A true interactive guide that will allow you to organize your free time in one – click!

Discover entertaining and exciting Italy as you’ve never seen, travel to discover all adventure parks, faunal gardens, waterparks, museums and much more, all in one app!

Travel informed! Use app Italian Fun Parks

Coming soon for Windows 8. For more details and information visit the page of the app!

You can make a search by geographical area and then maybe purchase around your home, view maps, look for products that you value more and contact the manufacturer directly. In the new version the choice is even wider: 6,500 manufacturers, farms and markets! And all this information is updated in December 2012.

Discover Italy with the environmentally friendly and natural products.

Download Spesa km0 and enjoy!

The first and only app capable help you to move around Milan comfortably and fast in one click!

In which way? By calculating a path to reach whatever you want in the city, visualizing the whole line with the related waiting times at every single stop, and much more: Traffic Info, metro status, available parking places, news on the viability of whole Milan and ATM traffic. All are accessible in the real time from your Win8 tablet thanks to ATM Milano App for Windows 8, made available by Azienda Trasporti Milanesi Spa for all its customers.

It’s really easy to have it, just download it directly from HERE.

Move over Milan has never been easier!

For more information on the app, follow this link!

4ward participated as a Gold Sponsor at Microsoft Symposium 2012 where  ATM OpenData application was presented in front of an audience of CIOs of Italian leading companies.

The app was developed in collaboration with ATM, using Windows Azure as a backend for data and services which are updated in real time with the data center on-premise and delivered to consumers through Windows 8.

With the same objective on the 4ward stand other Windows 8 Apps developed with an integration of On-Premise, Cloud and Visual Studio 2012 suite were presented to show live some innovative techniques for the management of Modern Apps:

- Spesa a km0
- Parchi d’Italia

Created in collaboration with www.parks.it, ​​a portal of the Italian parks.

The app helps you to explore Italian parks, a wealth of protected nature to visit with family or friends.

Most of the data and images comes from www.parks.it site, where you can apply for more information regarding individual parks.

For more information on the app follow this link

We will announce major discoveries, innovations, interesting news that we meet every day on various topics such as: Cloud, ALM, System Center, Sharepoint and many others

 In occasion of the Worldwide Partner Conference, an international award and an Italian recognition, to reward excellence of Microsoft Partners

Milan, July 23, 2012 – Microsoft has announced the winners and finalists of the Microsoft Partner of the Year Award 2012, rewarding the excellence of the partners able to offer innovative solutions and to deliver real business benefits to business customers in occasion of  the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2012, the annual conference for Microsoft partners around the world, held in Toronto between 8 and 12 of July. The partners from more than 100 countries submitted more than 3,000 candidates and the winners were selected on the basis of the commitment towards customers and exemplary use of Microsoft technologies to offer significant business value to companies.

As demonstrated by the nine Silver competencies and three Gold skills 4ward, Microsoft partner since 2002 which over the years has achieved high levels of excellence, has held the Italian flag and has been won the award as “Country Partner of the Year 2012″, in addition to national recognition as “Private Cloud Italian Partner of the Year.” The company, which has grown year by year with rates of 20/30% paying great attention to R & D and training, has stood out among the many applications, in particular on its ability to meet the needs of enterprise with big dimensions, with ad hoc solutions in the field of virtualization and management, business intelligence, data warehousing, integrated communications and cloud computing. In addition, due to the ability to offer advice on the implementation of private and public cloud solutions to enable companies to optimize their ICT infrastructure and achieve business benefits, 4ward has been honored as “Italian Partner of the Year” for the Private cloud area.

“We strongly believe in technology as a driver for improving the competitiveness of companies because of this we have focused on a strong partnership with Microsoft. We are proud to be recognized as winners of the Microsoft Partner of the Year Award and as Italian Partner of the Year for the Private Cloud area, because these awards confirm our attention to the changes and our commitment to anticipate new market trends to be ready to support our customers via Microsoft technologies, ” said David Mascarella, CEO of 4ward.

“Having given these awards at our annual conference dedicated to the Partners it has been a way to enhance the excellence that are part of the Microsoft ecosystem. The role of channel operators is strategic to promote innovation throughout the Italian territory and to deliver value to companies of all sizes and industries. Therefore, we are proud to work with competent partners who can offer advice and solutions ad hoc to meet the needs of companies and help them successfully deployed its full business potential”, said Christoph Bischoff, Division Director of Small and Medium Enterprises and Partners Microsoft Italy. “We congratulate all our partners for demonstrating exceptional dedication in addressing the technology and business challenges of its clients.” 

We wanted to reduce the costs of maintaining the infrastructure of internal mail (mostly for the “hidden” costs,  because the main activities are normally hidden in the normal operations of system management), and we have estimated that the pricing model applied for Office 365 not only an improvement, but also provides a reliable indicator of the cost of organization box / user. – Christian Orlandi – IT Manager

4ward support of pre-sales was crucial to have a clear evidence of the cost model and the services included in the offer.

For more information: http://www.microsoft.com/business/it-it/Microsoft-News/Pagine/article.aspx?cbcid=41

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We are very proud to announce that 4ward has been awarded as Microsoft Country Partner of the Year for Italy, this award will be received in Toronto during the next WPC in July.

When you look at some sport champions what you feel is that they make extraordinary things appear “easy”. But we all know making things appear easy means that, behind the scene, there is a lot of hard work, training, commitment, passion, and professionalism. You made this appear “easy” but we know exactly all the effort we have put into this journey, so we are proud to say that it has been successful (and not over!), thanks once more to make this happen.

Thanks to:

… our customers who push us to perform better every day and for their trust,

… all our precious employees who make us proud to be part of a winning team,

… our suppliers and partners,

… all team of Microsoft Italy

See you at the next award!