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What is included in cloud?As a Microsoft Cloud Solutions provider, you can help your customers increase their IT flexibility, reduce deployment costs, and manage operations on a global scale. Enrolling in Microsoft Cloud Essentials and Microsoft Cloud Accelerate can also help you launch a successful cloud practice.
Products included in cloud are:
Why is cloud important? �In multiple surveys, cloud-oriented partners significantly outperformed their peers: higher revenue [per] employee, higher gross profit, higher customer acquisition, and faster growth,� according to a recent IDC study. Learn about the growth opportunities in selling cloud solutions, the value of Microsoft cloud solutions, and the benefits you receive when you enroll in a Microsoft cloud program.
*IDC. Successful Cloud Partners Higher, Faster, Stronger. 2013
How to move from on-premise to Cloud PartnerA typical on-premise engagement model includes distinct technical staff working on individual projects, with an architect and perhaps a project manager and database architect. Selling in the cloud changes the game. The cloud model allows partners to restructure their team, which results in fewer people driving more business to more customers. Cloud-oriented partners are seeing 30% more revenue per employee over traditional IT partners. While cloud is the future, your ability to stitch it together in hybrid scenarios is where you win.
Worldwide Partner Conference 2013 Day 3 Vision KeynoteMicrosoft cloud incentivesMicrosoft�s cloud incentives are designed to accelerate customer cloud adoption, regardless of how customers choose to utilize cloud services. The cloud incentives portfolio includes Online Services Advisor incentives, Windows Azure, and Channel Developer incentives. This portfolio of incentives enables deployment for any path to the cloud and rewards partners across the cloud services sales cycle from pre-sales to post-sales. Utilize Microsoft�s cloud incentives to help you realize services revenue opportunities in the cloud.
Cloud benefits/programsWhen you become a Microsoft Cloud Partner, you will receive a set of core benefits based on your level of program membership�benefits include internal-use software rights, tailored training, and prioritized exposure in Microsoft marketing and product directories. Use these benefits to help you start and build your cloud practice.