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* NEW * Microsoft Purview & Priva Partner Playbook
Building a data security, compliance and privacy solutions practice. The new Microsoft Purview and Priva Partner Playbook provides Microsoft Partners with guidance and resources to help build or expand their practice by offering data security, compliance, and privacy solutions. Download this playbook to learn more about the Microsoft Purview and Priva product family and the partner opportunities. You’ll find guidance on practice development, the skills your organisation will require to be successful, and the tools to take your offerings to market. CLICK to download this playbookAdditional updates to Solution Partner for Business Applications designation
Alongside the 4 new Business Applications Specialisations, there is an important Rate Card change for Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement & the threshold changes for SMB Biz Apps Designations. This is great news and makes the Biz Apps designations more achievable! Read the full announcement here: Dynamics 365 Partner Portal (microsoft.com) Rate card changes for Customer Engagement The rate card helps normalize deployment sizes and is based on typical deployment sizes for a given workload. The formula is: Monthly Active Users (MAU) X Rate = Monthly Consumption Value (MCV). For Customer Engagement deployments, the rate of 40 is being increased five-fold to 200. This means that for the SMB path, a large Customer Engagement deployment that previously required 125 MAU to reach the 5,000 MCV threshold (125 MAU X 40 = 5,000 MCV), now only needs 25 monthly active users. The rates for all other workloads remain the same. Threshold adjustments for SMB and Enterprise paths We are fine-tuning several thresholds for each path to make earning points toward your Solutions Partner for Business Applications designation more attainable. This includes adjustments to Net large deployments, Usage growth, and Net customer adds. SMB path changes Enterprise path changes Next steps Prepare to make the most of Microsoft Cloud Partner Program: Explore the full portfolio of Business Application specializations Admins can sign in to Partner Center to see how your organization is progressing towards a Solutions Partner designation, review the associated benefits, and access support. Visit the Training Gallery and Microsoft docs to learn more about the requirements needed to attain a Solutions Partner designation. For more information visit the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program website
* Don't miss * Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event, October 25th
Experience the new era of AI-powered business Wednesday, October 25, 2023 | 5PM – 6:30PM GMT Join our exciting launch event to learn about the newest features across Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform at the tenth Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event. Microsoft leaders and engineers will share insights and demonstrate the new AI-powered features and updates to help drive innovation and productivity. Register HERE today!DMC Office Hours for Partners @4PM GMT on the First Thursday of each Month
Digital Marketing Content OnDemand (DMC) provides go-to-market content in fresh weekly campaigns at no cost to Microsoft partners. Learn how to build and optimise your digital marketing strategy. Unlock expertise to help drive customer engagement and grow your business. Learn about DMC HERE We also run DMC Office hours for partners at 4PM GMT on the first Thursday of each month. During our Digital Marketing Content OnDemand Office Hours we cover: New functionality (10 minutes) DMC utilisation best practices (15 minutes) Your questions and feedback (20 minutes) Microsoft Teams Meeting Details: Click here to join the meeting Meeting ID: 211 195 372 713 Passcode: qcKn8oHighlights: Biz Apps launch event April, 2023
This Biz Apps launch event showcased numerous amazing AI innovation announcements - a new era of Intelligent Biz Apps! Highlights include the Charles Lamanna opening video about Big AI, Digital Contact/PVA demo centre platform and Mike Mortons Business Central Chat GPT Demo (bonus content) See: Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event | Bonus Content FYI: Business Central = fastest growing BizApps solution, largest community of 3 rd party of solutions on Appsource (larger than Office!!), happiest community of Microsoft customers = Everyone needs Business Central! Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event | Home - Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event, available to view on-demand, is a great way to get up to speed on the release wave and learn how organizations are already using these capabilities to transform end-to-end business processes today. Today we launched 2023 release wave 1 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform, a rollout of new features and enhanced capabilities slated for release between April and September 2023. The updates include: Copilot for Dynamics 365 and Copilot for Power Platform, bringing the power of next-generation AI capabilities and natural language processing to business processes. Some of the major themes we’re excited to highlight include: Enhancing end-to-end customer experiences with AI and Dynamics 