IT&T solutions provider IP Converge Data Center (IP-Converge) announced recently that it has been honoured with the title of Top Partner for ASEAN 2008 by world leader in Enterprise Cloud Computing and CRM, salesforce.com.

The Salesforce.com Top Partner for ASEAN 2008 award, presented to IP Converge Data Center Inc. (IP -Converge) during the salesforce.com ASEAN Partner Summit at Pan Pacific Hotel in Singapore, represents the highest achievement in sales for the ASEAN market for the year ending January 2009. More than 60% of salesforce.com licenses sold by IP-Converge last year were locally sourced, as opposed to being passed on by salesforce.com. The Top Partner award recognizes IP-Converge’s exemplary performance and success in actively expanding salesforce.com’s presence in the Philippines.

“IP-Converge has shown great aptitude in integrating salesforce.com with companies’ mission-critical applications within a short amount of time,” says Andrew Knott, VP marketing for Asia Pacific. “We anticipate a higher rate of adoption of salesforce.com applications in the Philippines this year and a steady migration to cloud computing as companies learn more about the valuable contribution it can make towards growing their business.”

Taken into account in determining the Top Partner for ASEAN 2008 were total number of licenses and services sold from February 2008 to January 2009 for Salesforce CRM, Force.com (Platform as a Service), the AppExchange marketplace and Community (community and training). IP-Converge emerged as the top selling partner for fiscal year 20.

“This is an important milestone for us. Our partnership with salesforce.com began less than three years ago and now we are leading the region in license sales and services execution,” says Reynaldo Huergas, President of IP-Converge. “This achievement is a testament to our claims that cloud computing is set to become the preferred business model - it also fits well with our plans for expanding our scope to provide services beyond the ASEAN.”

IP-Converge is an information technology and telecommunications company, providing a wide array of managed data services and business solutions at international standards. An ISO 9001:2000 Certified company, IP-Converge currently operates carrier-neutral, telco-grade Internet Data Center and network facilities in the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Singapore, and provides a variety of business solutions and services to local and international enterprises.

IP-Converge is the Philippines’ only Salesforce.com Select Consulting Partner. To know more about Salesforce.com’s On-Demand CRM, visit www.ip-converge.com/salesforce, or join the Salesforce.com Philippines User Group by registering at http://usergroups.salesforce.com/philippines.