Thoughts from Tony Stewart

In June we celebrated our 10-year anniversary. More than anything, the past 10 years have been about people. We have a great team and we're incredibly proud of what we have achieved.

10 years ago a group of 38 people emerged from the Advantage Group and Intergen was born. Since then, we’ve grown to almost 300 people in six locations across New Zealand and Australia. We’ve completed thousands of projects for hundreds of clients, using an ever-increasing range of Microsoft technologies. The staff of Intergen have become known as Intergenites. Intergenites are dedicated to delivering the absolute best solution to their clients and take great pride in being innovative and technically excellent. They love to see the difference they make, and people benefitting from the solutions they deliver.

We were also incredibly proud to achieve recognition from Microsoft at the annual Partner Conference in July, where we were awarded both Presidents Club and Inner Circle status for 2011, both accolades reserved for the top Microsoft Dynamics Partners worldwide. Inner Circle recognises us as being both the largest Dynamics licence revenue provider in New Zealand and for achieving greater than 5% licence revenue growth, placing us in the top 1% of Dynamics partners globally. As part of these achievements, we receive attention from Microsoft executives at the highest level. This is extremely valuable to us and to our clients.

Attending Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference is an amazing experience, not just for the scale but also for the insights. Microsoft showed off some fantastic new developments in Microsoft System Centre that provide the tools to help manage this new paradigm. This is a relatively new area for us but one in which we see a lot of opportunity. We have assembled significant experience in Microsoft System Centre and we are already starting to deliver some great solutions to help IT departments deploy and manage their desktop and server environments.

Our annual Dynamics Day moved to Auckland this year. The event allows us to share with the Dynamics community some of the insights we have about the future of the products and explore some ideas and possibilities that may help businesses get even more benefit from their Dynamics investment. This year’s event is the biggest yet, with more than 200 attendees registered from all over New Zealand.

We have very much enjoyed working with our clients over the past 10 years, delivering solutions that have helped you achieve your goals. From where we sit the future looks every bit as exciting and challenging as the past. We look forward to continuing to help you achieve your goals for years to come.