Coming soon: Microsoft Copilot specialization
The Microsoft Copilot specialization showcases your expertise providing consulting and professional services around Copilot. Once available in June 2025, the Microsoft Copilot specialization will demonstrate your experience and capabilities with Copilot, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Chat, Copilot Studio, and agents. Partners with this specialization can help their customers: Explore AI Advisory Services for Microsoft Copilot. Adopt Copilot. Deliver data security and deployment. Enable extensibility with agentic focus. With the Microsoft Copilot specialization, you can continue to work toward attaining a Solutions Partner designation for Modern Work and/or a Solutions Partner designation for Business Applications. If your organization has already attained one or both of these designations, please review the criteria for earning a Microsoft Copilot specialization and begin to work toward the requirements. This specialization is planned for release in June 2025. The requirements include: Performance requirements 1,000 monthly active user (MAU) growth of Microsoft 365 Copilot in the trailing twelve months (TTM). (Claiming partner of record (CPOR), Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Tier 1 or 2) Five Copilot net customer growth in TTM (CPOR, CSP Tier 1 or 2) Skilling requirements Four people with MS-102: Microsoft 365 Administrator (Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert) Two people with APL-4002: Prepare security and compliance to support Microsoft 365 Copilot Two people with MS-7008: Create and extend custom copilots in Microsoft Copilot Studio Customer references Provide three customer references, which must include at least one example of transforming business processes with agent implementation.
Solution partner Attainment
Just interested to know if anyone else finds this program challenging. Just got off a session with Microsoft and from what we reviewed in our Partner portal, this is close to impossible to achieve. Microsoft are very out of touch and seem more interested in growth than development. Complete waste of our time.
Stand out in the marketplace with a Microsoft Copilot specialization
The Microsoft Copilot specialization demonstrates your experience and capabilities with Copilot, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Chat, Copilot Studio, and agents. Partners with this specialization can help their customers: Explore AI Advisory Services for Microsoft Copilot. Adopt Copilot. Deliver data security and deployment. Enable extensibility with agentic focus. To earn this specialization, you must first attain one of three Solutions Partner designations: Business Applications, Modern Work, and/or Security. If your organization has already attained one or more of these designations, please review the Microsoft Copilot specialization criteria—which include performance metrics, skilling requirements, and customer references—and begin to work toward meeting them. You can check whether you currently meet the requirements by viewing your Partner Center dashboard. The requirements include: Performance requirements 1,000 monthly active users (MAU) growth of M365 Copilot in the trailing 12 months (TTM) (Claiming partner of record (CPOR), Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Tier 1, CSP Tier 2) AND 5 net customer growth for Copilot in TTM (CPOR, CSP Tier 1, CSP Tier 2) Skilling requirements 5 people with MS-102: Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert AND 5 people with, cumulatively: SC-401: Implement information protection in Microsoft 365 OR APL-4002: Prepare security and compliance to support Copilot AND 5 people with APL-7008: Create custom agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio Customer references Provide three customer references, which must include at least one example of transforming business processes with agent implementation. Learn more
FY24 Modern Work & Security Partner Guide for SMB - now available for download!
Dear Parters, If you are present in the SMB market and would like to understand how Microsoft can support you programmatically in driving your Modern Work & Security business, then download and use our Modern Work & Security Partner guide. The guide summarizes programs and resources that help you to plan your enablement, go-to-market, target customers and identifying and developing opportunities from pre-sales to post-sales. Please find the download link below and leverage the guide actively. The guide will be periodically updated so make sure you use the download link in order to always have the latest version at hand.
