Microsoft recognizes Sitemasher among 3 companies with cutting-edge solutions

Sitemasher’s skies became brilliant blue today when Microsoft announced it selected the Vancouver-based start-up company as one of three finalists for an independent software vendor (ISV) Innovation Award from a field of approximately 100 candidates. The winner will be announced at Microsoft’s ISV Leadership Summit on Thursday, June 5.

Microsoft Canada’s inaugural Blue Sky Award recognizes significant, exciting, cutting-edge solutions developed on a Microsoft-based platform. The award, open to ISVs yet to achieve Certified or Gold Certified Partners status, was designed to help recognize innovation by creating a forum for leading Canadian software developers to showcase their creativity, contribution, and technology advances.

Entrants were judged on the unique use of technology, the real-life challenge they are solving, and the market potential.

Microsoft will provide the recipient with a customized engagement plan to support software development, including software and business development resources, public awareness, and exposure to additional Microsoft-based resources both in Canada and Redmond.

In developing the award, Microsoft Canada is recognizing innovation by creating a forum for leading Canadian software developers to showcase their outstanding achievements.

When introducing the award program in March, a Microsoft Canada Co. spokesman said, “People are the lifeblood of today’s businesses – their passion and ideas have the power to part clouds and create a world of limitless opportunity. The Blue Sky Award is designed to celebrate their innovation and the leading-edge applications they inspire.”

For more information on the Blue Sky Award please visit: http://www.microsoft.com/canada/bluesky or click here to view the award information video.