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Azure Essentials for Partners

Help customers accelerate the reliability, security, and ongoing performance of AI and cloud investments to maximize value and empower transformation of new Azure projects and existing Azure workloads.

Achieve cloud and AI success

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Comprehensive resources

Get easy access to Microsoft best practices, guidance, and tools—all in one place.
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Direct access to experts

Simplify the cloud adoption and innovation journey with help from Microsoft experts and partners.
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Extensive coverage across scenarios

Find comprehensive coverage for cloud and AI adoption stages and workload scenarios to support your unique needs.

The partner opportunity

The Total Economic Impact (TEI) of Microsoft Azure Resilience Guidance

Read a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting and learn how to assess the financial impact of improving your customers' workload resiliency.

Go to market with Azure

Expedite development and find guidance, resources, and tools relevant to your business needs.

Improve customer resiliency

Help customers elevate reliability, security, and performance of their workloads for cloud and AI investments with technical guidance and customer engagement resources.

Improve customer resiliency

Help customers elevate reliability, security, and performance of their workloads for cloud and AI investments with technical guidance and customer engagement resources.

Skill up
Revisit our Proactive Resiliency Workshop training content.
Deliver workshops
Show customers how to assess and remediate critical workloads in this one-day workshop.

Migrate and secure Windows Server, SQL Server, and Linux Estate

Building reliable and secure workloads is a shared responsibility, and Microsoft provides the tools to architect your environment and workloads to your specifications.

Migrate and secure Windows Server, SQL Server, and Linux Estate

Building reliable and secure workloads is a shared responsibility, and Microsoft provides the tools to architect your environment and workloads to your specifications.

Skill up
Give your sellers an edge with the latest training to help you win more migrations.
Migrate workloads with CAF
The Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) migration methodology relies on proven guidance to help you prepare for and carry out your migration efforts.
Deliver workshops
Provide your customers with best practices and considerations for moving to Azure in this one-day workshop.
Review Guidance
Step-by-step guidance on recommended activities to ensure successful customer engagements.

Unify your intelligent data and analytics platform

Analytics applications excel when supported by infrastructure specifically designed to enhance their performance, coupled with cloud services that are fine-tuned to improve the functionality of Analytics workloads. Microsoft's extensive experience with Analytics has led to the development of best practices for assessing, planning, and refining an Analytics workload.

Unify your intelligent data and analytics platform

Analytics applications excel when supported by infrastructure specifically designed to enhance their performance, coupled with cloud services that are fine-tuned to improve the functionality of Analytics workloads. Microsoft's extensive experience with Analytics has led to the development of best practices for assessing, planning, and refining an Analytics workload.

Skill up
Explore the capabilities of Microsoft Fabric.
Build an initial strategy
Build your data strategy and pivot to create a data driven strategy for your organization.
Deliver workshops
Educate customers in this one-day virtual workshop format.
Review Guidance
Step-by-step guidance on recommended activities to ensure successful customer engagements.

Accelerate developer productivity

Microsoft’s decades-long experience has come with best practices, skilling and all the tools you need for today’s app development. With AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot—which anchors on the code that matters most to accelerate app development—you can guide customers to develop intelligent apps even faster.

Accelerate developer productivity

Microsoft’s decades-long experience has come with best practices, skilling and all the tools you need for today’s app development. With AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot—which anchors on the code that matters most to accelerate app development—you can guide customers to develop intelligent apps even faster.

Skill up
Build the skills you need to start coding in the cloud—and much more—with GitHub Copilot.
Review Architectural Guidance
Adopt best practices and supporting guidance to design platforms, workloads, and applications in Azure.
Deliver workshops
Support customers in their journey to accelerate developer productivity by teaching them how to implement and use leading DevOps tools and best practices.
Review Guidance
Step-by-step guidance on recommended activities to ensure successful customer engagements.

Innovate with Azure AI platform

Microsoft stands at the forefront of AI adoption, leading with groundbreaking innovations and making AI accessible to all. From securing initial investments by boosting efficiency to navigating through exploration, planning, implementation, and scaling, Microsoft ensures that customers reap the full benefits of their AI investments.

