NeoStream Technologies Achieves Microsoft Gold Portals and Collaboration Competency

    CALGARY, AB, June 29, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- NeoStream Technologies Inc., Calgary's largest energy services company providing collaboration solutions, today announced it has attained a Gold Portals and Collaboration competency, demonstrating a "best-in-class" ability and commitment to meet Microsoft Corp. customers' evolving needs in today's dynamic business environment and distinguishing itself within the top 1 percent of Microsoft's partner ecosystem.

To earn a Microsoft gold competency, partners must successfully complete exams (resulting in Microsoft Certified Professionals) to prove their level of technology expertise, and then designate these certified professionals uniquely to one Microsoft competency, ensuring a certain level of staffing capacity. They also must submit customer references that demonstrate successful projects (along with implementing a yearly customer satisfaction study), meet a revenue commitment (for most gold competencies), and pass technology and/or sales assessments.

NeoStream has been intimately involved with the Energy industry since 2004, providing expertise in the Oil and Gas business domain, SharePoint 2010 architecture, design and development and Enterprise Content Management. Services provided include Energyplaza hosting, proprietary product installation and configuration, capture solutions and professional services. Having achieved the Gold Portals and Collaboration competency, NeoStream is ideally positioned work with Calgary Energy companies to leverage current technology (especially SharePoint 2010 based solutions) to reap the benefits of automated collaboration tools.

"This Microsoft Gold Portals and Collaboration competency showcases our expertise in and commitment to Calgary's technology market and demonstrates our deep knowledge of Microsoft and its products," said (Sean Halliday, CEO). "We plan to accelerate our customers' success by serving as technology advisors for their business demands, leveraging our products to address common Energy industry requirements."

"By achieving a gold competency, partners have demonstrated the highest, most consistent capability and commitment to the latest Microsoft technology," said Jon Roskill, corporate vice president, Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft Corp. "These partners have a deep expertise that puts them in the top 1 percent of our partner ecosystem, and their proficiency will help customers drive innovative solutions on the latest Microsoft technology."

Attaining the Microsoft Portals and Collaboration competency demonstrates partner expertise in developing solutions that meet organizational collaboration and connectivity needs across intranets, extranets and the Internet. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software and support on Microsoft SharePoint technologies, these partners help customers by delivering productivity solutions to help improve access to information and increase productivity. The Microsoft Partner Network helps partners strengthen their capabilities to showcase leadership in the marketplace on the latest technology, to better serve customers and, with 640,000 Microsoft partners in their ecosystem, to easily connect with one of the most active, diverse networks in the world.

NeoStream is Calgary's largest energy service company providing collaboration solutions to the energy industry. In order for NeoStream to achieve its vision of improving the way the energy industry collaborates upon information, we understand that we must provide the tools and techniques to capture and organize information, facilitate communication and record decisions. We must do this for a mobile and fast paced workforce who creates and consumes information quickly and we must integrate with many existing line of business systems.

NeoStream's products address the information created about, and used for, Wells and Facilities. We connect documents to data and people to information. Our comprehensive solutions enable Operations, Administrative and Executive personnel to easily interact with the information connected to Well and Facility business processes - inside and outside the firewall. Powerful search and business intelligence tools enable the energy industry to leverage information to make strong decisions. Ask us about the solutions we've implemented for others and what the trends in the industry are...we're all about collaboration.

Website: http://www.neostreamtech.com

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