Cisco has announced the winners of its Dutch Partner Awards 2026. In total, Cisco is presenting nineteen awards, with recipients including Axians, Avit Group, NTT DATA Netherlands and Conscia. Dutch telecoms provider KPN receives the top prize as Netherlands Partner of the Year and also wins in the Enterprise category.
Cisco states that KPN has distinguished itself within its partner network over the past year. KPN delivers Cisco Powered managed services and focuses on secure networking together with Cisco. According to Cisco, KPN acts as an adviser and implementation partner for business-critical environments at enterprise and public-sector organisations. The customer teams of both companies work together on these projects.
Growth across all market segments
Dennis Veltman, Director Partnerships at Cisco Benelux, points to a partnership that has been running for more than thirty years. According to Veltman, KPN has shown growth across all market segments over the past year. He describes KPN as one of the frontrunners in managed services and says that, in view of that position and KPN’s ambition to innovate, Cisco intends to continue the partnership.
Cisco describes the Partner Awards as part of its partner strategy. The company says the awards recognise the role partners play in joint results and underline the importance of collaboration.
Multiple awards for five partners
In addition to KPN, which is also named Enterprise Partner of the Year, several other partners go home with two awards. Avit Group wins One Cisco Partner of the Year and Collaboration Partner of the Year. NTT DATA Netherlands receives the awards for Services and Software Excellence and Capital. Axians wins Managed Services Partner of the Year and Marketing Partner of the Year. Conscia is the winner of Sustainability Partner of the Year and shares the title of AI Cloud Partner of the Year with OpenLine.
Other winners
Computacenter has been named Networking Partner of the Year and Proximus NXT wins in the Security category. Exellyn receives the award for Commercial Partner of the Year and SMT wins Splunk Partner of the Year. TD SYNNEX takes the title of Distributor of the Year.
In the Public Sector category, the award goes to SLTN. HOB ICT Security wins SMB and Mid-Market Partner of the Year, the category aimed at partners serving SMEs and the mid-market. Simac receives the Digitale Versnelling Nederland Partner of the Year award. The individual award, Personality of the Year, goes to Marie Louise Bol.
With nineteen categories, the awards cover virtually every part of the Cisco portfolio, from networking and security to collaboration, AI and Splunk. There are also awards for market segments such as enterprise, the public sector and SMEs, and for roles such as distribution, financing and marketing.
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