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Sneak Peek at Microsoft Office 2010
Give your customers a sneak peek at the upcoming release of Microsoft Office 2010 with all the event content you'll need to create demand and execute an exciting preview event. Register your event now to receive a free "Launch-in-a-Box" kit!
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GROW Your Business with Microsoft Webcasts - NEW
Use this campaign to reach your customers and prospects with LIVE monthly webinars at no cost, with content developed and presented by Microsoft technical personnel across the BPIO, Core IO and APO models. We've made it simple for you to set up your own GROW event registration site using Ready-to-Go Marketing Events, invite customers and prospects, capture attendee information and follow up to further the sales process.
Microsoft Web Platform - NEW
The Microsoft Web Platform offers a complete ecosystem for building and hosting Web sites, services, and applications. It gives you the power of choice in tools and technologies to flexibly build, manage, and scale Web applications that attract and engage your customers while saving you time and money. Microsoft has created the Web Offer campaign to reach small business customers looking for help updating their website. By signing your company up for this campaign, you can offer your customers free web site consultation, free Digital Marketing Start-up Kit, and up to $100 in advertising credits.
Reduce Your IT Costs Ready-to-Go Campaign
Use the sales and marketing resources in this campaign to help you spark a cost-saving conversation with your customers. Once your customers are ready to have a deeper conversation about specific Microsoft solutions, please visit the following campaigns, designed with additional resources to help you close your sale:
- Optimized Desktop Ready-to-Go Campaign
Capitalize on the release of Windows® 7, and use this opportunity to talk with your customers about optimizing the desktop with Windows 7. This campaign provides you with materials to show your customers how the Windows Optimized Desktop can help them transform their desktop infrastructure from a cost center to a business enabler, giving them the ability to make people productive anywhere, manage risk by enhancing security and reduce costs by streamlining PC management.
- Optimized Datacenter Ready-to-Go Campaign
This campaign provides you with materials to show your customers how solutions based on Windows Server® 2008 R2 can take their infrastructure from a cost center to a strategic asset, and enable them to drive more business opportunities. Microsoft datacenter solutions integrate with existing infrastructure, simplify the task of managing and delivering IT services and are supported by a wealth of tools, guidance and training so your customers can improve operational efficiency and more quickly enable new business scenarios.
Business Servers
With the Business Servers campaign and the Windows Server® family of products you can help your small and midmarket customers save money and be more competitive by saving time, getting organized, and reducing IT costs and risks.
Virtualization and Management
In today's challenging economic climate, small and mid-sized businesses struggle to reduce cost and optimize the agility and utilization of their IT infrastructure while preventing downtime and minimizing IT complexity. Help your customers reduce the cost and complexity of IT by deploying high-value and easy-to-manage server Virtualization and Management technologies.
Business Intelligence
Choose from two Microsoft® Business Intelligence Ready-to-Go Marketing Campaigns designed to provide easy-to-use intelligence directly where individuals work, collaborate, and make decisions. Clearly demonstrate to your customers how leveraging familiar business intelligence solutions can help provide them insights to make better-informed decisions that drive better business performance.
GROW Your Business with Microsoft Webcasts - NEW
Use this campaign to reach your customers and prospects with LIVE monthly webinars at no cost, with content developed and presented by Microsoft technical personnel across the BPIO, Core IO and APO models. We've made it simple for you to set up your own GROW event registration site using Ready-to-Go Marketing Events, invite customers and prospects, capture attendee information and follow up to further the sales process.
Sneak Peek at Microsoft Office 2010 - NEW
Give your customers a sneak peek at the upcoming release of Microsoft Office 2010 with all the event content you'll need to create demand and execute an exciting preview event. Register your event now to receive a free "Launch-in-a-Box" kit!
SharePoint 2010: The Business Collaboration Platform. - NEW
SharePoint continues to be the fastest growing product in Microsoft history, and has become a standard piece of infrastructure for many of your customers. With the 2010 version of SharePoint approaching availability in mid-2010, this Ready-to-Go Marketing campaign will give you the resources to build early demand for this exciting new release. Go to market with Microsoft by leveraging the campaign theme that we will use in our to-customer marketing. Get started today!
Unified Communications - Updated!
