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Be Recognized at Microsoft Inspire – Win a 2018 IAMCP P2P Award
Dear IAMCP colleagues,
Do you have an innovative partnership (P2P) and customer story?
Get recognized at Inspire 2018 by your peers and by Microsoft.
It’s never been easier to share your success. We’ve made the entry SUPER SIMPLE.
Click here to tell your story now. Deadline is May, 29th.
Together, IAMCP partners are accomplishing amazing things! Tell us about the value you’ve delivered, how your customers have benefited, and how your company has grown because of partnering.
We want to celebrate YOU in Las Vegas!
Gail Mercer-MacKay
IAMCP Awards Chair
P2P Prometheus Award 2018 starts
Dear IAMCP members,
Each year the IAMCP provides an opportunity for Partners to recognize the Microsoft staff that work with them through the IAMCP Prometheus Awards. This is an important way to acknowledge and celebrate the people that make a real impact on Partner businesses. The awards recognize those who have provided an outstanding level of service to the Partner and will have shown exceptional commitment in supporting the Partners that they work with.
The IAMCP Prometheus Awards are presented annually to provide high-profile recognition of the top 5 representative regions. One award will be given in each of these 5 geographical areas.
Participating Regions 2018:
1. LATAM
2. CANADA
3. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
4. EMEA
5. INDIA
Prometheus Award winners will be recognized in Las Vegas during Microsoft Inspire and potentially locally at Partner Summits.
Please submit your nomination using this form: https://tinyurl.com/yc7npgxg
The nomination period will close on 11th May, 2018
IAMCP have created a process that establishes specific rules for nomination, voting and execution of the IAMCP Prometheus Awards. These awards will be granted by the IAMCP to Microsoft employees worthy of such merit.
Any member of the IAMCP can propose candidates for the awards:
- The nomination may not be conditional on obtaining specific benefits, either for the company or person nominating the candidate. No monetary or other incentive is to be made to the person nominating a candidate.
- All candidates must be serving as a Microsoft Full time employee.
JUDGING CRITERIA
A Winning “Prometheus” candidate will demonstrate the following:
BUSINESS & PARTNER MANAGEMENT
· Manages the appropriate number of skilled partners for the local market
· Participates in a sufficient number/quality of partner planning discussions in any one year
· Balances Microsoft requests for information from partners with commensurate value in return
· Organizes and facilitates executive meetings between partners and Microsoft
· Understands Partners’ business needs and priorities
· Clearly communicates the gives/gets of the Microsoft/Partner relationship
· Advocates for Partners within Microsoft / Acts as a positive Representative of the Microsoft ecosystem / Remains professional under difficult circumstances
PARTNER READINESS
· Proactively shares information and facilitates early access to reliable information
· Fosters partners learning opportunities such as training/certification
PARTNER TO CUSTOMER
· Gives partner visibility to customers through broad customer awareness and/or 1:1 connections
· Helps partners grow their revenue or become more efficient
· Funds the appropriate number and type of partner activities
· Assists in closing sales opportunities with partners / Accompany partner visits with customers
· Removes barriers to partner sale
TIMELINE
April 16th: Nomination period is open
May 07th: Final call for nominations
May 11th: Nominations close
May 14th – 18th: Judging period
June 1st: Award-winners notified. Also notification of winner to MS local, regional and WW
June 1th: Runners up notified by IAMCP in conjunction with Microsoft
July 17th, 2018: Awards event at Microsoft Inspire
Please contact info@iamcp.org with any questions about the IAMCP Prometheus Awards 2018.
Best Regards
IAMCP International Prometheus Awards 2018 Committee.
Microsoft Inspire Speaker Nomination Form is now open
Dear IAMCP Colleagues,
The Microsoft Inspire Speaker Nomination Form is now open. This online form will allow Partners and Microsoft Subject Matter Experts to submit a session and speaker nomination for consideration at Microsoft Inspire.
The tool will close on Friday, April 13, 2018.
Below are the next steps/deadlines related to the Community Hub speaking opportunity:
Friday, March 16
Speaker Nomination Tool open – Nominate yourself or someone you know to speak!
