Microsoft commits multibillion-dollar partner investments

July 14, 2011 | 17:37

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Microsoft Corp. on July 13^th unveiled updates to the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN), to better help partners grow their businesses and meet evolving technology needs of customers around the globe through tools, training and incentives totaling $5.8 billion for fiscal year 2012.

“Winning together with our partners today, and long into the future, means delivering incredible world-class technologies to meet customer needs, as well as the right partner incentives, tools and training, which will ultimately drive business growth for them,” said Jon Roskill, corporate vice president of the Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft,

Private and public cloud incentives, competencies and benefits align to customer projects.

The announcement was made at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference with 15,000 attendees.

Roskill announced new or extended solutions and online service incentives that are available and aligned to key priorities such as customer projects, accelerated growth of public and private cloud adoption, and tools demonstrating a broad commitment to partners’ success.

Partners are encouraged to engage through the Microsoft Partner Network to benefit from the incentives.

Microsoft is investing in scaled business model transformation approaches for high-potential partners, which will help business decision-makers within partner organisations build specific plans, analyse the change implications of integrating cloud such as profit and loss shifts and staffing needs, and define commitments and a timeframe to execute the shift.

By Trang Anh

vir.com.vn

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