Softcat, a leading provider of IT infrastructure products and services, today announced it has been named the recipient of Puppet’s Channel Partner of the Year Awards for the Rising Star, EMEA category. In receiving this award, Softcat was recognised for contributions made to driving customer success with automation.

Highlighting the importance of the award, Sam Routledge, CTO at Softcat, said: “We appreciate the opportunity to work with new & innovative vendors, and I’m delighted to accept the award on behalf of the team at Softcat that have worked so hard in building this relationship and securing new mutual business.”

“Puppet’s community of customer-centric channel partners play an important role in evangelising the benefits of automation with Puppet,” said John Schwan, vice president of global partner sales, Puppet. “We congratulate Softcat on its Puppet Channel Partner of the Year Award and applaud its ongoing commitment to driving customer success.”

Routledge concludes: “Our aim is to provide excellent customer service and working with emerging vendors, especially those whose aim is to improve customer efficiency through intelligent change orchestration for dev ops, is a key part of our customer engagement strategy.”

The Puppet Channel Partner of the Year awards is an annual award that honours Puppet’s channel ecosystem for the contributions they’ve made to in helping customers accelerate their journey to pervasive automation. This year’s award winners also demonstrated exemplary performance in innovation and implementation of Puppet technology. The inaugural program recognised nine partners globally in six categories. 

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