Register for the Cloud and AI Platforms FY26 Partner Playbook Walkthrough
Join us live on July 24, 2025, at 8:00 AM Pacific Time or 5:00 PM Pacific Time to learn about the exciting go-to-market (GTM) priorities and initiatives planned for FY26 across the Cloud and AI platforms solutions area, aligned to the System Integrator partner audience. We are excited to invite you to an exclusive session where we will unveil the FY26 Cloud & AI Platform Partner Playbook. This comprehensive guide is designed to help you leverage Microsoft's latest investments and strategies to grow your business and enhance customer engagement. What to Expect: Business Overview: Gain insights into the FY26 investments and strategic priorities. Customer Opportunities: Understand the growth drivers and market opportunities for FY26. Solution Plays: Learn how to migrate and modernize your estate, innovate with Azure AI apps and agents, and unify your data platform. Partner Skilling: Discover opportunities for partner skilling and certifications to enhance your capabilities. Why Attend? Exclusive Insights: Get a detailed overview of the playbook and how it can benefit your business. Interactive Sessions: Participate in discussions and Q&A sessions to address your specific needs and questions. We look forward to your participation and collaboration in driving mutual growth and success. Please register now to secure your spot. Can’t attend the live event? Register anyway to get notified when the event content is available on demand. Register here for the morning or evening session!Partner Case Study | Check Point
Check Point automates cybersecurity tasks with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is a leading AI-powered, cloud-delivered cybersecurity platform provider. Over 100,000 organizations across 88 countries rely on Check Point’s cutting-edge technology and its more than 3,500 security experts. Check Point’s thirty-plus-year association with Microsoft has resulted in a deep integrated relationship that spans both technology and go-to-market initiatives. Check Point utilizes the power of Microsoft Azure OpenAI to enhance cybersecurity efficiency and accuracy through its Infinity Platform, with industry-leading catch rates (according to Miercom) enabling proactive threat anticipation and smarter, faster response times. Infinity AI Copilot automates up to 90 percent of cybersecurity tasks by using large language models (LLMs) powered by Azure AI services. Cloud-first businesses confront evolving threats and limited security resources In today’s digital landscape, businesses moving to cloud environments face major challenges: increasing cybersecurity threats, a shortage of cybersecurity professionals, and high operational overhead. These challenges put organizations at greater risk of advanced cyberattacks, often without enough resources to respond effectively. In-house security teams are overwhelmed by repetitive tasks like log analysis and policy management. This inefficiency weakens incident response and creates risk exposure. With a focus on highly regulated industries and distributed workforces, Check Point partners with managed security service providers (MSSPs), enterprises, and resellers globally to deliver solutions to these challenges. A proud founding member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), Check Point created an AI-powered assistant to automate security tasks, freeing up security teams’ resources to focus on critical threats and strategic initiatives. Continue reading here Explore all case studies or submit your own Subscribe to case studies tag to follow all new case study posts. Don't forget to follow this blog to receive email notifications of new stories!Register now: The FY26 Partner Power Hour webinar series starts this July
Get ready to elevate your FY26 go-to-market strategies with the Microsoft Partner Power Hour—a three-part, interactive webinar series launching this July. Tailored for sales and marketing leaders, each session delivers actionable insights from Microsoft experts, industry analysts, and successful partners. You’ll explore how to harness AI, activate ready-to-use campaigns, and sharpen your go-to-market approach with proven tools like our campaigns in a box. Whether you're looking to deepen customer engagement or accelerate pipeline growth, this series is designed to help you succeed. Here are some benefits of attending these webinars: Explore the power of AI to help transform your marketing and sales strategies. Maximize the impact of partner-ready campaigns. Engage with customers more effectively with insights from top-performing partners. Each session is intended to deliver real-world strategies you can immediately apply to drive results. Webinar 1—The winning formula: partner go-to-market strategies in the AI era Americas: July 22, 2025 | 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM PDT APAC: July 23, 2025 | 6:30 AM – 7:30 AM IST Webinar 2—Unleashing AI: transform your marketing campaigns Americas: July 29, 2025 | 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM PDT APAC: July 30, 2025 | 6:30 AM – 7:30 AM IST Webinar 3—Marketing mastery: lessons from leading Microsoft partners Americas: August 12, 2025 | 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM PDT APAC: August 13, 2025 | 6:30 AM – 7:30 AM IST Whether you’re looking to enhance your marketing approach, strengthen customer relationships, or simply stay ahead of the competition, this series is designed to support your goals. Register to reserve your spot and unlock new ways to power your go-to-market efforts.Microsoft + Partners Make More Possible: Healthcare
