Winning a Microsoft Partner Award can help attract new customer prospects, add credibility to existing sales efforts, trigger new partnerships within the Microsoft ecosystem, and accelerate Microsoft Co-Sell collaboration.
The Microsoft Partner of the Year award submission tool is now available. The deadline for all entries is April 11, 2019.
The process of submitting nominations is similar as past years (providing an essay that addresses a series of questions). As usual, award categories have seen some additions and eliminations. New awards categories include:
Business Applications
Dynamics 365 for Marketing
PowerApps
Industry
Financial Services
Retail
Automotive
Intelligent Cloud
Mixed Reality
Other
Alliance Global ISV
Diversity and Inclusion
Award categories eliminated this year include:
Business Applications Platform
Open Source Data & AI
Partner Seller Excellence
Last year a couple awards were not eligible for partner nomination, but Microsoft still recognized a winner. It is good to see the Global ISV award back up for open nomination.
Co-Sell Ready ISVs are specifically eligible for all of the award categories except the following:
Intelligent Cloud: Application Innovation, Azure Influencer, OSS on Azure
Modern Workplace: Intelligent Communications, Modern Desktop, Project and Portfolio Management, Security and Compliance
Nominations are due April 11, award winners are notified in early June, and Microsoft recognizes the winning partners at the annual Inspire partner conference.
Over 2,600 nominations were received from 115 countries last year, so competition is stiff. Competegy clients have won 10 Microsoft Partner of the Year awards (including 3 of the current winners). If you want to improve your chances of winning an award this year, request a meeting to determine your potential.
The full list of 2019 Microsoft Partner of the Year award categories is as follows:
Business Applications
Dynamics 365 for Customer Service
Dynamics 365 for Field Service
Dynamics Finance and Operations
Dynamics 365 for Marketing
Dynamics 365 for Sales
Dynamics 365 for Talent
Power BI
PowerApps
Industry Awards
Automotive
Education
Financial Services
Government
Health
Manufacturing & Resources
Media & Communications
Microsoft CityNext
Retail
Intelligent Cloud Awards
AI and Machine Learning
Application Innovation
Azure Influencer
Data Analytics
Data Estate Modernization
Datacenter Migration
DevOps
Internet of Things
Mixed Reality
OSS on Azure
SAP on Azure
Modern Workplace Awards
Intelligent Communications
Modern Desktop
Modern Workplace Transformation
Project and Portfolio Management
Security and Compliance
Teamwork
Other Awards
Alliance Global ISV
Diversity and Inclusion
Customer Experience
Indirect Provider
Learning
Partner for Social Impact
Country Partner of the Year Awards
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