Grow your business in the Cloud with Azure

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Step by step with all the resources you need to build your business with Azure

In this toolkit, we invite you to learn about different scenarios to keep growing your business in the Cloud, including strategy, planning, deployment, and management.

We invite you to choose the scenario of your interest for you to keep growing with the Azure Cloud. In the following menu, you can choose your scenario and get all the resources available, or you can directly select the option you wish to delve into.

Before we begin, we invite you to discover the opportunity and learn about the Microsoft Cloud value proposal.  

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Resources for:

Training and Enablement

Marketing

Sales

Value prop

Marketing and resources

Programs and incentives

 

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1. Training and Enablement

Discover the value prop of the Microsoft Cloud

We are currently facing a reality in which companies need to ensure their continuity by maintaining productivity and lowering costs, a scenario in which migrating to the Cloud appears as a great opportunity.

But it is not just about migration; it is also important for you to know that the Azure platform includes more than 200 products and services in the cloud, which are designed to help you materialize new solutions to fix current issues, create the pillars of the future, and allow your business to keep growing in the market.

Our three decades of experience and our commitment of constant innovation have allowed us to transform and help multiple organizations evolve, no matter where they are.

Likewise, it is key that you know that our Windows Server and SQL Server are 5x more cost-effective than the competition, offering free, extended security updates. Furthermore, we are more scalable by adapting to companies' needs, using Pay-As-You-Go, and having a hybrid benefit,

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2. Marketing

Choose one of the five available scenarios that we have developed for you, find out about the opportunity you have in the industry and discover all the go-to-market assets and take the proposal directly to your customers.

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Azure Migration

Several triggers are making customers consider migrating to the cloud during the complex scenario we are currently living in:

  1. Cash flow challenges
  2. Cyber security threats
  3. Low budget/IT resources
  4. Ability to meet an increase in demand
  5. Business continuity
  6. End of datacenter contract

All of the above indicates that it is a good opportunity to help customers migrate to the cloud. Furthermore, Azure provides a comprehensive mix of technology, a best practice guideline, programs, deals and tools to migrate and help customers in this journey. 

Download here the guide with all the resources ready for your business

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Analytics

The opportunity will continue to be the number one priority for CIOs, one with more than 80 billion growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23%.

Since Analytics is currently the number one priority for business leaders that need data analytics and fast visualizations to immediately respond and recover from COVID-19 scenarios, information can be accessed faster, allowing to make data-driven decisions during that uncertain time: 

  • Retail: to adapt to customers' changing needs and stay afloat with online deals.
  • Manufacturing: to consolidate the entire production and demand in the country, and thus provide a better customer service.
  • Finance: to develop prediction models allowing to quickly adapt to changing conditions.
  • Healthcare: to manage the amazing use of the infrastructure and search information about the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Governance: to get and share information with communities associated with COVID-19.
  • All organizations: they must have information about the impact on business continuity caused by the sudden transition to remote work.

Download here the guide with all the resources ready for your business

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Azure Virtual Desktop

Azure Virtual Desktop is a comprehensive desktop and app virtualization service that runs on the cloud. It is the only Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) that offers simplified management, multiple sessions in Windows 10, optimizations for Office 365 ProPlus, and support for Remote Desktop Services (RDS) environments.

  • Provide the only virtual desktop experience with multiple sessions in Windows 10. 
  • Enable optimizations for Office 365 ProPlus.
  • Migrate Windows Server remote desktops and apps to Azure.

Download here the guide with all the resources ready for your business

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Open Source

Linux keeps growing at a fast pace, and over 55% of Azure compute boosts Linux workloads (77% for AWS, which will be 83% in 2023).

In recent years, we have built a significant credibility before our customers in the Linux area, with the distribution of Linux and workload partners. Now we have the opportunity to accelerate our Linux business in FY22, if we focus on the following areas: 

  1. Migrate Red Hat, Canonical and SUSE workloads to Azure.
  2. Co-sell with the main open-source ISVs (Canonical, Red Hat, SUSE, HashiCorp, ESRI, Cloudera, Redis, MySQl, MongoDB, Databricks).
  3. Mention open source in all your conversations with customers.

Download here the guide with all the resources ready for your business

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App Modernization

App modernization will allow you to create robust, highly scalable applications that can make the most of Microsoft Azure cloud services.

  • This end-to-end, large-scale app, data and infrastructure modernization to Azure is intended for on-premise apps and databases.
  • Drive innovation by enabling cloud capabilities on a large scale with Azure platform as a service (PaaS).
  • Eliminate capital spending, reduce operational costs,and pay only for what you use.
  • Improved security to protect business data and resources​.
  • Most importantly, app modernization sets the foundation for a true digital transformation of applications.

All this indicates that it is a good opportunity to help customers migrate to the Cloud. Furthermore, Azure provides a comprehensive mix of technology, a best practice guideline, programs, deals and tools to migrate and help customers in this journey. 

Download here the guide with all the resources ready for your business

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3. Sales

Programs and incentives

Partner Technical Consultant

Find and get in touch with a technical presales specialist in Microsoft Partner Center.

Incentives

Microsoft Partner Investments and Incentives is a program that will allow you to grow and innovate through a mix of financial and non-financial benefits designed to help you expand your solutions and your business.

  • Grow your business: Drive your business growth with a variety of global programs, local deals to support the market's needs and reinvestment opportunities. 
  • Help your customers solve problems: Extend your customers solutions with programs designed to drive digital transformation. 
  • Get rewards for your success: Whether you are driving consumption or adding customers, your efforts are financially supported and rewarded. 

Find all the information you need in our portal of investments and incentives, and leverage the financial and program opportunities focused on supporting you expand your solutions and your business.

Watch the following video to learn how to benefit the most from your Co-op Funds.

Note: To access this information, you will need to be registered in LatamPartnerOne.

 

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