{"id":43677,"date":"2017-09-28T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=43677"},"modified":"2017-09-28T09:10:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T16:10:05","slug":"partner-2017-global-partner-year-award-winners-recognizing-best-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/partner-2017-global-partner-year-award-winners-recognizing-best-best\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Global Partner of the Year Award Winners: Recognizing the Best of the Best"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being recognized as a Palo Alto Networks Global Partner of the Year winner is no easy feat, a fact that became abundantly clear to me when I sat down to write this blog.<\/p>\n

In FY17, we had 661 partners double<\/a> their business with us. Of those 661, 109 ended FY17 generating greater than $1 million in Palo Alto Networks revenue. So how do you pick eight Global Partner of the Year winners from such a phenomenal group of highly successful partners?<\/p>\n

Historically we have based our winners on superior performance in: year-over-year growth, enablement, joint planning and services capabilities. This year we did things a little bit differently. We decided to recognize those partners who are blazing the path to becoming next-generation security innovators<\/a>, experts at enhancing our platform to prevent successful cyberattacks. These partners are investing in being self-sufficient, maximizing their profitability, optimizing their revenue mix, driving larger deals and broadening their opportunities.<\/p>\n

These partners were recognized in front of the more 3,000 attendees at our 2018 Sales Kickoff and then invited to attend a special Global Partner of the Year reception, which I hope all partners strive to attend next year.<\/p>\n

Please join me in congratulating the \u201cbest of the best,\u201d our 2017 Global Partner of the Year Award winners:<\/p>\n

Americas Partner of the Year 2017: Presidio<\/a><\/p>\n

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Asia-Pacific Partner of the Year: ACPL Systems<\/a><\/p>\n

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Europe, Middle East & Africa Partner of the Year: Dimension Data<\/a><\/p>\n

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Global Consultant Partner of the Year: Accenture<\/a><\/p>\n

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Global Distribution Partner of the Year: Exclusive Networks<\/a><\/p>\n

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Global Service Provider Partner of the Year: BT<\/a><\/p>\n

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Japan Partner of the Year: ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation<\/a><\/p>\n

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Traps Partner of the Year: ON2IT<\/a><\/p>\n

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I want to thank all our partners from around the world for a great FY17. You are what we are made of, and we look forward to continuing to earn your loyalty every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Palo Alto Networks recognizing Global Partner of the Year award winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":43680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[4497,4500],"coauthors":[699],"class_list":["post-43677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-partners","tag-2017-global-partner-of-the-year-award","tag-2018-sales-kickoff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Globalpartner_1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43926,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43677\/revisions\/43926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43677"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=43677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}