Friday, April 13
Speaker Nomination Tool closes
Monday, April 16
Microsoft Inspire team will review submissions
Friday, April 20
Microsoft will communicate decision to submission owners
Detailed informational will be requested from content owners
For those selected, Microsoft may request revisions
Friday, April 27
Submission owners return revisions to Chelsea Hewitt
Thursday, May 3
Submission owners will provide final revisions
Monday, May 14
Sessions will be available to book in the session catalog
The Community Hub has 9 proposed topics for both the theater content and hot topic lounges for 2018:
- Artificial Intelligence
Diversity + Inclusion
Big Data
Internet of Things (IoT)
Security (including GDPR)
Partnering with Microsoft
Partner-to-Partner (P2P)
Skilling or Training
Marketing/Social selling
If you have questions related to the tool, please email msinspirespkr@microsoft.com with questions. Any questions related to Community Hub, please contact Chelsea Hewitt at v-chhewi@microsoft.com
Best Regards,
Debra Pfundstein
IAMCP International Inspire Chair
IAMCP P2P contest winner project
Project Management Software Market Worth $6bln by 2025
Microsoft is one of the leaders along with Trello, Citrix, Wrike and others.
Microsoft Project goes Agile
Microsoft(r) presented new features – Scrum Sprints and Kanban board in the Microsoft Project. The features are available in Microsoft Project Online Desktop client. There are no current plans to add them to a standard Microsoft Project(r).
Proof links: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/projectsupport/2017/10/30/project-goes-agile/ , https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/projectsupport/2017/10/30/project-goes-agile/
The new features are integrated with usual Project functionality, which make them valuable for virtual teams, large-scaled projects, and start-up teams and developers.
How to engage with Microsoft
The IAMCP EMEA starts the “Refresh the Road Ahead” – Partner Interview to publish the book on how to engage with Microsoft.
The experienced Microsoft partners are interviewed and their opinion would be consolidated in the book.
Follow our updates. If you are invited for an interview, please invest 20-30 min. of your time to answer the questionnaire.
Dynamix NAV Special Interest group in the IAMCP EMEA
Great news come from the IAMCP EMEA – special interest groups are launching now, and the Dynamix NAV group is the first one.
Mr.Klaus Fander leads the group to establish strong partner channel and advocate partner community at MSFT Dynamix team. If your business is related to Dynamix join the group. Just send an e-mail to Mr. Fander: kfa<at>acadon.de
Congratulations to the Partner P2P projects winners
PE Dintsis together with Specialist CCT and IT4You are Delighted to be Selected as a EMEA GOLD winner in the IAMCP 2017 Global Partner-to-Partner Awards Program
Awards were presented at Microsoft Inspire in Washington, DC in the Commons Community Hub Theatre.
PE Dintsis together with Specialist CCT and IT4You is thrilled to have been recognized by the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners (IAMCP) as a top partner in the IAMCP global community for achieving excellence in partner-to-partner (P2P) solutions that drive customer value.
“Partners like PE Dintsis, Specialist CCT and IT4You continue to drive innovation by taking advantage of our member eco-system,” said award committee chairperson and former IAMCP President, Gail Mercer-MacKay. “We are thrilled that the “Petralex for Education” project has achieved this recognition. They are an ideal example of how, by working together, we can achieve more than any of us could achieve individually.”
The competition was fierce as partners from around the world entered a wide variety of leading-edge projects that are helping customers compete and get ahead through implementation of exceptional joint partner solutions. Entries submitted include cloud computing, marketing innovation, collaboration and messaging, data analytics and business intelligence offerings. Regions represented include APAC, EMEA, US, LATAM and Canada. Through partnering, IAMCP members are shaping how businesses go to market around the world.
«PE Dintsis united the efforts of the Specialist CCT as the leading training center and IT4You, ISV, in a partner project which involves hard-of-hearing students into lifelong learning process.
According to WHO estimate, about 10% of people suffers with hearing losses. Lifelong regular professional learning is a vital necessity for IT Pros. Implementing Petralex App/driver provided an opportunity for them to improve their professional skills.”
Dr. Danil Dintsis, PE Dintsis
“the Specialist CCT is the leading computer training center in the CEE region with Microsoft Gold Learning Partner competence. For many years the Specialist CCT develops and offers many virtual and blended learning formats, and thus increased number of Microsoft and other courses students 25% during last 5 years. Both traditional class-based and virtual learning is often difficult for people with different hearing impairs. In Russia IT Pros income mean growth after professional training is about 7-10%. By Implementing the Petralex products the Specialist CCT reached additional growth both in customers number, and salary. But the most important we show our social responsibility.”
Dmitry Gudzenko, Specialist CCT CEO, Ph.D.
“Working with the mature organization as Specialist, we learned much in business processes, and customer care. Partnership with the leading training center provides The IT4You.pro the unique opportunity to offer its products for wide audience. Student’s feedbacks were very valuable for us to improve products and customer support”
Alex Bredikhin, IT4You founder and CEO.
All winners and finalists will be invited to publish their winning entries in the IAMCP 2017 P2P eBook.
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