Your voice shapes the future of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program—and we’re listening. In our latest quarterly update, we share key enhancements driven by partner feedback, along with expert insights, new skilling resources, and the latest benefits to help you grow, innovate, and lead in the AI era.
Spotlights
Don’t miss MCAPS Start for Partners: July 15, 2025 | 8:00 AM–12:30 PM PT
Join Judson Althoff, Jared Spataro, Nick Parker, Ralph Haupter, Nicole Dezen, and Julie Sanford for a digital readiness event to kick off the FY26 fiscal year together. Register now to learn about Microsoft strategic priorities, investments, Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program enhancements, and new opportunities to scale your business.
FY26 Cloud Solution Area Partner Playbooks now available
Explore how to drive revenue growth and profitability by delivering AI-powered services and solutions—supported by our end-to-end engagement model and aligned to our updated, streamlined solution areas. Partner playbooks for AI Business Solutions, Cloud & AI Platforms, and Security help you build your practice and tap into investments with solution plays and go-to-market (GTM) strategies.
Cloud & AI Platforms FY26 partner playbook demonstration for system integrators
Join us live on July 24, 2025, at 8:00 AM Pacific Time or 5:00 PM Pacific Time to learn about the exciting GTM priorities and initiatives planned for FY26 across the Cloud & AI Platform solution area, aligned to the systems integrator partner audience. We are excited to invite you to an exclusive session where we will unveil the FY26 Cloud & AI Platform partner playbook. This comprehensive guide is designed to help you tap into Microsoft's latest investments and strategies to grow your business and enhance customer engagement. Log into Teams and register for a morning or evening session.
Nominations are now open for the 2025 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards!
This is your opportunity to showcase your most innovative solutions, celebrate customer success, and gain global recognition across the Microsoft partner ecosystem. Whether you're driving AI transformation, supporting sustainability, or accelerating industry impact, submit your story and get the recognition you deserve.
Register now for Microsoft Ignite
Calling all Microsoft partners! Are you ready to lead in the AI era? Join us at Microsoft Ignite in San Francisco, November 18–21, 2025, for a partner-first experience packed with innovation, insight, and inspiration. Grow your skills, build connections, and explore emerging technologies while discovering new ways to deliver customer impact with AI.
Microsoft Dragon Copilot partner assets now available
Microsoft Dragon Copilot, our AI-powered assistant for clinical workflows, is available in the US and now in Canada as of June 1, 2025, with the exception of Quebec. Dragon Copilot will be generally available in Quebec, the UK, Germany, France, and the Netherlands in the coming months. Dragon Copilot enhances clinical workflows with advanced AI for streamlining documentation, surfacing information, and automating tasks for improved efficiency, satisfaction, and patient care. Discover Dragon Copilot and start delivering more value to healthcare customers.
Program news and updates
CSP: Deepening our investment in our partners
Microsoft is deepening its investment in Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners to help them deliver even greater value to customers. In this blog, you’ll learn about upcoming enhancements focused on partner profitability, operational efficiency, and customer lifecycle management—along with new capabilities that support AI, multicloud, and industry-specific solutions. Don’t miss this opportunity to stay ahead and grow with CSP.
Partner Center Technical Corner: June 2025 edition
Stay up to date on the latest updates and best practices with the June 2025 edition of the Partner Center Technical Corner! Last month’s blog highlights key platform enhancements, known issues, and upcoming changes across marketplace, incentives, Azure plan, and more. Whether you're managing offers, tracking payouts, or supporting customers, this resource is your go-to guide for staying informed and maximizing efficiency.
Skilling
As a Microsoft partner, you can access various training and certification resources to enhance your skills and expertise in AI, Copilot, security, and cloud solutions. Learn how to sell and position Microsoft solutions, prepare for AI Cloud Partner Program skilling requirements, and hone your technical skills with Partner Project Ready Workshops.
Build in-demand capabilities with Microsoft Titan Skilling Academy
Do you want to build high-impact cloud, AI, and security capabilities within your organization? The new Microsoft Titan Skilling Academy is here to help! This partner-exclusive learning program offers tailored, role-based training paths for sales, presales, and technical professionals—designed to help your team deepen expertise, drive customer value, and accelerate solution development. Learn how to get started and take advantage of this no-cost global resource to power your growth.
Microsoft AI Agents Day for Partners (on demand)
AI Agents Day for Partners is a comprehensive virtual training event designed to empower Microsoft partner teams with a cross-solutions narrative on the importance of agentic AI to their business transformations and jobs to be done. Led by Microsoft experts, you will hear from our product and solution leaders on how they demo and present the business and technical value of Microsoft’s agent story to our shared customers. With new content and demos, this training will prepare you for customer acceleration and develop your confidence as an agent thought leader.
