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Ensim Maintains Gold Certified Partner Status in Microsoft Partner Program With Certification in Two New Competencies
Ensim Earns Microsoft Competencies in Security and Advanced Infrastructure Solutions
| Source: Ensim Corporation
LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwire - April 27, 2009) - Microsoft Management Summit -- Ensim
Corporation, the leading provider of change management, user provisioning
and access control software, today announced it has maintained its Gold
Certified Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Program with new
competencies in Advanced Infrastructure Solutions and Security Solutions.
As a Gold Certified Partner, Ensim has demonstrated expertise with
Microsoft technologies and a proven ability to meet customers' needs.
Microsoft Gold Certified Partners receive a rich set of benefits, including
access, training and support, giving them a competitive advantage in the
channel.
Ensim's award-winning suite of integrated access management and
provisioning tools for your Microsoft infrastructure delivers immediate
savings and improves IT and employee productivity by streamlining Active
Directory management challenges that includes user provisioning, password
management, reporting, and distribution group management. Ensim Unify
Enterprise Edition installs quickly, requires no AD schema changes, and
delivers instant savings by reducing the number of help desk calls as much
as forty percent. By eliminating repetitive administrative tasks, Ensim
Unify helps improve workforce effectiveness and enables IT departments to
focus on more strategic tasks.
"We are extremely pleased to have attained Gold Certified Partner status in
the Microsoft Partner Program for both advanced infrastructure and security
solutions. This allows us to clearly promote our expertise and relationship
with Microsoft to our customers," said Scott Young, vice president of
marketing and product management at Ensim. "The benefits provided through
our Gold Certified Partner status will allow us to continue to enhance the
offerings that we provide for customers."
"Customers are looking for partner companies that can bridge the gap
between their business demands and technology capabilities," said Allison
Watson, corporate vice president of the Worldwide Partner Group at
Microsoft Corp. "They need to trust in a company that can act as an expert
adviser for their long-term strategic technology plans. Microsoft Gold
Certified Partners, which have certified expertise and direct training and
support from Microsoft, can build a positive customer experience with our
technologies. Today, Microsoft recognizes Ensim as a new Gold Certified
Partner for demonstrating its expertise in providing customer satisfaction
using Microsoft products and technology."
As one of the requirements for maintaining Gold Certified Partner status,
Ensim had to declare its Microsoft Competencies, which have a unique set of
requirements and benefits, formulated to accurately represent the specific
skills and services that partners bring to the technology industry. Within
select Competencies, there are Specializations that focus on specific
solution areas that recognize deeper expertise within that Competency.
The Advanced Infrastructure Solutions Competency is designed for partners
that specialize in infrastructure solutions such systems management; this
competency provides the information, tools, and support customers need to
help expand their business. Ensim's Specialization within this competency
is for Microsoft Active Directory. "Partners need resources designed to
support their expertise in managing the identities and relationships that
make up their customers' networks using Active Directory -- an integral
component of the Windows Server products," said Mark Hassall, director of
Infrastructure Partner Marketing at Microsoft Corp. "Specializations with
security and identity products such as Active Directory enables partners to
expand their skill sets in order to help customers understand how they can
best ensure the privacy and security of their stored information and
communications."
The Security Solutions Competency is designed to recognize the unique
skills and requirements of partners specializing in delivering
security-based solutions. Microsoft partners enrolled in this competency
have proven their expertise in advanced security solutions to help protect
customer information assets by building solutions such as identity and
access management solutions.
"Our customers tell us that they want integrated solutions, and we are
listening and delivering in a way that no one else is," said John "JG"
Chirapurath, director of marketing for the Identity and Security Division
at Microsoft Corp. "By bringing together the platform, applications,
identity infrastructure, and security and management to deliver integrated
solutions, we're ensuring our customer's success by helping them to save
time, reduce costs and protect their environment."
The Microsoft Partner Program was launched in October 2003 and represents
Microsoft's ongoing commitment to the success of partners worldwide. The
program offers a single, integrated partnering framework that recognizes
partner expertise, rewards the total impact that partners have in the
technology marketplace, and delivers more value to help partners'
businesses be successful.
About Ensim Corporation
Founded in 1998, Ensim Corporation is the leading provider of user
provisioning and access management software. Ensim products are used by
service providers and enterprises worldwide to accelerate and enable
deployment of integrated solutions, simplify and automate secure management
of complex environments, and increase user and IT productivity. Ensim is
Microsoft Gold Certified. For more information, visit www.ensim.com or
contact Ensim at 1-877-693-6746 or 1-408-496-3700 outside the United
States.
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