What if you and your peers at Microsoft were lock-step in the way you engage with customers - the same story, the same tools, and the same processes? Now you can, by joining the Microsoft Partner Program and participating in the Optimization Sales Connection.

The Microsoft Partner Program recognizes your expertise, rewards you for your impact in the marketplace, and delivers tools and resources to help your business become profitable regardless of its size or focus. Three levels of membership—with increasing benefits at each successive level—mean you can join at a level that aligns with your business strategies. Leverage your membership to help expand your skills, increase your opportunities, close more sales, and support your customers.

Microsoft Optimization Partner Kit

The Microsoft Optimization Partner Kit can help partners better understand Optimization, get educated on the Optimization models and third-party research, and gain detailed insight and training. Additionally, the included to-customer, Optimization sales resources that can help Microsoft partners develop a customer strategy and drive home the value and opportunity of Optimization.

Microsoft Optimization Sales Connection

The Microsoft Optimization Sales Connection (OSC) has been developed to help qualified, optimization trained Microsoft partners connect with the Microsoft sales teams on opportunities resulting from their Optimization discovery process. OSC allows Partners to announce their competencies as seen through the Optimization lens, gain access to Optimization training, catalog and validate their Optimization-related solutions, and facilitates sales engagement with the Microsoft field sales force.

Optimization Assessment Tool - For Partners

Microsoft partners can use this specially branded Optimization Assessment tool to provide customers with an optimization score, peer comparison, and technology investment value analyses. Generate comprehensive reports that can serve as roadmaps and incentives for your customers to optimize their infrastructure and platform—with your help.

Partner Sales Resources Portal

Partner Sales Resources is a special area of the Microsoft Partner Portal that aggregates and exposes sales tools and resources that can help partners position Microsoft solutions more effectively.