Spotlight

The Microsoft Cloud Enablement Desk can help you get to Silver!

Differentiate yourself as a proven solution provider to existing and prospective customers with your first Microsoft Silver Cloud Competency with the support of our Cloud Enablement Desk. They give you access to a Cloud Program Specialist (CPS) for up to six months. The CPS will guide you through all the steps required to achieve silver competency and provide you with the technical and business resources and tools to help you along the way. You can build up Cloud capabilities across any of the following 5 Cloud Competencies-

• Cloud Productivity

• Cloud Platform

• Cloud Customer Relationship Management

• Cloud Enterprise Mobility

• Small and Midmarket Cloud Solutions

Fill the nomination form to get started today and send an email to impn@microsoft.com

New! Top Product questions and answers support

Get answers to all your questions during the presales and deployment phases of your customer projects—including deployment, configuration, demos, migration, value proposition, and licensing questions. These top product questions and answers are posted in the middle section of the MPN Support Overview page, which also links to the full library of presales and deployment questions.

Drive your sales and marketing efforts successfully with the new MPN Marketing Campaigns Page

Take full advantage of the new MPN Marketing Campaigns page, as this is the first step, that has been exclusively taken towards building a better, simpler and more integrated GTM experience for you. Get insights on how to reach the right customers and grow profits with the customizable sales and marketing materials available here. To know the campaigns, training, services available and the new navigation, download the Partner Readiness deck that includes information on the Marketing Assets page, which is slated to go live on 10/17.

Make your business more profitable- Become a MASP Partner

Grow business by helping your K-12 education customers transform into modern campuses. Pitch them the recently launched #TeachYourChildern- an initiative powered by MASP (Microsoft Aspire School Program), empowering them imagine, design, create and achieve more with Microsoft tehnology. To get started, get your potential Education Institute to register online and input you as the preferred AEP here

Implement the learnings from the Microsoft's Differentiated Value Propositions (DVPs) session

Make the most of your interaction that you had with Rajiv Arora, Director- Compete Lead on understanding the benefits of the Microsoft Differentiated Value Propositions (DVPs). The session was an attempt to help you answer the question, “Why Microsoft” and highlight Microsoft’s differentiators versus our top competitors with much more confidence now. Understanding of Microsoft Differentiated Value Propositions at three levels – Product, Workload, and One Microsoft aimed at equipping you with tips on overcoming prospect objections with case studies and much more.

For more information and for all those who missed the session, get the detailed DVPs here.

FY17 program updates are live now!

What’s New?

• Small and Midmarket Cloud Solutions competency: We have removed seat requirements to ease the entry for silver level, and changed the gold qualifications

•Cloud Productivity Competency: Steps are simplified by consolidating exam requirements, counting EDU free SKUs towards the competency, and creating new Path and Options

•Enterprise Mobility Management: Performance requirements will be based on customer adds and active entitlements and gold thresholds have been updated

•Cloud Platform: Earn the Cloud Platform competency through either the Performance Path or the Certified IP Path and multiple options within each path depending on your business model

•CRM Online: Additional software benefits are now available to Cloud Productivity and Cloud CRM partners

•Application Lifecycle Management becomes DevOps: See your DevOps competency options

Watch Cybersecurity and Data platform sessions to drive Cloud adoption

Get insights on Cybersecurity and Digital Launchpad to bring efficiencies to your organization to lead business growth. With new consumers joining the digital world, the organizations need to tap new customers, new markets, ensure partner connectivity.

Watch Session to know more about the digital impacts.

Watch Session to enable Cybersecurity with minimal investments.