Land Your Offer - Anatomy of Revenue Generating Partner Offer - Part 1 - Copilot in 30
Copilot in 30: A Ready-Made Marketplace Offer to Grow Your SMB Practice Thirty days. Twenty-five users. One repeatable offer that turns AI curiosity into a long-term customer relationship. Small and medium businesses know AI matters. What they lack is a trusted guide and a low-risk way to start. Copilot in 30 gives you both: a $0, 25-user, 30-day Microsoft 365 Copilot Business trial from Microsoft, wrapped in a structured journey that only a partner can deliver. Package it as a Microsoft Marketplace offer and you have a scalable on-ramp to every SMB customer in your base — and to the managed services that follow. Start Here: Why Publishing on Microsoft Marketplace Matters Microsoft Marketplace is Microsoft's partner-focused business platform, designed to help you reach more customers and simplify how you sell. A published offer gives your practice a permanent, discoverable storefront in the place customers already look for Copilot help. More importantly, an offer turns your expertise into something repeatable. Instead of scoping every engagement from scratch, you define the journey once — activities, timeline, deliverables — and run it across dozens of customers. Professional service and managed service offer types are available in Partner Center, so the same offer can carry both the 30-day journey and what comes after it. The SMB Opportunity Hiding in Plain Sight SMB customer segment is still early in their AI journey. These are organisations with 300 or fewer users on Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Standard or Premium — typically without an in-house AI team. That combination is exactly where partners win: high demand, limited internal capacity, and a customer base large enough that a well-designed, repeatable offer scales far beyond what bespoke projects can. Why Copilot Is the Right First AI Step for SMBs Microsoft 365 Copilot Business is the cost-effective Copilot add-on built for SMB customers, delivering the same capabilities as Microsoft 365 Copilot inside the apps their people already use — Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. No platform overhaul, minimal training, immediate relevance. Copilot is also the on-ramp. Once a team works confidently with Copilot, the natural next steps are agents, automated workflows and Copilot Cowork — each one deepening the customer's dependence on the partner who guided them there. Meet Copilot in 30: 25 Users, 30 Days, $0 Copilot in 30 is a limited-time, CSP partner-led Microsoft 365 Copilot Business trial for SMB customers with fewer than 300 employees. The essentials: What the customer gets: 25 Microsoft 365 Copilot Business seats for 30 days at $0, transacted through CSP New Commerce (Product ID CFQ7TTC0MM8R · SKU 006Z) Who qualifies: Customers on Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Standard or Premium with no paid Microsoft 365 Copilot today — one trial per customer How long it runs: Available to transact until 31 December 2026 What happens at Day 30: The trial auto-converts to a paid subscription unless renewal settings are changed, with a 7-day cancellation window What Microsoft provides: A launch kit, campaign materials, setup guidance, the Copilot Success Planner and conversion guidance Microsoft supplies the licences and the assets. The offer — and the customer relationship — is yours. Your Role: The Guide Who Turns a Trial Into a Habit A trial alone rarely changes behaviour. A guided trial does. Your job across the 30 days is to make sure 25 people experience real value in real work, and that the sponsor can see it. Before Day 0 — pick the right customers, become "Customer Zero" by using Copilot in your own business, secure a named sponsor and Copilot admin, and build a 30-day success plan with agreed measures. Day 0 — transact the trial, set the paid renewal quantity and term, complete admin setup, assign all 25 licences and run the kick-off with starter prompts. Days 1–28 — lead a weekly scenario (Outlook, Teams, Apps, Agents), review Copilot Analytics, re-engage low-activity users and capture proof points in the customer's own words. Days 29–30 — run the outcome and ROI review, confirm the paid offer and open the expansion and consumption conversation. Every touchpoint is partner expertise the customer cannot get from a licence alone — and every one moves the decision at Day 30 from "should we?" to "how much more?" Inside the Offer: Activities, Timeline and Deliverables Below is the full activity plan behind the offer, ready to drop into your own offer description or statement of work. ID Stage Activity Trial day (of 30) Key deliverables — Pre-req Customer eligibility (Copilot Business trial) Before Day 0 Active M365 Business base licence; no paid M365 Copilot; one $0 trial per customer; CSP New Commerce