Partner Blog | Drive AI transformation by capturing the SAP migration opportunity
According to the2023 Forrester Total Economic Impact™ studycommissioned by Microsoft, organizations experience an average of 118% ROI after moving legacy SAP infrastructure to the Microsoft Cloud—making Microsoft Azure a preferred cloud platform for SAP customers to run their production deployments. And now, there's an even bigger opportunity for partners to drive innovation by helping more SAP customers migrate to the cloud and unlock the full potential of generative AI. Partnering for AI innovation as cloud migrations rise For more than 30 years, SAP and Microsoft have worked together to deliver innovative solutions and powerful results for thousands of joint customers. By choosing Microsoft for their SAP migration, customers can get more value from their data and accelerate business transformation with key joint capabilities, likethe integration between SAP Joule and Microsoft 365 Copilotand the comprehensive support from Azure and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)—which maximizes the value ofRISE with SAP. We also recently partnered with SAP to announce the availability of SAP AI Core, an integral part of BTP, including Generative AI Hub and Joule on Azure. And with the deployment of SAP AI services in Azure data centers, customers can easily combine SAP and Microsoft services to run joint AI use cases. To keep their access to support and get the most platform innovation, SAP customers currently using on-premises data centers will need to migrate their enterprise resource planning (ERP) and SAP S/4HANA workloads to the cloud by 2027. As more organizations move critical data and operations to the cloud, they'll be turning to experienced cloud provider partners who deeply understand their business and technology ecosystem. Continue reading herePartner Blog | Accelerating growth through partners in the era of AI
The magnitude of innovation in this era of AI is transforming organizations of all sizes, from law firms to retail shops, government offices to large global companies, and creating new opportunities for our partner ecosystem. Our customers across the globe are relying on partners to help them become more connected to the cloud, integrate AI responsibly and securely into their businesses, and keep them protected from cyber threats. Partners are key to driving exceptional outcomes across the customer journey, not just through a transaction, but with their value-added services and solutions that make those purchases come to life and create real business impact. Microsoft is committed to being a company that prioritizes customer choice, now and in the future. And customer choice is at the heart of our new commerce evolution. Cloud Solution Providers (CSP) are a vital pillar in meeting customer needs. CSP is our hero motion for driving end-to-end success for small and midsize customers (SMC). Microsoft estimates based on IDC data, October 2024, that the total addressable market (TAM) for SMC in FY25 is $661 billion ($467 billion of that in cloud solutions) and growing fast with a compound annual growth rate of 15% (20% for cloud) over the next 4 years for companies with fewer than 3,000 employees. Partners are the trusted advisors who unlock business outcomes for these important customers. Equipped with solution designations, partners serve these customers with efficiency and scalability to address their evolving needs, driven by rapid market innovation. In addition, we are aligning partner incentives across the entire customer life cycle to assist partners in delivering value and developing sustainable, profitable businesses to serve these SMC customers. In FY25, we boosted our incentives to 70% of our total partner investment spend for partners serving SMC customers. This spans across our portfolio of six commercial solution areas, enabling our partners to deliver customer value across our entire platform. Continue reading hereAmerica's Partner Blog | Partners Make More Possible: Education
AI is transforming the education industry,changing howadministrators, educators,and studentsoperate. Now, more than ever,it’simportant for EVERYONE to stayinformed aboutthe opportunities and challengespresented bythis innovativetechnology. To explore the industry landscape, I hada great conversationwith educational consultant and strategist, Carl Hooker.Drive AI scale with Azure OpenAI Service Provisioned offering
With upcoming availability of Data Zones and new enhancements to Provisioned offering inAzure OpenAI Service,we are taking a big step forward in making AI broadly available and also enterprise-ready. These features represent a fundamental shift in how organizations can deploy, manage, and optimize generative AI models.Build more innovative solutions and services for your customers with updates to Azure OpenAI Service
We are thrilled to announce the public preview of GPT-4o-Realtime-Preview for audio and speech, a major enhancement to theMicrosoft Azure OpenAI Servicethat adds advanced voice capabilities and expands GPT-4o’s multimodal offerings.
