SaintGroup Managed Services has successfully re-attained our Microsoft Gold Partner Status. In October 2011 the requirements for Microsoft Gold Partner were changed significantly, making attainment harder, nevertheless the benefits of partnership status are clear and the number of Gold Partners in the UK has reduced giving SaintGroup greater opportunities to exploit this status going forward.
Partner status is based around a number of “Competencies” and SaintGroup has now attained the following, See the attached for more information:
• Gold Server
• Silver Messaging
• Silver Desktop
Partnership status brings with it access to Internal Use Software, access to marketing support, visible marketing through partner and channel websites, access to technical resources and more… Gold competencies reward SaintGroup with additional benefits that surpass the cost of qualification:
• Customer recognition of deep expertise in a tar¬geted solution area
• Gold competency partner logo
• Eligible for a Microsoft named sales contact
• Eligible for channel incentives
• Highest search weighting in customer directories
We will continue to develop our partner status, building on existing capabilities to exploit and build our Microsoft Partnership.