SSB recognized as Microsoft US Public Sector 2017 Partner of the Year Award Winner for Education

SSB recognized as Microsoft US Public Sector 2017 Partner of the Year Award Winner for Education

As it continues to help education institutions manage and structure data from all sources to address the important issues of constituent and internal engagement, full lifecycle management, and consistency in communications, SSB today proudly announced it has won the Microsoft

US Public Sector 2017 Partner of the Year Award. Microsoft’s US Public Sector 2017 Partner of the Year Award recognizes SSB for exemplary commitment to Microsoft and to the Education field.

“This is a great honor and reflects the effort and expertise SSB has brought to the evolution of utilizing a robust approach to managing data to drive results in the Education category,” said SSB Senior Partner Bryan Smith. “The foundational data platform SSB has created and optimized for Education is enhanced by the power of Microsoft Azure.”
Winners were chosen from more than 100 organizations across the US Public Sector segment areas they serve.

The Microsoft US Public Sector 2017 Partner of the Year Awards honor partners that have demonstrated business excellence in delivering Microsoft solutions to multiple customers over the past year. This award recognizes SSB as succeeding in effective engagement with its local Microsoft office while showcasing innovation and business impact, driving customer satisfaction, and winning new customers.
SSB helps Higher Education institutions achieve a higher level of engagement with their varied audiences by capturing, standardizing, cleaning, integrating, and reporting on data that is combined from any number of disparate sources and structured for use by any number of outputs, such as automated marketing, email management, operational evaluations, and much more. This creates active and actionable business intelligence that allows the institution to ensure that it is delivering the right message, at the right time, to the right person, while also improving the speed and quality of decision making, eliminating communication silos, and aligning goals and metrics.
“The 2017 Public Sector Partner of the Year Award winners represent the most innovative and transformative work being done across our partner community, serving the mission of customers across US Government and Education.” said Gail Thomas, Vice President, US Public Sector, Microsoft. “We are honored to recognize SSB as a recipient of Microsoft’s US Public Sector 2017 Partner of the Year Award.”

The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the past year.
Source: PRWeb
Microsoft announces streamlining of smartphone hardware business

Microsoft announces streamlining of smartphone hardware business


REDMOND, Wash., Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced plans to streamline the company’s smartphone hardware business, which will impact up to 1,850 jobs. As a result, the company will record an impairment and restructuring charge of approximately $950 million, of which approximately $200 million will relate to severance payments.

“We are focusing our phone efforts where we have differentiation — with enterprises that value security, manageability and our Continuum capability, and consumers who value the same,” said Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft. “We will continue to innovate across devices and on our cloud services across all mobile platforms.”

Microsoft anticipates this will result in the reduction of up to 1,350 jobs at Microsoft Mobile Oy in Finland, as well as up to 500 additional jobs globally. Employees working for Microsoft Oy, a separate Microsoft sales subsidiary based in Espoo, are not in scope for the planned reductions.
As a result of the action, Microsoft will record a charge in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2016 for the impairment of assets in its More Personal Computing segment, related to these phone decisions.
The actions associated with today’s announcement are expected to be substantially complete by the end of the calendar year and fully completed by July 2017, the end of the company’s next fiscal year.
More information about these charges will be provided in Microsoft’s fourth-quarter earnings announcement on July 19, 2016, and in the company’s 2016 Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) is the leading platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. 
SOURCE Microsoft Corp. Via PRNewswire

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