Are you a Microsoft partner that has embraced the Microsoft commercial marketplace as key to your GTM strategy? Either selling with or through other partners via marketplace? If so, we want to celebrate you!
The nomination window for the 2024 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards is open now through April 3, 2024. Submit your nomination for a chance to be recognized as the Commercial Marketplace Microsoft Partner of the Year!
About the Commercial Marketplace Partner of the Year Award:
- Recognizes partners that have successfully adopted the marketplace as core to their go-to-market and joint-selling opportunities with Microsoft.
- Partners positioned to win this award will demonstrate marketplace sales and marketing expertise, as well as consistent, high-quality, and predictable delivery to marketplace customers.
- Successful entries will also include quantifiable success through growth in customer acquisition, billed sales, or Microsoft Azure consumption – either selling digital direct, through channel partners, or co-selling with Microsoft.
- Preferred qualification – your organization has a publicly available offer that is transactable and surfaced on digital storefronts (either Azure Marketplace or Microsoft AppSource).
- Competitive submissions will describe how your use of the marketplace helped address your customers’ needs. (Examples: Simplified procurement, utilization of cloud consumption commitments, faster time-to-value, or customization with private offers.)
Call to Action
- Prepare your nomination & submit before April 3, 2024! Visit https://aka.ms/POTYA for more details.
- Additional resources:
- Complete award guidelines: https://aka.ms/POTYA_Guidelines
- Guidance from the judges: https://aka.ms/POTYA_JudgesGuidance
- Tips on creating award-winning entries: https://aka.ms/POTYA_NominationTips
- Frequently asked questions: https://aka.ms/POTYA_FAQ
- Nomination tool: https://aka.ms/POTYA_Nominate
About the Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards program
The Commercial Marketplace award is just one of many that are celebrated as part of the annual Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards program. The awards are driven by a self-nominating process and acknowledge outstanding successes and innovations by partners across our global ecosystem - recognizing achievements in categories spanning solutions areas, industries and across cloud to edge technologies.
These successes enable digital transformation, showcase entrepreneurial spirit, and deliver impactful solutions to customers. Award winners and finalists receive recognition from Microsoft and the partner community and are celebrated at Microsoft Inspire. Nominations are accepted from February 7, 2024, until April 3, 2024 at 6:00pm Pacific Time.
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