Microsoft Unified Communications technologies use the power of software to help streamline communications and collaboration between people, whether they are down the hall, across continents, or constantly on the go. These technologies can help your customers cut costs and increase efficiencies by transforming the way they communicate and collaborate while maximizing their existing communications infrastructure.
Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite – Updated!
In this economic climate, businesses are keeping a close eye on costs and capital expenses, but they also want to keep pace with expanding technologies. The Microsoft® Business Productivity Online Suite is designed to meet their needs. The Business Productivity Online Suite is a set of messaging and collaboration solutions hosted by Microsoft. It consists of Microsoft SharePoint® Online, Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, and Microsoft Office Communications Online. Become your customer's trusted advisor for online services today, and start building new recurring revenue streams for tomorrow.
Exchange Server 2010
Exchange continues to enable partners a wide range of service revenue opportunities such as platform upgrades, compliance & archiving, mobility solutions, protection & security, voicemail migrations, and cloud services. The innovative features in Exchange Server 2010 can also help you to expand relationships with your existing customers and drive new business. This 2010 campaign provides effective marketing resources to support your BDM or TDM marketing efforts!
Upgrade the Desktop – Updated with Windows 7
Capitalize on the upcoming release of Windows® 7, and use this opportunity to talk with your customers about upgrading their desktops to Windows 7 and the 2007 Microsoft® Office system. Includes two special promotional offers for customers to save 15-20% on both products!
Office 2007: No Better Time
Purchasing or upgrading to Microsoft Office 2007 now can help your customers make their businesses smarter, leaner, and safer - strengthening them now and preparing them for future growth.
Partner-Hosted Microsoft Communication Services
Microsoft® Exchange and SharePoint® are now available as hosted business services from multiple Microsoft partners. This Ready-to-Go campaign provides the materials you need to market those business services to your small and mid-size customers, branded as Microsoft Communication Services. Start building your marketing campaign today and establish new recurring revenue streams for tomorrow!
Small Business Solutions
Help Small Business customers spend less time on technology and more time attracting and retaining customers with this integrated campaign highlighting Office Small Business 2007.
Manufacturing CRM RTG
Communicate your specialized abilities to deliver Microsoft Dynamics CRM business management solutions to manufacturers in the pharmaceutical market. Success in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry requires flexibility to respond to the ever-changing needs of customers and maximize physician relationships. Meeting these demands requires the ability to make quick decisions based on accurate customer information.
Professional Services CRM RTG
Professional services firms are challenged with selling an intangible product that is ever-changing and difficult to quantify. Customer satisfaction is paramount to profitability. To succeed, companies must streamline operations and communications while improving the quality of customer interactions — and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions can help, empowering your customers to share information, work together, and make quick and effective decisions.
Financial Services CRM RTG
In today's market, banks, insurance companies, and securities firms must attract and retain more profitable and long-term clients through widely adopted, easy-to-use tools that provide a consolidated view of client data. With the right CRM solution, financial services firms will more effectively develop profitable customer relationships through greater customer intimacy and more effective identification of cross-sell and up-sell opportunities. This campaign specifically targets the following verticals from a CRM perspective: Financial Services and Banking.
Construction ERP RTG
Successful construction contractors have a reputation for delivering projects on time and on budget. Contractors who invest in the right financial and operational software, including enterprise resource planning (ERP) business solutions, execute projects more efficiently, deliver higher quality results to their customers, and increase their business profitability. Help your customers reduce costs while improving interactions with supplies, manage projects more effectively, and streamline internal communications.
Distribution ERP RTG
In today's economy, distributors are facing increased competition, higher customer service expectations, and soaring pressures to improve efficiencies and battle for margin. To cope with these challenges, your customers need solutions specific to the distribution industry. This campaign specifically targets the following vertical markets from an enterprise resource planning (ERP) perspective: Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Food and Beverage, and Industrial Distribution.
Manufacturing ERP RTG
In most industries, supply-chain transparency is essential to success. Manufacturers need to be tightly integrated with their suppliers and to provide critical product, price, availability, and shipment information to their customers. Responding to changing demands rapidly requires visibility across the entire supply chain and accurate information about the supplier's capacity. The following vertical markets are targeted in this campaign, specifically from an enterprise resource planning (ERP) perspective: Automotive Supppliers Manufacturing (ASM), Chemical Manufacturing, Distributed Manufacturing Tier-One Hub, Distributed Manufacturing Tier-Two Spoke, Food and Beverage Manufacturing, and Industrial Equipment Manufacturing.
