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Azure Essentials for Partners

Explore technical methodologies and tools, derived from real-world customer experiences.
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Empower Your Cloud and AI Journey

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Gain an edge when getting started

Establish a foundation at the start of every project for successful cloud and AI adoption.
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Achieve architectural excellence

Implement with the latest design and governance to achieve reliable, secure and sustainable projects.
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Enable continuous improvement

Manage and optimize every project to deliver business and IT objectives.

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.
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Go to market with Azure

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

Improve customer resiliency

Explore technical methodologies and tools, derived from real-world customer experiences.

Improve customer resiliency

Explore technical methodologies and tools, derived from real-world customer experiences.

Skill up
Access our Proactive Resiliency Workshops on demand.
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

Migrating workloads to Azure provides a purpose-built platform for enterprise workloads, including Windows Server, SQL, Linux, and PostgreSQL, along with industry-leading integrations for SAP, VMware, and Oracle.

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

Migrating workloads to Azure provides a purpose-built platform for enterprise workloads, including Windows Server, SQL, Linux, and PostgreSQL, along with industry-leading integrations for SAP, VMware, and Oracle.

Skill up
Access our Partner Workshops on demand.
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

Partners have an opportunity to help customers unlock the potential of data with AI-powered, cloud-scale analytics services, from Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks to Microsoft Purview. Together, we can help customers go from data to insight to action—fueling innovation and growth.

Unify your intelligent data and analytics platform

Partners have an opportunity to help customers unlock the potential of data with AI-powered, cloud-scale analytics services, from Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks to Microsoft Purview. Together, we can help customers go from data to insight to action—fueling innovation and growth.

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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

We’ve revolutionized the development process with AI innovation to increase speed to market and developer productivity. 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

We’ve revolutionized the development process with AI innovation to increase speed to market and developer productivity. 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.

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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

Lead with generative AI experiences that are safe and secure. Gain full stack guidance and tooling to bring groundbreaking innovation into production at scale. From evaluating models and differentiating experiences with media-rich contextualization, to protecting solutions and operationalizing repeatable value over time, partners can use Azure AI Foundry to solve customer challenges in ways that were never before possible.

Innovate with Azure AI platform

Lead with generative AI experiences that are safe and secure. Gain full stack guidance and tooling to bring groundbreaking innovation into production at scale. From evaluating models and differentiating experiences with media-rich contextualization, to protecting solutions and operationalizing repeatable value over time, partners can use Azure AI Foundry to solve customer challenges in ways that were never before possible.

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Register for our AI Ready workshops

Create a blueprint
Establish a solid foundation for AI for organization scale AI adoption.
Deliver the pitch
Enhance 1:1 customer meetings and encourage next steps.
Review Guidance
Step-by-step guidance on recommended activities to ensure successful customer engagements.

Migrate SAP

SAP applications are among the most mission-critical solutions businesses use today. With SAP ECC 6 reaching the end of support in 2027, there’s never been a greater opportunity for SAP customers to modernize their infrastructure and move their workloads to the cloud. Support migration to Azure with key technologies and best practices, plus check out resources on extending SAP environments with security, analytics, AI, and productivity solutions.

Migrate SAP

SAP applications are among the most mission-critical solutions businesses use today. With SAP ECC 6 reaching the end of support in 2027, there’s never been a greater opportunity for SAP customers to modernize their infrastructure and move their workloads to the cloud. Support migration to Azure with key technologies and best practices, plus check out resources on extending SAP environments with security, analytics, AI, and productivity solutions.

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

Deliver adaptive, responsive, and personalized experiences to your customers by building and modernizing intelligent apps with Azure. Use the training materials, narrative, marketing assets, and incentives to drive key use cases for your customers.

Build and modernize AI apps

Deliver adaptive, responsive, and personalized experiences to your customers by building and modernizing intelligent apps with Azure. Use the training materials, narrative, marketing assets, and incentives to drive key use cases for your customers.

Skill up

Register for our AI Ready workshops

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.

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