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✨ FabCon + SQLCon 2026: Partner Know Before You Go Now Live!
Heading to FabCon + SQLCon 2026 in Atlanta? We’ve put together your full Partner Know Before You Go Guide — everything you need to navigate the week, maximize value, and make the most of all partner‑exclusive opportunities. 🚀 Here’s what you’ll find inside: 📅 Partner Day (Mar 17) — A full day of partner‑only learning, strategy, and networking. - SOLD OUT! 🍻 Partner Happy Hour — Connect with other partners and the Microsoft team. 🎤 AMA with the Fabric Partner Success Team — Bring your biggest questions around Data & AI priorities, partner opportunities, funding, enablement, and certifications. 🤝 1:1 Meetings — Book time with Fabric LT or the Partner Success Team to accelerate your strategy and unlock customer wins. 🎤 Partner Elevator Pitch Search — Submit your 2‑min pitch to be featured live on stage! 🔥 Partner Social Media Sprint — Daily LinkedIn challenge + chances to win Fabric SWAG. 🎓 Certification Spotlight — Get recognized during Arun’s keynote for hitting 100+ Fabric certs. 🎥 Testimonial Videos — Share your Fabric customer stories with global visibility. 📱 Whova Event App — Build your schedule, access slides, network, and join the partner community inside the app. 📘The full KBYG guide is attached below.
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Feb 10, 2026 Place Fabric Partner Community
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Know Before You Go to the 2024 European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference!
Earlier this year, our first-ever Microsoft Fabric Community Conference in Las Vegas saw over 4,200 attendees engaging with experts and gaining hands-on experience with Fabric. We’re thrilled to announce that in response to overwhelming demand, we’re bringing this incredible experience to Europe—offering even more opportunities for hands-on learning and professional growth! We are so excited to meet our partners at the inaugural European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference, being held September 25-27, 2024 at the Stockholmsmässan in Stockholm, Sweden. With 130 track sessions, 4 keynotes, 10 workshops, Expo, Community Lounge, Ask the Experts, DE&I Programme, Women in Tech Lunch and more, this will be the most comprehensive learning event for Microsoft Fabric, ever! Partner Activities at FabCon Europe: Partner Pre-Day: Join us Tuesday, September 24, for a full day of learning and networking, exclusive to partners attending #FabConEurope. Throughout the day, we will have a keynote on the Fabric partner opportunity, expert-led deep dives on content tailored to Microsoft partners, including how to build a Fabric practice, resources, incentives, a partner panel discussion, an AMA session with Fabric LT, and more! See the full agenda here. Time: Tuesday, September 24, 09:00-17:00 CEST Where: Room K1, Stockholmsmässan How to join us: Pre-registration is required. To add Partner Pre-Day to an existing registration, or change your registration from a tutorial to Partner Pre-Day, please complete the Partner Change Form. Partner Happy Hour: Join us Tuesday after Partner Pre-Day to meet and mingle with your peers, the Fabric Partner Team, the Fabric leadership and product teams, as well as MVPs and community leaders. This event is open only to Microsoft partners and MVPs. Time: Tuesday, September 24, 17:00-19:00 CEST Location: K Foyer, Stockholmsmässan 1:1 Executive Connections: Request to meet 1:1 with the Fabric Partner Team, engineering leads, and/or executives to discuss your partner priorities and needs. Deadline: Submit the request form https://aka.ms/RequestPartnerMeetings-FabCon by Friday, September 13. Confirmation: You will receive meeting details by Wednesday, September 18. Partner Open House: Stop by to meet the Fabric Partner Team and learn more about how we support partners in building your Fabric practice. Request a free DP-600 exam voucher while there! Time: Thursday, September 26, 15:00-17:00 Location: Room K12, Stockholmsmässan Location Map of Partner Activities CVENT App: Stay connected during the conference! Download the CVENT app to view the full conference schedule (including partner activities), participate in partner discussion groups, visit the Partner Page, network with peers, and more. Meet the Fabric Partner Team: Tamer Farag Fabric Partner Ecosystem Team Lead Connect on LinkedIn Prashant Gutala Fabric Partner Ecosystem Lead for depth motions Connect on LinkedIn Nikolina Kvesic Fabric Partner Ecosystem Lead for XIAD and Partner Enablement Connect on LinkedIn Diana Tram Nguyen: Fabric Partner Ecosystem Lead for breadth motions Connect on LinkedIn Stephanie Chimeziri Partner Success Community Manager Connect on LinkedIn Michel Faber WW Azure Analytics Partner Strategy Lead Connect on LinkedIn Ashley Asdourian Sr Director, Azure and Industry Partner Marketing Connect on LinkedIn Ask us about the Fabric Partner Opportunity Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program Certifications Solutions Partner designations Specializations Fabric Partner Community Fabric Partner GTM Resources Fabric Workshops and Bootcamps Fabric Analyst in a Day Fabric Partner Incentives Fabric Featured Partners Join the Fabric Partner Community on Teams to stay in touch by completing the participation form at https://aka.ms/JoinFabricPartnerComunity! We’re all looking forward to seeing each of you in-person in Stockholm later this month! Fabric Partner Team FabricPartnersTeam@microsoft.com Hashtags: #FabConEurope #MicrosoftFabric #MicrosoftPartner
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Sep 11, 2024 Place Fabric Partner Community
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Join the Fabric Partner Community for this Week's Fabric Engineering Connection calls!
