PITTSBURGH, July 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today, Allin Consulting proudly announced it has won the Partner of the Year Award for Competing to Win: Search at the 2007 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Program Awards. The company was chosen out of an international field of top Microsoft Partners as delivering market-leading customer solutions built on Microsoft technology. The awards were distributed at a ceremony on July 11 in Denver, CO at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.

"We are excited to be selected as the Search Partner of the Year. We were early adopters of Microsoft Search technologies and over the past year have developed solutions to provide significant value to our customers in this area," stated Karl Kuhnhausen, Allin Practice Director for Collaborative Solutions in Northern California.

Awards were presented in a number of categories, with winners chosen from a pool of more than 1,800 entrants worldwide. Allin Consulting was recognized for superior technology and innovation in Competing to Win: Search. The Competing to Win Partner of the Year: Search award recognizes partners who have won customers with Microsoft search technologies such as Live! and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search where alternatives such as Google were a consideration or a prior deployment. Solution categories include: Enterprise Search, Web Ads and others. The winning partner may have helped its customer better manage their business, increase productivity by reducing time to find, use and share key business information within and outside an organization while securing an important market on the Microsoft platform. This award emphasizes business strategies and approaches that can reach and scale to a broad market.

"Allin worked with several of our Enterprise and Corporate customers in the San Francisco Bay Area as part of a pilot program on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Search solution. After conducting side-by- side performance comparisons with Google Appliances, key customers determined that the features in MOSS 2007 better served their requirements in both the near and long term. We appreciate the hard work of partners like Allin who help us showcase the value of the Microsoft platform in these kinds of competitive scenarios," said Robert Deshaies, Vice President, U.S. Partner Group, Microsoft Corp.

Along with the prestigious Worldwide award from the Microsoft Partner Program, Allin received several other awards in regional events at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference. These awards included the following:

-- Western Region - Regional VP Award - Partner of the Year -- Eastern Region - EPG Loyalty Award - Partner of the Year -- Eastern Region - SMS&P Marketing Excellence - Partner of the Year -- Western Region - Security Partners - Trusted Advisor Award

"Microsoft's FY07 was a tremendous year for Allin. We are very excited to be recognized for the great work our teams are doing on both sides of the country," stated Rich Talarico, Allin's chief executive officer.

About Allin Corporation

Allin Corporation is a leading provider of solutions-oriented application development and technology infrastructure consulting and systems integration services. Allin specializes in Microsoft-based technologies and was recently recognized as Worldwide Partner of the Year for Competing to Win: Search and Partner of the Year for Microsoft's Western region. These awards were in addition to being recognized as Partner of the Year for the Eastern Region in Microsoft's prior fiscal year. Allin's operations are centered on four practice areas: Technology Infrastructure, Collaborative Solutions, Business Process and Interactive Media. Allin leverages its experience in these areas to work with clients through a disciplined project delivery framework to ensure that solutions are delivered on time and on budget. Allin delivers these services through the trade names Allin Consulting, Allin Interactive and CodeLab Technology Group. The Company maintains offices in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; Wakefield, Massachusetts; and San Jose and Walnut Creek, California. For additional information about Allin, visit the Company's Internet sites on the World Wide Web at http://www.allin.com/ and http://www.codelabtech.com/.

CONTACT: Dean C. Praskach, Chief Financial Officer of Allin Corporation,
+1-412-928-2022, Fax, +1-412-928-0225, Dean.Praskach@allin.com

Web site: http://www.allin.com/
http://www.codelabtech.com/