Ongoing skilling opportunities
Our popular skilling series offers new dates for:
- Certification Weeks: Designed to accelerate AI and cloud certification paths, ensuring partners stay ahead.
- Partner Project Ready Workshops: These multiday skilling events are designed to deepen your ability to assess customer needs and seamlessly implement Azure solutions.
- Sales & Pre-Sales Skilling Bootcamps: Create new business opportunities and stand out in the AI and cloud market by investing in sales skilling. Get help with planning, building, and assessing strategies for closing sales opportunities. You will learn how to articulate the value of your solutions and services, expand your sales strategies, and accelerate the customer journey.
Benefits and offers
Powering partner success: New benefits, events, and opportunities
Unlock more value from your Microsoft partnership with the latest benefits and incentives designed to power your growth. This blog outlines key updates across solution area benefits, marketplace programs, and the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program—giving you the tools to build, sell, and scale more effectively. Discover how to take full advantage of these offerings to drive customer success and accelerate your business.
Explore industry-specific AI scenarios
Want real-world inspiration to accelerate solution adoption with your customers? Explore the Microsoft Scenario Library—a curated collection of industry-specific use cases, guidance, and ready-to-use resources designed to help partners drive meaningful business outcomes. Whether you're focused on retail, manufacturing, healthcare, or financial services, you’ll find actionable scenarios that showcase how Microsoft technologies deliver value across industries.
What's new for Azure partner-led offerings: Cloud Accelerate Factory, AVS increased payout, and more
Discover the latest Azure partner-led offerings and how they’re helping partners drive customer success across industries. This blog highlights updates, including expanded solution areas, enhanced go-to-market support, and resources to help you deliver repeatable, high-impact services on Azure. Learn how to differentiate your business, scale delivery, and unlock growth through these powerful partner opportunities.
Scale AI transformation with Azure Essentials: AI Center of Excellence guidance
Accelerate your customers’ AI transformation with the Azure Essentials: AI Center of Excellence (CoE) guidance. This blog introduces a proven framework to help partners build, scale, and operationalize AI solutions with confidence. From defining strategy to managing responsible AI practices, the CoE approach empowers you to deliver repeatable, high-impact outcomes across industries.
Capturing the marketplace
Lock in marketplace terms for up to five years with multiyear contract durations
Great news for partners selling through the Microsoft marketplace: you can now offer multiyear contract durations of up to five years. This new capability helps customers lock in pricing and terms for longer periods, streamlining procurement and strengthening long-term relationships. Learn how to take advantage of this update to drive larger deals, improve revenue predictability, and deliver greater customer value.
Capturing the marketplace opportunity
Serving as a global B2B commerce engine, the Microsoft marketplace empowers partners to provide solutions to customers worldwide. It offers various sales models—digital direct, through partners, or with Microsoft—providing flexibility to align with how customers want to buy and how partners want to sell. Explore our series on maximizing your marketplace opportunity, with a focus on growing your pipeline with digital self-service sales through the Microsoft marketplace:
Unlocking growth with Oracle Database@Azure: A strategic opportunity for partners
Discover how Microsoft and Oracle are delivering more choice and flexibility for customers through the expanded availability of Oracle Database@Azure. Our latest blog explores how partners can unlock new opportunities by helping customers run mission-critical Oracle workloads on Microsoft Azure with the highest levels of performance, security, and compliance. Learn how to build differentiated services and accelerate customer cloud migrations with this powerful multicloud solution.
Unlock AI innovation with PostgreSQL on Azure
Help your customers modernize faster with PostgreSQL on Azure! Our latest blog breaks down the benefits of migrating PostgreSQL workloads to Azure, from built-in AI integration and advanced security to cost optimization and seamless scalability. You'll also find partner tips, customer success stories, and guidance to support migrations with Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Microsoft tools.
Microsoft Edge for Business partner resources
As a Microsoft partner, you have the opportunity to serve as a trusted advisor for your customers and enhance your offerings with Edge for Business—a secure enterprise browser optimized for AI. Designed to meet your customers’ security and productivity needs, Edge for Business also helps you save time and reduce costs. Drive adoption and strengthen your customers’ security posture with our key resources.
