QA wins 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Award for learning solutions

QA wins 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Award for learning solutions: Impact Partner of the Year

News release date:24 June 2009

QA, the UK’s leading provider of technical training, has been selected as a 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards winner in Learning Solutions, Impact Partner of the Year. The company was chosen out of an international field of top Microsoft partners for delivering market-leading customer solutions built on Microsoft technology.

Technical and Commercial Director of QA, Bill Walker, comments; “We are delighted to receive this award and believe that it shows clear recognition of the quality of Microsoft training we’re providing. We’re continually looking at the training and services we provide to ensure they meet the needs of our customers and this programme is no exception. Our team of instructors are hugely experienced in both Microsoft technologies and different ways to deliver learning, and it is thanks to their expertise that we are able to create award-winning training programmes.”

The Learning Solutions, Impact Partner of the Year award recognises exceptional partners who have demonstrated expertise in providing training services that contributed to increased speed of deployment or implementation of Microsoft software. Winners across all the award categories have been chosen from a pool of nearly 2,000 entrants worldwide.

“Microsoft is proud to recognise QA as the Learning Solutions Impact Partner of the Year. QA has partnered with Dell to create impactful training solutions that would better serve its clients,” said Clare Barclay, Director, Partner Strategy, Microsoft UK. “QA’s solutions built on Windows Server 2008 have met its customers’ objectives and have created leading edge training and certification opportunities.”

The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards recognise Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the last year.

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“The Microsoft Windows Server 2008 training and certification programme has been a tremendous success story for Dell. The objective of the training programme was to create a leading edge senior team of subject matter experts who would have the necessary skills to enable us to be first to market in architecting and building customer solutions around this technology set.

Having a leading team of certified consultants was an important part of our strategy and I believe has been instrumental in helping the number of customer wins and successes we have had in this area.

Working with QA exceed all my expectations – they are an innovative partner with leading edge delivery skills, who have worked incredibly hard to ensure the whole training programme, both for the individuals involved and for the impact it has had on the wider business, has been a complete success.”

Terry Storey – Senior Solution Architect-Microsoft, Global Infrastructure Consulting Services at Dell Solutions

QA - around 1500 training courses right across the UK, England, Scotland and Ireland

QA provides ITIL and service management training; PRINCE2, PMI, APM and ISEB project management training; technical IT training including Microsoft, Oracle training, IBM training, Cisco training, Citrix training, Red Hat training and VMware training; Microsoft Office and other business applications training, management training, managed training services, eLearning and more - around 1500 courses from 39 UK, England, Scotland and Ireland locations: in Banbury Franklin Covey, Birmingham West Midlands, Bournemouth Dorset, Bristol South West, Camberley Surrey Sun, Cheltenham Gloucestershire, Chesterfield Derbyshire, Dublin Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin Glandore Business Centre, Exeter South West, Farnborough Red Hat, Guildford Red Hat, Hinckley East Midlands, Leeds Yorkshire, Leeds Yorkshire (Ring Road), Leeds Yorkshire City Centre, London In Tuition , London King William Street, London Middlesex Street, London Old Broad Street Fast Lane, London Red Hat, London Rosebery Avenue, London Tabernacle Street, London Victoria Microsoft, Manchester Altrincham, Manchester City Centre , Manchester Stockport, Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire, QA On-Line Virtual Centre, Reading Berkshire, Reading Oracle, Scotland Aberdeen, Scotland Edinburgh, Scotland Glasgow, Scotland Glasgow Marriott Hotel, Slough Berkshire, Swindon Wiltshire, Washington Tyne and Wear and Windsor Berkshire Fast Lane.

QA wins 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Award for learning solutions: Impact Partner of the Year

News release date:24 June 2009

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QA - around 1500 training courses right across the UK, England, Scotland and Ireland