And now, Microsoft officially launches its Cloud Partner Program. The program will meet the ever-changing needs of customers while helping partners achieve their goals. This is attributed to the fact that it now comes with the designation of the single-tier solution partner which replaces the legacy silver and gold competitions.
This is how the new Microsoft Cloud Partner Program works
By joining the program, the partner can benefit from many incentives. Among them, the possibility of access the largest technological ecosystemwhich in turn offers members the opportunity to develop and sell competitive solutions to customers around the world at a faster rate. Partners will then be able to innovate on the most complete and comprehensive cloud platform. Being able to do business with a trusted partner. Through an email sent to OnMSFT, Microsoft indicated that:
Starting today, the six new Solution Partner designations – replacing the old Silver and Gold competencies – are generally available to all partners. The six solution areas include: Data and AI (Azure), Infrastructure (Azure), Digital and Application Innovation (Azure), Enterprise Applications, Modern Work, and Security.
In addition to the six designations, Microsoft will introduce more industry designations tailored to partners who build software. Starting with retail, healthcare and financial services. And finally, through the ISV Success Program, Microsoft will invest in resources for ISVs (independent software vendors).
At the moment, it is in private preview phase, but is scheduled to go into public preview later this year. Through the platform, ISV partners will be able to rapidly create and publish applications. Accelerating innovation and reaching a new and broader audience.