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Creative Technology Solutions achieves Microsoft Gold Competency

Team Creative headed by Duminda Prasad (Seated Middle) at Microsoft Sri Lanka office with Hasitha Abeywardena-Country Manager, Microsoft Sri Lanka & Maldives (Seated Right)
Team Creative headed by Duminda Prasad (Seated Middle) at Microsoft Sri Lanka office with Hasitha Abeywardena-Country Manager, Microsoft Sri Lanka & Maldives (Seated Right)

Creative Technology Solutions achieves Microsoft Gold Competency Creative Technology Solutions (Private) Limited, a leading provider of IT services and solutions announced it has attained a gold data platform, analytics, app development and DevOps competency, demonstrating a “best-in-class” ability and commitment to meet Microsoft Corp. customers’ evolving needs in today’s mobile-first, cloud-first world and distinguishing itself within Microsoft’s partner ecosystem.

To gain 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, meet a performance (revenue and or consumption/usage) commitment (for most gold competencies), and pass technology and/or sales assessments.

Creative has assisted numerous local and international clients scale cloud solutions seamlessly and in harmony with their on-premises IT infrastructure and manage a smooth transition to Microsoft Azure, modernising and integrating applications and making better use of their data.

Duminda Prasad, Head of Cloud Services at Creative said , “we have been a Microsoft Partner since 2007 and a Microsoft gold competency represents a further deepening of our cooperation. Over the years we have built an extremely capable and experienced team providing services to Microsoft customers, many of them Fortune 500 companies. A Microsoft gold competency further strengthens our position as a Data Platform and Application modernisation partner.”

“By achieving Gold competency, partners have demonstrated the highest, most consistent capability and commitment to the latest Microsoft technology,” said Gavriella Schuster, corporate vice president, One Commercial Partner (OCP) at Microsoft Corp. “These partners have a deep expertise that puts them in the top of our partner ecosystem, and their proficiency will help customers drive innovative solutions.”

With over two decades of experience building high-performing dedicated teams in Sri Lanka, Creative’s ever growing talent base of over 700 employees has extensive experience working for clients globally, across various sectors including Construction, Logistics, Manufacturing, Retail, Finance, Healthcare, Hospitality, Mobile Workforce, Enterprise Search, Telecommunications, CRM, eCommerce and eLearning.