Hub City Media, Inc. today announced that it has acheived Sun Microsystems' highest level of certification among its partners in this discipline.Partner Advantage Identity Management Technology Specialty Certification places Hub City Media in an elite group of Sun identity management implementation partners. To date, only two other companies have passed this rigorous certification process.

"Obtaining this specialty certification has been a challenge," said HCM's delivery manager David Plotkin. "This is not the kind of certification where you watch a presentation, pass a test, and get a certificate. Our team spent hours preparing for examinations, creating case studies from our production deployments, and reviewing these case studies with an expert panel assembled by Sun."

This latest achievement by the HCM Sun Identity Management implementation team adds to the group's long list of certifications related to identity management. Hub City Media employs more than 25 Sun-certified identity implementation specialists and architects - one of the largest such certified groups in the country. All of these specialists are full-time HCM employees who have been trained by HCM's own identity experts, carefully monitored during their initial customer engagements, and continually mentored to become the best in the industry.

"Our impeccable track record of successful Sun Identity Manager implementations combined with the Partner Advantage Identity Management Technology Specialty Certification will give customers even more confidence in choosing HCM," adds Plotkin. "We have virtually unmatched experience in identity management implementations of all sizes, and now we have elite credentials to go with it."