Hyland Software Counted Among Top Finalists for the 2007 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award

Cleveland, USA —June 12, 2007— Today, Hyland Software announced it has been selected as a finalist for Microsoft Corp.’s Partner of the Year Award in Competing to Win: Database. Winners for the 2007 Microsoft Partner Program Awards, which recognize top Microsoft Partners delivering market-leading, Microsoft-based solutions, will be announced July 11 in Denver, Colorado at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.

“Hyland Software is honored to be a finalist for the Partner of the Year award,” stated Bill Priemer, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Office at Hyland Software. “By allowing our customers to easily support Hyland Software’s OnBase solutions with the Microsoft SQL server database, we are able to deliver a very user-friendly customer experience.”

Awards will be presented in a number of categories, with winners chosen from a pool of more than 1,800 entrants worldwide. The Competing to Win Partner of the Year: Database award recognizes partners who have won customers with SQL Server where database solution alternatives such as Oracle or MySQL were a consideration or a prior deployment.  Solution categories include:  Mission Critical Business Applications, Business Intelligence, OLTP, Web Data.  The winning partner will have helped its customer better manage their business while securing an important market on the Microsoft platform.  This award emphasizes business strategies and approaches that can reach and scale to a broad market.  

“We have a diverse and talented partner ecosystem that each year raises the bar in the design and deployment of customer solutions built on Microsoft technologies,” said Allison L. Watson, corporate vice president, Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group.  “We are pleased to recognize Hyland Software as one of our partners leading the field in this category.”

OnBase is used by businesses and government agencies around the world to reduce the time and cost of performing important business functions and address the need for regulatory compliance through the management, control and sharing of digital content with employees, business partners, customers and other constituencies.

The Microsoft Partner Program Awards recognize Microsoft Partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the past year.