(Wheaton, Illinois) December 5, 2006 - Merit Solutions, a growing and innovative leader in control and compliance software and services for regulated industries, has earned Gold Certification status in the Microsoft Partner Program. Gold is Microsoft’s highest level of Partner certification and is achieved by a Partner who meets specific competency and service-level requirements. These requirements validate a Partner’s knowledge, skills and commitment to help businesses implement technology solutions that solve customers’ exact business challenges.

Merit Solutions reached Microsoft’s elite Gold Certification status by demonstrating high levels of technical competency with its clients, evidenced by outstanding results in customer satisfaction surveys of service-level quality. It also earned official Microsoft Competencies in Business Process and Integration and Microsoft Business Solutions. Achieving these competencies signals to customers a provider’s ability to offer proven efficiency in implementing and deploying business process applications and management solutions that focus on financial, supply chain and customer relationship management.

According to Bill Burke, president of Merit Solutions, “We’re pleased to be recognized through Gold Certification because it reinforces our mission to improve the business success of our customers and partners by providing high quality, innovative software solutions, on time and on budget, that achieve maximum customer satisfaction.”

Founded in 1999, in addition to Merit Solutions being recognized as a Gold Certified Microsoft Partner, it is also a Microsoft President’s Club and Manufacturing Excellence Partner, working collaboratively with Microsoft Dynamics Partners throughout North America and Europe. In addition to providing consulting and support services for Microsoft Dynamics products, Merit Solutions is an independent software vendor with companion products for Microsoft systems, including the only software that enables full FDA CFR 21 Part 11 compliance for FDA-regulated firms using Microsoft Dynamics GP.

For information on Merit Solutions services and software, contact:

Merit Solutions, Inc.
Attention: Tim Strudeman, tstrudeman@meritsolutions.com
Phone: 630-614-7133, x227
Fax: 630-614-7141
Merit Solutions, Inc.
1749 S. Naperville Rd., Ste. 200
Wheaton, IL 60187
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