Microsoft Corp. named 20 government, education and health care industry partners in 21 different categories as its U.S. Public Sector Partners of the Year and feted the group at its recently concluded Worldwide Partner Conference.

"Not only are Microsoft partners helping public sector organizations realize the enormous benefits of cloud computing, their success is driving economic growth and creating jobs in communities around the country," said Vince Menzione, Microsoft general manager, U.S. public sector partner strategy.

The list of winners is below. Planet Technologies was the only recipient of two awards.

Federal: Synteractive
Federal Innovation: Raytheon Co.
Federal SharePoint Deployment: InfoReliance Corp.
Federal Windows Deployment: Planet Technologies
Federal SQL Server Deployment: Open Water
Federal Microsoft Dynamics Deployment: Aspect Software Inc.
State & Local Government Solutions: InfoStrat
State & Local Government Innovation: Advantage Factory Inc.
State & Local Government East Region: Planet Technologies
State & Local Government Central Region: KnowledgeLake Inc.
State & Local Government West Region: Adventos LLC
Health: Allscripts
Health Provider: Perficient Inc.
Health Plan/Payer: VUE Software
Life Sciences: NextDocs
Health & Human Services: ACS
Services (Microsoft Consulting Services): Idea Integration Corp.
Microsoft Dynamics: Permuta Technologies
Education: Computer Generated Solutions Inc.
Education K-12: Mariner
Higher Education: Nuventive LLC