Community and events
Microsoft Partner FY26 GTM Kickoff Event
With transformative AI-powered technologies like Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents revolutionizing the modern workplace, partners can play a critical role in empowering organizations of all sizes to boost productivity, reshape work, and spark innovation. Get ready to jump-start your new fiscal year with this partner event designed to help you plan, build, and execute winning go-to-market strategies. This digital experience brings together marketing and sales professionals from across the Microsoft partner ecosystem for expert-led sessions, solution showcases, and actionable insights aligned to key growth opportunities.
MCAPS Start Unpacked: An exclusive CSP Insiders event for AI business solutions
Get ready to kick off the new fiscal year with Episode 5 of CSP Marketing Moments: MCAPS Start Unpacked! Join us on July 16, 2025, to learn about the go-to-market priorities and initiatives planned for FY26 across Microsoft Business Applications and Modern Work. This is your exclusive backstage pass to the future of AI business solutions. Discover the exciting new offers and investments designed to empower your success and accelerate growth across the CSP channel.
Microsoft Build 2025: Transforming software development for partners
Catch up on the biggest announcements from Microsoft Build 2025 in our post-event recap blog—specially curated for partners. From game-changing advancements in AI agents and copilots to powerful new developer tools and partner monetization opportunities, this year’s event set the stage for innovation and growth. Explore key takeaways and learn how to turn this momentum into business impact with Microsoft technologies.
On Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we are committing to change powered by AI
In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Microsoft reaffirmed our commitment to inclusive technology—and empowered partners to do the same. This blog highlights new tools, training, and best practices to help you design accessible solutions that serve more customers and meet evolving compliance needs. Learn how to embed accessibility into your offerings and drive innovation that includes everyone.
FabCon Europe: Coming to Vienna September 15–18
We were thrilled by the partner excitement we saw at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon) in Las Vegas earlier this year, and we are excited to announce that FabCon will be coming back to Europe in September! Join us in Vienna from September 15–18 for 4 days of workshops, speaker sessions, and networking opportunities with Microsoft customers, Microsoft leaders and sales teams, and community experts. Microsoft is hosting a Partner Day on September 15 where we will be sharing how to grow your Fabric practice and take advantage of Microsoft partner benefits to accelerate your business, as well as our view of the data platform ecosystem. We’ll also be offering opportunities to connect with Microsoft leaders and other partners. Learn more and buy your ticket here.
Microsoft Fabric Community Conference: Partnering for success
Dive into the highlights from the 2025 Microsoft Fabric Community Conference with our comprehensive post-event recap! This blog showcases exciting innovations in data integration, analytics, and AI-driven insights that empower partners to deliver next-level solutions. Discover key sessions, partner success stories, and how Microsoft Fabric is shaping the future of data-driven business.
Celebrating partner success
From driving innovation to accelerating customer transformation, your stories inspire and empower the global partner ecosystem. Join us in celebrating partner achievements and amplifying success. Here are some of our recent partner success stories:
Driving Innovation: PTC and Microsoft power the future of software-defined vehicles
Volkswagen is accelerating its move toward software-defined vehicles by teaming up with PTC and Microsoft Azure OpenAI. By using AI-powered lifecycle management, Volkswagen can automate requirements management, enhance traceability and compliance, catch issues earlier through AI validation, and deliver higher-quality designs more efficiently. This transformation marks a significant leap beyond process improvement—it's a smarter, faster approach to engineering the future of automotive innovation.
Insight Australia delivers unified workflows and improved processes
When a leading automotive company in the Asia-Pacific region needed to unify and consolidate systems across brands, Insight Enterprises Australia brought the automotive conglomerate’s operations under a single Microsoft 365 umbrella, enhancing collaboration, securing data, fostering innovation, and reducing costs.
ITCG boosts accounting firm’s precision with Microsoft 365 Copilot
ITCG created an integrated experience with Microsoft 365 Copilot that resulted in precision, streamlined workflows, and impactful business decisions for accounting firm G K Choksi & Co, well-known Chartered Accountant Firm based in India.
Explore all recent partner success stories.
Unlock the Power of Partnership with Microsoft
At Microsoft, we believe that success is best when shared. That is why we celebrate our partners through Customer Case Study publication and Microsoft Partner Success Stories, two initiatives designed to showcase the incredible impact you’re making with Microsoft technology.
- Are you a partner with at least one Solutions Partner designation? Customer Case Study publication is your opportunity to elevate your existing customer wins on an official Microsoft website. Provide the content and copy, checking the optional publication check box to gain visibility and share your successes.
- Are you a partner who wants to create a story to amplify your voice and expand your reach? Nominate your company for a Partner Success story.
As the program continues to grow and we continue to improve our offerings, we are excited to bring you regular updates. Be sure to follow us on LinkedIn for news and updates on the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program.
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