Generally Available Now: Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud – An Azure Native ISV Service
We are happy to launch Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud – An Azure Native ISV Service as a generally available offering. This is a result of a close collaboration between Microsoft and Informatica. This integration enables creation and management of Informatica organizations and serverless runtime environments within the Azure Management console. With serverless runtime environments, you are not required to instantiate VMs in your Azure tenants to install Informatica secure agents. You can focus on creation of their data management tasks without worrying about managing the infrastructure. You can find the Informatica announcement here Azure Native ISV Services enable you to easily provision, manage, and tightly integrate ISV software and services on Azure. By leveraging the power of Azure, the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud – An Azure Native ISV Service, offers you a range of benefits, including scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness. It also provides secure connectivity to Informatica’s IDMC portal using single sign-on via Azure portal, CLI, and SDK. You can easily sign up for this service via the Azure Marketplace. Managing Informatica Secure Agent infrastructure in your Azure tenant could be an elaborate and time-consuming task, requiring expertise in areas such as networking, security, and scaling. By using serverless run time environments, you can focus on integration mappings while Informatica manages the underlying Infrastructure. Key Capabilities Seamless onboarding: You can create an Informatica Organization or Link an existing Informatica Organization in Azure pod from Azure portal, CLI or SDK like any other Azure resource. For example, you can discover the service from search bar in Azure portal. Figure 1: Informatica IDMC – Azure Native ISV Service in Azure portal Figure 2: Creating the IDMC Azure Native ISV Service from the Azure portal Figure 3: Linking an existing IDMC Organization in Azure pod to Azure Native ISV Service from the Azure portal Single sign-on to IDMC portal: An auto generated SSO link securely redirects you to IDMC portal. Figure 4: Newly created Informatica organization resource with SSO URL on Overview page. . Figure 5: The SSO URL redirects to the newly created Informatica organization in the IDMC portal Management of IDMC serverless runtime environments: Within the Azure portal, you can create and manage Informatica Cloud Data Integration Advanced Serverless, a service ofIDMC, to eliminate the need for creating VMs to run secure agents. Figure 6: Serverless runtime created from Azure portal with management options highlighted Figure 7: Serverless runtime in Informatica portal Azure SDK and CLI integration: You can easily manage IDMC resources from the Azure Java, Java Script, Python, Go and .NET SDKs and from command line interfaces like Azure CLI, PowerShell. This enables you to automate repetitive tasks and complex processes using scripts and provides greater flexibility and customization in managing Azure resources. CLIs can also easily be integrated into continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, enabling seamless integration with DevOps practices and workflows. Get started with Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud – An Azure Native ISV Service Setup and subscribe to your Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud – An Azure Native ISV, from Azure Marketplace. Follow the documentation to create an Informatica organization and run time environments to deploy your integration mappings.Now Generally Available: Apache Airflow™ on Astro - An Azure Native ISV Service
Apache Airflow™ on Astro– an Azure Native ISV Service enables organizations to place Airflow at the core of their data operations, providing ease of use, scalability and enterprise-grade security to help ensure the reliable delivery of mission-critical data pipelines. With the Azure Native ISV Services integration, Astro will be easily available within the Azure portal as a managed service. Instead of managing complex data pipelines, developers will be able to focus on data, code, security and billing across third-party entities. Developers may opt for the pay-as-you-go option based on their usage with billing via the Azure Marketplace.Managing Confluent Cloud User Access via Azure portal
Today, we are excited to announce Confluent Cloud User Access Management via Azure portal for the Confluent organizations created via Azure Native ISV Service. You can now add Azure users and manage their authorization to Confluent cloud right from Azure portal! Background So far,onboarding to the Confluent Cloud with just a few clicks from the Azure portal was made true by the launch of Apache Kafka® on Confluent Cloud™– An Azure Native ISV Service. This integration between Azure and Confluent has helped the customer connect their Azure data plane seamlessly authenticating using Single-Sign On. However, you still need to head to the Confluent Cloud UI (User Interfaces) for authorization – adding users into the Organization, giving them roles and accesses across clusters, environments, etc. This is an additional step for the organization admins to manually add all the user ids and set their eligible permissions for each cluster and environment, making it even more tedious and time-consuming. What is Confluent Cloud Access Management? Confluent now supports advanced controls on managing User Access and Permissions easily via Azure portal. With this, the organization admin can add and manage both users as well as user permissions post the Confluent organization creation while continuing to stay in Azure portal. This helps in bringing down the overall time from creating an organization to actionable Kafka resources on Confluent. A key component of Confluent Access Management is Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). Access Management is now easily available on the Overview page in Azure portal. As of today, Access Management supports the following scenarios: Add a new user into the Confluent Organization. View and manage the users having access to the Confluent Organization. View role permissions for a user. Add one or