Innovate with Azure AI platform

Microsoft stands at the forefront of AI adoption, leading with groundbreaking innovations and making AI accessible to all. From securing initial investments by boosting efficiency to navigating through exploration, planning, implementation, and scaling, Microsoft ensures that customers reap the full benefits of their AI investments.

Skill up
Deep dive into the skills needed to pitch Microsoft AI and Copilot capabilities, and get hands-on experience to drive successful implementations.
Create a blueprint
Establish a solid foundation for AI for organization scale AI adoption.
Deliver workshops
Educate customers in this one-day virtual workshop format.
Review Guidance
Step-by-step guidance on recommended activities to ensure successful customer engagements.

Migrate SAP

SAP applications thrive on infrastructure that is tailored to maximize their capabilities and with cloud services designed to optimize SAP workload functionality. Support migration to Azure with best practices for evaluating, designing, and optimizing an SAP workload from premigration to operations.

Migrate SAP

SAP applications thrive on infrastructure that is tailored to maximize their capabilities and with cloud services designed to optimize SAP workload functionality. Support migration to Azure with best practices for evaluating, designing, and optimizing an SAP workload from premigration to operations.

Skill up
These learning path resources can help you prepare for planning, migrating, and administering Microsoft Azure for SAP workloads.
Migrate workloads with CAF
The Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) migration methodology relies on proven guidance to help you prepare for and carry out your migration efforts.
Deliver workshops
Present key migration technologies and practices in this one-day virtual workshop format.
Review Guidance
Step-by-step guidance on recommended activities to ensure successful customer engagements.

Build and modernize AI apps

Leverage the full range of benefits associated with building and modernizing AI Apps in Azure to drive key AI-powered use cases such as building co-pilots, enabling information and product discovery, service and support, fraud detection, and more for your customers.

Build and modernize AI apps

Leverage the full range of benefits associated with building and modernizing AI Apps in Azure to drive key AI-powered use cases such as building co-pilots, enabling information and product discovery, service and support, fraud detection, and more for your customers.

Skill up
Access training materials and playbooks to empower your team to drive success with customers.
Modernize your app platform
Create a single centralized cloud adoption strategy, using the Strategy methodology of the Cloud Adoption Framework.
Deliver workshops
Show customers how to build with Azure AI in this one-day virtual workshop.
Review Guidance
Step-by-step guidance on recommended activities to ensure successful customer engagements.

Manage cloud investments more efficiently to meet customer needs

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Learn how Azure resources support success in the cloud

The Cloud Adoption Framework, Well-Architected Framework, and FinOps best practices work together to provide opportunities for continuous improvement with Azure.
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Improve customer resiliency

Help customers elevate reliability, security, and performance of their workloads for cloud and AI investments with technical guidance and customer engagement resources.
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FinOps with Azure

Download the FinOps with Azure e-book and learn how to help customers better manage cloud resources, process forecasting efficiency and cloud spending more quickly, and implement financial management best practices using Azure solutions.

Accelerate your cloud journey with best practices and expert insights

Announcing Azure Essentials
Elevate the reliability, security, and ongoing performance of your cloud and AI investments.
Azure partner-led offerings
Lead cloud and AI transformation across more scenarios with Azure Migrate and Modernize and Azure Innovate, underpinned by foundational guidance and best practices from Azure Essentials.
FastTrack for Azure
Collaborate with Azure engineers to ensure rapid, effective design and deployment of Azure solutions in the cloud.
Azure solution plays
Get solution play-level guidance tailored to the needs of your customers.

Azure success stories

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MediaValet

Learn how a leading Digital Asset Management (DAM) company leveraged Microsoft Azure to help the Jane Goodall Institute centralize and make accessible more than 1.5 million content assets securely, reliably, and globally.
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KPMG

Discover how this "Big 4" accounting firm unleashes the power of Azure to enable app development teams to develop workloads quickly in the cloud.

Discover more about Azure partner benefits

Azure can help you infuse AI to solve evolving customer challenges, improve IT efficiency, and optimize your cloud investments.