Gateway TechnoLabs is a leading IT services company in India and the company established its strong position in the market b deploying latest technologies to clients as per global sourcing principles. Most recently, the company has acquired 29th position as Microsoft’s competent partner. RCP has ranked Gateway at 29th position out of 50 “Most Competent” partners of Microsoft worldwide. This prestigious position was achieved by the company after years of making a mark into the market for executing excellent software solutions and allocating skilled resources at a minimal cost. Gateway TechnoLabs received 10 Gold Competencies, 5 Silver Competencies, and SBSC membership to achieve this ranking.
RCP scoured through the pages of Microsoft Pinpoint Directory (MPN) to find out 50 “Most Competent’ partners of Microsoft throughout the world having the most Microsoft Competencies. All the partners were evaluated on the basis of their business solutions and client satisfaction. After getting feedback from customers regarding the solutions and services that they receive from the partner companies and how advantageous they are to the Microsoft stack, Microsoft’s most competent partners were selected. RCP ranked the partners accordingly with the help of MPN competency system. The scores generated for each partner companies were:
- Two points for each gold competency
- One point for each silver competency
- One point for SBSC membership
- One point for Cloud Essentials participation
MPN gold and silver competencies bring out the skill set of companies and help them stand out in the competition apart from each other. The Microsoft competencies help customers to identify the skills and expertise of any company and evaluate how they are different from each other. MPN’s highest accreditation is the Gold competency, which has very stringent procedures of evaluating the technical competencies of a Software Development Company by conducting customer satisfaction survey. Additionally, four Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCPs) must clear the technical exam; two employees have to pass the sales & marketing assessment, and one person has to get through the licensing assessment. By acquiring the Gold competency any software company achieves the distinction status amongst top 1% of partners worldwide for successfully providing effective business solutions.
The Silver competency is less stringent compared to Gold. Here, two Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCPs) instead of four must clear the technical exam, while one employee each have to pass the sales & marketing assessment and licensing assessment respectively. In addition, in Silver competency, a company’s skills set is identified if it is distinguished amongst top 5% of Microsoft’s partners throughout the world. Thus, with all the available data, RCP generated the list of the 50 ‘Most Competent” Microsoft’s partners worldwide. Further, each partners had to maintain an engineering department having around 100 Microsoft Certified Professionals along with revenue of over $2 Million to achieve gold competency.
To be in the “biggest of the best” list as Microsoft’s most competent partner worldwide, every partner that made it to the top ‘50’ list had to possess some unique qualities that set them apart from others.