Cascade

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Hope all is well with you and FY10 is turning into a successful year for your team. I wanted to touch base with you to let you know that Cascade Business Group (Cascade) was recently added to Microsoft's Approved (Preferred) Vendors List, the AVL as it is termed by Procurement. Cascade’s Preferred status recognizes the quality of the services we deliver and our value to Microsoft, while allowing you to contract our services through a more efficient and significantly shorter approval process. We are very pleased that Procurement has recognized the value Cascade's consultants have delivered to Microsoft's many different business priorities, organizations and programs, and we look forward to serving a dynamic and diverse organization with many opportunities to leverage the industry experience, subject matter expertise, and core disciplines around PM, thought leadership, and technology that Cascade delivers.

Cascade has been added specifically to the Project Management category Approved Vendor List (AVL), which enables us to provide Strategy, Business and Technical Program and Project Management, and business and technical consulting services across Microsoft. A key factor in being added to the AVL was the many strong endorsements several of you provided to Procurement on Cascade’s behalf – we thank you for your support!

Cascade demonstrated a strong breadth of qualifications across many areas to be accepted on the AVL. We have worked with you in some of these areas [change this as needed for your recipient] but I wanted you to be aware of experiences and engagements at Microsoft where our consultants leveraged domain expertise in areas where you may not have known us for.

I'd like to ask if we could set up a few minutes together to share our consulting experiences as they relate to your key commitments and priorities. I am interested in exchanging ideas to better understand the issues and opportunities your organization has.

BackGround

As brief background, Cascade is a ten year old professional services firm providing business and IT services to Fortune 500 clients. These services include supporting complex projects requiring subject matter experts, technical resources and leaders in: strategic analysis and design, project and program management, sales and marketing, systems integration, custom software development, business intelligence solutions, operations (financial, order management, business operations), supply-chain, logistics and reverse logistics solutions, business planning, new product introduction, customer/partner support and channel enablement.

Our Team

Our team is also highly experienced in the sales, marketing and development of channel capacity for advanced technologies to include Unified Communications, Security, Collaboration, Contact Center, CRM, Wireless/Mobility, Data Center, Managed Services and Virtualization solutions.

Cascade drives results through creative solutions, bringing industry experience to engagements and a tenacity for achieving success. The team is composed of experienced industry leaders that focus on strategic and mission critical issues, often implementing new processes that offer competitive advantages for our clients. Cascade's consultants have successful track records, with an average of fifteen years of operations, sales, marketing, finance or technical experience.

Cascade's broad range of businesses served in Microsoft includes:

Services Support - Customer & Partner Care - BPOS / Online Services - strategic business management, program management, process design, user acceptance testing, global deployment management and BI/reporting.
CSS - Project Management of a BI/Scorecard and Performance Measurement project owned by the VP of Customer Service.
SMSG Field Operations - Project Management of creation, implementation, and change management of Subsidiary and Business Scorecards.
CIO Scorecard - defining metrics, stakeholders, data sources, managing integration into SMSG ROB Scorecard.
Services Support - Customer & Partner Care – Development of Strategic Partner Scorecard and BI.
Consumer & Online Scorecards – critical roles in managing and resolving blocking issues preventing timely automated publication of monthly scorecards.
High Performance Computing Scorecard – design, development, and deployment of HPC sales and marketing scorecard including SLA for data providers, change control process.
WWBMO –Subsidiary best practices for Sub Scorecard metric attainment, launch of COO’s “Saving Customers Money” campaign, and management of WWMYR preparation.
US BMO - Driving adoption and deployment of Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
Corporate Finance & Administration – Ship and Book Revenue (SABRE) project, including project management, business process and system re-design.
US Partner Group - Strategic Planning and Portfolio Management Framework and process design.
WPG - Developed shared services operation, including foundation of Partner Capacity Planning Shared Services Team, operational components of shared services desk, partner capacity taxonomy, and capacity analyst roles and responsibilities.
SMS&P - Marketing / Project Management, working with West Region PAMs and Partners to drive sales to mid-market customers.
Windows Vista Product Management - Vista product launch and application compatibility support.
Windows Channel and Partner Marketing - Windows 7 Product launch support.
OEM Finance – Multiple finance, BI, data warehouse and financial reporting projects focused on the accuracy, timing and efficiency of global sales out reporting.

I would enjoy discussing opportunities to help drive your strategic objectives. Please let me know if you’re available and I’ll set up some time to talk.

Thank you,
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