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Earn a specialization

Go from Solutions Partner to proven specialist. Microsoft specializations validate your depth of expertise in the scenarios where customers need it most.

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Turn credibility into customer trust

Specializations extend the credibility you’ve already built with Solutions Partner designations—signaling your deep technical expertise in focused customer scenarios.
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Earn recognition for real-world results

You can qualify for specializations by meeting advanced performance, skilling, and customer success requirements—backed by evidence of proven outcomes.
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Unlock more value with your expertise

A specialization gives you access to benefits that strengthen your differentiation, customer relationships, and revenue engine.

Spotlight your unique expertise

To earn a specialization, partners must first attain the Solutions Partner designation it’s aligned to. Below you’ll find the three commercial solution areas, the solution paths they encompass, and which specializations align to those paths.

AI Business Solutions

Once you’ve taken the Business Applications or Modern Work solution path to attain your Solutions Partner designation for AI Business Solutions, you can explore specializations aligned to the solution path you took.

Specializations: Business Applications solution path

Business Intelligence

Showcase your experience and success in implementing Power BI to strengthen organizations.

Finance

Validate your expertise in implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance to create resilient finance organizations.

Intelligent Automation

Highlight your expertise in implementing Power Automate solutions for organizations.

Low Code Application Development

Spotlight your ability to help customers streamline their businesses with custom and flexible line-of-business low-code solutions.

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Elevate your Microsoft 365 Copilot expertise—including Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and agents—by earning the Microsoft 365 Copilot specialization.

Sales

Showcase your experience and success in implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 solutions in sales organizations.

Service

Showcase your experience and success in implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 solutions in service organizations.

Small and Midsize Business Management

Demonstrate your experience and proven success in implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central for small and midsize businesses.

Supply Chain

Showcase your experience and success using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management to drive supply chain transformation.

Agentic Business Solutions

Showcase your proven expertise in delivering low-code business applications, process automation, and agentic solutions that accelerate productivity and innovation for customers.

Specializations: Modern Work solution path

Adoption and Change Management

Showcase your extensive experience and proven success in providing adoption and change management services while driving Microsoft 365 usage and organizational change.

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Prove your expertise in deploying and managing Microsoft 365 Phone System to drive customer business value.

Custom Solutions for Microsoft Teams

Validate your Teams capabilities, open more opportunities, and close more deals.

Digital Sovereignty specialization

Showcase your proficiency in compliance-driven markets so you can accelerate growth by winning more high-value sovereign projects and delivering your secure cloud solutions at scale.

Intelligent Automation

Highlight your expertise in implementing Power Automate solutions for organizations.

Low Code Application Development

Spotlight your ability to help customers streamline their businesses with custom and flexible line-of-business low-code solutions.

Meetings and Meeting Rooms for Microsoft Teams

Demonstrate your proven success in delivering Meetings and Meeting Rooms services and solutions for Microsoft Teams.

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Elevate your Microsoft 365 Copilot expertise—including Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and agents—by earning the Microsoft 365 Copilot specialization.

Modernize Endpoints

Highlight your expertise in delivering secure, holistic management solutions designed for the hybrid workplace.

Secure AI Productivity

Earn recognition for your experience and proven success deploying core workloads in Microsoft 365.

Agentic Business Solutions

Showcase your proven expertise in delivering low-code business applications, process automation, and agentic solutions that accelerate productivity and innovation for customers.

Cloud & AI Platforms

Once you’ve taken the Data & AI (Azure), Digital & App Innovation (Azure), or Infrastructure (Azure) solution path to attain your Solutions Partner designation for Cloud & AI Platforms, you can explore specializations aligned to the solution path you took.

Specializations: Solutions Partner for Data & AI (Azure) solution path

AI Apps on Microsoft Azure

Validate your expertise in developing AI solutions with AI, app, and data platforms by earning this specialization.

AI Platform on Microsoft Azure

Showcase your validated capabilities enabling customer adoption of AI and implementing Azure solutions for AI-powered apps with the AI Platform on Microsoft Azure specialization.

Business Intelligence

Showcase your success in implementing Power BI to strengthen organizations.

Data Warehouse Migration to Microsoft Azure

Validate your expertise in analyzing workloads, generating schema models, and performing ETL operations to migrate data to Azure.

Digital Sovereignty specialization

Showcase your proficiency in compliance-driven markets so you can accelerate growth by winning more high-value sovereign projects and delivering your secure cloud solutions at scale.

Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure Stack HCI

Validate your organization's ability to help customers take advantage of the benefits of a hyperconverged infrastructure on Azure.

