Ascentium Selected to Present National Seminar on Microsoft Portal Technologies.High-Tech Writers BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 20, 2004 Ascentium Corporation, a leading northwest technology consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , announced today that it was selected by Microsoft to present their Microsoft Portal Technologies in a national eight-city tour. The tour kicked off in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , with stops in Salt Lake City, Denver, Washington, D.C., Malvern, and Pittsburg, before heading to the Northwest. The seminar will be held in Portland on June 8 and Bellevue in June 9, the last stop on the tour. Robert Miles Robert Miles (born Roberto Concina, November 3, 1969, in Neuchâtel) is an Italian record producer, composer and musician in trance and ambient music. Biography Robert Miles was born to Antonietta and Albino Concina in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. , vice president of technology for Ascentium, presents an interactive session on portal and collaboration solutions for business and IT managers, exploring how to use them in different ways to meet different business needs. An integrated stack of products, technologies, and accelerators, Microsoft Portal Technologies allow teams to collaborate through sharing content, documents, and data as well as allow them to publish and manage content across employee and partner/customer portals. "Today, customers finally have the tools and technology available to gain the benefits of collaborative portal solutions in a cost effective way," said Robert Miles. "Microsoft is delivering the core services The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. and products that make the vision of integrated portals a reality." By engaging Ascentium, a Microsoft Gold Partner in Collaboration, to present, attendees hear real-world experience working with Portal Technologies. The Ascentium Portals team brings experience developing and implementing portal and business solutions for mid-sized and enterprise organizations, such as the Dell, Evergreen Hospital, Microsoft, Paccar, and University of Washington. Microsoft Portal Technologies includes SharePoint Portal Server (1) A network server that deploys portal services to a public Web site or internal intranet. See portal. (2) An application that is used to develop, deliver and maintain a Web portal. , Content Management Server, and Commerce Server products; technologies, such as XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. and Windows SharePoint Services; and Solution Accelerators, such as Microsoft Solution for Internet Business and the CMS-SPS Content Integration Pack. It is an integrated stack bringing together capabilities across the Windows Server See Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Home Server, Windows 2000 and Windows NT. System, Microsoft Office System, and Visual Studio.Net. The complete schedule and registration is at www.microsoft.com/events and www.ascentium.com. About Ascentium Ascentium is a Northwest technology consulting firm with extensive enterprise-level expertise across a variety of industries, helping our clients create high quality, information-driven solutions to achieve their business goals. A Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, Ascentium specializes in content management and collaboration solutions, Web services, .NET development, systems integration, infrastructure, and security. The company has a diverse clientele including Dell, Evergreen Healthcare, Fred Hutchinson, Microsoft, Paccar, and University of Washington. |
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