REDMOND, WA / ACCESS Newswire / November 12, 2025 / SOUTHWORKS, a leading software engineering company renowned for delivering high-quality solutions at speed and scale, today announced it has won the 2025 Microsoft Partner of the Year Gaming Award and has been named a finalist of the program’s Innovate with Azure AI Platform Award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.
The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered outstanding Microsoft Cloud applications, services, devices, and AI innovation during the past year. Awards were classified in various categories, with honorees chosen from more than 4,600 nominations.
The Gaming Award recognizes a partner that has demonstrated excellence in delivering innovative and unique gaming solutions using Microsoft technologies.The Innovate with Azure AI Award recognizes a partner that has demonstrated innovation, impact, and customer success by building solutions leveraging Azure AI services.
“The SOUTHWORKS team is honored to be recognized by Microsoft for our achievements in gaming and AI innovation,” said Johnny Halife, CTO of SOUTHWORKS. “We empower our customers to turn creative, bold ideas into breakthrough technologies. These Partner of the Year Award recognitions celebrate our technical expertise and experimental spirit. From helping videogame studios build new and exciting worlds that bring people together on Azure to enabling enterprises to transform generative AI from concept into reality, teaming with Microsoft has been paramount to our business and customers’ success.”
SOUTHWORKS has worked closely with Microsoft for over 20 years. The collaboration has a strong focus on cloud and AI solutions on the Azure platform, with projects ranging from modernizing workloads and managing DevOps for customers to Azure migration support and the creation of AI-centric software and generative AI assistants.
“Congratulations to all the winners and finalists of the 2025 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards, said Nicole Dezen, Chief Partner Officer and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft. “This year, our partners harnessed the transformative power of Microsoft’s Cloud and AI platforms to deliver transformative solutions that redefine the boundaries of innovation. The energy and ingenuity across our ecosystem continue to inspire us. The 2025 honorees exemplify what’s possible when technology and vision unite to empower customers around the world.”
To learn more, visit the 2025 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards announcement page.
About SOUTHWORKS
SOUTHWORKS is the home of Development on Demand, the new model for software engineering that’s helping companies across industries move faster, innovate smarter, and scale with confidence. With proven expertise in AI, cloud, and scalable software solutions, SOUTHWORKS partners with leading organizations to build the right solutions-right when they’re needed.
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