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Sydney and Melbourne cloud provider Breeze has won a NSW iAward for its work with Bupa's Dental Corp.

The integrator won the health category at the iAward ceremony in Sydney this week, following last month's Microsoft World Partner Conference honour for the same Microsoft Azure-based project.

"It's great to see [Breeze] get the recognition from peers and the industry at large, health and IT services both," said David Bonham, director of Bupa Dental. "A proud moment and one to pause and reflect on."

Upon winning Microsoft's 'Application Integration' award in May, Breeze chief executive Nicki Page told CRN: "We have leveraged the cloud for that integration. We can actually give them business analytics at their fingertips in beautiful dashboards and predict what their patients are doing."

A statement from the iAwards said that Breeze's project solved a "a tricky finance consolidation problem in a distributed and proprietary hub-and-spoke environment".

"The resulting product and project experience cost very little, saved a fortune and is already set to be repeated on a larger scale." 

The NSW iAwards also honoured Breeze's hybrid cloud solution as a merit recipient in the new product category, behind the JIRA Service Desk product by giant software house Atlassian.

"The fact we came runners-up to Atlassian for new product just shows the calibre of companies we are up against," said Page. "It’s great for the teams to be recognised for their boldness, hard work and creativity."

The CEO said that the iAward "really puts Breeze on the map for innovation in Australia".

In other categories, AWS-challenger OrionVM's wholesale cloud platform product was a merit recipient in the tools category, again behind Atlassian, and testing house PlanIT's Leanne Howard was recognised as 'ICT Woman of the Year'.

The state iAwards events have toured around the capital cities this month and next, with the national awards to be handed out on 29 August at Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The iAwards are co-hosted by professional body Australian Computer Society, industry group Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) and the Pearcey Foundation. The programme celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.

Correction: An earlier headline said Breeze was Melbourne based. The company has offices in Sydney and Melbourne.