd. (www.affsys.com) is a custom solutions provider specializing in producing complex, high-quality products. Founded in 1989, Affinity Systems has industry experience covering a wide variety of verticals and is the strategic technology development partner for many companies.
Affinity Systems employs a very agile development methodology that defines not only how it works within the organization, but also how it works with customers to produce solutions on time, on budget, and on target. By complementing extensive implementation expertise with a high level of business acumen and its flexible methodology, Affinity Systems ensures successful systems development, deployment, and on-going client support.
<>Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Affinity Systems also has offices in Rochester, New York and Edmonton, Alberta.