MTP or broadly called as Microsoft Technology Practice is a group of technical experts at Maketick with full fledged competency in core technical field, and a aim to carry out and back up projects based on Microsoft technologies. The group aims and concentrates upon key Microsoft technologies, prior to their release.

The forefront technologies that the group acts upon, assigns never-ending research, to make sure that the group is on top of all the modern technologies on the Microsoft pile, be it .NET 3.0 or NET 3.5 or Windows 7 as a new platform. This is attained by the research build up of MTP, often known as the Microsoft Competency Center (MCC). As part of MCC, Maketick has joined hand with Microsoft for publicizing VSTS in India and now relishes the pride of being the Microsoft chosen partner for SQL Server 2005 and SilverLight.

The group is a key initiator and motivator behind the .NET Community @ Maketick, promoting a healthy knowledge sharing across diverse project teams, by way of introductions, lectures and case studies.

MCC constitutes of several 'Focus Groups' that, as the name proposes, focus on specific technologies within the Microsoft pile:

Focus Area	Details
Mobile Applications	.NET CF based rich applications on hand-held's Mapping solutions with Virtual Earth and Map Point
Data and Business Intelligence	SQL Server 2005 - XML, Notifications, Reporting Services, Analysis Services, Integration Services, Notification Services
MOSS	Office, Outlook, Sharepoint workflows Integration with backend systems InfoPath, OpenXML
Vista, .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5	Redesign and reengineering, migration and porting WPF, WCF, WF, Cardspace, SilverLight
Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Applications	AJAX based rich UI applications Rich web-based reporting, BI solutions, dashboards
VSTS	Out of the box processes Customization and deployment

Go-To-Live Model and MTP

MTP group also backs up project completion and application development duties, chiefly using Microsoft technologies. Founded on years of expertise, we are working for some of the world's top and most elite ISVs and organizations, as well as lots of budding ones and VC-funded companies, Maketick is now rendering a unique value suggestion to its clients through its Go-To-Live offering. Maketick thinks that this offering will ultimately provide with more business value to its clientele base by cutting down risk of failure, curtailing time for preparation and make the most of return on investment.

The Go-To-Live offering suggests using Microsoft VSTS based tools for end-to-end project management, build and testing of tools, tracking and seamless integration of development. The project team looks up towards senior engineers and architects from the Microsoft Technology Practice at Maketick, for suggestions and practices on technology, procedures and guidelines.