Advanced Wireless Network recognized as The Winner of 2022 Microsoft Thailand Partner of the Year

Bangkok, Thailand - June 29, 2022 - Advanced Wireless Network or AIS - Thailand's leading telecommunication and digital life service provider today announced it has won 2022 Microsoft Thailand Partner of the Year 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.

Tanapong Ittisakulchai, Chief Enterprise Business Officer at AIS Business, noted, "Microsoft and AIS have collaborated as Strategic partnership in Thailand since 2015, we have accelerated the adoption and built new distinctive solutions of Microsoft across the cloud, data, cybersecurity, IoT and 5G-driven cloud innovations for businesses in Thailand - including specific product and service combinations that deliver optimized performance for cloud and edge computing with strongly revenue growth more than 3 digits YoY. Through Microsoft's expertise and resources, we develop more advanced in-depth tech expertise for our team, and we are the first Thailand Microsoft partner who has been recognized as Azure Advanced Specialized Partner which represents our IT consultancy's expertise in Azure technologies and cloud migration. We use Microsoft partner network to build our people's competency and capabilities to enable Thai organizations of all sizes and scales to confidently move forward and contribute to the growing digital economy in Thailand."

Through a fusion of world-class cloud services and Thailand's best network. AIS has launched more than 12 solution offerings over the past year to scale Thai business across all segments such as migrating the on-premises infrastructure of the leading retail business in Thailand to Azure environments from assessment, design, implement and support which align with Microsoft Cloud adoption framework. After migration, customer has realized that Azure has helped cutting down the investment cost by 20% and significantly improved the operational security and SLA for the core omni channel platform. In overall, they can help their retail chain to accelerate business time-to-market and increase the overall profit margins explicitly.

The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered outstanding Microsoft-based applications, services, and devices during the past year. Awards were classified in various categories, with honorees chosen from a set of more than 3,900 submitted nominations from more than 100 countries worldwide. AIS was recognized for providing outstanding solutions and services in Thailand.

"I am honored to announce the winners and finalists of the 2022 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards," said Nick Parker, corporate vice president of Global Partner Solutions at Microsoft. "These partners were outstanding among the exceptional pool of nominees and I'm continuously impressed by their innovative use of Microsoft Cloud technologies and the impact for their customers."

Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards are announced annually prior to the company's global partner conference, Microsoft Inspire, which will take place on July 19-20 this year. 2022 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards Press Release Guidelines 5 Additional details on the 2022 awards are available on the Microsoft Partner Network blog: https://blogs.partner.microsoft.com/mpn/congratulations-to-the-2022-microsoft-partner-of-the year-awards-winners-and-finalists/. The complete list of categories, winners and finalists can be found at https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/inspire/awards.