I’m really proud to have passed an exam towards my The Cloud Accelerate program as you can see from my certificate on the left. I have started with the Microsoft Cloud Essentials Pack and I’m now moving up towards cloud accelerate!
One of the reasons I like the Essentials Pack is the benefits it provides in terms of software, marketing and simple business tools and there is no fee or sales requirement in the first year!
From the web site above, the benefits are:
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Software Benefits
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Microsoft Technology
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License Grant
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Microsoft Office 365
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250 licenses
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Windows Intune
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Subscription for 25 PCs
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online
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250 licenses
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Windows Azure platform
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750 hours of extra-small-compute instance, 25 hours of small-compute instance, 20 gigabytes of storage, and 250,000 storage transactions
- Microsoft SQL Azure Web Edition database: 1 gigabyte
- Windows Azure AppFabric: 100,000 access control transactions and 2 service bus connections
- Data transfer: 25 gigabytes in and 25 gigabytes out
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Marketing Benefits
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Listing as Cloud Essentials partner on the Microsoft Pinpoint online marketplace
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Marketing resources
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Business Benefits
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Online sales and financial modelling tools
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- Demo Showcase
- Profitability Modeller
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Presales and technical support
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- Online Technical Communities for cloud services
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Requirements
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For Partners Who Sell and Service
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For Partners Who Build and Develop
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- Enrol in the Microsoft Partner Network.
- Sign the Microsoft Online Services Partner Agreement (MOSPA) and complete introductory training and an assessment.
- To continue receiving these benefits in your second year of enrolment, you must meet a modest sales requirement of 50 seats per product during your first year of enrolment.
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- Enrol in the Microsoft Partner Network.
- Sign up on Microsoft Platform Ready and register your application.
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Annual Fee
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There is no fee for this program.
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Thanks
David
Posted
Thu, Nov 24 2011 4:31 PM
by
David Overton