Partner Case Study: TBSC
Partner in England helps customers manage clients’ Microsoft 365 licenses Based in Basingstoke, England, The Business Software Centre (TBSC) specializes in conversion, e-commerce, and ecosystem consultancy for Software as a Service (SaaS). For more than 20 years, TBSC has provided quick, efficient, and cost-effective software asset management. TBSC’s Smarter SaaS for Microsoft 365 app, available on Microsoft AppSource, provides important data for Microsoft 365 licenses. The app monitors active and inactive users, with the option to anonymize user names and data. Data can show usage of Microsoft 365 E3 apps, such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Outlook, and present opportunities to increase it. License optimization can be achieved through reharvesting (taking an inactive subscription and redistributing it to an active user). The app also provides visibility into licensing compliance. These measures help companies fully utilize the licenses they're paying for. “Smarter SaaS for Microsoft 365 is recommended to our partners looking to manage their clients’ Microsoft 365 licenses,” said Phil Hames, Director of TBSC. “Our product is an automated, cloud-based service that ensures an improvement on clients’ Microsoft 365 investment. This allows for an opportunity to not only manage Microsoft 365 licenses but also build loyalty with clients, since partners can showcase how their organization can be optimized with Microsoft 365 usage through accurate and actionable data.” Continue reading here **Explore all case studies or submit your own**Partner Case Study | Siemens
The longstanding partnership between Microsoft and Siemens—a German tech conglomerate that focuses on industrial automation—helps solve a crucial challenge facing consumer packaged goods (CPG) and retail companies: fragmented processes across production. The CPG and retail industries—both essential to everyday life and major players on the global stage—experience multiple unique pain points. Consumers have rapidly shifting preferences; labeling and packaging regulations are more stringent than in past decades; and both product ingredients and waste reduction efforts must reflect sustainability goals—not to mention the complexity of global supply chains. In addition to all this, siloed teams and disconnected operations can take a serious toll, slowing down product launches, driving up compliance costs, and making it harder to keep up with market trends. Siemens' Integrated Lifecycle Management (ILM) is specifically tailored to address the complex needs of the CPG and retail industries. A single, reliable source of truth helps organizations manage industry complexity, minimize errors, and accelerate decision-making. By seamlessly connecting product development, program management, and brand management using AI and cloud innovation, Siemens' ILM helps these sectors remain agile and competitive in a fast-paced market. Cloud-powered lifecycle management tailored for CPG and retail At the core of Siemens' ILM is Siemens' Teamcenter X on Azure, a cloud-based product lifecycle management (PLM) platform. Teamcenter X securely integrates teams, processes, business systems, and critical product data. For CPG manufacturers, this accelerates innovation, shortens product development cycles, and provides the agility needed to quickly respond to changes in consumer demand and regulatory requirements. Additionally, Teamcenter X on Azure delivers powerful generative AI capabilities, including seamless integration with Microsoft Teams and its intuitive chat functionality. This significantly improves cross-team communication and collaboration, a critical advantage for any organization. Teamcenter X on Azure harnesses advanced AI to enhance productivity and innovation specifically within the demanding environment of CPG manufacturing. Powered by Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, the application helps augment the creation, optimization, and debugging of code for factory automation software, while industrial AI makes visual quality inspection on the shop floor possible. 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 Case Study | National Gallery Singapore
The National Gallery Singapore is a visual arts institution overseeing the largest public collection of modern art in Singapore and Southeast Asia. Its vast collection sits inside a beautifully restored 64,000 square-meter venue that was formerly Singapore’s City Hall and Supreme Court. As a public museum, the National Gallery Singapore aims to help as many people connect, resonate, and fall in love with art. Making art more accessible through tech Technology plays an important role in this work. “It takes effort to make art accessible, engaging, and relevant. That’s where technology comes in,” shares Ryan Ho, Head of Innovation and Experience Design at the National Gallery Singapore. “Our innovation initiatives focus on helping visitors experience and connect with art in more intuitive and personal ways." To accomplish this, the Gallery works with various innovation specialists and partners—such as NCS.Partnerships like these have made it possible to tailor experiences to Singaporean visitors, incorporating local cultural references while maintaining the experience accessible to international audiences. The partnership with NCS has led to several pilot projects, mostly around ways to enhance visitor engagement with art. “It’s one thing to brainstorm ideas about how technology could enhance visitor engagement, but we value collaborative partnerships like