Azure Star Seller program 2.0

Make Effective Azure Sales

Increase your Azure Sales readiness and become a Microsoft Azure Services Star Seller!

<h2>Monetize like an Azure Star Seller</h2>
<p>As a valued Microsoft partner and vital contributor to sales, you’ve heard all the excitement around Microsoft Azure Services and may have even started to engage with Azure. To win more customer deals, you’ll need to effectively pitch Azure to business decision makers and prospective buyers, by handling complex sales conversations about sales scenarios and services of Microsoft Azure.</p>
<p>The Azure Star Seller Program 2.0 takes you through the process of preparing and carrying out tactical sales discussions to articulate, position and sell services based on Microsoft Azure. The courses follow proven participant engagement methodology and are designed to deliver highly valuable, 200-level education on selling core, advanced and expert Azure Sales Scenarios without disrupting your daily work.
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<p><strong>Join us</strong> and earn yourself recognition with an <strong>AZURE STAR SELLER BADGE!</strong></p>

<h2 class="center">Online and Interactive</h2>
<p class="center">Azure Star Seller program 2.0 webinars are delivered live in convenient 45-60 min online sessions</p>

<h2 class="center">Azure Sales Specialization</h2>
<p class="center">Designed to increase specialization through easy to understand trainings with a step-by-step approach</p>

<h2 class="center">Highly Valuable Courses</h2>
<p class="center">Designed for 200-level education on selling core, advanced & expert Azure Sales Scenarios</p>

Specialize in what’s important for you

Starting with Azure

Watch the latest webcasts to get started with the<strong> Baseline of Azure Sales: </strong>core sessions about Cloud, Digital Transformation and Azure sales fundamentals. Continue with specific Azure Sales tracks of your choice to specialize in 2017.

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Infrastructure Track

<p>The upcoming webinar sessions will provide you with the tools and knowledge to tap the opportunity of <strong>Infrastructure Services</strong>. Extend your capability to better sell and transform your customers' datacenter with Microsoft Azure. </p>

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Application Track

<p>If you're interested in the <strong>Application Innovation </strong>opportunity and how to best enable customers to create competitive advantage, join this series of upcoming trainings to champion the sales talk about applications with Microsoft Azure. </p>

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Data & Analytics Track

<p>Become an expert seller of the Azure Story for <strong>Advanced Analytics</strong>. With these upcoming courses, you'll be able to understand the Azure opportunity, prepare your perfect pitch and unlock customer's data insights with Microsoft Azure. </p>

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<h2 id="training">Your next webinar sessions</h2>
<p>Azure Star Seller 2.0 program’s upcoming webinars to sell Microsoft Azure Services like a pro. Specialized sessions designed to increase your Azure Sales readiness.</p><br>
<p>Want to register for multiple sessions of your choice at once?</p>
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<h2 id="extend-datacenter">JAN 30, 2017</h2><br>
<h2>EXTEND YOUR CUSTOMER'S DATA CENTER WITH THE FLEXIBILITY AND AVAILABILITY OF CLOUD</h2>
<p>Help customers modernize their infrastructure to break free from the overhead and limitations of their on-premises. With powerful solutions across compute, storage, and networking - in customer's datacenter and in the cloud, customers can configure virtual environments to handle even the largest business needs.</p>

<p class="text-center">8:00 to 9:00 am GMT</p>
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<p class="text-center">4:00 to 5:00 pm GMT</p>
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<p class="text-center">9:00 to 10:00 pm GMT</p>
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<h2 id="support-critial-websites">FEB 2, 2017</h2><br>
<h2>SUPPORT CUSTOMER'S DIGITAL EFFORTS WITH SCALABLE MISSION-CRITICAL WEBSITES</h2>
<p>Customers require to quickly create and deploy high scale websites and apps that can scale with their business. Provide them with an end-to-end solution that gives them much more and help them with building, deploying, scaling and managing powerful websites and web apps that fulfill their enterprise needs.</p>

<h2 id="SQL-server-platform">FEB 6, 2017 </h2><br>
<h2>PROTECT YOUR CUSTOMER’S DATA AND APPLICATIONS WITH RELIABLE SQL SERVER PLATFORM</h2>
<p>Data is a critical part of solutions and for clients is crucial to use a potent and elastic SQL server business continuity solution that protects their critical data and apps, reduces planned downtime and delivers speed recovery in case of an outage, all without having to worry about the technical hassle.</p>

