Knowledge Management Associates Awarded Microsoft Regional Marketing Partner of the Year; KMA Distinguishes Itself by Earning Annual Microsoft Regional Award.WALTHAM, Mass. -- Knowledge Management Associates (KMA KMA Kiss My Ass KMA Korea Meteorological Administration KMA Koninklijke Militaire Academie (Royal Military Academy; Netherlands) KMA Knoxville Museum of Art KMA Kentucky Medical Association KMA Korean Medical Association ), an IT consulting and business software firm that builds solutions that improve productivity, business insight and collaboration, today announced it has been named the Eastern Region Winner of Microsoft's Annual US Field Partner Award for "Marketing Excellence." A Gold Certified See certification. Microsoft partner, KMA was recognized as the 2005 regional winner for design and execution of marketing programs based on Microsoft Partner Competencies. KMA, based in Waltham, MA, focused efforts in the past year to build expertise and market alignment with a new Microsoft "Partner Competency COMPETENCY, evidence. The legal fitness or ability of a witness to be heard on the trial of a cause. This term is also applied to written or other evidence which may be legally given on such trial, as, depositions, letters, account-books, and the like. 2. " business model. KMA identified Microsoft's "Information Worker Productivity" and "Business Intelligence" competencies as a core focus, and was certified as a Gold Partner in 2004. In the Information Worker Productivity area, KMA worked with Microsoft and customer teams to introduce the "SharePoint Business Jumpstart", a highly successful program which focused on integrating business and technology initiatives through a facilitated, onsite customer roundtable. Through this approach, customers received prescriptive pre·scrip·tive adj. 1. Sanctioned or authorized by long-standing custom or usage. 2. Making or giving injunctions, directions, laws, or rules. 3. Law Acquired by or based on uninterrupted possession. guidance to help them make SharePoint more successful in their business. "Children's Hospital Boston Children's Hospital Boston is a children's hospital located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Located at 300 Longwood Avenue, Children's is adjacent both to its teaching affiliate, Harvard Medical School, and to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. recognized a lack of locally available training or technical expertise around Microsoft SharePoint. With their Business Jumpstart and associated services, KMA has served a pivotal role in helping us get our Sharepoint implementation back on track," commented Children's Hospital A children's hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties. Chief Knowledge Officer Danny Shaw. "We have tons of questions about SharePoint, they actually have answers - and solutions," added Shaw. KMA's Business Intelligence competency was the basis for a similar initiative, as Microsoft New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. approached KMA about requirements for better executive information delivery in the large regional Healthcare market. Leveraging expertise in executive dashboard (1) See Mac Dashboard. (2) A software-based control panel for one or more applications, network devices or industrial machines. Dashboards display simulated gauges and dials that look somewhat like an automobile dashboard. solutions - which present key business performance data through a graphical display - KMA built a custom "Claims Denial Dashboard" to help senior management at a large regional hospital in Connecticut to improve the way they track, recover and account for denied claims. "KMA, in partnership with Microsoft, has worked closely with our business and information technology teams, to better understand our denied claims process. We are looking forward to implementing a claims dashboard that can provide better insight into denied claims recovery and payer performance," stated Eastern Connecticut Healthcare Chief Information Officer Charles Covin COVIN, fraud. A secret contrivance between two or more persons to defraud and prejudice another of his rights. Co. Litt 357, b; Com. Dig. Covin, A; 1 Vin. Abr. 473. Vide Collusion; Fraud. . "Customers are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. partner companies to serve as expert advisers for their long-term, strategic business and technology plans and Microsoft has designed a worldwide partner program to align these customer objectives with business partner solutions through certified competencies," said Robert Deshaies, eastern regional vice president of the Microsoft Small and Midmarket Solutions and Partners Group. "Microsoft recognizes KMA for marketing excellence in 2005, for their ability to demonstrate an ability to leverage the information worker and business intelligence competencies to deliver value for customers." "We at KMA are extremely pleased with the recognition by Microsoft of our marketing efforts this year. KMA is focused on delivering customer value in partnership with Microsoft New England. Joint seminar events, industry campaigns and solution offerings proved an excellent way to scale our business productivity and information insight messages to the New England market," commented KMA President David Goldstein David Goldstein is a radio talk show host and blogger in Seattle, Washington. He hosts "The David Goldstein Show" on Saturdays and Sundays on 710 KIRO. Goldstein first gained notoriety in 2003 for Initiative 831, which would have officially proclaimed Washington State political . Founded in 1995, KMA leverages a unique integration of business & technology skills, to deliver the highest level of customer value. A Gold Certified Microsoft Partner, KMA has received Microsoft competencies in information worker, business intelligence and independent software vendor categories. KMA works closely with New England customers in multiple industries, with clients ranging in size from medium business to Fortune 1000. Find out more at www.kmainc.com. |
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