Minneapolis, MN USA - c360 Solutions, Inc., the leading Microsoft Customer Relationship Management Independent Software Vendor (ISV) announced today that the company was awarded with Microsoft's 2005 Partner Choice ISV Award at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference. The Partner Choice ISV award is given annually to one Microsoft Business Solutions partner. The charter of the award as listed on Microsoft's web site is:

Partner Choice ISV: This award recognizes a Solution ISV who excels with both satisfied customers and partners by providing quality product and service offerings that assist partners in providing customers with a total solution. This award is based on nominations from other Microsoft Business Solutions partners.

"We could not have been more pleased to receive this award" said c360 CEO John Gravely. "With over 6,200 partners at Microsoft's annual partner conference we are very proud to be singled out for such a prominent award. The fact that the award is based on partner nominations and customer and partner satisfaction makes the honor all the more meaningful to our team."

The script for the award presentation is included below. Click here to view Microsoft's Press Release on this award:

Partners' Choice ISV
c360 Solutions, Inc.

Presenter: Dave Knorr

Doug Burgum; Senior Vice President, Microsoft Business Solutions

• Tonight's next honor is truly your award, the Partners' Choice Developer Award. It goes to a Solution Developer that has been nominated by you for the quality products and services they provide. But more important, for the relationships they build within our channel, strengthening the entire Microsoft Business Solutions community.

• Presenting the Partners' Choice ISV Award is Dave Knorr, Senior Director, of Microsoft Business Solutions' ISV Business Development.

Dave Knorr; Senior Director, ISV Strategy, Microsoft Business Solutions

• Your Partners' Choice ISV of 2005 represents outstanding value add for CRM customers and partners, exemplary technological expertise on Microsoft CRM, and consistently high partner and customer satisfaction ratings.

This company's mission is to produce products which help Microsoft Partners sell more Microsoft CRM. They have been writing solutions for Microsoft CRM since the initial release of v1.0., and have a proven track record of success with high profile companies like BMW. With over 60,000 licenses sold, more than 25% of all Microsoft CRM customers are also customers of theirs.

• This great ISV enjoys tremendous positive feedback from Partners and Microsoft team members, because of their sincere commitment to helping partners' and customers to realize their full potential. Some quotations about this honoree:

• From David Thatcher, General Manager Microsoft CRM: "They have the experience, vision and know-how to help lead the Microsoft CRM transformation. Based on their years of CRM implementation work, we trust this team to deliver real business results to their Microsoft CRM customers."

• And, from Interlink, the CRM Partner of the Year for both 2003 and 2004, "We sell their solution with every Microsoft CRM project we implement. These products are solid and have a tremendous impact on our ability to deliver a total solution

• Please join me in honoring the 2005 Partner's Choice ISV award winner— c360 Solutions Incorporated - USA of Atlanta, Georgia.

About c360
c360 Solutions is an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) specializing in the development of vertical solutions, application components and development tools for the Microsoft Customer Relationship Management (Microsoft CRM) platform.

For more information, visit the c360 Solutions, Inc. web site: www.c360.com

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