Idea Integration to offer Microsoft stimulus package - Portland Business Journal:

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Idea Integration is one of six companies inthe U.S. chosenb by to offer Microsoft “They’ve cobbled together a lot of Microsoft technology as a solution that can drop into a systen and immediately track stimulus dollars and apply forstimulus dollars,” said Sandy Bateh, a senior vice president at Idea Integratio and the company’s Microsoft alliance manager. The package is aimed at state and local governments trying to get theid share of the stimuluas money and to trackits use.
Idea Integration and the other five companies offering the package were chosen because of their familiarity with all of the applications inthe “You have to understand the five underlyingt pieces of the technology,” Bateh said. Idea Integration will be competing with the othedr five companies forgovernment clients. Bateh said the most promising sectot islocal governments, since most of the stimulus mone ultimately gets spent at that Bateh said the alliancwe with Microsoft gives Idea Integration a chance to land new “It’s a great opportunity for companies like us because it givesw another entry, it’s a door-opener,” he said.