GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Statera, a business and technology solutions provider, today announced Ben Carey, senior IT consultant for Statera, has been asked by Microsoft to deliver a seminar on using Test- Driven Development (TDD) when working with BizTalk Server 2004.

Ben Carey will discuss how to create long-term resilient solutions with test-driven development. Test-driven development is emerging as a popular methodology and a productivity enhancing technique resulting in shorter development cycles.

The event will be held on Tuesday, May 3rd at 4:00 P.M. The event is open to the public. To register for this event, visit http://www.microsoft.com/communities/eventdetails.mspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSC... a&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032272971%2 2%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42- DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Nam e%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYData SvcParams%5e

About Statera

Statera, a business and technology services and solutions provider based in Greenwood Village, Colorado, helps businesses in the Rocky Mountain Region optimize organizational performance by mapping strategic goals and objectives to IT initiatives. Statera facilitates collaboration and best-practices across the enterprise, creates efficiencies between people, processes and technology, leverages data in real-time and provides the necessary insight and governing power to strategically manage the outcome of mission-critical initiatives. Statera partners with technology leaders such as Microsoft, Mercury, Vignette, Plumtree, Oracle, BEA, Sun Microsystems and Salesforce.com. Statera serves companies in the healthcare, financial services, retail, hospitality, energy, telecommunications/cable, manufacturing, education, sport and public sectors. Founded in 2001, Statera is Carl Fitch and Brad Weydert's second successful partnership; their first, Raymond James, employed over 400 and reached $70 Million in revenue before being sold. Today, Statera currently employs 100+ people with their office headquartered in the Denver Tech Center. For more information on Statera, please contact Jessica Jorgensen, 720-346-0070 ext. 162, jjorgensen@statera.com or visit http://www.statera.com/.

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CONTACT: Jessica Jorgensen of Statera, +1-720-346-0070, ext. 162,
jjorgensen@statera.com

Web site: http://www.statera.com/