Cogent Achieves Microsoft Gold Certification
Dallas, TX. June 29, 2007. Cogent Company today announced it has attained Gold Certified status in the Microsoft Partner Program. As a Gold Certified partner, companies look to Cogent to design and deploy solutions based on Microsoft's SharePoint platform to enable process automation, portal solutions, and enterprise content management solutions. In addition, Cogent also offers Office application integration, or Office Business Applications, services that integrate the Office productivity applications, e.g., Outlook, Excel, Word, to legacy line of business applications. Cogent's SharePoint platform solutions and Office application integration services improve individual and corporate productivity by automating manual work tasks, improving corporate collaboration and decision making, and more efficiently manage corporate data.
"We're glad to have achieved this level of status in the Microsoft Partner Program. This certification demonstrates our commitment to deepening our expertise on Microsoft's Information Worker products and deepening relationship with Microsoft. With this certification, we can continue to highlight our unique blend of business advice technical skills," said Ty Anderson, Partner at Cogent Company.
Cogent's experience with aligning management goals with initiatives connecting people, process, and data integrates with Microsoft's goal of building software that solves business problems by connecting people, processes, and data. "Our clients are looking for creative ways to solve their most complex business problems with the Microsoft technology they, in many cases, already own. We want to demonstrate to our clients and our partner community that we are not only able to conceive of solutions to their problems, but we're able to execute because of our superior technical competence," said Marc Hoppers, Partner at Cogent Company.
“Customers are looking for partner companies that can bridge the gap between their business demands and technology capabilities. They need to trust in someone that can act as an expert adviser for their long-term strategic technology plans. Microsoft Certified Partners, who have certified expertise and direct training and support from Microsoft, can build a positive customer experience with our technologies,” said Allison Watson, vice president of the Worldwide Partner Sales and Marketing Group at Microsoft Corp.
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At Microsoft, we're motivated and inspired every day by how our customers use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them.
We run our business in much the same way, and believe our three core business divisions offer the greatest potential to serve our customers. They are:
- Platform Products and Services Division: Includes the Client Group, the Server & Tools Group, and the Online Services Group
- Business Division: Includes the Information Worker Group, the Microsoft Business Solutions Group, and the Unified Communications Group
- Entertainment and Devices Division: Includes the Home & Entertainment Group and the Mobile & Embedded Devices Group
We are committed long term to the mission of helping our customers realize their full potential. Just as we constantly update and improve our products, we want to continually evolve our company to be in the best position to accelerate new technologies as they emerge and to better serve our customers.