Intel has announced the recipients of its 2025 Partner of the Year Awards, recognizing key partners across North America for their commitment to customer success, ecosystem collaboration, and technology innovation.
The honorees excelled in areas critical to ecosystem growth and delivering customer value, such as AI solutions, cloud and edge services, data centers, and AI-powered PCs. A new class of Distribution Hall of Fame Inductees was also introduced, honoring partners with sustained excellence and strategic collaboration that have made a lasting impact on Intel’s business and the broader technology industry.
Greg Ernst, Intel’s corporate vice president, highlighted the role of these partners in pioneering AI innovations and addressing global challenges. He emphasized the collective work with partners to bring world-changing AI solutions to businesses and customers globally.
Winners were selected based on a comprehensive evaluation of performance across revenue growth, execution, marketing innovation, and ecosystem impact. These partners have been essential in delivering Intel-powered solutions across various markets, including client computing, data centers, and embedded and edge technologies.
Dave Guzzi, Intel’s vice president and global channel chief, praised the partners’ role in delivering breakthrough technologies that transform business operations, particularly through platforms like Intel vPro and Intel Xeon. As AI continues to shape the industry, these partners are at the forefront of bringing intelligent solutions across various sectors, and Intel looks forward to further strengthening this ecosystem.
U.S. Distributors:
AI PC – TD SYNNEX: Recognized for setting the pace in the AI PC market, ensuring partners had the necessary resources to drive success and momentum in this growing field.
Branded Systems – Ingram: Awarded for its excellent performance and strategic alignment, Ingram’s effective go-to-market approach for Intel Core-powered solutions led to impressive results.
Client Components – TD SYNNEX: Celebrated for its resilience, innovation, and commitment to pushing forward, exceeding expectations and driving growth.
DCAI Components – ASI: Honored for staying ahead of market trends, supporting Intel’s Xeon strategy, and achieving significant growth and success.
Embedded – AVNET: Acknowledged for exceptional strategic planning and execution, turning diverse opportunities into revenue streams while showcasing adaptability and commitment.
Solutions Aggregation – TD SYNNEX: Recognized for its vision, execution, and ecosystem impact, TD SYNNEX redefined what it means to lead with a solution-centric approach.
Global Systems Integrators:
AI PC – Accenture: Commended for deep collaboration with Intel to unlock AI PC potential at scale, leading the way with cutting-edge use cases designed to drive business outcomes.
U.S. Solution Providers and Integrators:
AI PC – Connection: Praised for its role in driving an integrated marketing campaign to promote Intel Core Ultra, helping strengthen the AI PC narrative.
Client Growth – Zones: Recognized for demonstrating exceptional momentum and strengthening its partnership with Intel, achieving impressive results across multiple segments.
Community Impact – WWT: Awarded for its work addressing the digital divide and providing AI-driven educational solutions to underserved communities.
Community Impact – NWN: Honored for showcasing the AI PC’s power to enhance learning experiences for at-risk youth, benefiting local communities.
Data Center Growth – Insight: Recognized for driving significant growth and helping streamline processes with a customer-first mentality, adding value to the ecosystem.
Data Center Innovator – WWT: Celebrated for its innovation in delivering solutions across data center, edge, and cloud, making a significant impact in customer challenges.
Disrupter of the Year – SHI: Acknowledged for its insights into the growing AI PC market and for driving numerous enterprise deals while educating customers on AI PC potential.
Education – UDT: Recognized for championing technology in educational institutions, driving digital transformation, and improving student outcomes through Ed Tech as a Service.
Emerging Technology – Computacenter: Honored for advancing cutting-edge technologies in data center and AI PC, playing a key role in accelerating AI adoption.
Marketing Collaboration – Presidio: Awarded for exceptional collaboration with Intel on co-marketing initiatives across data center, cloud, and AI sectors.
Public Sector AI Innovator – GAI: Recognized for pushing AI innovation forward with strong contributions to the public sector, including the development of solutions using Intel Gaudi technology.
Public Sector IT Modernization – Sterling: Acknowledged for leading IT modernization and driving real transformation with cutting-edge solutions for customers.
Public Sector Marketing – Carahsoft: Celebrated for its outstanding efforts in driving awareness and engagement across the public sector, amplifying Intel’s technologies.
Thought Leader – CDW: Recognized for its leadership in platform deployment and remarkable scale in navigating an unpredictable IT landscape, setting a new standard in Intel vPro deployment.
Canada Solutions Providers:
AI PC – CDW Canada: Awarded for embracing the AI PC vision from the start and driving impressive sales growth, surpassing national market figures.
Sales Engagement – Softchoice: Recognized for its exceptional efforts in educating its sales team on the latest Intel-powered devices, helping customers upgrade to new technologies.
Sales Growth – Converge Technology: Celebrated for its outstanding performance and commitment to expanding client device sales, achieving remarkable growth in 2024.
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