Ensim Corporation Renews Gold Certified Partner Status in [...]

📅 March 24, 2010 - The company maintains Microsoft Competencies in ISV/Software Solutions, Server Platform, Identity and Secure Access, and Security Solutions.

Ensim Corporation, a provider of user provisioning and change management software, yesterday announced that it has renewed its Gold Certified Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Program with four critical, customer-required competencies in ISV/Software Solutions, Server Platform, Identity and Secure Access, and Security Solutions. The company avers that certifications in these competencies recognize its expertise in defining and deploying solutions for customers based on Microsoft technologies.

It states that as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, it receives a rich set of benefits, including access, training and technical support for the latest versions of Active Directory, SharePoint, Office Communication Server (OCS), Exchange, and Microsoft mobility solutions. The company claims that this enables its suite of integrated tools for provisioning and user management to deliver a secure, compliant, and efficient mechanism to enforce IT policy as these applications grow in complexity. It further states that its customers, including some of the largest financial institutions in the world, gain a cost-effective way to ensure the compliance and security of their Microsoft infrastructure by automating key business policies. Its fine-grain provisioning technology slashes costs and improves efficiency by unifying distinct provisioning tools into a single, policy-driven system.

The company explains that to maintain Gold Certified Partner status, it demonstrated competencies designed to help differentiate capabilities with specific Microsoft technologies to customers looking for a particular type of solution. Each Competency has a unique set of requirements and benefits, formulated to accurately represent the specific skills and services that partners bring to the technology industry. It achieved the following competencies:

• ISV/Software Solutions: Microsoft's ISV/Software Solutions competency provides exclusive benefits and support to Microsoft Gold Certified Partners who specialize in developing and marketing packaged software solutions based on Microsoft technologies
• Server Platform: The Server Platform competency assures customers of the expertise to address their needs in creating operational efficiencies through effective use of application resources, reducing IT labor and facilities costs, and consolidating servers
• Identity and Secure Access: Ensim Unify was designed to securely manage user identities and control access to privileged information. Attaining the Identity and Secure Access specialization helps us deliver solutions designed to meet the needs of our customers with respect to access to specific application entitlements at a fine-grain feature level within the supported Microsoft applications
• Security Solutions: The Security Solutions competency recognizes the unique skills and requirements of partners specializing in delivering security-based solutions. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners enrolled in this competency have proved their skill in advanced security solutions designed to protect customer information assets by building solutions such as security management and operations and identity and access management solutions

"We have been a Microsoft Certified Partner since 2003 and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner since 2006," said Scott Young, Vice President of marketing and product management at Ensim. "Through our Microsoft partnership, we demonstrate our expertise in the management and optimization of Microsoft technologies for our customers. The benefits provided through our Gold Certified Partner status allow us to continue to enhance our products."

"Security is a priority for Microsoft, and we rely on our partners to help us deliver security-based solutions to our customers," said Mark Hassall, Director of Security and Access Product Management at Microsoft Corp. "As customers continue to automate business processes, solutions competencies such as this one enable our partners to better identify and showcase their security solutions skills to respond to increasing customer demands to better secure and optimize their infrastructure."