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With the latest innovations and a foundation of trust and flexibility, Azure is built to empower partners to scale, exceed customer expectations, and unlock limitless innovation.
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Innovate with AI

Deliver transformational apps and services and support customer migration with comprehensive security and access to dedicated AI enablement on a trusted platform.
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Achieve global scale

Go to market with campaign resources and guidance to enable agility and scale your business with the reach of Microsoft.
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Deliver greater impact

Access partner investments at each stage of the cloud journey to unlock Azure offerings for high-demand cloud and AI scenarios.

The Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) of Microsoft Azure AI

Read the 2023 Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Microsoft to learn how organizations saved USD16 million over three years with Azure AI.
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Go to market with Azure

Our resources are designed to help partners deliver on Azure technologies, scale marketing, and increase co-selling—so you can better meet customer needs and grow your business.

Migrate and secure Windows Server, SQL Server, and Linux Estate

Microsoft Azure’s comprehensive portfolio of AI, Security, hybrid, and cloud-native services gives partners the solutions they need to maximize cloud migration and modernization opportunities. Building on our Windows Server and SQL Server customer base, our partner offers and incentives put your managed and professional services front and center in cloud migration and modernization projects so you can grow profitably.

Migrate and secure Windows Server, SQL Server, and Linux Estate

Microsoft Azure’s comprehensive portfolio of AI, Security, hybrid, and cloud-native services gives partners the solutions they need to maximize cloud migration and modernization opportunities. Building on our Windows Server and SQL Server customer base, our partner offers and incentives put your managed and professional services front and center in cloud migration and modernization projects so you can grow profitably.

Skill up
Give your sellers an edge with the latest training to help you win more migrations.
Activate your GTM
Access collateral and marketing tools that are optimized for partners to drive migrations to Azure.
Deliver workshops
Provide your customers with best practices and considerations for moving to Azure in this one-day workshop.
Access incentives
Get rewarded with migration offers and incentives that drive profitable growth.

Unify your intelligent data and analytics platform

Organizations can't reap the benefits of AI without mature data from an integrated analytics system, which requires a comprehensive strategy of data unification, collaboration, and governance. Partners have an opportunity to help customers unlock the potential of data with AI-powered, cloud-scale analytics services, from Microsoft Fabric to Azure Databricks. Together, we can help customers go from data to insights to actions—fueling innovation and growth.

Unify your intelligent data and analytics platform

Organizations can't reap the benefits of AI without mature data from an integrated analytics system, which requires a comprehensive strategy of data unification, collaboration, and governance. Partners have an opportunity to help customers unlock the potential of data with AI-powered, cloud-scale analytics services, from Microsoft Fabric to Azure Databricks. Together, we can help customers go from data to insights to actions—fueling innovation and growth.

Skill up
Explore the capabilities of Microsoft Fabric.
Activate your GTM
Help customers accelerate data value for the era of AI.
Deliver workshops
Educate customers in this one-day virtual workshop format.
Access incentives
Unlock incentives and harness the power of data to fuel AI transformation for your customers.

Accelerate developer productivity

We’ve revolutionized the development process with AI innovation to increase speed to market and developer productivity. With AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot—which anchors on the code that matters most to accelerate app development—you can guide customers to develop intelligent apps even faster.

Accelerate developer productivity

We’ve revolutionized the development process with AI innovation to increase speed to market and developer productivity. With AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot—which anchors on the code that matters most to accelerate app development—you can guide customers to develop intelligent apps even faster.

Skill up
Build the skills you need to start coding in the cloud—and much more—with GitHub Copilot.
Activate your GTM
Acquire and engage developers with resources that can help educate them on the value of AI-assisted development tools.
Deliver workshops
Support customers in their journey to accelerate developer productivity by teaching them how to implement and use leading DevOps tools and best practices.
Access incentives
Help customers innovate faster and accelerate delivery of intelligent apps with Azure partner-led offerings.

Innovate with Azure AI platform

Lead with differentiated generative AI experiences that are safe and secure. Gain full stack guidance and tooling to bring groundbreaking innovation into production at scale. From evaluating models and differentiating experiences with media-rich contextualization, to protecting solutions and operationalizing repeatable value over time, partners can use Azure AI to solve customer challenges.

Innovate with Azure AI platform

Lead with differentiated generative AI experiences that are safe and secure. Gain full stack guidance and tooling to bring groundbreaking innovation into production at scale. From evaluating models and differentiating experiences with media-rich contextualization, to protecting solutions and operationalizing repeatable value over time, partners can use Azure AI to solve customer challenges.

Skill up
Deep dive into the skills needed to pitch Microsoft AI and Copilot capabilities, and get hands-on experience to drive successful implementations.
Activate your GTM
Win customers with these resources to migrate faster and easier through Microsoft Azure.
Deliver workshops
Educate customers in this one-day virtual workshop format.
Access incentives
Get rewarded for customer success with our streamlined incentives portfolio.

