Introducing Fabric Partner Community

As a valued member of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program (MAICPP), we appreciate your commitment to building and showcasing your expertise on Microsoft products by creating and deploying solutions over the years.

Today, we are sharing an exciting announcement and introducing the new global Fabric Partner Community, a space where you can learn and engage with the Fabric Partner Team, PMs from the product engineering team, and your peers to accelerate growth and build your expertise on Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. We will continue to find ways to enable you, our partners, to showcase your expertise in creating and deploying Fabric solutions to meet your customers’ needs. This means that we will prioritize our product focus on Microsoft Fabric, to include Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Power BI, and more.

One way we are doing this is by welcoming all MAICPP partners into the Fabric Partner Community – all you need to do is be a program member and fill out the participation form below.

Next steps:

1. Complete the Fabric Partner Community Participation Form at aka.ms/JoinFabricPartnerCommunity to get access to the new Teams channel
2. Join the first Fabric Engineering Connection, the weekly partner community call on Wednesday August 30^th at 8AM Pacific (meeting invite in Teams)

As we are aligning to the one Microsoft partner program (MAICPP) and launching this new Fabric Partner Community, we will be retiring the Business Intelligence Partner Program alongside the below features and helping redirect:

• Find a Partner | Microsoft Power BI: to the AppSource Partner Directory for Power BI
• All Microsoft partners are able to self-designate their expertise on Power BI through their AppSource Business Profiles.
• Learn how to create a Business Profile and designate yourself as a Power BI partner by visiting Get sales leads - create a business profile - Partner Center | Microsoft Learn
• Partner showcase | Microsoft Power BI: to the AppSource Partner capabilities for Business Intelligence Specialization
• With the launch of the BI Specialization, we are showcasing partners that have proven performance, knowledge, and expertise on Power BI.
• Additional specializations we'd like to highlight are:
  • Analytics: Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization
  • Data Warehouse: Data Warehouse Migration to Microsoft Azure specialization
• Partners that have attained their Solutions Partner designation and earned a Specialization are eligible for incremental product and support benefits.
• Visit the Business Intelligence Specialization (microsoft.com) website to review the requirements and check your status in your Partner Center account.

Nothing changes today as we are only sharing news of what’s to come, the program benefits (Find a Partner and Partner Showcase) will remain until September 31, 2023.

If you have any questions, contact us at FabricPartnersTeam@microsoft.com.