Rose Solutions started building products using Connectix technology before Microsoft bought it, and actively participated in the beta program for Virtual PC, reporting several bugs that were fixed in the 2004 release. We have provided consulting advice to federal government departments and multinational software companies on how to best leverage Virtual PC, and what issues to look out for. Our team of virtualization engineers have built hundreds of servers for uses ranging from training, testing, and live production use, both of prototype systems and as the normal home for the applications. If you want to talk over ways you could leverage Virtual PC 2004, we would be happy to bring our experience (and all the optimization tricks we have learnt) to your project.

What is missing from your current offerings?  Do you know about the things you have already paid (vendors) for?

We usually find that customers are not aware of the training they can get for free from vendors, or the training they have already paid for!

Microsoft Skills Assessment for Organizations

Delivered as a consulting service supported by a Microsoft web application and online assessments, a Microsoft Skills Assessment for Organizations provides training needs analysis through to individually tailored skills development plans that leverage Microsoft public and private content (from Office Online through to books and training course modules).  Rose Solutions also represents each of the suppliers Microsoft used in constructing the offering, and so can help you even if your requirements don't quite fit the Microsoft offering. <more>

• Our licensing team is led by a certified Microsoft Software Advisor, who was trained by Microsoft in how their licensing works when he was at Microsoft - now you can have a knowledgeable expert on your side of the licensing negotiations, rather than just relying on the licensing provider (who usually has an incentive - their commission - to make you buy more than you really need).  Whether to help you in the negotiations, or just sanity check your normal provider, involving Rose Solutions can correct the knowledge imbalance.

• We also have lots of experience guiding customers in choosing between different product versions, and hence getting the minimum bill for the functionality they need. For example, one customer saved millions of dollars by changing how their developers and testers would be licensed. A smaller customer saved a few thousand per mobile user when they discovered SQL Developer was the right product for their users, at $99 a copy, rather than SQL Standard Edition.

• One interesting note - we usually find customers have a lot of products and benefits they don't know they have paid for: we love helping them to leverage their existing spend!