The Fabric partner ecosystem is buzzing right now — and 2026 is already raising the bar. 🚀 On this week's Fabric Engineering Connection call, Tamer Farag will share what’s next for partners across skilling, demos, FabCon + SQLCon Atlanta, and more. Highlights include: 🎓 More skilling momentum (DP‑600/DP‑700 vouchers, new Partner Project Ready workshops, and a new “Chat with your Data in a Day” xIAD workshop). 🔦 Fabric Certification Spotlight: partners who reach 100+ Fabric certifications will be recognized live in Arun’s keynote at FabCon + SQLCon. 🤝 New ways to tell your story and win with customers through Fabric Demo eXperiences, Fabric Featured Partners + case studies, and FabCon experiences (Partner Elevator Pitch Search, 1:1 + executive meetings, testimonial videos, the Partner Social Sprint, and more). If you’re a Microsoft partner investing in Fabric, we’d love for you to join our next Fabric Engineering Connection call: 📅 Americas/EMEA – Wednesday, Feb 4, 8–9 AM PT 📅 APAC – Thursday, Feb 5, 1–2 AM UTC (Wednesday, Feb 4, 5–6 PM PT) To join, you must be a member of the Fabric Partner Community in Teams: https://aka.ms/JoinFabricPartnerCommunity
StephanieChimeziri
Feb 02, 2026 Place Fabric Partner Community
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🎤 Save the Date: AMA with the Microsoft Fabric Leadership Team!
We’re excited to announce an upcoming Ask Me Anything (AMA) session with the Fabric Leadership Team—a unique opportunity for partners to engage directly with the leaders shaping the future of Microsoft Fabric! 🔹 Featured Leader Bogdan Crivat, Corporate Vice President, Azure Data Analytics 🗓️ Date & Time Tuesday, February 17 8:00–9:00 AM PT 💬 Ask Your Questions Have topics you want the leadership team to address? Submit or upvote your data analytics–related questions now: 👉 https://aka.ms/AMAwithFabricLT 👥 Who Can Join? This AMA is exclusive to members of the Fabric Partner Community. If you're not yet a member, join here to participate in future calls: 👉 https://aka.ms/JoinFabricPartnerCommunity
StephanieChimeziri
Jan 28, 2026 Place Fabric Partner Community
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Quarterly AMA with Amir Netz – Microsoft Fabric Partners, Don’t Miss Out!
🌟 Microsoft Partners—don’t miss your chance to connect directly with Amir Netz, CTO & Technical Fellow, at our exclusive Quarterly AMA (Ask Me Anything) session! The Fabric Engineering Connection is your gateway to insider insights, direct access to product leaders, and the latest updates on Microsoft Fabric. As a valued partner, you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions, share feedback, and learn about new features and strategies that can help you drive success for your clients and your business. This session is designed to empower partners with actionable knowledge and networking opportunities. 📅 Save the date: Americas & EMEA: Wednesday, January 21, 8–9 am PT APAC: Thursday, January 22, 1–2 am UTC / Americas & EMEA: Wednesday, January 21, 5–6 pm PT 🔗 Not a member yet? Join the Fabric Partner Community to participate: https://aka.ms/JoinFabricPartnerCommunity. Let’s build the future of data together!
