Microsoft Gold Partner Certification and Distinction
Microsoft Gold Certified Partners are the elite Microsoft Business Partners who earn the highest customer endorsement. They have the knowledge, skills, and commitment to help implement technology solutions that match your exact business needs.
Microsoft Gold Certified Partners have passed the highest level of requirements from Microsoft and have demonstrated the most robust, efficient and scalable implementations of Microsoft technologies. This certification requires documented enterprise customer deployments or on-site Microsoft assessment.
Sitecore is a Gold Certified Microsoft partner and works very closely with Microsoft at the field and product development levels. We closely aligning our products with their latest developments so that our mutual customers benefit from a common familar user interface, smooth product interoperability, and leverage of the same technical training investment.
Sitecore CMS provides complete integration with Microsoft SharePoint 2007, Active Directory, Word and InfoPath, and supports content storage on the SQL 2005 server. The user interface design is based on Office 2007 and the Microsoft Vista operating system.
ISV Solutions Competancy
Sitecore has the additional distinction, as a leading software company, of the Microsoft ISV/Software Solutions Competency. This recognizes the skill and focus partners bring to a particular solution set. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners that have obtained this competency have a successful record of developing and marketing packed software based on Microsoft technologies.
“Solutions Competencies are an important way for Microsoft to better enable ISVs to meet customer needs,” said Sanjay Parthasarathy, corporate vice president of the Platform Strategy & Partner Group at Microsoft. “They allow ISVs to keep and win customers with their deep knowledge of solutions-based Microsoft platform technologies. Microsoft has a long history of working closely with ISV partners to help deliver compelling solutions and applications to our mutual customers, and the Solutions Competencies are an important step in continuing to enhance vital relationships with ISVs worldwide.”
.NET Connected Certified
Sitecore CMS is certified as .NET connected by Microsoft. This certification recognizes solutions that fully support XML Web service capabilities, and take advantage of the .NET Framework programming model benefits such as multi-language support, added security, and enhanced flexibility – important features for customers that have been recognized and prioritized by Microsoft..
Microsoft .NET is software that connects information, people, systems, and devices – using industry XML Web services standards. These XML Web service standards enable software applications to interoperate, regardless of platform or programming language.
As a fundamental capability throughout the Microsoft ® platform, .NET enables a broad range of personal and business technologies to connect, so that you can access and use important information, whenever and wherever it is needed.