Mandator Becomes Microsoft Gold Certified Partner

Mandator appointed Microsoft Gold Certified Partner thereby attaining the highest partner level.
The new partnership status means, among other things, that Mandator and Microsoft will collaborate on marketing, customer service and support, and skills development. Customers will gain a more complete Microsoft offering from a single supplier.

"Expanding our strategic alliance with Microsoft and attaining the highest partnership level has been one of our aims in the development of our collaboration," says Björn Sandström, Mandator's Microsoft Alliance Manager. Microsoft's Gold partner level is an acknowledgement of our ability to deliver within the Microsoft product areas, in terms of both breadth and depth. This quality stamp is based on documented knowledge in the shape of certified consultants and concrete experience in the shape of customer references."

"There are currently about 60 Microsoft Gold Certified Partners among our 700 partners in Sweden," says Emanuel Higwall, Microsoft's Business Productivity Partner Manager for Mandator. "Partners with Gold status fulfil the most stringent requirements on expertise and customer references that we apply to our partners. Mandator is one of our most important partners in Sweden as they have proven expert knowledge of Microsoft products and several documented satisfied customers."

Mandator offers Microsoft solutions within business systems, architecture, infrastructure, integration, mobility, portals, project management, systems development and security. The goal for 2005 is to increase sales in Microsoft-related transactions by approximately 10% compared with 2004 (SEK 46 million). In 2004, Microsoft-related transactions accounted for about 15% of the company's sales.


Background on Mandator's collaboration with Microsoft
Mandator has been a so-called Microsoft Certified Partner for some time. Mandator is also both a Microsoft Project Solution Provider and a Microsoft Business Solutions Partner. One area in which Mandator has shown its strength as regards Microsoft technology is mobility, having participated as an exhibitor at the Mobility2Day event together with Microsoft and Telia, for example. Furthermore, Mandator was a launch partner to Microsoft at the launches of Windows Server 2003, Exchange Server 2003, and Virtual Server 2005. Mandator is also a pioneer within the Microsoft Business Solutions field with the Microsoft CRM product, in terms of both its customer offering and internal use of the product. On Microsoft's TechNet TV pages you can see our colleague Conny Löfving demonstrating Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 (in Swedish): http://www.microsoft.com/sverige/technet/technettv/


For more information, please contact:
Björn Sandström, Microsoft Alliance Manager, Mandator, Tel: +46 8 402 31 54
Emanuel Higwall, Business Productivity Partner Manager, Microsoft, Tel: +46 8 752 28 63
www.mandator.com/microsoft