transactable; offer open to 31 Dec 2026 I1 Identify Build the prioritised target list Pre-trial Tier A/B target list from ASPX and Cloud Ascent; 50–300 eligible seats I2 Identify Confirm eligibility and trial fit Pre-trial Eligibility check: M365 Business base licence, no paid Copilot, one trial I3 Identify Launch the acquisition campaign Pre-trial Campaign email sent; briefing delivered; responses triaged into pipeline I4 Identify Be Customer Zero: complete microskilling Pre-trial Microskilling complete; internal Copilot experience; team briefed P1 Plan Confirm sponsor and success measures Pre-trial Named sponsor and admin; 25 trial users; agreed success measures P2 Plan Build the 30-day success plan Pre-trial Personalised Success Planner output; weekly scenarios; admin and user views P3 Plan Confirm technical and compliance readiness Pre-trial Minimum requirements verified; data and compliance review; blocker log A1 Activate Transact the trial in CSP New Commerce Day 0 25-seat, 30-day, $0 trial ordered (CFQ7TTC0MM8R · SKU 006Z) A2 Activate Configure the paid renewal settings Day 0 Renewal quantity, term and billing set; Cowork usage-based billing if in scope A3 Activate Complete admin setup and assign licences Day 0 Recommended settings on; 25 licences assigned (starts the clock) A4 Activate Run the kick-off and share starter prompts Day 0 Kick-off email; starter prompts; four-week prompt series scheduled X1 Experience Week 1 · Outlook — catch up and communicate Days 1–7 Week 1 prompts landed; first-week activation rate reviewed X2 Experience Week 2 · Teams — meetings that run themselves Days 8–14 Copilot Analytics checkpoint; recaps adopted; low-activity users re-engaged X3 Experience Week 3 · Apps — create in minutes Days 15–21 App scenarios and proof points; week 3 training gate before day 30 X4 Experience Week 4 · Agents — unlock the next level Days 22–28 Role-built agents trialled; 30-day usage trends from the admin centre C1 Convert Outcome review, paid offer and expansion plan Days 29–30 ROI review; 50-seat offer confirmed in 7 days; wave 2 plan; consumption conversation opened Land Your Offer: What One Customer Is Worth The table below is the revenue anatomy of one Copilot in 30 engagement — and it shows that the money is not in the trial, but in what the trial sets up. Item Value Detail Offer duration 30 days Trial clock runs Days 1–30; identify, plan and Day 0 setup precede it Trial offer 25 seats M365 Copilot Business · 30 days · $0 · one per customer · to 31 Dec 2026 CSP incentive — 25 seats (K) $0.32K 5.0% direct bill (2.5% M365 CSP Core + 2.5% Strategic Product Accelerator Tier 1) on 25 M365 Copilot Business seats x $21/mo† ≈ $6.3K/yr; indirect reseller 2.5% ≈ $0.16K Conversion target 50 seats Lead with 50 paid seats at conversion; sets up the wave 2 expansion plan CSP incentive — 50 seats (K) $0.63K 5.0% direct bill (Core + SPA Tier 1) on 50 M365 Copilot Business seats x $21/mo† ≈ $12.6K/yr; indirect reseller 2.5% ≈ $0.32K Frontier Accelerate deployment funding (K) $2.5K Microsoft Commercial Incentives funding for the Copilot deployment engagement when the conversion lands with 50 paid seats†; funds the deployment and adoption work that leads into managed services † Illustrative estimates from the offer plan. Confirm current incentive rates, funding and eligibility in Partner Center. Three streams stack on top of each other: CSP incentive — earned on every paid Copilot Business seat from the moment the trial converts, and growing again when the customer expands from 25 to 50 seats. Frontier Accelerate deployment funding — $2,500 available when you lead the conversion with 50 paid seats, paying for the deployment work that makes the expansion stick. Managed services — the recurring engagement described in Day 31 and Beyond, which is where the largest and most durable share of revenue lives. Now multiply. Everything above is the anatomy of a single customer. Landing the offer means running it across every eligible customer in your base — and you don't need to guess who they are. Partner Center's growth insights reporting, available through the AI Business Solutions & Security Insights (ASPX) dashboard, gives you account-level Copilot eligibility, seat whitespace, free Copilot Chat usage and adoption signals for the customers you already manage. To turn that export into a ranked target list, my colleague Brian O'Shea has built a Copilot for 30 Power BI dashboard that sits over your ASPX data and scores each customer on a 0–100 priority scale from eligible seats, whitespace, free-to-paid potential and opportunity signals — so your first cohort is the ten customers most likely to convert, not the first ten who reply. How the Offer Fits Together: From Trial Inputs to Proof of Value The offer runs left to right in three layers: Trial inputs — 25 users, 30 days, $0 CSP trial SKU; an SMB with 