365 Copilot Modernizing every link across Supply Chain & Operations New ways to accelerate development with the Power Platform Enhancing end-to-end customer experiences with AI Dynamics 365 Marketing delivers Copilot capabilities to help marketers learn more about their customers, create targeted customer segments, and generate personalized content. We’ve enhanced the query assist feature with generative AI capabilities, enabling marketers to accurately target customers using conversational, everyday language to quickly build targeted segments. Content ideas helps to find inspiration and provide a starting point for copy when composing emails for audiences. Dynamics 365 Sales delivers enhancements to streamline seller tasks and improve effectiveness. Rather than manually tracking next steps, Dynamics 365 Sales helps sellers to automate the creation of follow-up tasks. This saves valuable time to focus on higher-priority items and avoid tasks from falling through the cracks. Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales creates email content for faster customer replies and AI-generated meeting follow-ups that compile discussed topics Release wave 1 updates for Dynamics 365 Customer Service include enhanced case creation, channel-based swarming with Microsoft Teams, and robust real-time analytics with customization, in addition to availability of the voice channel in more regions. Updates to Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management deliver increased agility and resilience across the supply chain. By applying appropriate valuation methods and selected currencies, you can now account inventories—inventory and WIP—in multiple representations to help comply with local GAAP, Internal Management accounting, and IFRS principles. Enhancements for Dynamics 365 Finance include further automation of complex tax scenarios and full end-to-end automation of accounts payable and ledger settlements, helping finance professionals to expedite the close, and spend more time focusing on value-added activities. See the release plans for Dynamics 365 Finance, Project Operations and Human Resources. With Power Apps we continue to support the scaling of organizations by empowering makers and developers of all skill levels to be more productive and to build apps, manage data, and logic. We are helping organizations reduce risk with advanced governance capabilities, such as automated tests for custom pages and model-driven apps, enabling customers to further benefit from modernization of web and mobile experiences. See the release plans for Power Apps. Power Pages supports low-code and no-code makers, as well as professional developers, with more out-of-the-box capabilities like new solution-based application life cycle management and migration of website configurations from one environment to another. With virtual tables and cloud flow integration, Power Pages can now connect seamlessly to your external data and service and enable both low code makers and pro developers to build amazing user experiences. Power Automate is reimagining the process of creating flows with natural language authoring capabilities that allow you to simply describe the flow you want to create. It has never been easier for new users to start creating and authoring flows. Other improvements include introducing work queues where automatable tasks can be viewed and managed together as well as providing streamlined connectivity to a machine for desktop flows, which eliminates the need for additional installs and password management. Lastly, we’re making it easier for organizations to contextualize the impact of their technical investments with ROI performance tracking capabilities in Power Automate desktop flows which helps organizations invest in the most valuable automation efforts. Explore what’s new for Power Automate. Power Virtual Agents is Microsoft’s single conversational AI studio and unified authoring canvas for all bot-building needs. We’re making it easier for developers and makers to build bots with Copilot in Power Virtual Agents, greatly accelerating bot development via natural language authoring. Developers can then extend their bots to handle more complex workloads with Microsoft Bot Framework and Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services capabilities in Power Virtual Agents. Explore what’s new for Power Virtual Agents. Power BI infuses AI-driven insights into everywhere that people get work done. For Microsoft Teams, we’re bringing enhancements to meetings and multitasking to help users work with their data wherever they may be. And, for individuals, we’re enhancing the creation experience, bringing more parity on the web, and adding the Power Query diagram view into Power BI. Explore the release plans for Power BI. Watch the Microsoft Business Applications Virtual Launch Event. Watch the launch event on-demand for more details and demos of new capabilities across Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Explore the detailed release plans for Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform and keep track of what’s new and upcoming, as well as create a personalized release plan, in the Release Planner. 2023 release wave 1 for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform - Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog
