Co-sell with Microsoft

With the Collaborative Apps Workshop, you can help customers learn how to maximize the value of Microsoft Teams by integrating apps and workflows tailored to their business needs. The Collaborative Apps offer development kit provides step-by-step guidance to help you develop and publish your consulting offer to Microsoft Commercial Marketplace/AppSource.   In addition, the offer development kit provides a comprehensive offer template that enables you to promote your collaborative apps services to customers more effectively. We recommend that your first offer highlight your ability to deliver the Collaborative Apps Workshop to help Microsoft sellers get to know your services and solutions to drive more referrals. To get started:   Design your offer Complete the offer template Publish your offer to AppSource to drive more referrals   Next steps Check out the Collaborative Apps offer development kit to learn how to create and publish your co-sell ready offer. Get offer templates and examples to help you get started.   ... View more

Hello everyone welcome to the Co-Sell Ready partner community.  The Co-Sell program is only about 18 months old and is on its own digital transformation journey.  We are constantly working to streamline our tools and processes to make it easier for you, our partners to work with us, while making sure we have seller confidence and trust in our Co-Sell ready solutions.  With that being said we wanted to create a community where you our valuable Co-Sell ready partners can ask questions related to the program, share best practices and success stories with each other AND where we as a programs team can share key updates and information with you in real time. Thank you for your continued partnership with us we value your support and collaboration. ... View more

Authored by: Guru Prasad CP, M Rajasekhar Reddy and Arunava Basu – Tech Mahindra   Most enterprises have significant investments in their existing application portfolio, from both a financial and operational standpoint. While the term “legacy” sometimes has a negative connotation in the enterprise software library, these legacy systems are often most mission-critical applications from business perspective. A related modernization trend is the IT industry embracing containers and orchestration as a means for packaging, deploying, and managing applications and workloads on cloud. While we can containerize a legacy app, containers are viewed as an optimal fit for a more decoupled approach to development and operations—namely, microservices based architecture.   Introduction Today’s businesses are faced with a singular reality: innovation is the requirement for mere survival. Yet many enterprises are crippled by legacy and technical debt. This paper is written for the leaders tasked with bridging the gap. Cloud’s approach to modernizing infrastructure, process, and architecture (IPA) equips senior IT decision-makers with a realistic, achievable path to application modernization. In this paper, you’ll learn how to tackle seemingly insurmountable challenges one step at a time and see real-world examples from enterprises that have already succeeded. The goal of traditional application modernization is to optimize both the velocity and the efficiency of an application’s release cycle. By introducing new technologies and embracing new processes, businesses can deliver value more quickly. Innovation velocity is the speed at which a team can introduce something new and of value to its customer at a reasonable cost and is often tied to technology strategies and choices. Process efficiency is the ability for a team to improve how it brings innovation to market with the least amount of friction and is often related to process methodologies such as information technology infrastructure library (ITIL), Waterfall, DevOps, or Agile. The client is one of the global leaders in the logistics industry. With more than 300,000 people in over 200 countries, it has delivered more than a billion parcels worldwide. This organization needed to transform some of their legacy enterprise application into microservice based application and deploy those applications to cloud.   Industry Landscape Application modernization is a strategic decision factoring in organizational needs, priorities, and budgets. The considerations include modernizing the application experience, method of accessing, and creating new workflows around the application through integration and automation. Traditional applications limit an enterprise’s ability to move quickly in two ways. First, the monolithic architecture of a traditional application is inherently inflexible, creating exponential inefficiencies when building and running applications. Second, traditional applications constrain development for new, cloud-native applications that depend on them. Application components in monolithic architecture are tightly coupled; changes to any individual component requires changes to other components.   Our Solution Establish right cloud strategy as per the business needs Evaluate impact of issues related to security, governance, risk & compliance Define a cloud-based application modernization strategy Implement the project Provide managed operation services: 24/7 operation & monitoring of the platform by our support engineers Providing L1, L2 and L3 supports Escalation to Microsoft support team Managed blue/green deployment process Updating and maintaining the workload templates Learn more about the implementation approach here   Simplified Modern Architecture This app modernization solution has been designed and built considering Microsoft best practices guidelines and with Microsoft Azure Well-Architected framework standards. This solution includes autoscaling functionality applied both on cluster and pod level. These applications are hosted in AKS cluster in Azure East US region that spread across 3 availability zones to provide high availability.     Customer Benefits These services help the businesses to: Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) Better agility, scalability and portability Improved security with Azure’s distributed denial-of-services and threat protection Better performance from highly available application. Less downtime Faster time to market from weeks to days Reduction in IT admin cost due to the self-service module implementation to provision the resources Improved productivity due to less operational activities and more focus on the app deployments rather than managing the cluster   Conclusion Nowadays, everyone wants to transform their monolithic legacy application to a microservice based application so that their applications can become an agile and scalable product. To respond to the rapid changes in today’s world, application must be quick to deploy, always available and easy to maintain. These microservice based application reduce the application downtime since all the microservices are like individual apps which are loosely coupled to each other. So, maintaining, deploying, scaling, upgrading or even deleting these microservices are very easy to achieve. In this paper, we learnt about how Microsoft Azure can help customers to modernize their monolithic on-premises application and provide a highly scalable platform to deploy those applications. Azure provides better agility and scalability for deploying your application with its improved security and compliance certifications.   You can download the full whitepaper authored by Guru Prasad CP, Arunava Basu, M Rajashekhar Reddy from Tech Mahindra on this LINK   @guruprasad_cp , @arubasu @amitkhanna @nitinsantosh  ... View more

As a Microsoft partner with a gold competency, you have access to go-to-market benefits to help bring your solutions to market and create leads.      You can start by working one-on-one with an expert to create a plan that fits your business needs. And this personalized marketing plan is just the beginning.     You also have exclusive access to professionally designed, customizable materials; editorial reviews; a photo library; and more.  This enables you to amplify the trust in and the reliability of your brand through co-branding with Microsoft.  You'll find all this in the  Partner Go-To-Market Toolbox .   ... View more

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