London, UK – September 12, 2012: Today, Tribold, the world’s leading provider of software solutions powering product agility for Communication Service Providers (CSPs), and Microsoft Communications Sector Partner of the Year 2010, announce attainment of Gold Certified status in the Microsoft Partner Programme for the 6th consecutive year.

“We are extremely pleased to have attained Gold Certified status in the Microsoft Partner Programme for the 5th consecutive year,” said Ernest Margitta, VP Marketing at Tribold. “Building on the Microsoft platform allows Tribold to focus exclusively on the Enterprise Product Management solution and leverage the $8.7b Microsoft annual R&D investment. It also ensures we can pass on lower Total Cost of Ownership TCO to our customers.”

“Enterprise Product Management solutions provide greater business agility to service providers, while significantly reducing capital expenditure so that they can focus on their core business.” said Bob De Haven, general manager, Worldwide Communications and Media, Microsoft Corp. “Tribold understand the needs of Communications Service Providers and their solutions enable customers to reduce time to market for their products and cost of delivery for new services.”

The Microsoft Partner Programme was launched in December 2003 and represents Microsoft’s ongoing commitment to the success of partners worldwide. The program offers a single, integrated partnering framework that recognizes partner expertise, rewards the total impact that partners have in the technology marketplace, and delivers more value to help partners’ businesses be successful.