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Differentiate your capabilities with Solutions Partner designations

Attain a Solutions Partner designation to signal your capabilities in specific solution areas, access go-to-market benefits, and unlock incentives that can put more value into your business.

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Solutions Partner designations signify your capabilities and recognize your proven customer success. They are designed to empower you to stand out from the competition, reach more customers, and access benefits that can support your growth.

Attaining a designation can also set your organization up for even greater benefits and opportunities, such as earning a specialization to further differentiate your expertise.

Explore the Microsoft Learn page for more about Solutions Partner designations.

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Attain your designation

To qualify for a Solutions Partner designation, your organization must meet the designation qualifications and have a partner capability score for the solution area of at least 70 points. Your partner capability score is a composite score that quantifies your achievements across the categories of performance, skilling, and customer success, and it’s calculated from information already captured in Partner Center.

Your organization’s Partner Center admin can track progress toward attaining a designation through the Solutions Partner dashboard.

Once you've met the qualifications, you can proceed with payment to attain your designation.

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Accelerate designation readiness

Speed up your designation journey with a partner benefits package. These offerings are purpose-built to support growth, readiness, and delivery, and there are three cost-saving options to choose from. Purchase the package that works best for your business goals and unlock product and support benefits that can empower you to drive success.

With a partner benefits package, you can strengthen your solutions and drive long-term profitability—and in turn, boost your partner capability score and become designation-ready faster.

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Maximize designation benefits

Once you’ve attained a designation, it’s time to tap into expanded benefits and resources. Each designation unlocks a unique suite of go-to-market, enablement, and support offerings tailor-made to accelerate your growth. These include Azure bulk credits; seats for Microsoft solutions like Dynamics 365, Power BI Premium, and Microsoft 365 E5; and, based on your solution area, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Security Copilot, and Azure Copilot.

Work toward your designation today so you can access the benefits and resources that separate you from the competition.

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Stand out from the competition

Signal your capabilities across solution areas and beyond. Solutions Partner designations are an opportunity to differentiate your unique skill set and record of customer success.

AI Business Solutions-related designations

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Attain a Solutions Partner designation that spotlights your capabilities in AI Business Solutions. The designations aligned to this solution area recognize partners who go beyond the technology to lead with the business value of AI, guiding customers to AI productivity, efficiency, and innovation—and driving Copilot adoption, agent deployment, and Frontier Transformation along the way.

AI Business Solutions-related designations

Attain a Solutions Partner designation that spotlights your capabilities in AI Business Solutions. The designations aligned to this solution area recognize partners who go beyond the technology to lead with the business value of AI, guiding customers to AI productivity, efficiency, and innovation—and driving Copilot adoption, agent deployment, and Frontier Transformation along the way.

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Solutions Partner for Business Applications

Demonstrate your ability to deliver solutions on Dynamics 365 and Power Platform.

Solutions Partner for Modern Work

Signal your capabilities boosting customer productivity and demonstrate your commitment to training, accreditation, and delivering solutions that lead to customer success.

Cloud & AI Platforms-related designations

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Support your revenue growth and win customer deals by demonstrating your capabilities in Cloud & AI Platforms. Leverage and maximize your Microsoft investments to meet the growing demand for cloud-based solutions, stand out in a competitive market, and unlock benefits that drive lasting growth.

Cloud & AI Platforms-related designations

Support your revenue growth and win customer deals by demonstrating your capabilities in Cloud & AI Platforms. Leverage and maximize your Microsoft investments to meet the growing demand for cloud-based solutions, stand out in a competitive market, and unlock benefits that drive lasting growth.

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Solutions Partner for Data & AI (Azure)

Emphasize your experience helping customers manage their data across multiple systems with analytics and AI solutions.

Solutions Partner for Digital & App Innovation (Azure)

Show customers you can build and modernize cloud-native apps to transform how they code, collaborate, and ship software.

Solutions Partner for Infrastructure (Azure)

Highlight your capabilities helping customers accelerate the migration of key infrastructure workloads to Microsoft Azure.

Security-related designations

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Showcase your proven capabilities in protecting customers from increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. Unlock benefits and incentives that drive business growth as you implement, manage, and monitor security and compliance solutions for customers.

Security-related designations

Showcase your proven capabilities in protecting customers from increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. Unlock benefits and incentives that drive business growth as you implement, manage, and monitor security and compliance solutions for customers.