Microsoft and its partners are driving innovation to address unprecedented challenges within healthcare industry. By delivering scalable, impactful AI solutions, we are transforming care delivery today and shaping the future of healthcare. To dive into these innovations, I had a great conversation with Healthcare Strategist Doug McMillian from CDW and Austin Park, Founder and CEO of Sapphire Health. Advancing care, together The healthcare industry faces more pressure than ever; an aging population, workforce shortages, and increasing demand for streamlined, modern solutions. But with every challenge comes opportunity. This is where Microsoft and our partners step in. As complexity mounts for healthcare systems, we’re doubling down on innovation that delivers meaningful, measurable impact. Together with our partners, we’re helping reshape how care is delivered today and reimaging what’s possible for tomorrow. Continue reading full blog here!Partner Case Study | DraftWise
Throwing an AI lifeline to lawyers mired in data If you ask a lawyer what the most rewarding aspect of contract creation is, they’ll tell you it’s the chance to be creative and offer the client novel strategic advice. Ask them where they spend most of their time, and the script flips. “Lawyers I talk to often refer to themselves as ‘cut-and-paste drones,’” says James Ding, founder and CEO of DraftWise. “Our research across the profession confirms this.” As a software engineer, he has led teams across multiple industries where privacy, data security, and advanced search capability are crucial. So Ding knew the legal profession could create a sea change by implementing state-of-the-art generative and search retrieval AI models to draft higher-quality contracts faster. Continue reading herePartner Case Study | SOUTHWORKS
Each year, the NFL Combine brings together coaches and scouts from its 32 clubs to evaluate the talent and performance data of more than 300 of the best athletes in the world. The decisions made at the Combine shape the future of football clubs and players alike. Delays or oversights during the event can come with a cost. The need to speed access to data and insights within the existing NFL Combine App drove the latest evolution of the app, which has supported clubs at Combine for several seasons. The addition of an AI assistant, designed to allow scouts and coaches to get instantaneous player insights and ask their questions with common Combine vernacular, marked a major leap forward. “We went for it! We decided to dramatically change the game for these clubs by giving them exactly what they need when they need it,” explains Jeff Foster, President of National Football Scouting (NFS). “We wanted to transform hours of tedious, manual effort into seconds of grab-and-go data.” Continue reading here Explore all case studies or submit your own Subscribe to case studies tag to follow all new case study posts. Don't forget to follow this blog to receive email notifications of new stories!Partner Blog | Build in-demand capabilities with Microsoft Titan Skilling Academy
Continuous learning is essential for organizations using cloud and AI technologies to maintain a competitive edge. To help Microsoft partners stay at the forefront of their industries, we are pleased to share the latest updates to our partner skilling initiatives. These changes are part of an ongoing effort to simplify and enhance the skilling process, ensuring that partners like you continue to deliver the innovative solutions customers need. Microsoft Titan Skilling Academy went worldwide June 1 As announced in March, Microsoft Titan Skilling Academy is a new, centralized skilling portal designed to help sales professionals in partner organizations boost their skills and position themselves as industry leaders. We built Microsoft Titan Skilling Academy as a unified hub that delivers a learning framework for partner skilling—simplifying the experience and providing clear, structured guidance across sales, pre-sales, and customer deployment cycles to help you close deals and drive revenue. Microsoft Titan Skilling Academy launched globally on June 1, 2025, with a learning journey for Security called "Microsoft Sales Titan: Threat Protection." Designed to promote Microsoft Threat Protection SKUs, this offering provides sales teams with on-demand training sessions focused on understanding and