Infra and Database Migration to Microsoft Azure

Spotlight your expertise in migrating and optimizing production workloads run on Windows and SQL Server, Linux, and/or MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, or MongoDB databases to Azure.

Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure

Showcase your success in deploying production workloads to the cloud using containers and managing hosted Kubernetes environments in Azure.

Migrate Enterprise Applications to Microsoft Azure

Validate your expertise in migrating and deploying production web application workloads, applying DevOps practices, and managing application services in Azure.

App Modernization on Microsoft Azure

Showcase your expertise to customers looking for a connected migration, containerization, modernization, and optimization strategy on Azure.

Analytics on Azure

Showcase your analytics, data migration, and business intelligence capabilities to customers by earning the Analytics on Azure specialization.

Specializations: Solutions Partner for Digital & App Innovation (Azure)

Agentic DevOps with Microsoft Azure and GitHub

Validate your organization's expertise implementing secure software development practices using DevOps principles.

AI Apps on Microsoft Azure

Validate your expertise in developing AI solutions with AI, app, and data platforms by earning this specialization.

AI Platform on Microsoft Azure

Showcase your proven capabilities enabling customer adoption of AI and implementing Azure solutions for AI-powered apps with the AI Platform on Microsoft Azure specialization.

Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure Stack HCI

Validate your organization's ability to help customers take advantage of the benefits of a hyperconverged infrastructure on Azure.

Intelligent Automation

Showcase your experience and success in implementing Power Automate solutions for organizations.

Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure

Validate your expertise in deploying production workloads to the cloud using containers and managing hosted Kubernetes environments in Azure.

Low Code Application Development

Showcase your capabilities helping customers streamline their businesses with custom and flexible line-of-business low-code solutions.

Migrate Enterprise Applications to Microsoft Azure

Validate your expertise in migrating and deploying production web application workloads, applying DevOps practices, and managing application services in Azure.

App Modernization on Microsoft Azure

Showcase your expertise to customers looking for a connected migration, containerization, modernization, and optimization strategy on Azure.

Agentic Business Solutions

Showcase your proven expertise in delivering low-code business applications, process automation, and agentic solutions that accelerate productivity and innovation for customers.

Specializations - Solutions Partner for Infrastructure (Azure) solution path

Digital Sovereignty specialization

Showcase your proficiency in compliance-driven markets so you can accelerate growth by winning more high-value sovereign projects and delivering your secure cloud solutions at scale.

Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure Stack HCI

Showcase your organization's ability to help customers take advantage of the benefits of a hyperconverged infrastructure on Azure.

Infra and Database Migration to Microsoft Azure

Validate your expertise in migrating and optimizing production workloads run on Windows and SQL Server, Linux, and/or MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, or MongoDB databases to Azure.

Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop

Validate your technical capability in deploying, optimizing, and securing virtual desktop infrastructure on Azure with Windows Virtual Desktop.

Microsoft Azure VMware Solution

Validate your capabilities with Azure VMware Solution to migrate on-premises workloads to run natively on Azure.

Networking Services in Microsoft Azure

Showcase your validated capabilities designing, implementing, operating, and optimizing customers' network architecture, cost, and security.

SAP on Microsoft Azure

Validate your expertise in deploying SAP solutions on Azure.

Security

Once you’ve taken the Security solution path to attain your Solutions Partner designation for Security, you can explore specializations aligned to the solution path you took.

Specializations: Solutions Partner for Security solution path

Cloud Security

Validate your organization's capability to implement comprehensive security solutions across your customers' Microsoft Azure, hybrid, and multicloud environments.

Data Security

Demonstrate your proficiency in implementing Microsoft data security solutions and developing data security strategies for AI applications and customer tools.

Digital Sovereignty specialization

Showcase your proficiency in compliance-driven markets so you can accelerate growth by winning more high-value sovereign projects and delivering your secure cloud solutions at scale.

Identity and Access Management

Differentiate your technical capabilities in evaluating and delivering Microsoft Identity workloads with Microsoft Entra ID.

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Showcase your Microsoft 365 Copilot expertise—including Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and agents

Threat Protection

Show customers you can help them protect against threats by validating your capability to deploy Microsoft Defender for Identity, Microsoft Cloud App Security, or Microsoft Sentinel.

Microsoft certifications

Certifications are a requirement for earning specializations; they show you're keeping pace with the evolving tech landscape and sharpening in-demand skills.

Solutions Partner designations

A Solutions Partner designation identifies your broad technical capabilities and experience in high-demand commercial solution areas and is a prerequisite to earning a specialization.