Conterra achieved a Microsoft Gold Cloud Platform Competency
We're glad to announce that today Conterra achieved a Microsoft Gold Cloud Platform Competency, demonstrating its best-in-class capability within Microsoft Azure Platform and the ability to meet Microsoft Corp. customers’ evolving needs in today’s dynamic business environment.
To earn a Microsoft gold competency, partners must successfully complete exams (resulting in Microsoft Certified Professionals) to prove their level of technology expertise, and then designate these certified professionals uniquely to one Microsoft competency, ensuring a certain level of staffing capacity. They also must submit customer references that demonstrate successful projects (along with implementing a yearly customer satisfaction study), meet a revenue commitment (for most gold competencies), and pass technology and/or sales assessments.
As Conterra’s CEO Mykola Bobukh said: “We see that cloud technologies become a huge business enabler for our customers. We invest to our Azure expertise and work with our customer’s teams to provide hybrid cloud solutions for their enterprises making them able to win against the competition”
“By achieving a gold competency, organizations have proven their expertise in specific technology areas, placing them among the top 1 percent of Microsoft partners worldwide,” said Phil Sorgen, corporate vice president, Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft Corp. “When customers look for an IT partner to meet their business challenges, choosing a company that has attained Microsoft competencies is a smart move. These are highly qualified professionals with access to Microsoft technical support and product teams.”
Attaining the Microsoft Cloud Platform competency demonstrates partner expertise in building, integrating and/or extending Windows-based applications and infrastructure solutions in the cloud using the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. With more than 57 percent of the Fortune 500 using Microsoft Azure, the Microsoft Cloud Platform competency can help partners take advantage of the growing demand for infrastructure and software as a service solutions.
Equipped with exclusive training, partners can help customers deploy solutions that increase customer productivity and profitability. The Microsoft Partner Network helps partners strengthen their capabilities to showcase leadership in the marketplace on the latest technology, to better serve customers and to easily connect with one of the most active, diverse networks in the world.