Rightpoint, a leading Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is pleased to announce its recent certification as a Microsoft Business Value Planning Services (BVPS) provider. Rightpoint is among a select few Microsoft partners to receive this new designation.

BVPS is a benefit available to all Microsoft customers with Software Assurance. Clients with Microsoft Enterprise Agreements (EAs) or Software Assurance vouchers can engage Rightpoint for three, five, ten or fifteen day onsite planning session, focused on improving and automating business process. BVPS engagements are designed to identify and drive business process improvements within a customer's organization, with a focus on increasing the application and value of Office System to a given business process.

BVPS is designed to help organizations develop a plan to leverage the strategic value of the Microsoft Information Worker (IW) platform by improving an impactful business process. As part of the BVPS engagement, Rightpoint would document, analyze, optimize, justify, sequence, and propose a plan to improve the business.

"This certification gives Rightpoint a great opportunity to combine its strengths within business process optimization and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) service offerings to help organizations simplify and automate their manual, time-intensive business processes through workflow automation. BVPS also helps our clients to improve communication & collaboration both internally and externally, improve decision making and performance management, along with document & content management." said Tony Samuta, Director for Rightpoint. "With today's uncertain economy, BVPS is a powerful way to help our clients find ways to "do more with less" without having to justify new project funding."

Trading vouchers for consulting days is an approach Microsoft is looking to have partners such as Rightpoint leverage to help deliver solutions for clients that reduce costs and increase internal efficiencies. As a qualified Microsoft BVPS provider, Rightpoint can drive business process improvements within an organization that cut costs and drive ROI in areas such as forms automation, performance reporting, content reuse, remote training portfolio management and records management.

For more information, please contact Rightpoint at (312) 920-8383 / media@rightpoint.com.

About Rightpoint

Rightpoint creates world class digital solutions that drive profitable growth and sustainable competitive advantage. Driven by the firm’s passion for pragmatic thinking, Rightpoint’s business philosophy is to rethink the "typical" consulting model, combining attributes of management consulting, IT consulting, and creative agency services to help clients drive business results by solving strategic problems. Rightpoint’s pervasive “intrapreneurial” spirit, which ensures that clients "get it right" the first time, is the foundation by which Rightpoint has built a strong, national reputation for excellence.

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