The entire concept was initially introduced for Azure as a hassle-free journey for both partner and customer. This time it is being introduced for subscriptions like Office 365, Dynamics 365, Windows 365, Microsoft 365.

What impact will it have on business?

For indirect sellers, the cloud business will have the option to opt for NCE from Jan 2022 which will eventually be enforced by Microsoft in March 2022. 

For The new subscriptions to be circulated and adopted, Partners need to make sure if the customer is prepared to fully commit to the entire terms of subscription. The cancellation policy states that the grace period is 72 hours. 

For Partners who are looking to explore the possibilities of the new Commerce experience, they do not have to re-sign the Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA).

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With more innovations in digital technologies, CSPs always are in need for a breakthrough that can provide them with cutting-edge benefits with no compromise on service delivery. To get more value, organizations want more managed services and value-added IP offerings. Microsoft customers rely on Microsoft Partners and CSP organizations for services and expert skills required to accelerate in this era of digital transformation.

Microsoft has announced Azure updates for CSPs including a new commerce experience under the Azure in the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program. By utilizing the Azure cost management feature, CSPs can unlock more value for customer satisfaction.

• The New Commerce Experience

The new commerce experience announced within Azure updates from Microsoft offer CSP benefits by providing more options to increase customer base and improve the selling experience. There are more tools and resources announced that can bring-in more value to their business. It provides a simplified billing experience where you get access to invoices and reconciliation files, be in control of data usage since “all of the usage is tied back to a single Azure Plan”. In addition to this, the new features include reading invoicing and the relevant reconciliation file and daily usage file. You can even have a detailed analysis on Azure spending with options like receiving alerts for budget set at a customer level and Viewing total spending on an Azure plan in the latest Azure update.

• Universal Catalog

With the new commerce experience, you get access to one universal catalog which helps in better expansion of your portfolio of services. The universal catalog has all the latest Azure services that can bring in innovative Azure features as soon as they are live. This attracts new customers for your business.

• Value-added Services

The new updates let CSPs discover unique VAS opportunities via the Partner earned credit model under Cost Management, that we’ll discuss in a minute. PEC rewards lead towards a sustainable profitability.

• Azure Lighthouse

This is a new tool introduced under the new Azure Updates. It enables Microsoft Partners to provide unique managed services to their customers and enables CSPs to effectively manage multiple customer environments.

• Consistent pricing

In the new Azure Updates, a simplified price list for Azure is introduced consisting of consistent prices worldwide. There’s more transparency     and a unified invoice and billing date alignment for all purchases of customer across the Azure marketplace.

• A simplified Framework

Azure Updates introduce a framework for doing business with CSPs in a simplified manner that deliver better business results for CSPs. the Microsoft Partner Agreement and the Microsoft Customer Agreement are part of this framework.

• Azure Cost Management

Under the Azure Cost Management feature, there are more CSP benefits to offer from Microsoft CSP program. CSPs can get a detailed cost analysis option by customer, meter, service, resource group, subscription, resource and many other dimensions. You can setup notifications by utilizing programmatic budgets to stay notified whenever costs exceed budgets. In the new Azure Updates, you can also view resources costs having Partner Earned Credit (PEC) under the Cost analysis. Customers also get the option to view their consumption costs data under pay-as-you-go rates. With Azure Cost management, you can maximize cloud efficiency for the customers and manage the customer’s costs effectively from the cloud.  Under cost management, you can get your hands on various tools to monitor cloud costs, allocate then optimize cloud costs with rich analytics.

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MachSol is actively involved in incorporating the latest tools and technologies from Microsoft. For instance, Microsoft Exchange Server 2019, Microsoft Skype4B Server 2019 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019 were launched in the last quarter of 2018, MachSol adopted the latest versions and started to provide its customers with latest deployments right away. Developers at MachSol are always eager to build on the latest tools from Microsoft and adopt the best practices as mentioned by Industry experts from major tech giants.

Training sessions from Microsoft on their latest SDKs are encouraging for many industry professionals. One such training workshop is Microsoft Partner Center SDK Workshop 2019 to be held at three different locations: Dublin, Redmond and Singapore. The two-day workshop will be held from 5/21/2019 8:00 AM to 5/22/2019 4:30 PM in Dublin, 5/02/2019 8:00 AM to 5/03/2019 4:30 PM in Redmond and from 5/28/2019 8:00 AM to 5/29/2019 4:30 PM in Singapore. Tech enthusiasts are invited from all over the world by Microsoft and they are heading towards registration of the event from various parts of the world to these three locations.

Professionals at MachSol are always active to learn and adopt latest SDKs that Microsoft has to offer and this workshop session is just what they are all looking forward to. It’s a practical training session with hands-on labs for enlightenment about the knowledge and hands-on experience on Partner Center SDK & API with the Cloud Solution Provider program. This will help view catalog, purchase, manage and develop understandings for upcoming features in Partner Center SDK like new Webhook scenarios, secure application model, billing date alignment and many new capabilities. One major benefit of being a part of such events is that you get a glimpse at architectural updates in market from Microsoft experts.  These types of sessions and workshops keep the developers, Solution architects and other professionals from the cloud industry engaged in a collaborative and friendly manner.

With latest Microsoft updates coming every now and then, we love to cover these latest updates and keep you informed at what goes around in the tech industry. If you wish to stay updated with the latest on-goings at Microsoft, stay tuned for more such blogs and event news that we’ll be covering soon.

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