BANGALORE and WARREN, New Jersey, October 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

Identified as an Azure Expert for its Comprehensive Set of Solutions 

Mindtree, a leading digital transformation and technology services company, has been awarded the 'Azure Innovation Partner of the Year 2016' by Microsoft. This award recognizes the company's extensive and innovative solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform. By deploying Azure as a business enabler and development platform, Mindtree has built inventive and vertical specific solutions for its clients.

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This award reflects Mindtree's deep expertise in cloud computing and building solutions that create new business models and partnerships. Mindtree's strong partnership with Microsoft enables it to leverage the latest features and additions on Azure.

"We are honored to receive this recognition from Microsoft and are excited about the future possibilities that Azure has to offer to our solutions. Azure serves as a scalable hosting platform for our solutions such as the recently launched Decision Moments, a data analytics platform that simplifies omni-channel personalization for our clients," said Gaurav Johri, Senior Vice President and Head, Platform & Solutions Group at Mindtree.

Further, Microsoft's strategic direction is closely aligned with Mindtree's ongoing desire to assist clients with cloud and digital transformations.

"Mindtree was born digital and is a cloud native organization. Microsoft offers the most comprehensive suite of cloud-based solutions. This strategic intersection has helped Mindtree create modern applications that will grow with our clients' businesses and leverage features like IoT, machine learning, and bots," said Nalin Vij, Vice President, Microsoft Business Unit at Mindtree.

About Mindtree 

Mindtree [NSE: MINDTREE] delivers digital transformation and technology services from ideation to execution, enabling Global 2000 clients to outperform the competition. "Born digital," Mindtree takes an agile, collaborative approach to creating customized solutions across the digital value chain. At the same time, our deep expertise in infrastructure and applications management helps optimize your IT into a strategic asset. Whether you need to differentiate your company, reinvent business functions or accelerate revenue growth, we can get you there. Visit http://www.mindtree.com to learn more.

About Microsoft 

Microsoft (Nasdaq: "MSFT" @microsoft) is the leading platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

For more information, contact:

India 
Debi Senapati 
Mindtree 
+91-99805-56784 
Debi.senapati@mindtree.com   

United States 
Andrea Dunbeck 
Matter Communications 
978-518-4555 
adunbeck@matternow.com   

Europe 
Imogen Nation
Hotwire
+44-20-7608-4675
imogen.nation@hotwirepr.com

SOURCE Mindtree