SoftwareOne Recognised as Federal Government Partner of the Year - LATAM in 2023 AWS Partner Awards

SoftwareOne, an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, was announced as a winner of the Federal Government Partner of the Year – LATAM award, and a finalist in the SI Partner of the Year – EMEA and the MSP Partner of the Year – Global awards. The company also won the Rising Star Partner of the Year (SI) – Iberia award.

The awards were announced during a Partner Awards Gala at AWS re:Invent 2023; the Geo and Global AWS Partner Awards recognise a wide range of AWS Partners, whose business models have embraced specialisation, innovation, and cooperation over the past year. Geo and Global AWS Partner Awards recognise partners whose business models continue to evolve and thrive on AWS as they work with customers.

The Federal Government Partner of the Year category recognises top AWS Partners with the Government Competency who have delivered innovative mission-based wins for the Federal Government. The SI Partner of the Year recognises top SI AWS Partners that have provided significant contributions related to revenue, launched opportunities, net new certified individuals, and AWS designations earned.

The MSP Partner of the Year recognises top AWS Managed Service Providers (MSP) that provide end-to-end AWS solutions to customers at any stage of the cloud journey—from consultation on initial solution design, to building applications, through to ongoing optimisation and support. And the Rising Star Partner of the Year Award recognises AWS Partners that have seen significant YoY growth in their business.

The solution for which SoftwareOne won the Federal Government Partner of the Year Award – LATAM was developed together with the Minas Gerais State Department of Social Development (SEDESE-MG) in Brazil to help the customer assess and manage the risks of natural disasters. SoftwareOne created an innovative disaster response technology on AWS that maps vulnerable areas and communities at risk of natural disasters, especially flooding, to aid crisis management.

This solution significantly enhances the well-being of local communities by expediting disaster response times, minimising loss of life, reducing the expenses associated with disaster response, and lowering the costs related to the relocation and reconstruction of areas affected by flooding. SEDESE worked hard to identify and analyse possible databases for the system, those used in the provision of processing scripts for the databases and APIs that make up Minimum Viable Product 1 (MVP1); and the indication of the variables to be used. In addition to these technical points, the Secretariat shared years of knowledge in disaster management, which contributed to the materialisation of this project, which had already undergone a proof of concept of the idea within the Secretariat.