these because they let us build, test, and refine these ideas. NCS have been great at that,” Ho adds. NCS shares the gallery’s vision. “At NCS, we harness technology to revolutionize how people connect with art and culture. As the innovation partner of National Gallery Singapore, we are enhancing the museum experience with cutting-edge solutions like GenAI and our proprietary Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) to personalize visitor experiences, making art more accessible and immersive,” said Wynthia Goh, Senior Partner, Global NEXT, NCS. The Gallery’s technology initiatives aim to bring the wealth of Southeast Asian art and social history to life for its visitors. “When someone walks into the museum today, they often feel lost or intimidated,” explains Ho. Wall texts provide limited context, and guided tours—while insightful—are constrained by schedules, language, and capacity. The National Gallery Singapore decided to build an AI-powered docent to bridge that gap. G(ai)le searches the Gallery archives and delivers information about its artworks in conversational, accessible language and humor. “One of our longstanding challenges has been translating dense, academic research into content that is digestible for the average visitor. We quickly realized that AI could do more than just retrieve information; it could act as a bridge between academic language and visitor-friendly storytelling,” Ho shares. 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 Case Study | SoftwareOne
By all accounts, cloud architecture is a game changer. The cloud can offer organizations more flexibility, better security, more agile environments, and the ability to work with AI workloads. But companies with on-premises estates are often reticent to make the switch with so many unknowns. How much will it cost? Can I guarantee my data will stay safe? Is my legacy system compatible with modern cloud platforms? That’s where a hybrid environment can become a strategic solution—helping organizations maintain their servers and take advantage of the best of both worlds. Enter SoftwareOne. A leading Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) and Microsoft partner for over 30 years, they offer advisory services, migration, implementation, and support for organizations looking to modernize their work environments and move workloads to cloud-first environments in more than 90 countries. Having earned all six Solutions Partner designations and multiple specializations, SoftwareOne offers Azure migrations, Microsoft 365 integrations, and also supports over 7.6 million active users around the globe in their cloud journeys. They, in fact, worked with the Microsoft Datacenter Optimization (DCO) team and onboarded 9 partners to their motion—a collaboration that speaks to their cloud migration capabilities. Their work has led to multiple Partner of the Year Award wins, including 2024 awards for Business Transformation – Copilot for their Indonesia branch and Country Partner of the Year for Hong Kong. SoftwareOne credits much of their success to the power, agility, and customizability of Microsoft technology. Cleber Bueno, Channel Sales Director at SoftwareOne Brazil, said of the partnership, “SoftwareOne exists today because of Microsoft.” By combining Microsoft technology and their flywheel optimization approach, SoftwareOne drives modernization and adoption by underpinning implementations and migrations with a human-centric approach to change management. They center their clients’ understanding and act as advisors to help with the transition—and give their clients the tools to truly understand and manage their new solutions. Read full story here Explore all case studies or submit your own Subscribe to case studies tag to follow all new case study posts.Partner Case study | ServiceNow
Microsoft and ServiceNow continue to strengthen a strategic partnership intended to enhance the integration and optimization of the companies' products, platforms, and cloud capabilities. After investing in multiple digital initiatives over the years that have resulted in a more streamlined flow of work for joint customers, Microsoft has officially moved their internal ServiceNow instances from ServiceNow's proprietary cloud to Microsoft Azure. Microsoft leveraged ServiceNow's expertise in digital workflows to not only facilitate the migration but also create a blueprint that other enterprises can follow to enhance operational efficiencies, drive productivity, and optimize cloud spend. Moving to the public cloud was key to accelerating innovation The Microsoft mission is to help organizations achieve more by delivering innovative platforms and productivity services for the mobile-first, cloud-first world. To achieve this objective, the Fortune 50 technology giant is constantly looking for new ways to innovate. That's why Microsoft pursued the opportunity to combine their trusted cloud, inclusive of their advanced data and AI capabilities, with ServiceNow's expertise in digital workflows. "As we continue our transformative journey together, ServiceNow and Microsoft have deepened our partnership to create a new era of innovation and collaboration across industries," said Paul Fipps, President of Global Industries and Strategic Growth at ServiceNow. "Together, we're empowering organizations to bring intelligence to every corner of the enterprise and drive business transformation at scale." Continue reading here Explore all case studies or submit your own Subscribe to case studies tag to follow all new case study posts.Calling all CSP Partners!!!
