PointBridge Honored as Microsoft Online Services Partner of the Year

CHICAGO, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- PointBridge, a leading Microsoft solutions
provider, announced today that it has been selected as the 2009 Microsoft
Worldwide Partner Conference Awards winner in the category of Online Services.

PointBridge was chosen out of an international field of top Microsoft partners
for its delivery of market-leading customer solutions built using Microsoft
technology. The Online Services Partner of the Year award recognizes partners
who have successfully adopted, embraced, developed, and delivered solutions
based on Microsoft Online Services (including Microsoft Office SharePoint
Online, Microsoft Office Exchange Online, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, and
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Office Communications Online).

The award specifically recognizes PointBridge's groundbreaking work with
several large organizations:

-- For a well-known national retailer PointBridge migrated approximately
1300 email users from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange Online. The
email accounts were migrated over a weekend, eliminating the need to
implement a co-existence strategy.
-- For a global automotive manufacturer PointBridge migrated 1400 users
from Lotus Notes to the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite.
The global mail migration was completed in a single weekend without
interruption to the business users. It's calculated that the move
to Exchange Online will help the customer realize a 30% annual cost
savings. Based on the success of the email migration, this
manufacturer
is moving their intranet to SharePoint Online and has already deployed
several business-critical applications on the platform.
-- For the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, PointBridge
developed
an internal collaboration platform based on SharePoint Online. The
SharePoint solution will cost-effectively enable MBA students, faculty
and administrative staff to find, use, share, manage, search and store
information.

-- For Manpower, Inc., PointBridge created a virtual global leadership
planning meeting using SharePoint Online technology. The multi-day
virtual meeting for 160 senior executives from around the world
facilitated interactive learning and information sharing and garnered
positive reviews from participants. It also saved executives
considerable time and travel expenses.

The solution PointBridge created for Manpower, a global employment services
firm headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was particularly innovative. In a
seven-week timeframe, PointBridge designed and deployed a virtual solution for
Manpower that replicated the traditional in-person management team meeting in
an online environment. The virtual meeting included kick-off and wrap up
keynotes, individualized daily schedules for attendees, announcements, video
presentations, work assignments, discussion groups, surveys and a board that
tracked participant progress. The meeting content is cached online for future
reference. Manpower's Global Leadership Team intends to use the SharePoint
online solution again for the 2010 meeting.

"This is a tremendous honor from Microsoft and a significant victory for our
consultants, who built innovative and cost-effective solutions using
forward-looking technologies surpassing our client's expectations," said Mike
Gersten, chief executive officer and co-founder, PointBridge. "This award is
particularly meaningful to us as it fuels our focus on improving our clients'
business performance with hosted solutions."

"PointBridge has created significant value for their customers by developing
custom solutions built on Microsoft Online Services, demonstrating the
flexibility and extensibility of the suite of services," said Ross Brown, vice
president, solution partners and ISVs, Microsoft Corp. "PointBridge's
incredible customer service and commitment to the software-plus-services
platform has made the company one of Microsoft's top-selling Microsoft Online
Services partners."

The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards recognize Microsoft partners
that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over
the last year. PointBridge will be presented with the Online Services award
at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference which will be held July 13-16 in
New Orleans.

About PointBridge
PointBridge (www.pointbridge.com) is a consulting company that connects people
to people and people to information. The company builds award-winning
collaboration and business intelligence solutions with Microsoft technologies
including, SharePoint, Exchange, Office Communications Server and SQL Server.

PointBridge is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and was named the 2007 U.S.
Central Region Partner of the Year. PointBridge was also honored in 2005 as
the worldwide Microsoft Partner of the Year for Advanced Infrastructure
Solutions and won the Microsoft Exchange Solution of the Year award.

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Jennifer Daniels of Visient Partners, +1-312-957-0204,
jdaniels@visientpartners.com, for PointBridge; or Catherine White of
PointBridge, +1-312-334-1900, cwhite@pointbridge.com