StephanieChimeziri
Jan 16, 2026 Place Fabric Partner Community
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Join the Fabric Partner Community for this Week's Fabric Engineering Connection calls!
Are you a Microsoft partners that is interested in data and analytics? Be sure to join us for the next Fabric Engineering Connection calls! 🎉 The Americas & EMEA call will take place Wednesday, October 22, from 8-9 am PT and will feature presentations from Teddy Bercovitz and Gerd Saurer on Fabric Extend Workload Developer Kit, followed by a presentation on Data Protection Capabilities from Yael Biss. The APAC call is Thursday, October 23, from 1-2 am UTC/Wednesday, October 2, from 5-6 pm PT. Tamer Farag, Trilok Rajesh and Shreya Ghosh will be presenting on Modernizing Legacy Analytics & BI Platforms. This is your opportunity to learn more, ask questions, and provide feedback. To join the call, you must be a member of the Fabric Partner Community Teams channel. To join, complete the participation form at https://aka.ms/JoinFabricPartnerCommunity. We look forward to seeing you later this week!
StephanieChimeziri
Oct 20, 2025 Place Fabric Partner Community
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Partner Know Before You Go to the 2025 European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference!
We can’t wait to see you at FabCon Europe 2025, taking place 15-18 September at the Austria Center Vienna in Vienna, Austria! With more than 130 expert-led sessions over three days, plus workshops 15 September, this is the largest Microsoft tech conference in Europe! Our team has been hard at work planning several partner-exclusive activities throughout the event, to help ensure the best experience possible for you, our valued partners. This Know Before You Go guide will provide all the details on how to participate in: Partner Day Partner Happy Hour 1:1 Meetings Partner Booth at Ask the Experts Partner AMA Partner Photo Scavenger Hunt Cvent Event App If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to our team at mailto:FabricPartnersTeam@microsoft.com or through the Cvent app. See you very soon! Complete details and entry form are available at https://aka.ms/FabConEuropePartnerPhotoHunt.
StephanieChimeziri
Sep 09, 2025 Place Fabric Partner Community
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Join the Fabric Partner Community for this Week's Fabric Engineering Connection calls!
Are you a Microsoft Partner that is interested in data and analytics? Be sure to join us for this week's Fabric Engineering Connection call, now offered at two different times! 🎉 The Fabric Engineering Connection call, taking place Wednesday, February 12, from 8-9 am PST, will feature Teddy Bercovitz discussing ISV Workloads in Fabric, followed by Idris Motiwala presenting on SQL DB in Fabric. Idris Motiwala will return with his presentation for the APAC Fabric Engineering Connection call, followed by Sanjay Soni presenting on Dream Demos. The APAC Fabric Engineering Connection is taking place Thursday, February 13, from 1-2 am UTC/Wednesday, February 12, from 5-6 pm PST. This is your opportunity to learn more, ask questions, and provide feedback. To join the call, you must be a member of the Fabric Partner Community Teams channel. To join, complete the participation form at https://lnkd.in/g_PRdfjt. We can't wait to see you Wednesday/Thursday!
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Feb 10, 2025 Place Fabric Partner Community
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Fabric Analyst in a Day (FAIAD) TTT for Partners: Register today!
Two Train the Trainer events have been scheduled for the following dates: Oct 30 Fabric Analyst in a Day TTT - Americas Dec 13 Fabric Analyst in a Day TTT - EMEA These sessions will be delivered by Pragmatic Works Training. Whether you are a new partner that wants to learn more about FAIAD, have additional trainers that you'd like to ramp up on FAIAD, or if you're an existing partner that wants a refresher, we encourage you to sign up today! Please note that all registrations start out in pending, and you should expect a confirmation within a few days. Thank you!