Professional Services ERP RTG
Professional services firms are challenged with selling an intangible product that is ever-changing and difficult to quantify. Profitability requires that projects are estimated correctly and completed on time, while meeting or exceeding customer requirements. To succeed, companies must adopt strategic and comprehensive financial, project, and resource management practices — in short, companies need enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions. This can be accomplished with an IT infrastructure that allows your customers to share data, work together, and make quick and effective decisions.
Retail ERP RTG
Retail is all about detail and complexity. Retailers have to reduce their inventory investment while improving in-stock positions, increase customer service while reducing labor costs, and decrease operation costs while expanding to multiple channels. In addition to these demands, retailers must consolidate acquisitions, fight off encroaching competition, and operate within challenging economic cycles — thus it is clear that retail requires advanced enterprise resource planning (ERP) business solutions. Let prospective customers know that you offer integrated solutions to help optimize inventory management and merchandising decisions, improve customer service, and support multichannel operations.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
The release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online offers customers innovative ways to access this powerful customer relationship management solution without ever leaving Microsoft® Office Outlook®. And it provides partners like you the opportunity to empower your customers with unprecedented choice in how to buy, run, deploy, and use Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
Microsoft Dynamics GP
Help small and mid-sized customers – including current QuickBooks users – respond more rapidly to the changing demands of their business with Microsoft Dynamics GP. This robust solution provides improved order management, inventory, sales orders, and more, using tools and technology customers already know and use.
Existing Customer Partner Solution Sales Kits
Leverage the Microsoft Dynamics Ready to Go campaign to drive more revenue from you existing customer base, while helping your customers are take full advantage of all the Microsoft Dynamics features and capabilities they need. When customers understand how Microsoft Dynamics solutions can help their organizations save time and money, you can motivate them to invest more in their solution now – and in the future. Choose from these vertical campaigns:
Upgrade the Desktop – Updated with Windows 7
Capitalize on the upcoming release of Windows® 7, and use this opportunity to talk with your customers about upgrading their desktops to Windows 7 and the 2007 Microsoft® Office system. Includes two special promotional offers for customers to save 15-20% on both products!
SharePoint 2010: The Business Collaboration Platform. - NEW
SharePoint continues to be the fastest growing product in Microsoft history, and has become a standard piece of infrastructure for many of your customers. With the 2010 version of SharePoint approaching availability in mid-2010, this Ready-to-Go Marketing campaign will give you the resources to build early demand for this exciting new release. Go to market with Microsoft by leveraging the campaign theme that we will use in our to-customer marketing. Get started today!
Exchange Server 2010
Exchange continues to enable partners a wide range of service revenue opportunities such as platform upgrades, compliance & archiving, mobility solutions, protection & security, voicemail migrations, and cloud services. The innovative features in Exchange 2010 can also help you to expand relationships with your existing customers and drive new business. This 2010 campaign provides effective marketing resources to support your BDM or TDM marketing efforts!
Reduce Your IT Costs Ready-to-Go Campaign
Use the sales and marketing resources in this campaign to help you spark a cost-saving conversation with your customers. Once your customers are ready to have a deeper conversation about specific Microsoft solutions, please visit the following campaigns, designed with additional resources to help you close your sale:
- Optimized Desktop Ready-to-Go Campaign
Capitalize on the release of Windows® 7, and use this opportunity to talk with your customers about optimizing the desktop with Windows 7. This campaign provides you with materials to show your customers how the Windows Optimized Desktop can help them transform their desktop infrastructure from a cost center to a business enabler, giving them the ability to make people productive anywhere, manage risk by enhancing security and reduce costs by streamlining PC management.
- Optimized Datacenter Ready-to-Go Campaign
This campaign provides you with materials to show your customers how solutions based on Windows Server® 2008 R2 can take their infrastructure from a cost center to a strategic asset, and enable them to drive more business opportunities. Microsoft datacenter solutions integrate with existing infrastructure, simplify the task of managing and delivering IT services and are supported by a wealth of tools, guidance and training so your customers can improve operational efficiency and more quickly enable new business scenarios.
