DIRECTUM Company has received Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status

DIRECTUM Company has confirmed Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status in accordance with Microsoft Partner Program, thus its high qualification and dominance on IT market are acknowledged.

As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, DIRECTUM Company showed excellent skills in operating Microsoft technologies, and proved its aspiration of meeting customers’ requirements and demands. From Microsoft Corporation Gold Certified Partners receive a wide range of advantages providing rising of their competitiveness.

Allison Watson, vice president of the Worldwide Partner Sales and Marketing Group at Microsoft Corporation remarked: "Customers are looking for partner companies that can bridge the gap between their business demands and technology capabilities. They need to trust in someone that can act as an expert adviser for their long-term strategic technology plans. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners, which have certified expertise and direct training and support from Microsoft, can build a positive customer experience with our technologies. Today, Microsoft recognizes DIRECTUM Company as a new Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for demonstrating its expertise in providing customer satisfaction with Microsoft products and technology."

DIRECTUM system of electronic document and interaction management developed by the company specialists on the platform of Microsoft SQL Server is a product of this kind. It was successfully implemented in organizations of finance, oil and gas, industry and state economics sectors. Most implementations are unique and do not have any analogues in Russia.

According to the terms of the Partnership program, to receive Gold Certified Partner status, DIRECTUM Company had to confirm one of competencies. Competencies were elaborated to help customers to differentiate Microsoft partners. For each competency a unique set of requirements and advantages is stipulated, enunciated in order to represent more precisely specific skills and services the partners bring into IT-industry.

In 2005 DIRECTUM Company confirmed Independent Software Vendor/Software Solutions и Advanced Infrastructure Solutions competencies.

There are only 17 organizations in Russia acknowledged ISV/Software Solutions competency, have status of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Now, DIRECTUM Company is among them.

Microsoft corporation information

Established in 1975, Microsoft Corporation is a world leader in software producing, services rendering, Internet-technologies developing for PC’s and servers.

Microsoft Corporation develops and releases wide spectra of software. Among them, desktop and network operational systems, server applications for client-server medium, desktop business applications and office applications for users, interactive programs and games, facilities for Internet operation and developing tools. Besides that, Microsoft offers interactive (on-line) services, edits books on computers, produces peripheral equipment for computers, and is engaged in researches and new computer technologies development. Microsoft products are on the market in more than 80 countries in the world, are translated in 45 languages (including Russian) and are compatible with most PC platforms.