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Welcome to the new SA Packaged Services
Partner Update where you can read about the latest developments and opportunities
around deployment planning benefits. As always, all of
the latest deployment and adoption Partner resources can be
found at
microsoftdps.com. |
What is Business Value Planning Services (BVPS)?
The Business Value Planning Service (BVPS) is designed to
help customer Business Decision Makers (BDMs) develop a plan
to leverage the strategic value of the Office platform by
improving an impactful business process. Partners work with
organizations to document, analyze, optimize, justify,
sequence, and propose a plan to improve their results. The
BVPS Program provides certified partners with a reliable,
repeatable process to conduct and be compensated for 3, 5,
10 or 15-day engagements according to the level of their
customers' Software Assurance benefits.
Qualified BVPS providers coordinate with their customers to
share best practices, analyze customer organizational
environments, and provide tools and services that help get
the most out of their investment in Office System. Microsoft
partners who deliver BVPS engagements enjoy a number of key
benefits such as: |
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Microsoft pays Partners to deliver BVPS
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BVPS opens doors across a customer's
organization beyond the IT Department, elevating you
to a trusted advisor within the customer account
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BVPS is an effective way to identify and sell
lucrative, longer-term service engagements |
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BVPS gives you the tools, training, and support
to make the engagements very repeatable, lowering
the cost of sales and delivery |
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BVPS serves as an effective marketing tool for
you, by highlighting you status as an BVPS certified
partner and helping to drive net new engagements
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For more information about the BVPS program or to pre-launch
register to deliver BVPS engagements please visit the
BVPS
Program Welcome Page. |
MS Learning 70-635 TS:
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008, Desktop Deployment
will be the new TS exam based on the Microsoft Deployment
Toolkit 2008 (MDT 2008). The new DDPS certification exam for
consultants will launch in early November 2008. The
materials covered in the exam require individuals to
understand how to who create and maintain deployment
infrastructures and images for Windows Vista, Windows
Server 2008, and Office 2007. Details for the exam will
soon be available at
www.microsoft.com/learning .
This exam will become the primary certification exam for all
future DDPS certified consultants. As with previous DDPS
exams, prior certifications will be honored while Microsoft
continues to support previous Windows and Office versions. |
Exchange Deployment Planning Services (EDPS) Is Coming -
Register Now!
Exchange Deployment Planning Services is launching November
2008 ‒
Register for EDPS now to learn more about the program
and to start immediately when the program launches.
EDPS Overview
EDPS offers pre-defined service packages (in 3, 5, 10, or 15
day planning sessions) that approved partners can deliver to
customers as part of the customers' existing Software
Assurance benefits. Approved partners will receive
compensation from Microsoft for delivering EDPS services and
partners can also use this opportunity to demonstrate their
work at a competitive rate to help establish new or deepen
existing relationships.
Partner Program Requirements
Partner eligibility requires a Microsoft Partner Program
membership and the Messaging Specialization under the
Unified Communications Competency.
Learn more & register:
partneredps.com |
NEW! In Action Series Delivered by MCS to Coach Technical
Delivery of SDPS Engagements
Look for the first installment of the SDPS In Action Series
delivered by MCS experts providing coaching on the technical
delivery of SDPS engagements. There will be 5 sessions in
total focusing on how to successfully deliver an SDPS
engagement. The first two are available at SDPS in Action
Series now.
About SDPS
On May 19th we launched SDPS (SharePoint Deployment Planning
Services), a new packaged service offering designed to help
customers successfully plan their Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server deployment. SDPS includes a broad range of
planning tools and services that help optimize the
effectiveness of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server's core
capabilities, lower the cost of deployment, and improve
organizational productivity. Service areas include
collaboration, portals, enterprise search, web and portal
content management. We provide a reliable, repeatable
process for certified SDPS partners to conduct, and be
compensated for 1, 3, 5, 10 or 15-day engagements according
to the level of their customers' Software Assurance
benefits.
Join the SDPS partner community! SDPS will: |
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open the door to a strategic discussion with
your customer elevating you to a trusted advisor
within the customer account |
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give you the tools, training, and support to
make this process very repeatable, lowering the cost
of sales and delivery |
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serve as an effective marketing tool for you, by
highlighting your status as an SDPS certified
partner and helping to drive "net new" engagements |
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provide you with a revenue stream because
Microsoft pays Partners to deliver SDPS worldwide |
For more information, go to
partnersdps.com We are
actively looking for your feedback and ways to continually
improve the customer and partner experience for this
program. You can reach the SDPS team directly by e-mailing
our alias at
sdps@microsoft.com. |
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