ASHLAND, OREGON – April 5, 2016 – PLEXIS Healthcare Systems, today announced it has achieved a Gold Application Development competency, demonstrating a “best-in-class” ability and commitment to meet Microsoft Corp. customers’ evolving needs in today’s dynamic business environment and distinguishing itself within the top 1 percent of Microsoft’s partner ecosystem.

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 (along with implementing a yearly customer satisfaction study), meet a revenue commitment, and pass technology and/or sales assessments.

PLEXIS’ Deep Technological Experience

“The Microsoft Gold Application Development competency reflects our long-term experience working with the world-class Microsoft solution-set,” said Pete Escobar, PLEXIS’ Vice President of Product Development. “It showcases our expertise in and commitment to today’s technology market and demonstrates our deep knowledge of Microsoft and its products.”

The technological architecture of PLEXIS’ leading platform approach to payer software is built upon the Microsoft solution-set. This system design ensures nearly unlimited scalability to serve both small and large payer organizations world-wide. Healthcare payers utilize this solid technological foundation to maintain flexibility and optimize organizational growth over the lifetime of their business.

Application Development

Earning the Application Development competency helps partners differentiate themselves as a trusted expert to their customers through development and deployment of commercial or custom applications built using core Microsoft technologies like Windows Server and Windows 8 operating systems, the Windows Azure platform, Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 development system, Microsoft BizTalk Server and emerging cloud-based and web business models. By gaining access to a comprehensive set of benefits through the Application Development competency, partners can acquire new customers and help them be more productive and profitable through deployment of business applications, advanced web portals or rich client user interfaces that run on premises or in the cloud.

The Microsoft Partner Network helps partners strengthen their capabilities to showcase leadership in the marketplace on the latest technology, to better serve customers and, with 640,000 Microsoft partners in their ecosystem, to easily connect with one of the most active, diverse networks in the world.

“By achieving a gold competency, partners have demonstrated the highest, most consistent capability and commitment to the latest Microsoft technology,” said Phil Sorgen, corporate vice president, Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft Corp. “These partners have a deep expertise that puts them in the top 1 percent of our partner ecosystem, and their proficiency will help customers drive innovative solutions on the latest Microsoft technology.”

PLEXIS Healthcare Systems

In its 20th year of service to global healthcare payer and delivery systems, PLEXIS Healthcare Systems is a leading technology company that delivers trusted enterprise core administration and claims management solutions. PLEXIS empowers the business of healthcare, igniting growth, innovation, and efficiencies across diverse business lines for payer organizations. Based in Ashland, Oregon, PLEXIS currently serves organizations in 37 states (doing business in all 50), 15 countries, and over 70 million people worldwide. PLEXIS provides mission-critical solutions that catalyze efficiencies and connect evolving business ecosystems.

When you work with PLEXIS, you have an IT partner with proven expertise: Only the top 5 percent of Microsoft partners have attained Microsoft® competencies. Additionally, our Microsoft competency provides us with early access to new software and specialized technical support and services from Microsoft that help us serve you better.

We look forward to sharing our expertise and experience with you—and finding the right solutions for your business. Contact us today.