<h2 id="flexibility-virtualization">FEB 9, 2017 </h2><br>
<h2>PROVIDE YOUR CUSTOMERS WITH FLEXIBILITY OF VIRTUALIZATION IN THE CLOUD</h2>
<p>Virtual Machines give clients the flexibility of virtualization for a wide range of computing solutions. They can quickly launch Windows Server and Linux virtual machines and use it as if they added another rack in their data center, giving them the power to deploy an application and scale in minutes instead of weeks. </p>

<p class="text-center">8:00 to 9:00 am GMT</p>
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<h2 id="Dev-Test-Infrastructure">FEB 13, 2017</h2>
<br><h2>LEVERAGE YOUR CUSTOMERS' DEV-TEST CAPABILITIES WITH SCALABLE, ON-DEMAND INFRASTRUCTURE</h2>
<p>Show your clients how their Dev & Test teams can leverage the cloud and build dev/test environments within minutes, to help them become more agile and improve quality. Provide them with everything they need to provision and manage a complete development and test environment or to integrate it with on-premises technologies.</p>

<h2 id="data-visualization">MAR 9, 2017</h2><br>
<h2>BRING BUSINESS DATA TO LIFE THROUGH A RICH INMERSIVE VISUALIZATION EXPERIENCE</h2>
<p>Turn your customers' data processing efforts into impactful analytics and interactive data visualizations that provide real-time insights of their business and bring customer intelligence efforts to life. Expand your clients' analytics capabilites to deploy rich dashboards quickly at cloud scale while managing costs.</p>

<h2 id="management-automation">MAR 13, 2017</h2><br>
<h2>SIMPLIFY HYBRID CLOUD MANAGEMENT WITH PROCESS AUTOMATION</h2>
<p>Management automation for hybrid cloud can be deployed on Azure or within your customers' datacenters and used to automate their key infrastructure. This way, they can spend more time focused on the work that adds business value, reduce errors and boost efficiency by automating frequent, time-consuming, and error-prone cloud management tasks.</p>

<h2 id="DevOps-tools">MAR 16, 2017</h2>
<br><h2>ACCELERATE AND STREAMLINE CONTINUOUS DEPLOYMENT WITH DEVOPS TOOLS</h2>
<p>Streamline your customers' continuous application delivery lifecycle with DevOps tools. Help them accelerate the delivery of software and updates, optimize their Dev & Ops teams resources, save them time and cut costs to ultimately bring more innovative applications into users' hands faster.</p>

<h2 id="cloud-database">MAR 20, 2017</h2><br>
<h2>FOCUS ON APPS DEVELOPMENT BY USING A POWERFUL FULLY-MANAGED CLOUD DATABASE</h2>
<p>Your clients can become more efficient and productive by using a robust relational database platform for developing, deploying, and managing the data tier in a wide range of cloud-based applications. With built-in intelligence that learns app patterns and adapts to maximize performance, reliability, and data protection, SQL Database is a cloud database built for developers.</p>

Earn your Azure Star Seller badges

By attending the sessions, you'll be well equipped for the knowledge assessment to earn yourself recognition with an AZURE STAR SELLER ONLINE BADGE and stand out from the crowd!

<h2 class="center">Basic Knowledge</h2>
<p class="center">As a partner seller, you’ll be assessed against <strong>standard</strong> Azure Sales proficiency: Cloud Sales Tactics, Azure Value Preposition and 5 core
Azure Sales </p>

<h2 class="center">Advanced Knowledge</h2>
<p class="center">You’ll be assessed against <strong>advanced </strong>Azure Sales proficiency: advanced Cloud Sales Tactics, Objection handling and advanced Azure Sales <strong>Scenarios for 3 vertical specializations</strong>: Infrastructure, Analytics & Apps</p>

<h2 class="center">Expert Knowledge</h2>
<p class="center">You’ll be assessed against <strong>expert</strong> Azure Sales proficiency: in-depth and practical insights about expert Azure Sales Scenarios <strong>for 3
vertical specializations</strong>: Infrastructure, Analytics & Apps</p>

Looking to specialize in other verticals of Azure?

<p>With Azure Star Seller 2.0 program you can choose to became an infrastructure , Applications or Data & Analytics expert through different Course Tracks that address specific areas relevant to you. </p>

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Azure Star Seller program 2.0

Azure Star Seller program 2.0

Make Effective Azure Sales

Specialize in what’s important for you

Starting with Azure

Infrastructure Track

Application Track

Data & Analytics Track

Earn your Azure Star Seller badges

Looking to specialize in other verticals of Azure?

The Azure Star Seller Blog

Brought to you by Consalta

PRIVACY STATEMENT