Onrego’s Cloud Has a Silver Lining

I have fantastic news! Our startup has qualified to Silver Management and Virtualization competency in Microsoft Partner program! Rock!

Microsoft refreshed its partner program couple of years ago. Nowadays the partner program has several competencies such as Hosting, Portals and Collaboration and Management and Virtualization. The competencies should reflect partners focus and knowledge. Each of them has also Silver and Gold Levels and the competencies have several qualifications. Onrego’s focus is on Microsoft System Center solutions and so the most describing competency for us is Management and Virtualization.

Thank you Microsoft; thank you our clients and thank you Onrego team! Next stop is Gold Management and Virtualization!

Steve Ballmer, the President of Microsoft Corporation, remembered us with a nice placard and Microsoft Finland gave us a bottle of champagne. The placard is hanging on our HQ‘s wall and the bottle has already been emptied :). Over and out.

The Office And a Sea View

Can the office of just established startup company be located in Keilaniemi, Espoo, Finland, right next to Microsoft, Nokia and Angry Birds, just to name a few? Can the office have a sea view? Yes! The location of our office is a statement. It is a statement to us, to our clients and to our partners.

At first we were not planning on renting an office. The reason was to save some cash. But more we thought about it, renting an own office started to make lots of sense. In the startup phase spending time together is very valuable since we are able to innovate and make decisions fast.

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