New year - new designations
By Andy Portlock
22/02/2023
As of October 3rd, 2022, Microsoft introduced Solutions Partner designations and retired legacy competencies and associated badging. Having previously been a Gold Partner for over 10 years, we are delighted to announce we have successfully received ‘Solutions Partner for Modern Work’ and ‘Solutions Partner – Azure’ designations.
Utilize has been at the forefront of enabling businesses to reach their full potential with technologies and unique road mapping, and this partnership with Microsoft which has spanned over a decade equips us with a wider landscape of new and innovative products and services.
To attain these designations, we are required to continually demonstrate specific skill sets and below gives a brief outline of each one and these requirements.
Solutions Partner – Azure Infrastructure
As a Solutions Partner for Infrastructure, Utilize has demonstrated our capability to help customers accelerate the migration of key infrastructure workloads to Microsoft Azure.
Utilize has a proven record of:
- Designing, implementing, operating, and optimising customers’ infrastructure architecture, cost, and security
- Migrating and modernising customers’ infrastructure for virtualised workloads (including SAP) and virtual desktop environments
- Onboarding and management of high-performance computing workloads in Azure
Solutions Partner for Modern Work
As a Solutions Partner for Modern Work, Utilize has demonstrated our broad capability to help customers boost their productivity and make the shift to hybrid working by using Microsoft 365.
Utilize has a proven record of:
- Deploying, driving adoption of, and managing Microsoft 365 apps and services to help customers work, learn, organise, connect, and create
- Empowering personal computing with deployment of modern management services for Windows and Windows 365
- Implementing, driving adoption of, and managing Microsoft Teams to help customers communicate and collaborate with chat, meetings, and calls
- Delivering services and solutions to digitally enable customers’ frontline workers
- Delivering employee experience services and solutions for Microsoft Viva to help customers harness knowledge and expertise, amplify culture and communications, accelerate skilling and growth, or balance productivity and wellbeing
- Building custom apps and solutions on the Microsoft 365 platform to meet the specific needs of customers
We are proud to have not only met but exceeded the thresholds set by Microsoft across all areas of performance, intermediate and advanced skilling certification as well as customer success.
As a trusted Microsoft Partner, we look forward to our ongoing partnership and the insights and benefits it brings to our Clients.
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