One of the BEI’s areas of expertise is finding vendors whose products and services provide exceptional value to our clients. We research these vendors, trial the solutions ourselves, select the best, obtain vendor training and deploy them in our clients’ networks.

Microsoft – BEI has been a Microsoft Certified Partner since 1995, a Gold Certified Partner since 2006 and was recently awarded the following competencies under the new Microsoft Partner Network:

• Gold Competency in Server Platform
• Gold Competency in Volume Licensing
• Silver Competency in Desktop Solutions
• Silver Competency in Midmarket Solutions
• Silver Competency in Identity and Security

Gold Certified Partners represent the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies, and have the closest working relationship with Microsoft. Through this relationship we ensure that our clients receive the latest and most up-to-date information regarding Microsoft products and services. Our engineers are required to hold Microsoft certifications.

We are very proud to have received a number of Microsoft awards, including:

• 2011 Mid-Atlantic SMB Partner of the Year
• 2010 East Region Small/Medium Business Online Services Partner of the Year
• 2009 East Region Breadth Partner of the Year
• 2009 Mid-Atlantic Small & Medium Business Partner General Manager's Award
• 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards Finalist: Online Services

Dell – BEI is a Dell Enterprise Architecture Certified Partner. Dell EA Certified Partners undergo certification and demonstrate specialization in an area of Dell technology which we have done with Dell’s server products. This insures that our customers will get the best pricing available on Dell products and that we have the knowledge and experience to design and support Dell solutions. We are also Dell Warranty Products Direct program certified and can quickly self-approve warranty returns for our customers.

HP - BEI is an HP PartnerOne Business Partner and is authorized to design and resell solutions utilizing HP business class products.

Watchguard - WatchGuard is BEI’s preferred firewall vendor. Since 1996, WatchGuard has been building award-winning unified threat management (UTM) solutions that combine firewall, VPN, and security services to protect networks and the businesses they power. All of their solutions feature reliable, all-in-one security, scaled and priced to meet the security needs of our clients.

Zenith Infotech – BEI has selected Zenith Infotech for the technology behind its netEndurebusiness continuity solution. Comprising disk-to-disk local and offsite imaging, individual file/email level recovery and built-in virtualization (both local and cloud-based) for stand-by server capability, all at a price point that is affordable even for non-enterprise organizations, we believe this to be an outstanding offering.