6th Street Consulting Achieves a Microsoft Gold Small Business Competency
Redondo Beach, CA (PRWEB) July 29, 2013 -- 6th Street Consulting (6SC) is pleased to announce that it has attained a Gold Small Business competency, 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 (for gold competencies), and pass technology and sales assessments.
As the 2013 Microsoft Partner of the Year for Collaboration and Content, 6SC demonstrates a cutting-edge ability to meet client needs in today’s dynamic technology environment. Headquarter in Redondo Beach, California, 6SC has been serving its customers with IT support since its inception in 2002. Focused on delivering expert solutions to small and medium businesses in Southern California, 6SC offers strategic methods of increasing productivity and lowering overhead costs with innovative IT solutions in the cloud.
"This Microsoft Gold Small Business competency showcases our expertise and commitment to today’s technology market and demonstrates our deep knowledge of Microsoft and its products," said Ro Kolakowski, founder of 6SC. "There are 640,000 partners in Microsoft’s partner channel but only one percent of partners worldwide can distinguish themselves with a gold competency and this high degree of proficiency. Here at 6SC, our goal is to accelerate our customers’ success by serving as technology advisors for their business demands."
"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."
Earning the Microsoft Small Business competency demonstrates partner expertise and commitment to deliver solutions tailored to Small Business customer requirements. Given the focus on adoption of Cloud computing by over 50% of SMBs in the near future to drive their business operations, partners that invest in this competency are ready to address the rising customer demand for Microsoft cloud solutions based on Office 365, Windows 8, Windows Small Business Server, Windows Intune and CRM Online.
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.
6th Street Consulting, the 2013 Microsoft Partner of the Year Winner for Collaboration & Content, is a strategy and technology consulting firm located in Redondo Beach, California. 6SC provides expert SharePoint solutions that match the business needs of organizations nationwide. 6SC can also help companies with strategic assessments/planning, proof of concepts and implementation of value-added portals (Intranets, Extranets and Corporate). As a Microsoft Managed Partner with a Gold competency in Collaboration & Content and Small Business, 6SC distinguishes itself in the top one percent of Microsoft's SharePoint partner eco-system. For more information, visit http://www.6sc.com.
David Kang, 6th Street Consulting, http://www.6sc.com, (310) 694-3844, [email protected]
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