CSP business is quite popular these days. Having a CSP Partner business is not only profitable; it is also sustainable over time. The cloud is the next big thing in business landscape.  In CSP Partner Program, CSPs sell services related to Office 365 and Azure by setting their own margins and profits. The Microsoft CSP Partner program allows for directly managing customers entire lifecycle and utilize the built-in tools to directly manage and support customer relationship.

The Two Programs

CSPs work directly with Microsoft to resell the services to customers. There are two methods by which CSPs can resell services. First is the Direct Method and other is the Indirect Method. Let’s explain the two one by one

Direct CSP

In the direct CSP Partner program, CSPs work directly with Microsoft and resell their services. However, there are a few requirements that need to be met before starting the Direct CSP journey. CSPs who opt for this journey need to have an infrastructure for billing and also have to provide customer support. Microsoft provides little technical support for customers. So Direct CSP Partners need to have a strong base for customers support.

Microsoft has released a few requirements for its Direct CSP Partners where they have to fulfill some billing requirements and maintain infrastructure on-premises. Furthermore, they either need to provide a managed service, facilitate customers with an IP service or provide them with a solution application. These requirements have come into effect after 31^st August, 2018. All those Direct CSP Partners are able to continue their subscription as distributors who have fulfilled these updated requirements. If, however, they have not been able to fulfill, they can still continue as Indirect CSP Partners.

Indirect CSP

For Indirect CSP Partners, processes are quite easier. They do not have to meet strict requirements. They work with a Direct Partner and set their profits and margins and then resell the services from their end. A lot of Providers offer white-label-services that the Indirect Providers can make use of. Most of the heavy lifting can be done through the Provider’s Infrastructure and experience. Indirect Partners do not deal directly with Microsoft; rather their Provider is their guide which provides them with services and products for reselling. CSPs do not have to worry about the initial infrastructure investment cost. This model serves best when you want to focus on the strengthening of your business and make utmost use of cloud capabilities.

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MachPanel and CSP Partners

MachPanel is a reliable Cloud Service Provider. It provides CSPs with necessary bundle to deal with state-of-the-art challenges. With MachPanel, all the CSP requirements can be easily met. It offers complete business automation and Lifecycle management Delivery, you can experience reliable IaaS and SaaS Delivery and ardent customer support. The Control Panel makes you have maximum profits and flexible margins that facilitate your business. MachPanel is the solution by which your CSP business can flourish beyond measures.

MachPanel the Multi-Cloud Service Orchestration & Delivery Platform (MSOP) is an ideal solution that fits for your need, supporting feature that no other control panel can provide.

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Cloud Providers take benefits from Microsoft directly and resell their services from Office 365 and Azure. Both these products offer a lot more services that CSPs perceive at the time of subscription. Given below are a few distinct ways to use these products and benefit your business.

1. Secure Remote Access to Network

Azure’s Active Directory has benefitted millions off business users. Employees that work away from their desk, get access control of the whole portfolio, SQL databases, basic cloud and storage space. Different devices can access resources remotely

1. Connect Globally

Azure AD is already integrated with a lot of third party SaaS applications like Salesforce, Google Apps, Dropbox, Office 365 etc. Even custom applications can be added for business use if it is not already integrated with AD.

1. Seamless Migrations

Business fear to move to cloud only because of many obstacles in the process of migration. Not only there is a chance of data loss, there is a lot of complexity in the process as well. Azure AD e 365 offers seamless integration over to the cloud. Apart from that, Microsoft and CSPs also provide on-site customer support for better and smoother migrations and to tackle any run-time issues.

1. Expert Support

Cloud Providers provide excellent customer support. If there are any technical issues at CSPs’ end, they also tackle those in no time. The technical support is present there 24/7.

1. OneDrive Storage

OneDrive offers collaborative document sharing between colleagues and employees and also makes management of digital assets possible. While businesses grow, the storage needs also grow with it. OneDrive offers a scalable solution so that your Storage needs are always fulfilled along with business growth.

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MachPanel: Providing Maximum Business Benefits to CSPs

MachPanel is a Multi-Cloud Service Orchestration & Delivery Platform for Resellers and Providers. It provides you with Microsoft Office 365 and Azure services for better profits and flexible margins.  MachPanel offers easy billing and reporting, a Hybrid Marketplace and integration of Salesforce flow for its resellers. It also provides hassle-free migrations and integration of third party apps. It also offers consolidated Management of Microsoft Office 365 along with On-premise Hosted Subscriptions.

MachPanel Automation Platform for Microsoft CSP makes you able to take maximum benefits of O365 and Azure.

