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We’ve been doing a huge amount\u00a0of work this year with Microsoft field offices and customers on upgrades and Azure (especially around Azure Managed Instance) and it’s apparent that certain customers can be reluctant to\u00a0engage with you\u00a0unless you can answer ‘Yes!’ to ‘Are you a Gold Partner?’<\/p>\n

We already had all the qualifications so we decided to embrace the whole Microsoft Partner thing fully and upped ourselves to Gold Data Platform Partner, as of today.<\/p>\n

Thanks to our great team, Achievement Unlocked!\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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