Eclipse SP is recognized as reliable and efficient provider of solutions based on Microsoft technologies and obtains Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Status with core competences in Data Management Solutions and ISV/Software Solutions

Eclipse SP, a member of Sigma Group (www.sigma.se) is glad to announce that it has attained Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Status with two major competences – Data Management Solutions and ISV/Software solutions.

According to the Microsoft Resource Directory, “Microsoft Gold Certified Partners are the elite Microsoft Business Partners who earn the highest customer endorsement. They have the knowledge, skills, and commitment to help implement technology solutions that match your exact business needs. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners have passed the highest level of requirements from Microsoft and have demonstrated the most robust, efficient and scalable implementations of Microsoft technologies in demonstrated enterprise customer deployments.”

Thus by obtaining this status Eclipse SP once again demonstrated its profound experience and firm grasp of Microsoft technologies as well as its ability to deliver high-performance systems and solutions meeting customers’ expectations and needs as well as adding value to IT-investments and enhancing general business performance.

“We see two major positive aspects of Eclipse SP becoming Microsoft Gold Certified Partner,” says Vladimir Beck, Eclipse SP CEO. “On the one hand it will ensure that our developers have access to the full range of Microsoft tools and technologies in order to make the solutions delivered even better. On the other hand this status gives our customers a solid guarantee of the quality and efficiency of the services provided and solutions deployed.”

“Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Status is a quality mark which underpins Partner’s cutting-edge competence in creating Microsoft -based solutions,” adds Valery Krasovsky, Eclipse SP COO. “And we are glad that now the quality and reliability of our services is also acknowledged by Microsoft”.

For further information, contact Valery Krasovsky, e-mail: vkrasovsky@eclipse-sp.com

About Microsoft^®

Established in 1975, Microsoft Corporation is a world leader in software producing, services rendering, Internet-technologies developing for PC’s and servers.

Microsoft Corporation develops and releases wide spectra of software. Among them, desktop and network operational systems, server applications for client-server medium, desktop business applications and office applications for users, interactive programs and games, facilities for Internet operation and developing tools. Besides that, Microsoft offers interactive (on-line) services, edits books on computers, produces peripheral equipment for computers, and is engaged in researches and new computer technologies development. Microsoft products are on the market in more than 80 countries in the world, are translated in 45 languages (including Russian) and are compatible with most PC platforms.

More information about Microsoft can be found at www.microsoft.com

About Eclipse SP and Sigma

Eclipse SP LLC provides top-quality IT services to customers in such segments as telecommunications, banking and financial services, aerospace, e-business and real estate as well as in the tourism and entertainment industries.

The company’s three major business areas are software development, system integration and IT consulting.

Being ISO 9001:2000 certified Eclipse SP provides services to its customers located primarily in Western Europe and the US markets, in which the company has regional offices since early 2005. Eclipse SP^® also has sales and support partners in Switzerland, the UK, Germany and Austria.

Since April 2006, Eclipse SP is a member of Sigma (www.sigma.se)

Sigma - One of Sweden’s Leading IT Consultancies. Sigma delivers to an international market and concentrates on functional undertakings. Sigma is continuously ranked against strong competition as one of the leading IT consultancies in Sweden. Sigma is listed on the O-List of the Stockholm Stock Exchange and employs about 1,500 people in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Germany, France, China and Ukraine.

More information about Sigma can be found at www.sigma.se.

More information about Eclipse SP can be found at www.eclipse-sp.com.