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Solutions Partner for Security

Demonstrate your capabilities safeguarding customers through your integrated security, compliance, and identity solutions.

Solutions Partner with certified software designations

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Attaining a Solutions Partner* with certified software** designation for your offer signifies that the solution meets key technical criteria, is interoperable with Microsoft Cloud, and has a track record of customer success.

Solutions Partner with certified software designations are attained for individual software solutions, and you can take one of two pathways to attain them: “for solution areas” or “for Industry AI.” Both pathways require interoperability with Microsoft Cloud, Microsoft Marketplace readiness, customer success, and fulfillment of specific technical criteria.

Solutions Partner with certified software designations

Attaining a Solutions Partner* with certified software** designation for your offer signifies that the solution meets key technical criteria, is interoperable with Microsoft Cloud, and has a track record of customer success.

Solutions Partner with certified software designations are attained for individual software solutions, and you can take one of two pathways to attain them: “for solution areas” or “for Industry AI.” Both pathways require interoperability with Microsoft Cloud, Microsoft Marketplace readiness, customer success, and fulfillment of specific technical criteria.

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Become a Solutions Partner with certified software

We’ve put together resources to get you started on your certified software designation journey, including a playbook, walking deck, FAQ, and more.

Review the certified software designation requirements

Whether you’re interested in the solution area pathway or the Industry AI pathway, you need to meet specific technical and Marketplace requirements to attain a designation.

Compare offerings that help transform your software solutions

Build powerful solutions as you prepare for designations. Offerings such as ISV Success provide benefits and support designed to support your innovation and growth.

Designations that showcase support, training, and other services

These Solutions Partner designations recognize organizations that deliver trusted training, distribution, support, and other services. By meeting defined performance, skilling, and customer success requirements, you can unlock purpose-built benefits and earn customer-facing badging to differentiate your organization.

Designations that showcase support, training, and other services

These Solutions Partner designations recognize organizations that deliver trusted training, distribution, support, and other services. By meeting defined performance, skilling, and customer success requirements, you can unlock purpose-built benefits and earn customer-facing badging to differentiate your organization.

Spotlight your capabilities with a Support Services designation

Highlight your ability to deliver a quality support experience to customers and unlock incentives that can significantly lower support costs.

Become a Solutions Partner for Training Services

Differentiate your team members as Microsoft Certified Trainers. Use Microsoft resources to attain your Training Services designation and showcase your organization to customers.

Stand out with a Frontier Distributor designation

Signal your ability to accelerate growth and customer outcomes. Access go-to-market resources to reach indirect resellers who are searching for a trusted cloud distributor partner.

Attain a Frontier Partner badge

The Frontier Partner badge recognizes organizations leading AI transformation through an AI-first, human-led approach that combines AI agents and human ingenuity to scale innovation.

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Explore Solutions Partner designation resources

Check designation requirements and tap into resources designed to deliver greater customer value and power your growth.

Showcase your expertise with specializations

Partners who have attained Solutions Partner designations can earn specializations to signal extensive knowledge in specific technical scenarios.

Verify your success with an official badge

Your Solutions Partner designation badge shows customers that your capabilities have been vetted and validated by Microsoft—making it easier for them to trust your solutions.

* “Solutions Partner” refers to a company that is a member of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program and may offer software, services, and/or solutions to customers. Reference to “Solutions Partner” in any content, materials, resources, web properties, etc. and any associated designation should be not interpreted as an offer, endorsement, guarantee, proof of effectiveness or functionality, a commitment or any other type of representation or warranty on the part of Microsoft. All decisions pertaining and related to your business needs including but not limited to strategies, solutions, partner selection, implementation, etc., rests solely with your business.

** A certification is (1) specific to the solution’s interoperability with Microsoft products and (2) based on self-attestation by the solution owner. Solutions are only certified as of the date the solution is reviewed. Solution functionality and capability are controlled by the solution owner and may be subject to change. The inclusion of a solution in marketplace and any such designations should not be interpreted as an offer, endorsement, guarantee, proof of effectiveness or functionality, a commitment or any other type of representation or warranty on the part of Microsoft. All decisions pertaining and related to your business needs including but not limited to strategies, solutions, partner selection, implementation, etc., rests solely with your business.