Last week, we announced that Summa's officially been recognized as a Salesforce.com Gold Partner. It's a huge moment for our team, especially in terms of what it means to our growing Salesforce.com practice, and to the clients we serve. Just to give you an idea, here are four big reasons we're excited to be Gold Partners (and why you, our clients and community, should be, too):
1. Gold Partners know their stuff.
To qualify as a Gold Partner, you have to meet Salesforce.com's criteria for things like number of specialists, sales performance, and customer satisfaction. In other words, Gold Partners are experts in what they do. Summa has more than 90 certifications, and our consultants have executed over 500 successful Salesforce.com projects, including multiple global rollouts in the last year. With that level of experience, our consultants are more adept at solving problems and implementing solutions that serve our clients' needs.
2. It's a pretty exclusive club.
There are currently only 26 other Salesforce.com Gold Partners in North America, and our team is excited to be in such good company. We bring to the table a unique depth of experience in enterprise app development and integrations with Salesforce.org Impact and Heroku partnerships, plus industry experience in manufacturing, non-profits, and healthcare - factors that really set us apart from the pack.
3. Gold Partners get the job done, and get it done well.
As we mentioned, Salesforce.com looks at performance and customer satisfaction when choosing Gold Partners. At Summa, customers are at the heart of what we do - they're the "humans" in "Human-Centered Design," after all. We create and implement solutions that solve problems for our customers, so that they, in turn, can better engage with their customers. And the Gold Partner distinction reiterates that we're good at what we do. This quote from Chuck Tullis, Senior Vice President of Sales at Utz sums it up nicely: "[Summa's] level of expertise and speed of implementation exceeded our expectations. Summa really has a great process and took the time to not only understand our goals but to make sure they exceeded them with the implementation." (Thanks, Chuck!)
4. We're growing, innovating, and achieving... and it shows.
Summa boasts deep experience in creating fast, flexible, reliable, and secure connectivity between cloud, on-premises, new and legacy core applications, as well as IoT and mobile devices. As both the implementation partner and the customer engagement solution architect for our clients, we achieve business results using Marketing, Sales and Service Clouds, and other platform components of Salesforce.com. In 2015, we won the Salesforce.com Partner Integration Award for Non-Profit Success for our work innovating new fundraising, donor, and volunteer management solutions for The United Way of Southwestern PA. Plus, Salesforce.com is one of Summa's fastest-growing practice areas. As Gold Partners, we're excited to do more, excel more, and produce more transformative solutions for our clients.
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