Atea is awarded the global "Cloud Productivity Partner of the Year" Price by Microsoft

Atea ASA / Atea is awarded the global "Cloud Productivity Partner of the Year" Price by Microsoft . Processed and transmitted by NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

The price "Global Cloud Productivity Partner of the Year" shows that Atea offers a solid and up to date expertise and that we have the ability to always deliver the solutions, which the customers require.

Microsoft has selected Atea as the "Global Cloud Productivity Partner of the Year". The Price had the highest number of nominees (195) of all the global price categories. This selection emphasizes and gives no doubt to the fact that Atea's focus on cloud and that the Atea Rapid-SharePoint solution is world class. Consultants and developers in Atea have made an excellent job, developing Atea Rapid to what it is today, a world-class solution. This gives the customers optimal working conditions, and at the same time is simple both in use and to implement. The Solution is sufficiently standardized in order to be fast implemented, however flexible in a way that gives the customers in all sectors the feeling of a tailor-made system. The statement says:

The 2016 Partner of the Year Award goes to Atea. The judging team was impressed by Atea's Rapid Intranet offering as well as their continued ability to drive consumption across multiple Office 365 workloads. Atea's depth of the products and solutions they integrate throughout each of their customers' unique cloud journeys helps drive high customer usage rates of their solutions and adds significant and immediate value to their customers' businesses.

Atea Rapid Intranett impresses
The judging team was impressed by Atea's solid technological knowledge, high customer expertise and the goals the company have set for their business. The main purpose of the solutions is to offer our customers the best possible starting point in order to succeed in their business, independent of sector, type of business or geographical location.

The Price will be presented in Toronto, Canada, 10-14 July 2016.

«The Price is a recognition of the fact that hard work, based on a strong technological expertise, gives results. I am really proud of my colleagues and are looking forward to following the development onwards.», says Steinar Sønsteby, CEO in Atea.

For more information, please contact:
Steinar Sønsteby, CEO Atea ASA, Mobile: +47 930 55 655

About Atea
Atea is the leading Nordic and Baltic supplier of IT infrastructure with approximately 6 800 employees in 90 cities in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Atea delivers IT-products from leading suppliers and offers expertise within the area of IT-Infrastructure services. Revenue of 2015 was of more than NOK 27 billion. Atea is listed on Oslo Stock Exchange. (http://www.atea.com)