2008 e-Week Excellence Award: Collaboration Category "Azaleos offers a beneficial mixture of SAAS and on-premises virtues by enabling organizations to deploy Exchange e-mail in the form of a hardware appliance that lives on your premises, but that is remotely managed---and backed up---by Azaleos." e-Week
MCA MESSAGING (previously known as the Exchange Ranger program): The Microsoft Certified Architect Program is the top tier training program available from Microsoft today for Microsoft Exchange Server engineers. Entrance into this program has stringent prerequisites ensuring that the individuals accepted already possess many of the unique skills necessary to be effective in such a position. Years of consulting experience on Exchange are required, in addition to passing a lab based entrance exam. Currently there are less than a 100 MCA certified technicians in the world. Azaleos employs an MCA today that oversees all designs and deployments to ensure the highest level of quality for our customers. MCP and MCSE: The Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer certification or MCSE as it is more commonly known is a proven certification program that establishes a level of technical expertise on Windows and Exchange. Azaleos employs a number of MCSEs and requires all new hires to either have an MCP certification that specializes in messaging or for the newly hired person to have this certification within 3 months of their hire date. This requirement is for all Azaleos operations staff from our Jr. Level operations technicians to the Executive Director of Operations. PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification: One of the most valued credentials in project management, the PMP credential assures employers that you are committed to project management. Earning and maintaining this credential demonstrates a solid foundation to experience in effectively managing projects. Our PMP certified team ensures that our employees perform their duties under general supervision and are responsible for all aspects of the project, can lead cross functional teams to deliver projects within the constraints of schedule and budget deadlines and demonstrate sufficient knowledge and experience to apply methodologies to a project and execute on meeting all deliverables. SAS70 Certification: A SAS 70 audit is a demonstration of both the legal and business commitment to superior levels of reliability, availability and security. This certification is widely recognized standard representing a service organization's completion of an in-depth audit of their control objectives and control activities which includes controls and safeguards over information technology and related processes. Microsoft Gold Certified Partner: Gold Certified Partners represent the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies, and have the closest working relationship with Microsoft. Microsoft Exchange TAP (Technical Adoption Program) partner: Azaleos is one of only 40 customers and partners that are allowed to review and test Exchange Solutions months before they are released.
