Atidan Achieves Fifth Microsoft Gold Competency in Business Intelligence

Yardley, PA — Jul 02, 2012 / (http://www.myprgenie.com) — Atidan today announced it has attained a fifth Microsoft Gold competency in Business Intelligence, demonstrating a “best-in-class” ability and commitment to meet Microsoft Corp. customers’ evolving needs in today’s dynamic business environment and distinguishing itself within the top 1 percent of Microsoft’s partner ecosystem.

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, and pass technology and/or sales assessments.

Atidan’s five Microsoft Gold competencies include:

Application Integration

Attaining the Microsoft Application Integration competency demonstrates partner expertise in implementing integrated solutions that connect critical information resources and enable business agility. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software, and support on Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services and Microsoft .NET, partners are able to deploy solutions focused on improving employee productivity, enhancing business decision-making and delivering stronger connections.

Business Intelligence

Attaining the Microsoft Business Intelligence competency demonstrates partner expertise in designing, developing and implementing business intelligence solutions that allow customers to monitor, analyze and plan business performance based on actionable business insight. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software, and support on solutions around Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Microsoft Visio 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010, partners help their customers set their organization apart from the competition.

Digital Marketing

Attaining the Microsoft Digital Marketing competency demonstrates partner expertise in developing rich Internet solutions. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software, and support on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for Internet Sites and Microsoft Silverlight, partners help their customers secure a unified platform for intranet, extranet and Internet sites. This enables customers to create engaging user experiences, cut costs, enable rapid development, and offer interactive search and personalization.

Portals and Collaboration

Attaining the Microsoft Portals and Collaboration competency demonstrates partner expertise in developing solutions that meet organizational collaboration and connectivity needs across intranets, extranets and the Internet. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software and support on Microsoft SharePoint technologies, these partners help customers by delivering productivity solutions to help improve access to information and increase productivity.

Search

Attaining the Search competency demonstrates partner proficiency in deployment of solutions that can index various types of data and efficiently conduct complex searches. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software and support on Microsoft SharePoint 2010, partners are equipped with the tools needed for improving the search experience across desktops, mobile devices and the Internet.

“Democratizing Business Intelligence” is Atidan’s recent campaign theme promoting the Microsoft’s Business Intelligence vision and strategy.  By improving business insights to all employees, better, faster and more relevant decisions can be made.  These strategic, tactical and operational decisions are made through a familiar environment, integrated into existing business productivity infrastructure and built on a trusted and extensible platform.

“Achieving our fifth Microsoft Gold competency in Business Intelligence is a testament to Atidan’s expertise in self-service business intelligence,” said David J. Rosenthal, President & CEO. “With a collaboration framework powered by Microsoft SharePoint, the Atidan team is delivering powerful personal analysis tools, rich visualizations and self-service reporting that is integrated into a unified search, social and mobile experience.”

“By achieving a gold competency, partners have demonstrated the highest, most consistent capability and commitment to the latest Microsoft technology,” said Jon Roskill, corporate vice president, Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft Corp. “These partners have a deep expertise that puts them in the top 1 percent of our partner ecosystem, and their proficiency will help customers drive innovative solutions on the latest Microsoft technology.”

The Microsoft Partner Network helps partners strengthen their capabilities to showcase leadership in the marketplace on the latest technology, to better serve customers and, with 640,000 Microsoft partners in their ecosystem, to easily connect with one of the most active, diverse networks in the world.

About Atidan
Atidan is a software development and technology consulting firm dedicated to helping today’s business leaders create easy-to-use technology environments that make work easier and more efficient for employees at every level.
With offices in the U.S. and India, Atidan combines offshore cost-efficiency and 24 hour work cycles with direct onsite team interaction-delivering low-risk, high-performance applications development and consulting for business analytics, collaboration and custom business applications. For more information, please visit http://www.atidan.com.