Microsoft Partnership
"With the advances in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 we see more and more customers using Office SharePoint Server to manage projects, and a product like BrightWork's pmPoint that is rich in project management functionality and based on a project management standard (the Microsoft Solutions Framework) will provide significant business value to customers"
Kurt DelBene
Corporate Vice President
Microsoft Office Server Group
“We at Microsoft are very pleased that BrightWork have shown Project 2010 and pmPoint integration working so early in the 2010 release cycle. We believe that the ability for customers to see a dashboard of reports in SharePoint that reports across many project sites with data synchronized in from Project Professional 2010 will be very appealing, and will provide a natural stepping stone to the full capabilities of Project Server 2010.”
Seth Patton
Senior Director of Product Marketing
Microsoft Project Group
"With pmPoint for Sure Step, BrightWork has successfully integrated the implementation guidance in Microsoft Dynamics® Sure Step into the highly-collaborative Microsoft Office SharePoint® platform. This integration provides Microsoft Dynamics partners an option to further enhance their productivity by allowing management of multiple Sure Step projects through SharePoint ."
Klaus Holse Andersen
Corporate Vice President
Microsoft Business Solution
BrightWork is a Microsoft Gold Partner.
BrightWork has a very important and close partnership on a number of levels with Microsoft. This assists BrightWork to make company and product decisions that benefit the long term investments of our customers and partners.
Some highlights of the partnership include:
- BrightWork is a Microsoft ‘Managed ISV Gold Partner’
- Customer Relationship
Some of the Divisions at Microsoft are BrightWork customers - Marketing Relationship
BrightWork participates in formal co-marketing campaigns with the Microsoft Office team - Member of Microsoft SharePoint
Developer Advisory Council (DAC)
Our Chief Technical Architect sits on this council - Licensed to use MSF IP
Since 2003 BrightWork has had a license from Microsoft to use Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) Intellectual Property in BrightWork solutions - Participant on:
- Office 14 / SharePoint v4 Developer Advisory Council
- Office 12, SharePoint v3 & Project 12 TAP
- Visual Studio Team System 2005 TAP (Technology Adoption Program)
- Prior participant on 3 Joint Development Programs (JDP’s)
- BrightWork has participated in the Exchange 2000, SharePoint 2001 and SharePoint 2003 JD