50–300 eligible Microsoft 365 seats; no paid Copilot today; a Business Basic, Standard or Premium base; one trial per customer to 31 Dec 2026; a named sponsor and Copilot admin; auto-conversion to paid unless changed. Five stages — Identify (I1–I4), Plan (P1–P3), Activate (A1–A4), Experience (X1–X4) and Convert (C1, T1, T2, W2). Each stage produces a concrete output the sponsor can see. Proof of value — a prioritised list and campaign responses; agreed use cases and success measures; a provisioned trial with 25 licences assigned; weekly usage from the Microsoft 365 admin centre; adoption proof points in the customer's words; paid conversion confirmed in Partner Center — and a named wave 2 expansion beyond the first 25. The highlighted activities — admin setup (A3), Week 4 agents (X4), 25→50 paid seats (T1), Frontier Accelerate funding (T2) and the wave 2 expansion plan (W2) — are where the engagement stops being a project and starts becoming an ongoing relationship: managed services, agent build-out, Copilot Studio and Copilot Cowork follow-on once the trial converts. Day 31 and Beyond: Managed Services That Keep Delivering The end of the trial is the start of the real engagement. Package these as standing services in your offer: Copilot adoption management — monthly Copilot Analytics business reviews, prompt and scenario refreshes, champion programme and onboarding for each new wave of users Licence and expansion management — take the customer from 25 to 50 paid seats and on to wave 2, aligning renewals, terms and billing as the footprint grows Agent build-out — design, build and maintain role-based agents with Copilot Studio for sales, service, finance and operations scenarios surfaced in Week 4 Copilot Cowork enablement and governance — introduce consumption-based Cowork scenarios, set budgets and cost controls, and report on usage each month Security, compliance and readiness — keep data protection, permissions and governance in step with expanding AI use, including a path to Microsoft 365 Business Premium Quarterly value reviews — refresh success measures, capture new proof points and agree the next expansion plan with the sponsor Each of these is a recurring, outcome-based service rather than a one-off project — and each keeps you positioned as the customer's AI partner as their needs grow. Ready to Build Your Copilot in 30 Offer? Download the Copilot in 30 launch kit and Microsoft 365 Copilot Partner FAQ from the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program. Be Customer Zero — run Copilot and the microskilling series inside your own business first. Publish your offer in Partner Center as a professional service (the 30-day journey) with a managed service follow-on (Day 31 and beyond). Pick your first cohort — customers with 50–300 seats on a Microsoft 365 Business plan and no paid Copilot today. Transact your first trial through CSP New Commerce (Product ID CFQ7TTC0MM8R · SKU 006Z) and set the paid renewal on Day 0. Book the Day 30 review before Day 1 — so the conversion and expansion conversation is already on the calendar. The window closes on 31 December 2026. The customers are already in your base. Publish the offer and start the clock. Resources From AI curiosity to Copilot adoption in 30 days — Microsoft Partner Blog Copilot in 30 Launch Kit — partner GTM playbook, customer trial guide, invitation and weekly prompt emails, admin setup guidance Build Your 30-Day Copilot Success Plan Copilot Success Planner Walkthrough video Partner Skilling Hub | Microskilling for Copilot in 30 Power BI Dashboard that integrates with your ASPXi Partner Data · By Brian O'Shea Create compelling customer business casesproMX Project Operations + AI Summit 2026
Ready to learn how you can turn your project challenges into business success with Dynamics 365 AI solutions? Join Microsoft and proMX on April 21st and 22nd at Microsoft Munich for the in-person proMX Project Operations + AI Summit 2026 – Turning data into productivity assets with Copilot + Agents in Dynamics 365 solutions. On DAY 1, discover how Dynamics 365 Project Operations, Copilot, Project Online, proMX 365 PPM, and Contact Center can strategically transform business processes and drive organizational growth. On DAY 2, we’ll take a deep dive into the technical side of these solutions. ✅Book a one-to-one slot with proMX, proMX customers or our Microsoft guests ✅ Explore our booths to talk to Microsoft MVPs and proMX experts ✅ Exchange ideas, project expertise, and more! Register now to secure your spot at this exclusive and free event: proMX Project Operations + AI Summit 2026 You still have questions? Feel free to contact us! Jelena Yaruchyk (Global Marketing Director) - Jelena.Yaruchyk@promx.net Kateryna Marchak (Marketing and Content Lead) - Kateryna.Marchak@promx.netDrive demand for your offers with solution area campaigns in a box.