more role permissions for a user. Remove one or more role permissions for a user. Please note: These permissions are available only to the Subscription Owner or Contributor. Make sure you have the right credentials to make use of this feature. Add Users in a Confluent You can now add new users and view existing users in your Confluent Organization via Azure portal. Simply head to Confluent Account and Access or the Manage User Access tile at the bottom of your resource overview. Fig 1: Overview page showing the Access management blade and the tile. Fig 2: Select and confirm the user addition. View Role permissions for a user In the Confluent Account and Access blade, you’ll see the list of users in your current Confluent organization. Click on the Manage Permissions icon on the right end of the user you would like to see the permissions for. Fig 3: Viewing the user permissions in the portal. Add or Remove Role permissions for a user in Confluent Organization The Manage Permissions blade contains a couple of icons on the top to Add or Remove a role for a given user. While staying on this blade you will have access to all the available roles and the assigned roles in Confluent at the organization level as well as at the environment and cluster levels. Fig 4: Select Add Role to get a new role permission; Remove to delete an existing permission. Resources Try out the Apache Kafka® on Confluent Cloud™– An Azure Native ISV Service offering right away! Every new sign-up gets a free 400$ credit! To learn more, check out the Microsoft Docs Check out the Confluent blog announcing this feature. If you would like to give us feedback on this feature, the overall product or have any suggestions for us to work on, please drop in your suggestions here!! 😊
DPOR and PAL not correctly tracking, not getting anywhere with partner support
Hi, We have many deployments for Power Automate and the greater Power Platform with our clients. We guide organizations of all sizes from sole proprietorships through fortune 500s through their automation journeys. We always try to have the deployments linked via DPOR or PAL as well as have created proofs of execution / engagement documents. Under our business applications solutions partner status, it shows our deployments and usage growth at 0 on both. Some of these deployments are quite large, so it can't be that all of them don't qualify. Our other linkages such as data&AI, infrastructure and digital &app innovation seem to work perfectly. Does anyone have any suggestions to why this is? We have been having this issue for over a year, with no useful answers from partner support and it is significantly impacting us. Microsoft sellers are also trying to get partner support to help us but it's going nowhere. Any help would be greatly appreciated.Werden Sie Solutions Partner für Data und AI
Bieten Sie Ihren Kunden einen noch größeren Mehrwert, indem Sie Solutions Partner für Data und AI (Azure) werden. Erwerben Sie diese Auszeichnung, um Ihre Fähigkeiten bei der Verwaltung von Kundendaten über mehrere Systeme hinweg hervorzuheben und Analyse- und KI-Lösungen zu entwickeln. Hier erfahren Sie mehrVier neue Spezialisierungen und Aktualisierung der Bezeichnung Solutions Partner
Die Führungskräfte von heute stehen vor immer komplexeren geschäftlichen Herausforderungen und angesichts der geringen Fehlertoleranz suchen Technologiekunden nach hochqualifizierten und spezialisierten Partnern, deren Fachwissen gründlich geprüft wurde. Daher freuen wir uns, die Einführung von vier neuen Spezialisierungen bekanntgeben zu können: Finance specialization Supply Chain specialization Sales specialization Service specialization Diese neuen Spezialisierungen spiegeln unser Engagement für die kontinuierliche Weiterentwicklung unseres Partnerprogramms und die Gewährleistung von Mehrwert mit der Microsoft Cloud wider. Hier finden Sie eine Übersicht über die Neuerungen: Finance specialization: Zeigen Sie, dass Sie in der Lage sind, Kunden dabei zu helfen, widerstandsfähige Finanzorganisationen zu schaffen, die sich schnell anpassen, intelligent arbeiten und mehr leisten. Erfahren Sie mehr über die Finance specialization Supply Chain specialization: Demonstrieren Sie Ihre Fähigkeit, Kunden bei der Implementierung einer intelligenten Lieferkette mit Echtzeittransparenz, agiler Planung und Geschäftskontinuität zu unterstützen. Erfahren Sie mehr über die Supply Chain specialization Sales specialization: Stellen Sie Ihre Fähigkeit unter Beweis, Kunden dabei zu helfen, starke Kundenbeziehungen aufzubauen, Maßnahmen auf der Grundlage von Erkenntnissen zu ergreifen und Geschäfte schneller abzuschließen. Erfahren Sie mehr über die Sales specialization Service specialization: Stellen Sie Ihre Fähigkeit unter Beweis, Unternehmen dabei zu helfen, die Erwartungen ihrer Kunden zu übertreffen, indem Sie außergewöhnlichen Service auf allen Kanälen bieten. Erfahren Sie mehr über die Service specialization Lernen Sie mehr über die bestehenden Spezialisierungen Microsoft Low Code Application Development und Small and Midsize Business Management. Zusätzliche Aktualisierungen der Bezeichnung Solution Partner for Business Applications Wir sind bestrebt, unsere Partnerprogramme kontinuierlich weiterzuentwickeln, weshalb wirals Reaktion auf die aus Daten, Partner-Feedback und Marktdynamik gewonnenen Erkenntnisse die Bezeichnung Solution Partner for Business Applications aktualisieren. Rate card changes for Customer Engagement Die Rate card Formel lautet: Monthly Active Users (MAU) X Rate = Monthly Consumption Value (MCV) Für Customer Engagement deployments wird die Rate von 40 um das Fünffache auf 200 erhöht. Das bedeutet, dass für den SMB-Pfad ein großes Customer Engagement, das zuvor 125 MAU benötigte, um den Schwellenwert von 5.000 MCV zu erreichen (125 MAU X 40 = 5.000 MCV), jetzt nur noch 25 monatlich aktive Benutzer benötigt. Die Raten für alle anderen Workloads bleiben gleich. Threshold adjustments for SMB and Enterprise paths Wir haben mehrere Schwellenwerte für jeden Pfad angepasst, um die Erlangung von Punkten für den Titel "Solutions Partner for Business Applications" zu erleichtern. Dazu gehören Anpassungen für große deployments (netto), Usage growth und customer adds (netto). SMB path changes Enterprise path changes Details zum Nachlesen finden Sie hier .
