Award honors EPAM’s leadership as a Microsoft Global Systems Integrator (GSI) in building next-generation AI solutions on Azure that help enterprises scale responsibly, accelerate transformation and achieve real-world results
NEWTOWN, Pa., Nov. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM) today announced it has won the Innovate with Azure AI Platform 2025 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award. The Company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in the innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.
Learn more about EPAM and Microsoft’s Collaboration
The Innovate with Azure AI Platform award recognizes a partner that has pushed the boundaries of innovation in developing a cutting-edge AI solution with Azure AI Foundry, demonstrating clear impact through a specific customer or use case. The recognition celebrates the partners that are leading the way in developing and refining AI models, building multi-modal systems, ensuring strong safety and governance and following Microsoft’s leading AI frameworks.
“We are honored Microsoft named us the 2025 Innovate with Azure AI Platform Partner of the Year for our leadership in advancing AI innovation on Azure,” said Dmitry Tikhomirov, VP of Technology Solutions, EPAM. “Our engineering teams combine deep technical and industry expertise, Azure excellence, and responsible AI design to turn business challenges into scalable enterprise-agentic solutions. By uniting Azure AI Foundry with our GenAI vision and products, we help global organizations accelerate AI transformation and achieve measurable business outcomes. This is made possible by our own Software Development Lifecycle, which is end-to-end accelerated by GitHub Copilot and a broad agent ecosystem, reducing time to market while strengthening quality and security.”
EPAM’s winning entry showcased its innovation with Albert Heijn, the Netherlands’ largest retailer, to develop a scalable GenAI platform that accelerates the implementation of AI-enabled use cases while ensuring proper governance and security. In collaboration with Microsoft, Albert Heijn and EPAM created an AI-powered virtual assistant integrated into the employee app, which enables store teams to quickly access product and stock information. The solution simplifies restocking, enhances customer support and streamlines onboarding, demonstrating how Albert Heijn is leveraging innovative AI technology to empower employees and enhance customer experience.
“This award brings some well-deserved recognition to the brilliant engineers at EPAM and Microsoft, who are changing the game in how we use AI to improve our customers’ journeys,” said Wilco Brandt, CIO, Albert Heijn, Etos and Gall&Gall. “Together with EPAM and Microsoft, we built a GenAI platform that delivers real value to our store operations – making product information instantly accessible, simplifying restocking and onboarding, and ultimately helping our colleagues serve customers better. This is how we turn innovation into real impact.”
In addition to winning the Innovate with Azure AI Platform award, as well as the Enterprise AI Market Maker Partner of the Year in the Netherlands, EPAM has also been recognized as a Finalist in three other highly competitive categories:
- Azure Awards: Finalist – Build and Modernize AI Apps
- Industry Awards: Finalist – Energy and Resources
- Partner Innovation Awards: Finalist – Global SI Growth Champion
“Congratulations to all the winners and finalists of the 2025 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards,” said Nicole Dezen, Chief Partner Officer and Corporate Vice President, Microsoft. “This year, our partners harnessed the transformative power of Microsoft’s Cloud and AI platforms to deliver transformative solutions that redefine the boundaries of innovation. The energy and ingenuity across our ecosystem continue to inspire us. The 2025 honorees exemplify what’s possible when technology and vision unite to empower customers around the world.”
The recent awards add to a growing list of milestones in EPAM’s long-standing partnership with Microsoft. Building on its existing status as a Globally Managed Enterprise Systems Integrator, EPAM has also been recognized as a Microsoft Global Systems Integrator (GSI), demonstrating the Company’s deepening collaboration and ongoing commitment to delivering innovative solutions on the Microsoft platform. This recognition reflects Microsoft’s confidence in EPAM’s ability to deliver enterprise-scale transformation for clients across industries, underscoring the Company’s engineering excellence, deep cloud expertise and continued investment in building innovative solutions on Microsoft technologies.
“As a Microsoft GSI partner, we’re excited to harness the opportunities this elevated partnership offers to help clients unlock greater value from their Microsoft investments,” said Elaina Shekhter, Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, EPAM. “This GSI recognition empowers us to drive transformative outcomes, accelerate cloud adoption and open new avenues for innovation and growth.”
To learn more about how EPAM uses Microsoft Azure to build next-gen enterprise solutions, visit epam.com/about/who-we-are/partners/microsoft.
View the complete list of winners at partner.microsoft.com/en-us/inspire/awards.
About EPAM Systems
Since 1993, EPAM Systems, Inc. has used its software engineering expertise to become a leading global provider of digital engineering, cloud and AI-enabled transformation services, and a leading business and experience consulting partner for global enterprises and ambitious startups. We address our clients’ transformation challenges by focusing EPAM Continuum’s integrated strategy, experience and technology consulting with our 30+ years of engineering execution to speed our clients’ time to market and drive greater value from their innovations and digital investments.
We leverage AI and GenAI to deliver transformative solutions that accelerate our clients’ digital innovation and enhance their competitive edge. Through platforms like EPAM AI/RUN™ and initiatives like DIALX Lab, we integrate advanced AI technologies into tailored business strategies, driving significant industry impact and fostering continuous innovation.
We deliver globally but engage locally with our expert teams of consultants, architects, designers and engineers, making the future real for our clients, our partners, and our people around the world. We believe the right solutions are the ones that improve people’s lives and fuel competitive advantage for our clients across diverse industries. Our thinking comes to life in the experiences, products and platforms we design and bring to market.
Added to the S&P 500 and the Forbes Global 2000 in 2021 and recognized by Glassdoor and Newsweek as Most Loved Workplace, our multidisciplinary teams serve customers across six continents. We are proud to be among the top 15 companies in Information Technology Services in the Fortune 1000 and to be recognized as a leader in the IDC MarketScapes for Worldwide Experience Build Services, Worldwide Experience Design Services and Worldwide Software Engineering Services.
Learn more at www.epam.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
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