articulating the value of Microsoft 365 E5 Security licenses. With Sales Titan: Threat Protection, members of your sales team can improve their ability to close deals and earn Microsoft accredited badges—which demonstrate their learnings to both clients and Microsoft. You can also gain access to supporting resources that help drive confident, informed customer conversations. This self-serve learning journey is now available to partners globally. Sales Titan, the first module in the Microsoft Titan Skilling Academy, will eventually integrate into our new skilling platform, launching this July. This unified environment consolidates each of our skilling platforms into a single, easy-to-access location. Continue reading herePartner Case Study | Terra Mater
In the expanse of space, a new kind of intelligence is emerging—and a new model for human-AI collaboration. It started with a bold idea from a creative visionary. “What if we could speak with a spacecraft like it was a friend?” says Markus Mooslechner, Concept and Creative Lead at Terra Mater Studios, a nature film and documentary production company and subsidiary of Red Bull. “Not through cold commands or scripted chat, but through meaningful, evolving conversation.” A longtime science communicator and creator of documentaries, Mooslechner wanted people on Earth to have a personal connection with space. In 2023, his vision found a home in the Hera spacecraft mission of the European Space Agency (ESA). It was set to embark for the Didymos binary asteroid system the following year to gather data for a planetary asteroid defense initiative. “It was ideal—an exploratory mission that people could speak to,” says Mooslechner. Ian Carnelli, Hera Mission Manager at ESA, loved the idea, but knew building a secure, natural conversational AI for a spacecraft traveling 6.1 kilometers per second to a destination 195 million miles away wouldn’t be easy. “Nothing like this has ever been done. It’s like science fiction, but we knew Microsoft AI technology could make it real,” says Carnelli. Continue reading here Don't forget to follow this blog to receive email notifications of new stories!Partner Center Technical Corner: June 2025 edition
Welcome to the June edition of Partner Center Technical Corner. This month, we’re spotlighting new AI assistant capabilities for enhanced partner support, tools to optimize small and medium enterprises, and a summary of recent releases. As always, at the end of the blog you can find the most up-to-date essential Partner Center resources. Empowering partners: The evolution of the Partner Center AI assistant Partner Center AI assistant (preview) is built to enhance your Partner Center experience with generative AI, offering tailored insights and intelligent suggestions to transform everyday tasks in Partner Center into opportunities for growth and innovation. As we continue to equip the AI assistant to offer better, more tailored results, we have steadily expanded its capabilities to make your daily operations more efficient, and insight driven. Currently available in preview to partners using the English version of Partner Center, the AI assistant can be accessed via the sparkle icon in the upper-right corner of the page. This will be expanded to other languages soon. As needed, partners can initiate the support ticket creation process through the AI assistant panel. AI assistant now provides comprehensive support for the partner incentives co-op questions in the Earnings and Incentives workspaces. Partners can now quickly access vital information about co-op policies, deadlines, qualifying activities, and proof of execution requirements—information that previously required referencing lengthy documentation. You can ask the AI assistant questions like: "What is the claim deadline for FY25H1 co-op?" or "What are the qualifying activities for partner skilling?" and get quick answers. In January, we introduced the AI assistant Anywhere scenarios in the Earnings workspace, empowering partners to view their detailed earnings trends (by program, engagement, or lever); analyze payment details for their specific customers; and gain deeper insights into revenue streams. Partners can access these capabilities by choosing a specific record in the Payments summary tab or Earnings summary tab and choosing the option from the sparkle icon on the page. The AI assistant quickly generates the right prompt and provides a customized response in the AI assistant chat. Continue reading herePartner Case study | ESTsoft
AI is reshaping how we connect across cultures and languages—and ESTsoft Corp. is leading the way. With over 30 years of experience in security software and trusted by over 60% of the Korean population, ESTsoft’s latest innovation, Perso Live, uses AI avatars to enable real-time communication in 117 languages. Powered by Microsoft Azure, Perso Live ensures secure, personalized, and compliant interactions that support education, senior care, and global collaboration. Watch video on YouTube here
