Understand the Microsoft Partner Network
With less expenses, more resources, and powerful partners your business can flourish. Put Microsoft to work for YOU!
- Software is a major expense to running a business. As a result, many businesses opt for less robust alternatives due to cost and licensing issues.
- Microsoft technical support can be a costly expense and is not used to its fullest potential as a result, often causing delays and errors in project deliverables.
- Encouraging technical staff to continue their education is relatively easy, but finding business or technically relevant courses can be a challenge.
- The Microsoft Partner Program can be a challenge to understand and manage, therefore organizations often overlook the program which, unknown to them, can be a very costly misunderstanding.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Partner membership status is not just for software development shops, many other business types can and do qualify for the program and its privileges.
- Understanding the rules of engagement within the Microsoft Partner Network is critical to the success of your partnership experience. Learn what is necessary to navigate through the program.
- Everything changes over time, but this time Microsoft is completely redesigning the program. Understand the evolving changes & how it will affect current/future members.
- Having and taking the pulse of your customer base is critical to a successful business. The Microsoft partnership provides a means, through independent customer satisfaction surveys, that allows a business to fully gauge where they stand, and what changes they need to make.
Impact and Result
- Understanding the partnership is the first step to saving many thousands of dollars. For businesses that qualify, the partnership is something that should not be ignored.
- For every organization that does qualify, there are others that do not, however there are still options available for these organizations.
- Of great importance to every technical business is the task of keeping their resources “up to speed” with the latest and greatest technologies. Membership provides a means to continue the education of the technical staff with relevant and timely training.
- Businesses cannot grow and evolve their product or service if they do not have a finger on the pulse of their customer. Learn how the partnership can provide an independent means of gauging customer satisfaction and loyalty.
About Info-Tech
Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.
We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.
What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
Talk to an Analyst
Our analyst calls are focused on helping our members use the research we produce, and our experts will guide you to successful project completion.
Book an Analyst Call on This Topic
You can start as early as tomorrow morning. Our analysts will explain the process during your first call.
Get Advice From a Subject Matter Expert
Each call will focus on explaining the material and helping you to plan your project, interpret and analyze the results of each project step, and set the direction for your next project step.
Unlock Sample Research