April 29, 2014 – Houston, Texas – Accudata Systems today announced it was named “Cloud Partner of the Year for 2014” at the Ingram Micro “Rise Above” 2014 Cloud Summit. Ingram Micro honored Accudata Systems as part of an elite group of high-performance IT solution and managed service providers (MSPs) that stood out across Ingram Micro’s North America partner base for their advocacy, leadership, and sales success within the cloud services marketplace.

“Cloud services are blazing new trails of business productivity and operational excellence for business large and small,” says Jason Bystrak, senior director, Cloud, Ingram Micro Americas. “By working closely with Ingram Micro and leveraging our Cloud Marketplace, Accudata Systems has established a growing cloud services practice that helps differentiate its services and delivers more business value to its customers. We’re thrilled to recognize Accudata Systems as Cloud Partner of the Year Award for 2014.”

Ingram Micro Cloud provides channel partners access to hundreds of business, strategy, marketing, technical and sales resources including the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace, a transactional, online marketplace where solution providers can shop, procure, provision and obtain bundled invoices for their cloud services directly from Ingram Micro. The Ingram Micro Cloud Summit is the IT channel’s largest cloud-focused event, bringing together more than 1,000 of the industry’s leading and emerging solution providers, MSPs, cloud service providers and vendors.

“Accudata Systems has been an Ingram Micro partner for 27 years.  After an Executive Briefing and On-Site Consulting session with the Ingram Cloud Services team, a new strategic go-forward plan of focused solutions and services was developed.  The formation of an increased partner enablement plan; and marketing partnership with Ingram was begun to support these initiatives.  All told the new strategic initiatives for Accudata worked in partnership with the Ingram team has resulted in an almost 1100% increase in Cloud and Managed Services sales for this partner.”  Gary Sicherman – Channel Account Executive, Ingram Micro