Microsoft Partnership

Propona is a Microsoft Certified Partner and has been so for three years. As a Microsoft Certified Partner, our staff are required to regularly demonstrate a high level of relevant technical expertise via maintenance of the appropriate qualifications. In addition, the quality of our solutions is continually assessed via customer references.

We believe that our status as a Microsoft Partner is indicative of our commitment to delivering quality solutions. It empowers us with the proven skills and knowledge to ensure that the solutions delivered to our clients, from small SMEs to large multi-national companies, are of the highest standard. Please see more on why you might hire a Microsoft Partner.

The active areas, or 'competencies' in Microsoft Partner terminology, in our partnership with Microsoft are:

As a partner in Custom Development Solutions area we have proven expertise in designing and deploying custom-developed software solutions, in particular in Web application development though we have delivered successful projects in all three sub-specialisations:

• Application Infrastructure Development (Enterprise application development)
• Smart Client Development (Windows development)
• Web development (ASP.NET)

As a partner in Data Management Solutions area we have proven expertise with Microsoft SQL Server, in particular design and optimal implementation of database layers to our software solutions.

As a partner in Business Intelligence area we have proven expertise in designing, deploying and customising business-intelligence software solutions based on the Microsoft SQL Server toolset, i.e. Analysis Services, Integration Services and Reporting Services. Recent project experience has resulted in our team having particularly strong experience with Reporting Services.

Propona has recently targeted the Portals and Collaboration specialism within the Information Worker Solutions competency. Portals and Collaboration equates to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and its little brother Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, which we use extensively for our own Intranet solution.