Microsoft Gold Partner
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Microsoft Gold Partners have demonstrated a “best-in-class” ability and commitment to meet Microsoft customers’ evolving needs in today’s dynamic business environment and distinguish themselves within the top 1 percent of Microsoft’s partner ecosystem. To earn a Microsoft Gold competency, partners must successfully complete a number of exams to prove their level of technology expertise, and then designate these certified professionals to one Microsoft competency, ensuring a certain level of staffing capability. They also must submit detailed customer references that demonstrate successful projects (along with implementing a yearly customer satisfaction study), meet a revenue commitment and pass several technology and/or sales assessments and targets. Gold Partners are at the highest qualification tier for Microsoft Partners and have the opportunity to build the closest possible working relationship with Microsoft and receive the program’s top resources.