PointBridge, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is pleased to announce it is a winner of the recent Microsoft Business Intelligence Solution contest. PointBridge’s submission demonstrated how professional services firms can apply business intelligence technologies to optimize operations, enhance client relationships and improve employee satisfaction.
Sponsored by Microsoft Corporation, the contest was a skills-based competition that allowed Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) partners to showcase solutions that would depict a “day in the life” scenario using the full spectrum of Microsoft BI technologies. A global competition, all companies currently enrolled in the Microsoft Partner Program (MSPP) were eligible to participate.
The competition began on November 1, 2008. Competing firms had just three months to complete an entry that would demonstrate their Business Intelligence expertise. After developing working solutions, firms were required to record a demonstration of the solution, and then submit this recording as their contest entry.
The Business Intelligence solutions were required to depict a “day in the life” scenario and use the spectrum of Microsoft BI technology capabilities including Monitoring, Analysis, Reporting and Planning. The contest organizers suggested that the scenario target a vertical market or specific industry. Submitted contest entry recordings were limited to 10 minutes in duration.
PointBridge’s demonstration solution focused on a “day in the life” of a professional services firm – highlighting the various BI technologies and capabilities used to monitor, analyze, predict and report key performance indicators (KPI’s). All of the data and information analysis was delivered via Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The demo offers dashboards, scorecards, graphs and tables that provide the actionable information professional services firms require to make data-driven decisions with confidence. The recorded PointBridge demo can be viewed online.
“We are honored to be the recipient of this distinction and to be recognized by Microsoft for our business intelligence expertise,” said Tom Huguelet, solutions architect, PointBridge. “This is a direct reflection of the client work we do on a daily basis.”
In addition to recognition, as a first prize winner, a Microsoft Silverlight version of the PointBridge demo will be created and shared across the Microsoft BI community.
About PointBridge
PointBridge is a consulting company that connects people to people and people to information. The company builds award-winning collaboration and business intelligence solutions with Microsoft technologies including, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008. PointBridge is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and was recently named a 2008 Microsoft Citizenship Partner of the Year global finalist and was also recognized as the 2007 Microsoft U.S. Central Region Partner of the Year. The company was also honored in 2005 as the worldwide Microsoft Partner of the Year for Advanced Infrastructure Solutions and won the Microsoft Exchange Solution of the Year award.