Take your marketing campaigns further with campaigns in a box (CiaBs), collections of partner-ready, high-quality marketing assets designed to deepen customer engagement, simplify your marketing efforts, and grow revenue. Microsoft offers both new and refreshed campaigns for the following solution areas: Data & AI (Azure), Modern Work, Business Applications, Digital & App Innovation (Azure), Infrastructure (Azure), and Security. Check out the latest CiaBs below and get started today by visiting the Partner Marketing Center, where you’ll find resources such as step-by-step execution guides, customizable nurture tactics, and assets including presentations, e-books, infographics, and more. AI transformation Generate interest in AI adoption among your customers. As AI technology grabs headlines and captures imaginations, use this campaign to illustrate your audience’s unique opportunity to harness the power of AI to deliver value faster. Learn more about the campaign: AI Transformation (formerly Era of AI): Show audiences how to take advantage of the potential of AI to drive business value and showcase the usefulness of Microsoft AI solutions delivered and tailored by your organization. Data & AI (Azure) Our Data & AI campaigns demonstrate how your customers can win customers with AI-enabled differentiation. Show how they can transform their businesses with generative AI, a unified data estate, and solutions like Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Power BI, and Azure Databricks. Campaigns include: Unify your intelligent data - Banking: Help your banking customers understand how you can help them break down data silos, meet compliance demands, and deliver on rising customer expectations. Innovate with the Azure AI platform: Help your customers understand the potential of generative AI solutions to differentiate themselves in the market—and inspire them to build GenAI solutions with the Azure AI platform. Unify your intelligent data and analytics platform - ENT: Show enterprise audiences how unifying data and analytics on an open foundation can help streamline data transformation and business intelligence. Unify your intelligent data and analytics platform - SMB: Create awareness and urgency for SMBs to adopt Microsoft Fabric as the AI-powered, unified data platform that will suit their analytics needs. Modern Work Our Modern Work campaigns help current and potential customers understand how they can effectively transform their businesses with AI capabilities. Campaigns include: Connect and empower your frontline workers: Empower your customers' frontline workers with smart, AI-enhanced workflows with solutions based on Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot. Use this campaign to show your customers how they can make their frontline workers feel more connected, leading to improved productivity and efficiency. Microsoft 365 Copilot SMB: Increase your audience's understanding of the larger potential of Microsoft 365 Copilot and how AI capabilities can accelerate growth and transform operations. Smart workplace with Teams: Use this campaign to show your customers how to use AI to unlock smarter communication and collaboration with Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot. This campaign demonstrates to customers how you can help them seamlessly integrate meetings, calls, chat, and collaboration to break down silos, gain deeper insights, and focus on the work that matters. Cloud endpoints: Help customers bring virtualized applications to the cloud by providing secure AI-powered productivity and development on any device with Microsoft Intune Suite and Windows in the cloud solutions. Business Applications Nurture interest with audiences ready to modernize and transform their business operations with these BizApps go-to-market resources. Campaigns include: AI-powered customer service: Highlight how AI-powered solutions like Microsoft Dynamics 365 are transforming customer service with more personalized experiences, smarter teamwork, and improved efficiency. Migrate and modernize your ERP with Microsoft Dynamics 365: Position yourself as the right partner to modernize or replace your customers' legacy on-premises ERP systems with a Copilot-powered ERP. Business Central for SMB: Offer customers Microsoft Dynamics 365, a comprehensive business management solution that connects finance, sales, service, and operations teams with a single application to boost productivity and improve decision-making. AI-powered CRM: Help your customers enhance their customer experiences and close more deals with Microsoft 365 Dynamics Sales by making data AI-ready, which empowers them to create effective marketing content with Microsoft 365 Copilot and pass qualified leads on to sales teams. Use this campaign to show audiences how Copilot and AI can supercharge their CRM to increase productivity and efficiency, ultimately leading to better customer outcomes. Modernize at scale with AI and Microsoft Power Platform: This campaign is designed to introduce the business values unlocked with Microsoft Power Platform, show how low-code solutions can accelerate development and drive productivity, and position your company as a valuable asset in the deployment of these solutions. Digital & App Innovation (Azure) Position yourself as the strategic AI partner of choice and empower your customers to grow their businesses by helping them gain agility and build new AI applications faster with intelligent experiences. Campaigns include: Build and modernize AI apps: Help customers building new AI-infused applications and modernizing their application estate take advantage of the Azure AI application platform. Accelerate developer productivity: Help customers reimagine the developer experience with the world’s most-adopted AI-powered platform. Use this campaign to show customers