INNOVA became a Gold Partner of Microsoft. Stating that this status is one of the indicators of Innova’s technology expertise and knowledge, Alpaslan Tomuş, the Business Development Manager of Innova, said that, with this knowledge, they targeted contributing to the technology revolution Turkey was in and develop solutions that carry businesses to the future. With the Gold Partner program, which is the most competent business partnership certificate that Microsoft gives to companies, they closely work with Microsoft and have benefits such as taking a place in the priority list in Microsoft’s Resources Index.

In this direction, the Gold Partners attain the competence to build solutions in international standards using Microsoft technologies, with their certified personnel count, certificate levels, references and knowledge in the expertise areas approved by Microsoft. Companies reach competence levels in different areas as the levels of certificates of their employees are raised. These competences are listed in 8 headings.

Expressing that Innova is in a position to reach these competence levels with almost 20 Microsoft certified employees in Innova, Tomuş said, “For the expertise to be gained, at least 2 certified employees and 3 reference projects have to be provided for Microsoft approval. In the direction of the reference projects provided, Microsoft contacts the project owner firm and surveys the reality of the project together with customer’s approval. Positively resulting surveys give the business partner a competence certificate in the subjects they applied for. Within this context, Innova received competence certificates in the ‘Integrated E-business Solutions’ and ‘Knowledge Employee Solutions’ subjects. We have received the expertise certificate in the ‘Portals and Corporate Content Management’ subject.

The competences that the employee certificates grant to companies:
1 Advanced Infrastructure Solutions,
2 Business Intelligence Solutions,
3 Knowledge Employee Solutions,
4 Integrated E-business Solutions,
5 ISV/Software Solutions,
6 Training Solutions,
7 Network Infrastructure Solutions,
8 Security Solutions.

The company plans investments and development by getting a ‘Security Solutions’ competence certificate in the year 2006.

BT Haber
February 2006
bthaber@lnterpro.com.tr