ACTS Achieves a Microsoft Gold Data Analytics Competency

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - July 10, 2015 - PRLog -- ACTS, a technology solutions provider with a long-standing strategic relationship with Microsoft, today announced it has attained a Gold Data Analytics Competency, demonstrating a “best-in-class” ability and commitment to meet Microsoft Corp. customers’ evolving needs in today’s dynamic business environment and distinguishing itself within the top one percent of Microsoft’s partner ecosystem.

To earn a Microsoft gold competency, partners must successfully complete exams (resulting in Microsoft Certified Professionals) to prove their level of technology expertise, and then designate these certified professionals uniquely to one Microsoft competency, ensuring a certain level of staffing capacity. Partners also submit customer references that demonstrate highly successful projects that exceed their revenue commitment and pass technology and sales assessments for most gold competencies.

As a leading technology solutions firm and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, ACTS began by serving businesses in the Northeast Florida region and beyond and has grown to serve Fortune 500 companies on a national and global level. The Microsoft Data Analytics Competency enables ACTS to showcase proficiency and expertise by delivering faster data insights to customers. ACTS can now sell Microsoft data platform for data analytics, which includes Microsoft SQL Server 2014, Office 365 (including Power BI for Office 365), SharePoint Server 2013, and Windows Azure. In addition, ACTS has the ability to provide access to big and small data, powerful and familiar business intelligence tools, and a unified and comprehensive data platform for customers.

“This Microsoft Gold Data Analytics competency showcases our expertise in and commitment to today’s technology market and demonstrates our deep knowledge of Microsoft and its products,” said John Farhat, Vice President, ACTS. “We accelerate our customers’ success by serving as their technology advisors for their business demands and future growth.”

“By achieving a gold competency, partners have demonstrated the highest, most consistent capability and commitment to the latest Microsoft technology,” said Jon Roskill, corporate vice president, Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft Corp. “These partners have a deep expertise that puts them in the top one percent of our partner ecosystem and their proficiency will help customers drive innovative solutions on the latest Microsoft technology.”

Attaining the Microsoft Gold Data Analytics competency demonstrates a partner’s expertise in designing, developing and implementing business intelligence solutions that allow customers to monitor, analyze and plan business performance based on actionable business insight. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software, and support on solutions around Microsoft SQL Server 2014, Office 365 (including Power BI for Office 365), SharePoint Server 2013, and Windows Azure partners help their customers set their organization apart from the competition. The Microsoft Partner Network helps partners strengthen their capabilities to showcase leadership in the marketplace on the latest technology, to better serve customers and -- with 640,000 Microsoft partners in their ecosystem -- to easily connect with one of the most active, diverse networks in the world.

ACTS is a Florida-based technology solutions provider working with businesses to leverage technology for competitive advantage. Serving SMBs to Fortune 500 enterprises, ACTS is grounded in a business outcome methodology with the ultimate focus of helping clients drive better business results. ACTS achieves this by utilizing the latest technology to intelligently capture relevant data, automate processes, and accurately deliver the right information to the right people. ACTS’ ability to provide both applications and the infrastructure that powers them offers clients efficiency and convenience. ACTS solutions are deployed on-premise, hosted or in the cloud – including fully managed services with 24/7 support and guaranteed two-hour response.