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09.11.07 - Vivid Group achieves Microsoft Gold Certification and the Information Worker competency

Vivid Group has achieved Microsoft Gold Certification which represents the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies and have the closest working relationship with Microsoft.

Vivid has achieved the Information Worker Solutions competency, specializing in Portals and Collaboration encompassing;

Collaboration and Communication solutions

Design and Migration
Custom Business Solutions
Collaboration Engagements
Communications
Portals and Search Solutions

Enterprise content management (ECM) and forms solutions

Compliance Services
Extensibility and Integration
Solutions Augmentation
Migration Services

Vivid has also achieved the requirements to renew the Custom Development Solutions competency, specializing in web development encompassing;

Design and migration
Active directory solutions
Industry specific solutions
Enterprise content management (ECM)
Custom business solutions
Business Process Integration solutions

What are the benefits of Information Worker Solutions?

According to a 2006 IDC study , partners with the Information Worker Solutions competency outperform other non-competent knowledge worker partners on 12 of 14 key performance indicators (KPIs). Specifically, this research found that compared to the Knowledge Worker Benchmark, IW competent partners have:

Significantly shorter sales cycles and implementation times, benefiting from Microsoft's ability to connect them with high-yield prospects and Microsoft technical resources.

Service capacity utilisation rates that exceed the benchmark by 10 percentage points. They keep their technical resources billable more of the time and therefore are able to do more with fewer resources.

More productive relationships with their customers. Their number of deals per customer is over 1.5 times that of the benchmark.

Revenue growth averaging 18 per cent, significantly higher than (more than double) the growth of the benchmark companies.