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Oct 21, 2024 Place Fabric Partner Community
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Inspire 2023 News
We announced new AI-powered solutions and the general availability of the new Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, the next generation of our partner program empowering every partner to deliver customer value leveraging Microsoft AI and the Microsoft Cloud. Customers’ cloud adoption needs have rapidly evolved over the last couple of years. AI is here now and partners are already driving innovation and transformation with customers across industries to help them realize the benefits of integrating AI capabilities into every level of their organizations. The Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is how we are investing in partners to enable them to capitalize on the economic opportunities that Microsoft AI presents. And there is no action for a partner to take to move to the new program—we’ve moved all our existing partners into the new program effective immediately and partners maintain their existing benefits and designations. In addition, we announced new strategic investments in the Microsoft commercial marketplace. We recently aligned co-sell to marketplace to support our field sellers to sell alongside you and we continue to introduce new features, like multiparty private offers. Multiparty private offers empower partners to come together to construct custom deals, and for eligible solutions, sales count towards a customer’s cloud commitment. And to help you jumpstart your marketplace journey, we announced the general availability of ISV Success, the path within the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program for SaaS providers to build innovative applications across the Microsoft Cloud and sell with us through our marketplace. Keep reading to learn more about today’s announcements and our commitment to accelerating AI transformation, driving customer success, and fueling partner business growth and profitability. Fueling partner growth and profitability in the era of AI Today, we’re excited to announce the new Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, the next generation of our partner program empowering every partner to deliver customer value leveraging Microsoft AI and the Microsoft Cloud, as well as other key investments including new Solutions Partner designations, general availability of ISV Success and its expanded benefits, and investments in the commercial marketplace. To learn more, read the blog post by Nicole Dezen, Chief Partner Officer and Corporate Vice President, Global Partner Solutions. The Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program brings together everything across the entire partner lifecycle, including onboarding, skilling, go-to-market, incentives, and co-selling. Partners get all the value and benefits of the previous program plus access to new offerings and benefits specific to AI. And there is no action for a partner to take to move to the new program—we’ve moved all our existing partners into the new program effective immediately and partners maintain their existing benefits and designations. AI-focused announcements to help partners adopt technology to deliver customer success and in their own organization include: Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate offerings: Today, we announced an unprecedented 3x investment to increase the scale and availability of Azure Migrate and Modernize and a new dedicated $100M investment in response to the incredible AI & Analytics demand—Azure Innovate. Now partners have everything they need in one place to be successful. More details below. The new AI Transformation Playbook with guidance so partners can build their own AI practice. The Build & Modernize AI Apps specialization for partners to demonstrate their deep technical expertise in building intelligent apps. Expanded benefits for ISV Success, including access to GitHub Copilot (coming by end of 2023) so ISVs can use an AI pair programmer to spend less time on repetitive code and more time on building innovative applications. Key marketing resources, including the new “Era of AI” marketing campaign in a box. The Security Copilot design advisory council is a new way for partners who are interested in building their own solutions and services powered by Security Copilot to engage early with Microsoft. AIM (Accelerate, Innovate, Move) supports partners who are moving customers’ from on-premises applications to cloud-first Dynamics 365 solutions, so they can take advantage of AI guided productivity and includes access to a team of migration advisors, expert business value and technology assessments, investment offers, tools and migration support for qualified customers. We’re expanding Solutions Partner designations to provide opportunities for partners to differentiate their technical capabilities and demonstrate customer success. This includes a new training services designation for learning partners, ISV designations for partners building solutions aligned with the Microsoft Cloud and our industry clouds, and a support services designation. General availability of ISV Success within the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program—a curated path purpose-built for organizations building B2B applications. ISV Success empowers all ISVs to build innovative applications across the Microsoft Cloud and sell with us through our marketplace. ISV Success provides free benefits for a year, such as Azure credits, GitHub and Visual Studio as well as Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 seats. Participants also get free technical consults to advise on architecture design, marketplace publishing, and accelerate business growth with proven marketing benefits. These investments are strategically aimed at helping ISVs meet customer needs, accelerate innovation, facilitate go-to-market strategies, and cultivate a thriving business environment. Read Anthony Joseph's blog post to learn more. The Microsoft