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Cloud based software services have been cohesively integrated into major aspects of business and almost all aspects of professional life. Many companies and business tend to make cloud their top priority despite the choice of distributed computing for the manipulation of data keeping security as the most important aspect. It is necessary that the workforce shall now be trained so as to be beneficial alongside automation in future. This gives rise to the concept of Intelligent Cloud Automation. Where the services offered by cloud are made intelligent enough to compete for future tasks and cater the needs of the future in cloud industry.

Intelligent Automation for Cloud

The concept of Intelligent Automation for Cloud (IAC) has been little-known. Mostly CSPs are interested in developing and enhancing their services with upcoming needs of businesses. Cloud Providers seldom are concerned of the scalability of Cloud itself.  IAC is a cloud management platform that is especially designed for enterprise level companies and major public sector Information Technology Organizations that build and develop public clouds and hybrid clouds. The idea is to provide out-of-the-box capabilities to cloud vendors who further extend those capabilities to CSPs in order to meet the growing needs of businesses. In this way, CSPs are able to deploy their services that are not limited to basic IaaS.

Few of such functionalizes that are expected to enhance in future are:

1. Integrated Network Services Automation

It is highly effective in providing seamless management of virtual infrastructure and physical infrastructure as well. The resources of computing, storage and the network in the cloud are optimized so as to provide customers with better operational efficiency by combining built-in Infrastructure and third party infrastructure in their hybrid or private cloud deployment.

1. Application Stack Deployment

Application Stack Accelerator is a highly usable extension to the current IAC services. Using Application stack Deployment, blueprints of applications can be designed and delivered in an efficient manner that increase faster app deployment in the cloud. Using the blueprints, designs of the complete application can be ordered using a self-service portal.

1. Easy Addition of Cloud Accelerators

A major trend in data-centric approach is the scalability of cloud coverage. Using IAC, organizations can get services beyond IaaS, making them capable to achieve much more by delivering the services right when they are needed.

1. Financial and Portfolio Management

With this, the management of automated financial and the basic portfolio can be extended to multiple cloud environments. Using this, budgetary limits and pricing boundaries can be set beforehand, in order to avoid unexpected bills.

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MachPanel – the next stop in Intelligent Cloud Automation

MachPanel provides end-to-end business automation with its efficient hosting Control Panel capabilities. MachPanel provides SaaS and IaaS Orchestration. With MachPanel Automation Platform for Microsoft CSP, CSPs can ability automate and scale their Microsoft Cloud business. It is an excellent choice for multi-tiered services as it manages entire lifecycle of your business efficiently.  It offers an on-premise Hybrid Marketplace that caters the need of Intelligent Service delivery based on customer’s past choices. It enables the customers to perform third-party integrations quite smoothly. MachPanel is the best choice for CSPs today, in order to grow business for tomorrow.

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MachPanel the Reliable Partner

Here comes the importance of a reliable partner, who always keep close eyes on your needs to streamline your business and customer life cycle. MachSol being in the industry for over a decade now, realized pain areas of their strategic partners and came forward with a solution that can help customers reduce time-to-market their services as Microsoft Office 365 cloud solution provider, remove the complexity of CSP program’s API integrations. MachPanel cloud reselling control panel Offers user friendly and fully customizable interfaces and ordering at your storefront with N tiers of self-service by defining custom bundles, bundle value added services and even hybrid packaging facility.

MachSol as Microsoft Office 365 CSP Automation Solution provider offers you extensive billing and invoicing facility via its built-in billing module to Cater Microsoft Office 365 CSP billing requirements or you can integrate your in house billing solution and even third party solution like WHMCS. Our open API’s can help you plug in MachPanel with your current workflows.

 Support again is vital component as a Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider, MachPanel offers you very systematic and comprehensive ticketing system to tackle and monitor your customer support department.

MachPanel Automation Platform for Microsoft CSP is a complete Market Place

Upcoming MachPanel CSP module is not just an automation solution but a complete market place taking care of Microsoft Office 365 CSP Selling, ordering, subscription, provisioning, hybrid management, reporting, support, auditing, Open API’s, open to integrate any solution around Office 365, with its detailed role based access control and work flows through Microsoft Office 365 CSP feature rich control panel. Interesting part is that MachPanel CSP module offers you management of multiple CSP Profiles and value added services like AdSync for single sign on.

Open up New Revenue Streams

By using MachPanel Automation Platform for Microsoft CSP you can open up new revenue streams to your business as cloud services provider by fast start and low risk availing our flexible CSP automation solution pricing model. We are always open for review and feedback in regards to MachPanel Office365 CSP module.

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