Microsoft Partner Development Center is the new world figure that Microsoft has made available its channel partners and provides strategies, tools and methodology to accelerate business growth and profitability. afirmaGroup also is the trainer of all the Microsoft Partner Development Center in the world, and that the methodology used is based on the methodology afirmative created by afirmaGroup and subsequently acquired by Microsoft. This new agreement strengthens the relationship with Microsoft in Latin America as part of expansion plan afirmaGroup as an international consultant and opens the way to start working the U.S. market for which they are already doing some pilots.