{"id":48914,"date":"2022-02-24T19:02:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T03:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/?p=48914"},"modified":"2022-02-24T19:02:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T03:02:47","slug":"sweet-16-datamax-earns-microsoft-gold-status-for-16th-straight-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/news\/2022\/02\/sweet-16-datamax-earns-microsoft-gold-status-for-16th-straight-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet 16:  Datamax Earns Microsoft Gold Status for 16th Straight Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Little Rock, AR (Feb. 24, 2022)<\/em> \u2014 Datamax Inc. is proud to be named a Microsoft Gold Partner for the 16th consecutive year, continuing its streak of both commitment and consistency with one of the most common workplace technology platforms in the United States today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese competencies earned year after year mean a lot to me and a lot to our team, and they should mean a lot to our customers,\u201d said Justin Huffaker, vice president of strategic technology for Datamax Inc. \u201cThe Microsoft suite of applications, whether it\u2019s a traditional box product or whether it\u2019s an Office 365 licensing model, is the predominant office productivity platform we see in corporate America. As an organization, we are pushing the capabilities of (Microsoft) products every day, and that puts us in a great position to help our clients claim maximum advantage of their usage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Microsoft status was obtained by Datamax\u2019s Technology Services Group (TSG) members completing a designated number of certification exams in five specific categories. These include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Gold Application Integration<\/li><li>Silver Collaboration and Content<\/li><li>Gold Datacenter<\/li><li>Gold Cloud Productivity<\/li><li>Silver Small and Midmarket Cloud Solutions<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Huffaker says the team focused intently on both the \u201cGold Datacenter\u201d and \u201cGold Cloud Productivity\u201d competencies to meet the emerging demands of customers to a cloud or hybrid technology base. With a Datacenter competency, organizations can demonstrate technical capabilities designing, implementing, and maintaining a Windows Server infrastructure in a scaled and highly virtualized environment. A Cloud Productivity competency highlights an organization\u2019s skills in delivering innovative Office 365 solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe cloud offers flexibility. It offers scalability. It enables a \u2018work from home\u2019 environment. That\u2019s where we see business moving today,\u201d Huffaker said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huffaker stresses the pride he takes and the ongoing commitment his department maintains to staying abreast of Microsoft\u2019s product base and its strategic intent, so the TSG can continually provide best-in-class technology to customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNot only does this demonstrate to our team and to our fellow coworkers that we have this level of skillset \u2013 it gives confidence to folks around us that when they ask for advice, our answers are grounded in actual knowledge. Those same benefits, of course, apply to our customers,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Datamax<\/strong><br>Datamax Inc. offers the latest equipment and solutions in technology to increase efficiency and productivity in customers\u2019 offices. Datamax Inc. has been in business for over 65 years with offices in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datamaxarkansas.com\">Arkansas<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datamaxtexas.com\">Texas<\/a>, and Missouri with more than 250 employees in three states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little Rock, AR (Feb. 24, 2022) \u2014 Datamax Inc. is proud to be named a Microsoft Gold Partner for the 16th consecutive year, continuing its streak of both commitment and consistency with one of the most common workplace technology platforms in the United States today. \u201cThese competencies earned year after year mean a lot to me and a lot to our team, and they should mean a lot to our customers,\u201d said Justin Huffaker, vice president of strategic technology for Datamax Inc. \u201cThe Microsoft suite of applications, whether it\u2019s a traditional box product or whether it\u2019s an Office 365 licensing model, is the predominant office productivity platform we see in corporate America. As an organization, we are pushing the capabilities of (Microsoft) products every day, and that puts us in a great position to help our clients claim maximum advantage of their usage.\u201d The Microsoft status was obtained by Datamax\u2019s Technology Services Group (TSG) members completing a designated number of certification exams in five specific categories. These include: Gold Application Integration Silver Collaboration and Content Gold Datacenter Gold Cloud Productivity Silver Small and Midmarket Cloud Solutions Huffaker says the team focused intently on both the \u201cGold Datacenter\u201d and \u201cGold Cloud Productivity\u201d competencies to meet the emerging demands of customers to a cloud or hybrid technology base. With a Datacenter competency, organizations can demonstrate technical capabilities designing, implementing, and maintaining a Windows Server infrastructure in a scaled and highly virtualized environment. A Cloud Productivity competency highlights an organization\u2019s skills in delivering innovative Office 365 solutions. \u201cThe cloud offers flexibility. It offers scalability. It enables a \u2018work from home\u2019 environment. That\u2019s where we see business moving today,\u201d Huffaker said. Huffaker stresses the pride he takes and the ongoing commitment his department maintains to staying abreast of Microsoft\u2019s product base and its strategic intent, so the TSG can continually provide best-in-class technology to customers. \u201cNot only does this demonstrate to our team and to our fellow coworkers that we have this level of skillset \u2013 it gives confidence to folks around us that when they ask for advice, our answers are grounded in actual knowledge. Those same benefits, of course, apply to our customers,\u201d he says. ### About DatamaxDatamax Inc. offers the latest equipment and solutions in technology to increase efficiency and productivity in customers\u2019 offices. Datamax Inc. has been in business for over 65 years with offices in Arkansas, Texas, and Missouri with more than 250 employees in three states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[86],"tags":[3871],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48914"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48915,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48914\/revisions\/48915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}