how you can use Microsoft and GitHub tools to help streamline workflows, collaborate better, and deliver intelligent apps faster. Infrastructure (Azure) Help customers tap into the cloud to expand capabilities and boost their return on investment by transforming their digital operations. Campaigns include: Modernize VDI to Azure Virtual Desktop - SMB: Show SMB customers how they can meet the challenges of virtual work with Azure Virtual Desktop and gain flexibility, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. Migrate VMware workloads to Azure: Help customers capitalize on the partnership between VMware and Microsoft so they can migrate VMware workloads to Azure in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Migrate and secure Windows Server and SQL Server and Linux - ENT: Showcase the high return on investment (ROI) of using an adaptive cloud purpose-built for AI workloads, and help customers understand the value of migrating to Azure at their own pace. Modernize SAP on the Microsoft Cloud: Reach SAP customers before the 2027 end-of-support deadline for SAP S/4HANA to show them the importance of having a plan to migrate to the cloud. This campaign also underscores the value of moving to Microsoft Azure in the era of AI. Migrate and secure Windows Server and SQL Server and Linux estate - SMB: Use this campaign to increase understanding of the value gained by migrating from an on-premises environment to a hybrid or cloud environment. Show small and medium-sized businesses that they can grow their business, save money, improve security, and more when they move their workload from Windows Server, SQL Server, and Linux to Microsoft Azure. Security Demonstrate the power of modern security solutions and help customers understand the importance of robust cybersecurity in today’s landscape. Campaigns include: Defend against cybersecurity threats: Increase your audience's understanding of the powerful, AI-driven Microsoft unified security platform, which integrates Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR, Security Exposure Management, Security Copilot, and Microsoft Threat Intelligence. Data security: Show customers how Microsoft Purview can help fortify data security in a world facing increasing cybersecurity threats. Modernize security operations: Use this campaign to sell Microsoft Sentinel, an industry-leading cloud-native SIEM that can help your customers stay protected and scale their security operations. **Stay up to date on all Skilling announcements by subscribing to the skilling tag!**Drive demand for your offers with solution area campaigns in a box
Take your marketing campaigns further with campaigns in a box (CiaBs), collections of partner-ready, high-quality marketing assets designed to deepen customer engagement, simplify your marketing efforts, and grow revenue. Microsoft offers both new and refreshed campaigns for the following solution areas: Data & AI (Azure), Modern Work, Business Applications, Digital & App Innovation (Azure), Infrastructure (Azure), and Security. Check out the latest CiaBs below and get started today by visiting the Partner Marketing Center, where you’ll find resources such as step-by-step execution guides, customizable nurture tactics, and assets including presentations, e-books, infographics, and more. AI transformation Generate interest in AI adoption among your customers. As AI technology grabs headlines and captures imaginations, use this campaign to illustrate your audience’s unique opportunity to harness the power of AI to deliver value faster. Learn more about the campaign: AI Transformation (formerly Era of AI): Show audiences how to take advantage of the potential of AI to drive business value and showcase the usefulness of Microsoft AI solutions delivered and tailored by your organization. Data & AI (Azure) Our Data & AI campaigns demonstrate how your customers can win customers with AI-enabled differentiation. Show how they can transform their businesses with generative AI, a unified data estate, and solutions like Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Power BI, and Azure Databricks. Campaigns include: Unify your intelligent data - Banking: Help your banking customers understand how you can help them break down data silos, meet compliance demands, and deliver on rising customer expectations. Innovate with the Azure AI platform: Help your customers understand the potential of generative AI solutions to differentiate themselves in the market—and inspire them to build GenAI solutions with the Azure AI platform. Unify your intelligent data and analytics platform - ENT: Show enterprise audiences how unifying data and analytics on an open foundation can help streamline data transformation and business intelligence. Unify your intelligent data and analytics platform - SMB: Create awareness and urgency for SMBs to adopt Microsoft Fabric as the AI-powered, unified data platform that will suit their analytics needs. Modern Work Our Modern Work campaigns help current and potential customers understand how they can effectively transform their businesses with AI capabilities. Campaigns include: Connect and empower your frontline workers: Empower your customers' frontline workers with smart, AI-enhanced workflows with solutions based on Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot. Use this campaign to show your customers how they can make their frontline workers feel more connected, leading to improved productivity and efficiency. Microsoft 365 Copilot SMB: Increase your audience's understanding of the larger potential of Microsoft 365 Copilot and how AI capabilities can accelerate growth and transform operations. Smart workplace with Teams: Use this campaign to show your customers how to use AI to unlock smarter communication and collaboration with Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot. This