All Microsoft Systems Integrators and Partners contemplating solutions for their customers using Microsoft products will understand the difficulty in resourcing the wide range of technical expertise that is required to successfully complete a project. Unless the operation is already of a substantial scale, most UK and European software and services organisations simply cannot afford to maintain a ‘shelf stock’ of skills in Microsoft Technology stack in anticipation of projects.

This is made even more difficult by the fact that the certification process is now much more rigorous and keeping professionals trained and up-to-date on the technology stack is an expensive proposition.

Having experienced this issue in the UK market, Voyager has invested heavily in building alliances with a number of off-shore Microsoft Skills factories that have used their lower cost-base to develop skills from top to bottom of the technology stack and are thus able to fulfil complete Microsoft solutions using components and integration techniques.

Through these alliances Voyager can work with Microsoft Partners to:

• Outsource the complete delivery of a solution
• Take part in delivering some components of a solution for which the Partner is prime contractor
• Provide resources either on-shore or off-shore to work within the Partner’s team