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

“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,” said 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.”

The Philippines, where more than 90% of business is SME, is a key market for salesforce.com. SME businesses have the opportunity to attain the same high standards in technology as larger companies, minus the high capital initial investment or risk.  IP-Converge is a regional partner whose core products are global internet connectivity, server collocation and business solutions. IP-Converge is also a salesforce.com consulting partner for SaaS and cloud computing in the Philippines.