Microsoft is encouraging its partners in Bacolod City to get professional certification for licensing delivery to boost their credentials in providing Microsoft-based solutions.

“If you're a certified partner, businesses… schools will trust you,” George Parrilla, marketing manager of Microsoft Southern Philippines, said yesterday.

Parilla and sales manager Erick Olavides were in Bacolod to meet with their local partners.

In Bacolod , Microsoft Philippines has about 50 partners, those who resell and promote their products. These include retailers, system builders and value-added resellers.

Among these partners, only Datalink Technologies Inc. so far has Microsoft certified professionals, Parrilla said. But most of their resellers in Bacolod are registered partners.

Partners need to send their people to Cebu or Manila to take certification exams because there is no training provider in Bacolod yet. “But we're still encouraging them to take the exams,” said Parilla who described Microsoft as a “100 percent through partner business.”

PROGRAM

For its partners, Microsoft Philippines has designed the Kaakbay Partner Program, a localized program aimed to help them grow their business and realize their full potential.

By registering, partners can receive training, enjoy rewards and incentives, get pre-sales and operational support, and even obtain Microsoft software for internal use.

Qualified business to join the Kaakbay Program are: system builders or PC assemblers, value-added resellers or volume license resellers, large account resellers, independent software vendors, system integrators, Microsoft training providers, Microsoft Dynamics solutions resellers, and services and support providers.

Depending on their skills, expertise and program engagement, partners are designated a particular level, either as a registered partner, certified partner or gold certified partner.*NLG

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