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Microsoft
Announces New Small Business Specialist in New
Hampshire Seacoast
New designation distinguishes Jenaly Technology
Group as an expert in small-business solutions and
services.
Portsmouth, NH, February 21, 2006 -
Microsoft Corp. today announced that Jenaly
Technology Group, Inc. has become the first
Small Business Specialist in the Seacoast New
Hampshire area. To attain this new designation,
Jenaly Technology Group has demonstrated
expertise in planning and building solutions for
small businesses. As part of the Small Business
Specialist Community, Jenaly Technology Group
will receive a rich set of benefits from
Microsoft, including access to training
specifically designed for the small-business
industry, small-business marketing materials for
reuse, special partner offers, and the ability to
use the Small Business Specialist logo in
marketing materials, which can help give the
company a competitive advantage in the
marketplace.
The Small Business Specialist
Community, available as a competency-like
designation as part of the Microsoft®
Partner Program, was developed in response to
input from customers and partners that expressed a
need to build easier connections that enable
small-business customers to quickly and easily
identify technology partners best suited to
support them.
“Small businesses are looking
for partner companies that understand their unique
business needs,” said Brian Neirby, New England
area general manager for Microsoft’s Small and
Midmarket Solutions & Partner Group at Microsoft.
“With resources like the Small Business Specialist
Community and the partner locator tool on the
Microsoft Small Business Center Web site, it will
be much easier for Seacoast small businesses to
identify local partners that are best able to
address their specific needs. We are confident
this offering will help Jenaly Technology Group
reach its full potential by creating more
visibility, opportunity and demand in the local
small-business segment.”
“Jenaly Technology Group
is extremely pleased with our status as a new
Small Business Specialist,” said MJ Shoer,
President of Jenaly Technology Group. “This
special designation allows Jenaly Technology Group
to effectively promote ourselves to clients as
having proven expertise in delivering high-value,
strategic solutions for small businesses. For
Seacoast area clients, Small Business
Specialist status provides Jenaly Technology Group
with early line of sight to new products,
services and programs from Microsoft, which can
extend the value we bring to our client
relationships.”
As one of the requirements for
attaining Small Business Specialist status, Jenaly
Technology Group had to pass Microsoft’s
Small Business Sales and Marketing Skills
Assessment, designed to test the company’s
knowledge of the dynamics and dependencies of the
small-business market, as well as the value to
small business of several software solutions,
including Windows® XP Professional,
Microsoft Office 2003 and Windows Small Business
Server 2003. In addition, at least one individual
in the company had to pass a certification exam
that measures the ability to design and implement
solutions for the small and medium-sized business
by using Windows Small Business Server 2003 and
the Windows Server System™.
The Small Business Specialist
Community was announced at the Microsoft Worldwide
Partner Conference 2006.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq
“MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software,
services and solutions that help people and
businesses realize their full potential.
Founded in 1997,
Jenaly Technology Group is an outsourced IT
services firm, located in Portsmouth, NH.
Contact:
MJ Shoer
Jenaly Technology Group, Inc.
(603) 431-7864 x201
mshoer@jenaly.com
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