January 5, 2021 – Vizient, Inc. (Irving, TX) has attained a gold Data Analytics competency, demonstrating a “best-in-class” ability and commitment to meet Microsoft Corp. customers’ evolving needs in today’s mobile-first, cloud-first world and distinguishing itself within Microsoft’s partner ecosystem.
The Microsoft gold status demonstrates Vizient’s ability to guide its member hospitals through its data application solutions as well as scale up those applications as more hospitals seek insights to help them improve performance and drive costs down.
The Data Analytics competency recognizes partners who demonstrate expertise in creating business intelligence solutions and show proficiency in connecting data sources, performing data transformations, and modeling and visualizing data.
To earn a Microsoft gold competency, partners must successfully complete exams (resulting in Microsoft Certified Professionals) to prove their level of technology expertise, and then designate these certified professionals uniquely to one Microsoft competency, ensuring a certain level of staffing capacity.
They also must submit customer references that demonstrate successful projects, meet a performance (revenue and or consumption/usage) commitment (for most gold competencies), and pass technology and/or sales assessments.