Today, servers running Microsoft BizTalk Server and Microsoft Host Integration Server on Windows Server 2003 form the backbone of a growing number of integration and business process solutions. Delivering the high levels of reliability and availability required of business-to-business websites requires not only great technology but also the competency to plan, deploy, support, and migrate those solutions.

Microsoft solutions partners have capitalized on this opportunity to help organizations build integrated, interoperable, modularized, extensible, and secure e-business solutions that connect information, systems, people, and processes. The Microsoft Business Process and Integration Competency is available for systems integrators, solutions and services providers and software developers with proven proficiency in implementing and deploying business process applications featuring:

• Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
• Business-to-business application integration (B2B)
• Business Process Management (BPM) Solutions
• Adapter Development

The Custom Development Solutions competency positions partners for better exposure within the Microsoft developer, ISV, and system integrator communities. Additional competency assets will support partners in demand generation, technical and sales learning opportunities, and early adopter initiatives across Microsoft developer technologies, with an emphasis on Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

The competency can help you deliver focused value for specific communities of developer partners through the following three specializations:

• Application Infrastructure Development focuses on delivering applications built using Windows Server 2003, BizTalk Server, SQL Server, SharePoint Products and Technologies, and Visual Studio.
• Smart Client Development focuses on delivering custom-developed solutions accessed through a client like Visual Studio, Visual Studio Tools for Office, and Microsoft Office.
• Web Development focuses on delivering Web-enabled deployment solutions required in organizations that wish to operate and transact through the Internet using Visual Studio, ASP.NET, IIS, Windows Server 2003, and SQL Server.

Specialize—and capitalize. The Information Worker Solutions competency can help you demonstrate proficiency and maximize revenue potential for Microsoft information worker technologies.

Achieving the competency better equips you to address key customer challenges by helping you develop solutions and deploy services based on the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.

To help you prepare, we’ve aligned market opportunities with nine specializations within the Information Worker Solutions competency. These specializations are designed to support your business needs as you work toward attaining the competency.

• Search
• Data Visualizaion
• Enterprise Project Management
• Portals and Collaboration
• Office Solutions
• Performance Management
• Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Forms
• Office Sytems Deployment
• Unified Callaborations

The Networking Infrastructure Solutions Competency is for technology partners who have proven their proficiency in implementing solutions based on Microsoft Windows Server 2000 or Windows Server 2003 Operating Systems, or Microsoft Small Business Server 2000 and Small Business Server 2003.

If you are a partner with proven proficiency in this area, apply for the Microsoft Networking Infrastructure Solutions Competency today and use all of the valuable, customized resources, tools, and information to help make your business — and your customers’ businesses — do more.

Partners enrolled in the Network Infrastructure Solutions Competency have proven competency in crafting infrastructure solutions for small to midsize businesses that include Windows Server Solutions based on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000 Server operating system, or Microsoft Small Business Server 2000 and Windows Small Business Server 2003. These implementations may include crafting solutions that connect Windows-based servers, PC locations, and the Internet; installing a server farm; or building a Windows Small Business Server stand-alone solution that includes file/print capabilities.