Also a finalist was Rose Business Solutions of San Diego, Calif., and the only ERP VAR in the bunch and which carries GP and CRM and one of the smaller organizations in the list. Blue Horseshoe, based in Carmel, Ind., was Distribution Industry Partner of the Year. Along with AX, it markets Dynamics GP and RMS, and Lawson and SAP. Finalists were AX VAR Junction Solutions of Englewood, Colo.; Korus Consulting, a Moscow-based partner that also does Oracle and Infor and AX reseller Sunrise Technologies of Winston-Salem, N.C. The Dynamics ERP Partner of the Year was Germany’s Informa Software Consulting (whose product lineup I had trouble finding on the translated webpage) while a German AX reseller, KCS.net, was a finalist. Other finalists were New York’s InterDyn AKA, which handles AX and GP, and mcaConnect of Sparta, N.J., also in the AX camp. Armanino Consulting was a finalist for Microsoft Dynamics Marketplace Solution Excellence Partner of the Year, which was won by Click Dimensions. For the second straight year, Ignify was Dynamics Retail Industry Partner of the Year. New York’s Cole Systems Associates was a finalist as was Moscow’s Manzana Group and Qurius/Prodware Group of Spain.