campaign demonstrates to customers how you can help them seamlessly integrate meetings, calls, chat, and collaboration to break down silos, gain deeper insights, and focus on the work that matters. Cloud endpoints: Help customers bring virtualized applications to the cloud by providing secure AI-powered productivity and development on any device with Microsoft Intune Suite and Windows in the cloud solutions. Business Applications Nurture interest with audiences ready to modernize and transform their business operations with these BizApps go-to-market resources. Campaigns include: AI-powered customer service: Highlight how AI-powered solutions like Microsoft Dynamics 365 are transforming customer service with more personalized experiences, smarter teamwork, and improved efficiency. Migrate and modernize your ERP with Microsoft Dynamics 365: Position yourself as the right partner to modernize or replace your customers' legacy on-premises ERP systems with a Copilot-powered ERP. Business Central for SMB: Offer customers Microsoft Dynamics 365, a comprehensive business management solution that connects finance, sales, service, and operations teams with a single application to boost productivity and improve decision-making. AI-powered CRM: Help your customers enhance their customer experiences and close more deals with Microsoft 365 Dynamics Sales by making data AI-ready, which empowers them to create effective marketing content with Microsoft 365 Copilot and pass qualified leads on to sales teams. Use this campaign to show audiences how Copilot and AI can supercharge their CRM to increase productivity and efficiency, ultimately leading to better customer outcomes. Modernize at scale with AI and Microsoft Power Platform: This campaign is designed to introduce the business values unlocked with Microsoft Power Platform, show how low-code solutions can accelerate development and drive productivity, and position your company as a valuable asset in the deployment of these solutions. Digital & App Innovation (Azure) Position yourself as the strategic AI partner of choice and empower your customers to grow their businesses by helping them gain agility and build new AI applications faster with intelligent experiences. Campaigns include: Build and modernize AI apps: Help customers building new AI-infused applications and modernizing their application estate take advantage of the Azure AI application platform. Accelerate developer productivity: Help customers reimagine the developer experience with the world’s most-adopted AI-powered platform. Use this campaign to show customers how you can use Microsoft and GitHub tools to help streamline workflows, collaborate better, and deliver intelligent apps faster. Infrastructure (Azure) Help customers tap into the cloud to expand capabilities and boost their return on investment by transforming their digital operations. Campaigns include: Modernize VDI to Azure Virtual Desktop - SMB: Show SMB customers how they can meet the challenges of virtual work with Azure Virtual Desktop and gain flexibility, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. Migrate VMware workloads to Azure: Help customers capitalize on the partnership between VMware and Microsoft so they can migrate VMware workloads to Azure in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Migrate and secure Windows Server and SQL Server and Linux - ENT: Showcase the high return on investment (ROI) of using an adaptive cloud purpose-built for AI workloads, and help customers understand the value of migrating to Azure at their own pace. Modernize SAP on the Microsoft Cloud: Reach SAP customers before the 2027 end-of-support deadline for SAP S/4HANA to show them the importance of having a plan to migrate to the cloud. This campaign also underscores the value of moving to Microsoft Azure in the era of AI. Migrate and secure Windows Server and SQL Server and Linux estate - SMB: Use this campaign to increase understanding of the value gained by migrating from an on-premises environment to a hybrid or cloud environment. Show small and medium-sized businesses that they can grow their business, save money, improve security, and more when they move their workload from Windows Server, SQL Server, and Linux to Microsoft Azure. Security Demonstrate the power of modern security solutions and help customers understand the importance of robust cybersecurity in today’s landscape. Campaigns include: Defend against cybersecurity threats: Increase your audience's understanding of the powerful, AI-driven Microsoft unified security platform, which integrates Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR, Security Exposure Management, Security Copilot, and Microsoft Threat Intelligence. Data security: Show customers how Microsoft Purview can help fortify data security in a world facing increasing cybersecurity threats. Modernize security operations: Use this campaign to sell Microsoft Sentinel, an industry-leading cloud-native SIEM that can help your customers stay protected and scale their security operations.Copilot for M365 – The road ahead for Microsoft partners
(April 23 Update) The purpose of this post is to inform you on the upcoming partner enablement activities related to Copilot for M365. This list will be kept up to date as things are moving very fast. If you have any question or are not sure which session is the best fit for you, don't hesitate to contact me (manumic@microsoft.com) or anyone from the Microsoft team. Check also the Copilot for Microsoft 365 partner landing page for all partner related resources. Events: 27th May in Geneva CSP Masters GTM & Sales Training: Copilot for Microsoft 365 28th May in Geneva CSP Masters Technical Training: Copilot for Microsoft 365 4th June in Zürich Copilot for Microsoft 365: Deployment and Adoption Bootcamp
