Honeywell (NYSE: HON) Process Solutions today announced it has attained Gold Certified Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Program with competencies in Business Process & Integration Solutions and Networking Infrastructure Solutions. As a Gold Certified Partner, Honeywell has demonstrated expertise with Microsoft technologies and proven ability to meet customers’ needs. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners receive a rich set of benefits, including access, training and support.
Honeywell offers integrated solutions to improve customers’ business performance in increasingly complex process facilities and enterprise environments. Honeywell customers receive robust technology with built-in security features and validated migration paths for new and old equipment. Industries around the world that benefit from Honeywell’s solutions include refining; oil and gas; pulp, paper and printing; hydrocarbon processing; power generation; chemicals; petrochemicals; life sciences; and metals, minerals, and mining.
“Customers are looking for partner companies that can bridge the gap between their business demands and technology capabilities. They need to trust in a company that can act as an expert adviser for their long-term strategic technology plans. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners, which have certified expertise and direct training and support from Microsoft, can build a positive customer experience with our technologies,” said Allison Watson, vice president of the Worldwide Partner Sales and Marketing Group at Microsoft Corp. “Today, Microsoft recognizes Honeywell as a new Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for demonstrating its expertise in providing customer satisfaction using Microsoft products and technology.”
The benefits provided through the Gold Certified Partner status will allow Honeywell to continue to enhance its solutions, including our Experion® Process Knowledge System and the business application and MES solutions such as UniSim™, Business FLEX® or OptiVision®, which provide a foundation for people, process and business integration throughout the process enterprise.
“We’ve had an excellent long-term relationship with Microsoft and attaining Gold Certified Partner status is an indicator of even better things to come,” said Harry Sim, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Honeywell Process Solutions. “As a Gold Certified Partner, we are delivering integrated solutions to drive down costs and improve reliability and security across the organization from the plant floor to the boardroom.”
“We place tremendous value on our partners, who help us deliver solutions and applications to customers,” Watson said. “Solutions Competencies provide an integrated partnering framework that recognizes an enterprise’s expertise and rewards it for the effect it has in the technology marketplace. It also allows companies to demonstrate for customers their knowledge of building solutions based on Microsoft technologies, such as setting up networks using Windows Server 2003 R2 and Windows Small Business Server 2003.”
The Microsoft Partner Program was launched in October 2003 and represents Microsoft’s ongoing commitment to the success of partners worldwide. The program offers a single, integrated partnering framework that recognizes partner expertise, rewards the total impact that partners have in the technology marketplace, and delivers more value to help partners’ businesses be successful.
Honeywell International is a $30 billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; turbochargers; and specialty materials. Based in Morris Township, N.J., Honeywell’s shares are traded on the New York, London, Chicago and Pacific Stock Exchanges. It is one of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also a component of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. For additional information, please visit www.honeywell.com. Honeywell Process Solutions is part of Honeywell’s Automation and Control Solutions group, a global leader in providing product and service solutions that improve efficiency and profitability, support regulatory compliance, and maintain safe, comfortable environments in homes, buildings and industry. For more information about Process Solutions, access www.honeywell.com/ps.