Migrate SAP

SAP applications are among the most mission-critical solutions businesses use today. With SAP ECC 6 reaching the end of support in 2027, there’s never been a greater opportunity for SAP customers to modernize their infrastructure and move their workloads to the cloud. Support migration to Azure with key technologies and best practices, plus resources on extending SAP environments with security, analytics, AI, and productivity solutions.

Migrate SAP

SAP applications are among the most mission-critical solutions businesses use today. With SAP ECC 6 reaching the end of support in 2027, there’s never been a greater opportunity for SAP customers to modernize their infrastructure and move their workloads to the cloud. Support migration to Azure with key technologies and best practices, plus resources on extending SAP environments with security, analytics, AI, and productivity solutions.

Skill up
These learning path resources can help you prepare for planning, migrating, and administering Microsoft Azure for SAP workloads.
Activate your GTM
Use the campaign resources to help customers migrate, save, and optimize.
Deliver workshops
Present key migration technologies and practices in this one-day virtual workshop format.
Access incentives
Support customers on their journey to migrate with partner incentives and the newest Azure offerings.

Build and modernize AI apps

Deliver adaptive, responsive, and personalized experiences for your customers by building and modernizing intelligent apps with Azure. Use the training materials, narrative, marketing assets, and incentives aligned to this play to drive key AI-powered use cases such as building co-pilots, enabling information and product discovery, service and support, fraud detection, and more for your customers.

Build and modernize AI apps

Deliver adaptive, responsive, and personalized experiences for your customers by building and modernizing intelligent apps with Azure. Use the training materials, narrative, marketing assets, and incentives aligned to this play to drive key AI-powered use cases such as building co-pilots, enabling information and product discovery, service and support, fraud detection, and more for your customers.

Skill up
Access training materials and playbooks to empower your team to drive success with customers.
Activate your GTM
Access customizable marketing assets, including infographics and pitch decks, to quickly and easily start conversations with customers.
Deliver workshops
Show customers how to build with Azure AI in this one-day virtual workshop.
Access incentives
Easily access incentives through Partner Center to maximize your earnings through AI innovation for your customers.

Deliver more value with Azure offerings

Azure Innovate and Azure Migrate and Modernize provide comprehensive resources, coverage across scenarios, and tailored incentives underpinned by the foundations of Azure Essentials.
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Implement efficiently with comprehensive resources

  • Leverage resources like tooling, responsible AI design, and frameworks for successful implementation.
  • Engage with Microsoft experts via FastTrack for Azure and Migration Factory to augment capacity and capabilities at no extra cost.
  • Empower teams with dedicated partner enablement for cloud and AI adoption to build confidence.

Increase agility with extensive coverage across scenarios and segments

  • Lead AI transformation with offers for cloud migrations, applications, security, analytics, and AI scenarios.
  • Scale efficiently with structured pathways for software and services partners to deliver projects of all sizes.
  • Differentiate apps and services backed by security on a trusted platform.

Innovate confidently with tailored incentives to maximize earning opportunities

  • Access funding for each stage of the journey, from planning to deployment.
  • Improve sales velocity with go-to-market support to enrich your pipeline and win more deals.
  • Get faster time to value with seamless and automated approvals in Partner Center.

Introducing Azure Essentials

Elevate reliability, security, and ongoing performance of cloud investments with extensive guidance, resources, and tooling.
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Pathways to partnership

Solutions Partner designations

Showcase your capabilities, stand out from the competition, and unlock benefits like co-sell eligibility, skilling, and go-to-market resources.

Azure Expert MSP

Take advantage of benefits designed to help your business stand out and drive more revenue.

Azure specializations

Differentiate your organization’s Azure expertise and build stronger connections with customers in areas with high demand.

Partner success stories

SoftwareOne
SoftwareOne leveraged Azure and its offerings to accelerate the deployment of a disaster recovery solution without added cost to the customer or disruption to their operations.
Relativity 
Relativity builds solutions with Azure that help solve time-critical challenges, create workload efficiencies, and drive faster innovation for modern legal teams.
Icertis
Icertis helps customers harness the power of generative AI to unify and streamline the contract life cycle management process across legal, procurement, finance, and sales.
Fractal
Fractal built Shriners Children’s a next generation data analytics system that allows healthcare professionals to easily and securely access clinical notes used in patient diagnosis and treatment.​
SymphonyAI
SymphonyAI builds AI-powered apps with Azure to meet unique business needs across industries. In financial services, they’re helping banks detect and investigate crime more effectively.
LTIMindtree
LTIMindtree's cloud engineers leveraged Azure’s Migration and Modernization Program with the support of FastTrack engineers to successfully complete a complex migration.
Sonata Software
Sonata Software helped Alltech effectively manage global travel expenditures by consolidating data spread across multiple systems and sources into one platform with Microsoft Fabric.
Profisee
Profisee, a Master Data Management (MDM) vendor, helps organizations match, merge, standardize, and validate data across multiple data silos.