Business Servers
With the Business Servers campaign and the Windows Server® family of products you can help your small and midmarket customers save money and be more competitive by saving time, getting organized, and reducing IT costs and risks.
Virtualization and Management
In today's challenging economic climate, small and mid-sized businesses struggle to reduce cost and optimize the agility and utilization of their IT infrastructure while preventing downtime and minimizing IT complexity. Help your customers reduce the cost and complexity of IT by deploying high-value and easy-to-manage server Virtualization and Management technologies.
Government and Education specific campaigns:
Physician Practice Productivity - NEW
Facing new government regulations and growing demands from patients, physician practices are taking a fresh look at how they conduct business. As a result, an increasing number of physician practices are investigating technology to support elimination of paper-based workflows, maximize productivity, enable collaboration, and increase compliance with performance mandates and government regulations while simplifying business processes. Your expertise combined with Microsoft practice solutions will help your physician practice customers drive efficiencies and provide greater visibility into their practice operations in a security enhanced, collaborative environment.
Dynamic Education IT
Successfully managing multiple sites and an array of faculty, staff, and student needs is becoming increasingly difficult as budget decreases and equipment and facilities age. Your expertise will help your K12 and Higher Education IT customers understand the benefits of desktop virtualization. By using virtualization, your customers can reduce upfront costs, operating costs, and free up critical resources, not to mention reduce their energy consumption. With desktop management, you can help automate the execution of upgrades, deployments, and maintenance of their infrastructure technology across desktops and servers. The Dynamic Education IT Ready-to-Go Campaign will help you show your customers how to improve infrastructure security, reduce IT costs, improve internal service levels, and increase their institutional agility.
Connected Learning Communities - Updated
The Connected Learning Communities campaign helps partners sell new software, services, and hosting opportunities to fulfill the evolving communications and collaboration needs and technologies of today's educational market - blog, wiki, e-mail, text, IM, VOIP, video conference, website and phone. It also helps build and deepen relationships with K-12 and Higher Education customers and with Microsoft for the following solutions: Unified Communications, Live@edu, eLearning and Web Portals.
Citizen Service Platform
Business Intelligence
Despite the current economic climate, the growth prospects for Business Intelligence in the public sector are expected to rise, driven by a strong interest in performance measurement and the need for integrated information to gain insight, increase efficiencies and control costs. Show customers that you can offer an end-to-end, integrated BI solution to support scorecarding, reporting, analysis, and visualization that enables them to improve performance with organizational insight.
Access "Business Intelligence for Government"
Access "Business Intelligence for Education"
The Microsoft Citizen Service Platform is a solution set that helps local governments solve their unique business challenges. Component-based and rapidly configurable, Microsoft Citizen Service Platform can support common technology and process foundations across agencies - helping local governments to deliver high quality, and highly efficient, service to citizens and businesses, everywhere.
Economic Stimulus
The Economic Stimulus campaign is intended to help Partners better understand the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and the opportunities it presents to promote Microsoft Ready Solutions (e.g., BI, Education Analytics, UC, HPC, Virtualization, Identity Mgmt.) and capitalize on the funding being cascaded. Microsoft has identified five key areas - Education, Energy, Healthcare, Transparency, Transportation - that present the greatest opportunity to align Microsoft Ready Solutions with the funding buckets.
Also, look for the 'Government' and 'Education' materials in the following campaigns:
Upgrade the Desktop – Updated with Windows 7
Capitalize on the upcoming release of Windows® 7, and use this opportunity to talk with your customers about upgrading their desktops to Windows 7 and the 2007 Microsoft® Office system. Includes two special promotional offers for customers to save 15-20% on both products!
Office Productivity Boost
Many of the government and education customers you serve still have not upgraded to Microsoft® Office 2007. Use this campaign to show them why it's time to upgrade ASAP - to streamline everyday processes to improve efficiency and collaboration, protect confidential information and improve organizational insight. You can help your government customers focus more on meeting constituent needs and education customers focus more on educating, and less on their organization processes.
Access "Office Productivity Boost for Government"
Access "Office Productivity Boost for Education"
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