SCG Consultant and System Engineer Honored with Prestigious Microsoft MVP Award for Microsoft Dynamics CRM; Curt Spanburgh Recognized for His CRM Expertise, Voluntary Work on MBS Help Forum and Continuous Efforts to Raise Standards in the IT Community

Business Wire, Feb 1, 2006

SAN DIEGO -- Solutions Consulting Group (SCG) today announced that Curt Spanburgh, a consultant and system engineer for the Microsoft Business Solutions Gold Partner, was honored with a Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) Award for Dynamics CRM. The award recognizes accomplished professionals for their contributions to technical community activities Worldwide.

The MVP Award was established more than 11 years ago to recognize top IT professionals who contribute in a meaningful way to newsgroups, top user groups, Websites and message boards, books and worldwide public speaking engagements. MVP status is awarded only to active online community experts who demonstrate technical expertise, voluntary willingness to share their experience and a commitment to helping others realize their potential within Microsoft technical communities.

"Curt's achievements with Dynamics CRM are impressive and certainly worth recognition," said Bill Edmett, Jr., partner, practice management at SCG. "Curt definitely fulfills the spirit of the award by continually sharing his expertise with fellow engineers and actively participating in a top MBS forum that shares SCG's goal to continually raise the bar for IT solutions."

Curt Spanburgh has been a consultant and system engineer at SCG since 1998. He has worked with Microsoft applications for more than 15 years and with Microsoft CRM since Beta 1.0. He monitors a Microsoft Business Solutions forum on the Mark Minasi Help Forum at http://x220.win2ktest.com/forum/forum.asp?forum_id=41.

Spanburgh attended Bergen Community College and New Jersey Technical Institute. He is certified in Great Plains SQL Foundation, Microsoft Certified Professional MCSC, MCSE, MCP, CCA (Citrix), Dynamic GP MCP, and NTJI.

About Solutions Consulting Group (SCG)

SCG is a Microsoft Worldwide Partner of the Year for Business Intelligence and a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner with offices in San Diego, Orange County and Phoenix. SCG delivers Risk-free IT solutions designed to give organizations a competitive advantage. Through custom application development and integration of world-class technologies, SCG implements complex IT solutions and often rescues failed projects, to deliver a measurable return on investment. Competencies include BI, CRM, ERP, and e-business solutions. SCG's experienced, certified IT professionals, fixed-fee process and proprietary project methodologies assure clients that their IT challenges will be resolved on time and on budget. SCG focuses on the data management, business reporting and IT needs of clients in the construction/industrial, consumer electronics, restaurant and hospitality, healthcare/biomedical, insurance/finance, non-profit, software/technology, and discreet manufacturing industries. Visit www.scg.net for case studies and more information.