Microsoft Services Ready Program for Partners

The Services Ready Program has been developed to enable partners to implement higher quality and more predictable solutions for customers.

Microsoft Services has oriented its services strategy around services offerings, developed by its subject matter experts. These offerings help partners to reduce project risk, improve delivery quality and increase overall margins, through the repeatable application of proven offerings content. Through Services Ready, partners can leverage this investment to incorporate Microsoft's offerings into their business.

This paid program provides partners with Microsoft validated offerings content, best practices and templates, together with training for sales & delivery personnel by a combination of web-based and instructor-led training.

A further significant aspect of the program is the potential to develop a closer relationship with the local Microsoft Services organization. The Services Ready Program provides an avenue for partners to ramp up a Microsoft practice and support their business development activities:

Ramp up a Microsoft practice

  • Leverage planning, architecture and implementation guidance from Microsoft Services
  • Benefit from instructor led training on delivery best practices, delivered by highly experienced Microsoft consulting practitioners
  • Lower risk by co-engaging with MCS on your first project in a new area of capability

Support your Business Development Activities

  • Jump start your business development with sales and pre-built collateral
  • Be one of the first partners in your geographic area to become Services Ready
  • Build new opportunity streams by collaborating with local Microsoft Consulting Services contacts

With program participation demonstrated through working with Microsoft Services on a successful co-engagement project, partners achieve Services Ready status to demonstrate their ability to implement Microsoft offerings-based solutions.

Microsoft's commitment is to lead the industry in using its Services division to drive partner scale. Partners have asked for transparency and predictability and accordingly, Microsoft Services now openly publishes its priorities for business development derived from market research, along with the associated roadmap of Service Line Offerings to be released to partners via Services Ready. Learn More

Become a part of this exciting program and experience what it means to be Services Ready!