commercial marketplace is central to our partner go-to-market strategy. We’ve recently announced co-sell changes to better align to the marketplace opportunity and have announced new features, like multiparty private offers to empower partners to work together to sell customized deals through the marketplace. In FY24 the Industrial Metaverse (IMV) will be joining the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program as a new offering. We have a new industrial metaverse learning path curated for partners, and this is available today. This curated learning path includes content like how to use services like Azure Mixed Reality Services, Dynamics 365 Remote Assist, the AI engineer certification for AI, and more. You can find the learning path and sign up for future information on the industrial metaverse offering on the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program website. Announcing Bing Chat Enterprise, Microsoft 365 Copilot Pricing, and new AI capabilities across Microsoft 365 We’re excited to share next steps in our journey to empower every person on the planet to work in a new AI-powered way. First, we’re announcing Bing Chat Enterprise, delivering AI-powered chat for work, and available today in preview. Second, to help commercial customers plan, we're sharing that Microsoft 365 Copilot will be priced at $30 per user, per month for Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard and Business Premium customers, when broadly available. To learn more, read the blog post by Colette Stallbaumer, General Manager, Microsoft 365 and Future of Work. Bing Chat Enterprise gives your organization AI-powered chat for work with commercial data protection. With Bing Chat Enterprise, user and business data are protected and will not leak outside the organization. What goes in—and comes out—remains protected. Chat data is not saved, and Microsoft has no eyes-on access—which means no one can view your data. And, your data is not used to train the models. Whether researching industry insights, analyzing data, or looking for inspiration, Bing Chat Enterprise gives people access to better answers, greater efficiency and new ways to be creative. Bing Chat Enterprise is rolling out in preview today and is included at no additional cost in Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard, and Business Premium—which means that more than 160 million people already have access. And in the future, it will be available as a standalone offering for $5 per user, per month. Read the blog post by Jared Spataro and Yusuf Medhi to learn more. Microsoft 365 Copilot Pricing: Bing Chat Enterprise unlocks generative AI for work. And Microsoft 365 Copilot brings a whole new way of working, using just your own words. It reasons over all your business data in the context of your enterprise, including the ability to ask questions and get answers from the web. Microsoft 365 Copilot will be available for $30 per user per month for Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard and Business Premium customers when broadly available. New AI capabilities across Microsoft 365: We’re continuing to innovate across Microsoft 365 with new AI-powered capabilities to empower people however and wherever they work to be productive and engaged in new ways. Copilot in Teams Phone will quickly generate summaries of phone conversations, capture action items, and answer your questions about their phone calls. When summarizing calls, Copilot will highlight key points, such as names, dates, and numbers, and can also recommend next steps based on the discussion. Copilot in Teams Chat helps you quickly get up-to-speed and synthesize key information across all their Team chat threads.  Microsoft Viva updates include the launch of  Viva Glint, which will help customers understand employee engagement through organization-wide surveys and connected actions, and Viva Pulse, which helps managers and project leads get real-time, confidential feedback in the flow of work. Windows 365 Frontline makes it easy and affordable to extend the power of Cloud PCs to frontline, shift, and part-time workers, enabling them to securely access their personalized Windows experience on any device no matter where they work. Microsoft 365 Backup backs up and quickly restores an organization’s data to a prior point-in-time at unprecedented speeds after a catastrophic event or unforeseen data loss. Microsoft 365 Archive offers you a cost-effective, long-term storage of inactive or aging files that they still want to maintain for compliance or retention requirements. Reshaping the future of business with Microsoft Sales Copilot, Dynamics 365 Customer Insights, and new cloud migration program Since March when we introduced Dynamics 365 Copilot—the world’s first Copilot for both CRM and ERP—and Copilot in Power Platform, we’ve seen an incredible customer response from customers including Campari Group, Leatherman Tool Group, and Northrop & Johnson who are transforming how work is done, from the front office to the back office. Copilot assists employees wherever they are working, surfacing valuable business data and delivering business insights so they can focus on the most meaningful parts of their job. And with this momentum in AI, there has never been a better time for our customers to move to the cloud. Read the blog post by Emily He, Corporate Vice President, Business Applications Marketing, to learn more. Microsoft Sales Copilot, a role-based copilot designed for sellers, empowers sellers to increase productivity and personalize every customer interaction so they can close more deals. It is experienced in the applications where sellers work, whether that is Outlook, Teams, or Dynamics 365 Sales, and connects to other CRM systems like Salesforce. Since February, we’ve been adding new generative AI capabilities to help sellers be more productive with capabilities like email drafts and email thread summaries with sales-specific prompts and actions informed by Outlook and CRM data. Within Teams, sellers receive coaching tips during