Are you a Microsoft Cloud Services Provider (CSP) innovating and driving meaningful outcomes for small and mid-size customers with Microsoft technology? We want to celebrate you! Whether you're migrating customers to Microsoft Azure or delivering security solutions, we want to tell your story. If your story is selected, we will work with you on publishing and promoting a no-cost case study. Share your story today. Why Share Your Success? Recognition: Your organization will be acknowledged for its innovative solutions and commitment to customer success. Inspiration: Your story can motivate and guide other partners facing similar challenges. Visibility: Featured stories may be showcased on Microsoft's platforms, reaching a global audience. How to Participate To submit your success story, ensure that: Your organization is active in the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program. If you provide services, you have a current business profile in Partner Center. If you offer software solutions, your solution is transactional on the Microsoft commercial marketplace. You'll need to provide detailed information about how your solution addressed specific customer challenges, the role of Microsoft AI technology in your success, and any demos or videos showcasing your solution. Additionally, ensure that your featured customer agrees to be included in the story. For more details and to submit your story, visit the Partner Success Story Nomination page. Celebrate your achievements and inspire the broader community by sharing how you're driving meaningful outcomes for customers with Microsoft AI technology. We look forward to documenting your success! Explore all case studies here or submit your own! Subscribe to case studies tag to follow all case study posts.Partner Case Study: Vertigon Consulting case study
Effective financial reporting can be as laborious for a company as it is crucial. Traditional methods of manually tracking and reporting on the financial health of a business—involving potentially hundreds of thousands or millions of data points—in order to make strategic decisions on its future can be tedious and inefficient. New Jersey-based Vertigon Consulting recognized this frustration with manual or semi-automated financial reporting and invested in a future where data analytics could be leveraged for reliable, scalable, and repeatable business insights. Their flagship SaaS solution, Cloud BI, benefits Vertigon’s customers by automating the tiresome accumulation of information and making more time for higher-level functions like analysis and decision making. Vertigon selected Microsoft Azure as the IaaS (upon which they built Cloud BI) leveraging Microsoft’s vast capability not only for its best of breed infrastructure offering but also the significant database, tools, and development capability. Vertigon was one of Microsoft’s first customers in the cloud with subscriptions dating back to 2013. Soon after, Vertigon transitioned from SharePoint integrated BI to Microsoft’s Power tools: Power BI, Power Query, and Power Automate, as well as the suite of O365 applications. The success of Cloud BI has led to its implementation in hundreds of companies nationwide. Continue reading here **Explore all case studies or submit your own**Partner Case Study: PrimeKey decodes customer growth for its cryptography-based security solution with Microsoft Azure Marketplace and Marketplace Rewards
PrimeKey by Keyfactor helps organizations bolster cryptographic-based security through the Microsoft commercial marketplace PrimeKey is part of Keyfactor, a professional services company that was founded in 2001 and won Microsoft Partner of the Year in 2007. PrimeKey simplifies public key infrastructure (PKI) implementations by eliminating repetitive tasks and costly infrastructure through self-service certification solutions and automation for teams without PKI expertise. Whether for Internet of Things (IoT) product security or enterprise information technology initiatives, PrimeKey’s modular, cloud-first architecture makes it easier for customers to deploy quickly without reengineering infrastructure or reissuing certificates. PrimeKey’s solutions are horizontally applicable and span verticals. PrimeKey customers can manage every key and certificate because there are no per-certificate fees. The company is driven by a technology-agnostic approach that allows organizations to integrate their PKI with the best available technology. The platform is built for rapid change and agility. PrimeKey’s flagship product, EJBCA Enterprise Cloud, is hosted solely on Microsoft Azure and is available in the Azure Marketplace. Continue reading herePartner Case Study | Check Point
Check Point, a cybersecurity pioneer and decorated Microsoft partner Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. continuously pioneers cybersecurity technology. With more than 3,500 security experts, a world-acclaimed research and intelligence unit, and a broad ecosystem of business and technology partners, Check Point protects more than 100,000 organizations in 88 countries. Check Point has been a Microsoft partner since the mid-1990s and has been recognized for numerous achievements, including Most Prolific Integration Partner at the Microsoft Security 20/20 awards and a Partner of the Year distinction at the 2020 Microsoft US Partner Awards. Check Point’s solutions, such as its CloudGuard Network Security, are available in the Azure Marketplace. Beating expectations with big webinar turnouts and more marketplace page visits For the past two years, Check Point has regularly met with a Marketplace Rewards engagement manager, who has collaborated with Check Point on partner benefits, such as Azure Marketplace listing optimizations, social promotions, and a spot in a Microsoft internal commercial marketplace newsletter. This has created opportunities for engagement with hundreds of Microsoft sellers, which has driven dozens of co-sell opportunities. Check Point is currently targeting double-digit year-over-year growth of its pay-as-you-go offerings, as well as increasing awareness of its offerings for enterprise customers looking to tap into the Microsoft Azure consumption commitment. After a successful initial webinar in February 2020 and in the next month passing the threshold of $5 million in billed sales, Check Point was invited to co-present with two Azure experts from Microsoft. The result was impressive: 972 people registered for the webinar, and 578 attended live. Continue reading here **Explore all case studies or submit your own**
