Chicago, IL – November 9, 2005 – Premier technology solutions provider, Intrinsic Technologies LLC, received an award this week from the Microsoft Deployment Service Partner (DSP) Program Airlift. The Microsoft DSP award recognizes Intrinsic Technologies as generating the most deployment business value in the US of all Partners in the Enterprise space.

"Intrinsic, with their SWIMAGE® solution, has developed a solid reputation within Microsoft and our Partner communities as a 'go-to' for helping customers deploy and maintain their infrastructure. Their focus and technical expertise in this area has resulted in their name being mentioned alongside much larger companies time and time again," said Microsoft’s Chris Ross, Senior Product Manager, Office Deployment.

Intrinsic Technologies is helping businesses nationwide lower operational costs and streamline their XP and Office 2003 deployments through SWIMAGE, an end-to-end automated deployment framework proven to reduce migration costs by 30% to 80%. It’s easy to see the benefits of introducing an organization to a streamlined automated deployment solution.

"Through automation, efficient time and process management, and rigorous planning, SWIMAGE makes deployment what it should be; a strategic transition into better technology performance," said Kyle Haroldsen, Practice Manager for Intrinsic Technologies’ Deployment Practice.

The Microsoft Airlift is designed to support the DSP program which is driven from the Microsoft US BMO Windows Client organization. The DSP program is a co-funded partner engagement program that delivers a 2-3 day, on-site service engagement to jumpstart customer desktop deployments. The primary program goal is to reduce customer concerns regarding the cost and risk of deployment. Partner goals include increasing and expanding partner deployment service opportunities and strengthening partner relationships with Microsoft.