meetings, helping them reply to customer inquiries, and meeting summaries with action items that are automatically converted to tasks in CRM, saving sellers time and personalizing customer interactions. These capabilities from Viva Sales are now part of Sales Copilot and available within Dynamics 365 Sales, along with new functionality like AI-generated opportunity summaries for sellers to quickly catch up on pipeline and meeting preparation which summarizes customer details, past interactions, and related news. Sales Copilot is generally available today both as a standalone subscription and included as part of customers’ existing Dynamics 365 Sales Enterprise & Premium licenses at no additional cost, with new capabilities rolling out this month. The new Dynamics 365 Customer Insights solution and new copilot capabilities: To help organizations increase the speed of acting on customer insights and orchestrating personalized customer journeys, Dynamics 365 Customer Insights will offer both customer data platform and customer journey orchestration capabilities as a single solution. The new solution has a different pricing and licensing model and will be available to transact starting September 1, 2023. We are also announcing new copilot capabilities that will be in preview in August: use natural language to orchestrate customer journeys and easily style your email, forms, and event registration pages to perfectly match brand guidelines. Introducing Microsoft AIM for the future program: a brand-new program that offers a tailored path for our customers to move from on-premises to cloud-first Dynamics 365 business applications. AIM (Accelerate, Innovate and Move) is a comprehensive offering that unlocks the potential of AI-powered business systems while reducing costs, providing agility for business model innovation, and operating securely with resilience. AIM provides access to a dedicated team of migration advisors, assessments, offers, tools, and support to give customers a faster route to innovation and success. Announcing Power Automate Process Mining and Power Platform licensing update Today we’re excited to announce new ways to simplify innovation by using AI on a single, cost-effective platform for all your low-code development. To learn more, read the blog post by Justin Graham, General Manager, Process Insights. AI Powered Process Mining in Power Automate provides AI-powered insights that enable customers to optimize existing processes and drive efficiencies with low-code automation. Power Automate Process Mining offers two industry standard capabilities, task mining and process mining, that break down barriers that might make it difficult for an organization to identify inefficiencies in their workflows and where to improve. Process Mining includes functionality such as the Process Mining desktop app with advanced analytics and Power BI customization. More value than ever in your Power Platform licenses: With the general availability of Process Mining, Microsoft further expands its low-code offering, providing customers with not only the most complete hyper automation offering in the market, but the most comprehensive low-code platform including copilot in Microsoft Power Platform. Customers are increasingly standardizing on Power Platform as their low-code platform to modernize at scale and build innovative solutions that amplify business value. To that end, we want to share changes that optimize our portfolio and align to our customers’ buying habits. The following updates will take effect on August 1st, 2023: We are optimizing the Power Automate and Apps SKU lineups with a focus on Power Automate Premium per user and Power Apps Premium per user. We are launching Process Mining in Power Automate Premium per user and announcing an add-on for additional capacity. For the full details, read the announcement on the Power Platform Blog. Turn vision into impact with Microsoft Azure Organizations are turning to Microsoft and our partners to achieve efficiency by securely migrating and modernizing on Azure, maximizing value by optimizing cloud investments and innovating with agility by embracing technology. Today, we are announcing new capabilities around our Azure technologies and investments to increase the scale and availability of Azure Migrate and Modernize, along with the launch of Azure Innovate, an all-new dedicated investment we are making in response to the heightened demands for analytics and AI. Read the blog post by Alysa Taylor, Corporate Vice President, Azure & Industry, to learn more. Meta Llama 2 models available on Azure AI: Today Meta and Microsoft announced support for the Llama 2 family of large language models on Azure. Llama 2 is a LLM designed to enable developers and organizations to build generative AI-powered experiences. With the addition of Llama 2 to our Azure AI model catalog, we are providing our customers with more choice in the types of models they build on having previously announced support for Open AI, Hugging Face and many more. We are excited to be Meta’s preferred partner as they release their new version of Llama 2 to commercial customers for the first time. Now customers can fine-tune and deploy the 7B, 13B, and 70B-parameter Llama 2 models easily and more safely on Azure. Read the blog post by John Montgomery to learn more. Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate offerings: Today, we announced an unprecedented 3X investment to increase the scale and availability of Azure Migrate and Modernize and a new dedicated $100M investment in response to the incredible AI and analytics demand—Azure Innovate. These offerings are built to work together to address every customer’s end-to-end cloud journey on Azure. Whether customers are migrating to gain a secure and AI-ready foundation or are ready to build their own AI solutions—now you have everything you need in one place to be successful. For partners, these comprehensive offerings help them increase deal velocity and reduce time to value with funding that ranges from pre-to-post sales, like assessments, POCs and implementation right within Partner Center. Furthermore, with automated approvals, partners can go from nomination to customer approval in just minutes. Extended Security Updates enabled by Azure Arc: With Windows Server 2012/R2 and SQL Server 2014 end of support approaching, customers can remain protected by upgrading or using Extended Security Updates, available for free in Azure or purchasable for on-premises deployments. For customers who cannot meet the deadline, we are announcing Extended Security Updates enabled by Azure Arc. With Azure Arc, customers will be able to purchase and seamlessly deploy Extended Security Updates in on-premises or multi-cloud environments, right from the Azure portal. Announcing the preview of Azure Boost: a new system that offloads virtualization processes traditionally performed by the hypervisor and host OS onto next-generation hardware infrastructure, delivering new levels of performance and security for your workloads. This marks a significant leap forward for Azure. With Boost, we provide remote storage throughput of up to 10GB/s and up to 400K IOPS, enabling the fastest storage workloads in the market today. Azure AI momentum: We’re excited to showcase continued momentum for partners and customers: Vector search in Azure Cognitive search, now available in preview, offers pure vector search, hybrid retrieval, and sophisticated reranking. Use vector search to create Generative AI applications that combine your own data with large language models, or to power novel semantic search scenarios such as image or audio search. Azure AI Document Intelligence and Azure OpenAI Service work together, bringing powerful generative AI to document processing. With the Document Generative AI solution, you can ingest documents for report summarization, value extraction, knowledge mining, and new document content generation. Whisper model, coming soon to Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI Speech, offers capabilities to transcribe and translate audio content as well as produce high-quality batch transcriptions at scale. We are also excited to announce new features in Azure AI Speech: Custom Neural Voice, now generally available, and Real-time Diarization in preview. The future of security with AI: Partner resources to support the customer journey Cybersecurity is one of the most pressing challenges of our times. There has never been a more important time for specialized cybersecurity expertise, and our partners are critical to preparing customers for the era of AI by deploying end-to-end security solutions. Today, we are announcing ways for partners and customers to engage with Microsoft Security Copilot. Read the blog post by Vasu Jakkal and Alym Rayani to learn more. Launch of Microsoft Security Copilot partner engagement: Today, we announced our partner engagement for Microsoft Security Copilot, which creates new opportunities for partners to build their own solutions and services powered by Security Copilot. Partners interested in learning more can register to receive future communications and be considered for our partner design advisory council. Security Copilot Early Access Program: When Security Copilot was initially announced in March, the new solution was available via a private preview. We’re excited to announce that starting this fall, we will make Security Copilot accessible to more customers through our Early Access Program. Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing updates Today, we announced exciting updates for manufacturing and mobility customers and partners. To learn more, read the blog post by Dominik Wee, CVP for Manufacturing and Mobility. The Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing is open for business and ready to tackle our customers' biggest challenges with a robust ecosystem of partner solutions, complemented by the security and scalability of the Microsoft Cloud. ISV designation for manufacturing solutions: Within the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program we are expanding Solutions Partner designations to provide opportunities for additional partners to differentiate their technical capabilities and demonstrate customer success. Coming in this fiscal year, ISV designations represents our commitment to bringing the best partner solutions to our customers and provides a way for customers to identify proven partner solutions aligned with the Microsoft Cloud and our industry clouds. The designation validates that our partners’ solutions meet the high standards of data accessibility specific to our industry. Actions Make the most of your partnership. Whether you’re building your first app, developing complex integrations, or exploring new services offerings, we offer opportunities to innovate, scale, and differentiate your business: https://partner.microsoft.com/partnership/maximize-your-partnership. Watch Microsoft Inspire sessions live and on demand and browse the session catalog to explore all the available learning opportunities: https://inspire.microsoft.com. Build your technical skills. Access role-specific learning paths and build your skills on Microsoft products and solutions. Discover your path: https://partner.microsoft.com/training/training-center. Achieve more with the commercial marketplace. Increase leads and grow revenue by publishing and selling your solutions in the commercial marketplace online catalog. Find out how: https://partner.microsoft.com/solutions/the-commercial-marketplace. Sell with Microsoft. Create a winning sales strategy, scale your reach to global customers, and prepare for co-selling with Microsoft sellers: https://partner.microsoft.com/partnership/sell-with-microsoft. Join the partner community. Connect with partners, find out about upcoming events, and crowdsource solutions: https://www.microsoftpartnercommunity.com/ Join ISV Success. https://www.microsoft.com/isv.
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Jul 18, 2023 Place Azure & GitHub Austria
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