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Solutions Partner for Data and AI (Azure) Specialist

As a Solutions Partner for Data & AI (Azure), we demonstrate our capability to help customers manage their data across multiple systems to build analytics and AI solutions.

Metric 1

Performance Category

Scoring Calculated by net new customers added within the last year with eligible workloads.
Calculation Net customers added = (Eligible Customers last month) – (Eligible Customers same month last year)
Points Each net new customer contributes 10 points, up to a maximum of 30 points.
Eligible Customers # of unique customer tenants contributing > $1,000 ACR in any of the last 2 months.
Eligible workloads All Azure Service Level 2 services are eligible workloads.
Eligible offers All offers are eligible except Support, Internal, Benefit Program, and Trial.
Eligible association types CSP (CSP Tier 1 and CSP Tier 2), Digital Partner of Record (DPOR), Partner Admin Link (PAL)
Points to note ACR – Azure Consumed Revenue(Workload eligibility is subject to change.)

Metric 2

Skilling Category

Scoring

4 Points per certified individual.

Maximum 40 points from 10 certified individuals.

Mandatory Prerequisites

2 x Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate | AZ-104 certified individuals

2 x Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert | AZ-305 certified individuals

Note: No points will be awarded for completing prerequisites.

Intermediate Certifications

All four above are eligible to sit for the certifications below.

Thus, 4 pax into 4 certifications below will be 4 certified individuals.

6 more individuals certified in any of the certifications below would produce maximum Skilling Points.

DP-300 Azure Database Administrator Associate
AI-102 Azure AI Engineer Associate
DP-100 Azure Data Scientist Associate
DP-203 Azure Data Engineer Associate
PL-300 Data Analyst Associate
MB-260 Customer Data Platform Specialty
DP-420 Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty

Metric 3

Customer Success Category

Usage Growth Deployments
The usage growth customer success metric measures your ability to increase the use and consumption of qualifying products. The deployments metric measures the number of advanced Azure services represented in ACR over the last 12 months.
Each 1% growth in ACR contributes one point, up to a maximum of 20 points. Each eligible deployment contributes two points, up to a maximum of 10 points.
Calculation
Percentage usage growth = (Total qualifying ACR last month - Total qualifying ACR same month last year) * 100 / (Total qualifying ACR same month last year) Eligible deployments = # of unique Azure services contributing > $1,000 ACR over the last 12 months
Eligible Azure services
All Azure Service Level 2 services are eligible All Azure Service Level 2 services are eligible except Virtual Machines and Virtual Machines Licenses.
Eligible Offers
All offers are applicable except Support, Internal, Benefit Program, and Trial
Eligible association types
CSP Tiers 1 and 2, Digital Partner of Record (DPOR), Partner Admin Link (PAL)

Solutions Partner for Digital & App Innovation (Azure) Specialist

As a Solutions Partner for Data & AI (Azure), we demonstrate our capability to help customers manage their data across multiple systems to build analytics and AI solutions.

As a Solutions Partner for Digital & App Innovation (Azure), we demonstrate our capability to help customers build, run, and manage applications across multiple clouds, on premises, and at the edge, with the tools and frameworks of our customer's choice.

Metric 1

Performance Category

Scoring Calculated by net new customers added within the last year with eligible workloads.
Calculation Net customers added = (Eligible Customers last month) – (Eligible Customers same month last year)
Points Each net new customer contributes 10 points, up to a maximum of 30 points.
Eligible Customers # of unique customer tenants contributing > $1,000 ACR in any of the last 2 months.
Eligible workloads All Azure Service Level 2 services are eligible workloads.
Eligible offers All offers are eligible except Support, Internal, Benefit Program, and Trial.
Eligible association types CSP (CSP Tier 1 and CSP Tier 2), Digital Partner of Record (DPOR), Partner Admin Link (PAL)
Points to note ACR – Azure Consumed Revenue(Workload eligibility is subject to change.)

Metric 2

Skilling Category

Intermediate Certifications
Scoring

4 Points per certified individual.

Maximum 20 points from 5 certified individuals.

Mandatory Prerequisites

2 x Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate | AZ-104 certified individuals

Note: No points will be awarded for completing prerequisites.

Both individuals above are eligible to sit for the certifications below.

Thus, 2 pax certifying in 2 certifications below will be 2 certified individuals.

3 more individuals certified in any of the certifications below would produce maximum Skilling Points.

AZ-204 Azure Developer Associate
PL-400 Power Platform Developer Associate
Advanced Certifications
Scoring

4 Points per certified individual.

Maximum 20 points from 5 certified individuals.

Mandatory Prerequisites

2 x Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert | AZ-305 certified individuals

Note: No points will be awarded for completing prerequisites.

Both individuals above are eligible to sit for the certifications below.

Intermediate Certified individuals may apply for the Advanced Certifications.

Thus, 2 pax certifying in 2 certifications below will be 2 certified individuals.

3 more individuals certified in any of the certifications below would produce maximum Skilling Points.

AZ-400 Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
PL-600 Power Platform Solution Architect Expert

Metric 3

Customer Success Category

Usage Growth Deployments
The usage growth customer success metric measures your ability to increase the use and consumption of qualifying products. The deployments metric measures the number of advanced Azure services represented in ACR over the last 12 months.
Each 1% growth in ACR contributes one point, up to a maximum of 20 points. Each eligible deployment contributes two points, up to a maximum of 10 points.
Calculation
Percentage usage growth = (Total qualifying ACR last month - Total qualifying ACR same month last year) * 100 / (Total qualifying ACR same month last year) Eligible deployments = # of unique Azure services contributing > $1,000 ACR over the last 12 months
Eligible Azure services
All Azure Service Level 2 services are eligible All Azure Service Level 2 services are eligible except Virtual Machines and Virtual Machines Licenses.
Eligible Offers
All offers are applicable except Support, Internal, Benefit Program, and Trial
Eligible association types
CSP Tiers 1 and 2, Digital Partner of Record (DPOR), Partner Admin Link (PAL)

Solutions Partner for Infrastructure (Azure) Specialist

As a Solutions Partner for Infrastructure, we demonstrate our capability to help customers accelerate migration of key infrastructure workloads to Microsoft Azure.

Metric 1

Performance Category

Scoring Calculated by net new customers added within the last year with eligible workloads.
Calculation Net customers added = (Eligible Customers last month) – (Eligible Customers same month last year)
Points Each net new customer contributes 10 points, up to a maximum of 30 points.
Eligible Customers # of unique customer tenants contributing > $1,000 ACR in any of the last 2 months.
Eligible workloads All Azure Service Level 2 services are eligible workloads.
Eligible offers All offers are eligible except Support, Internal, Benefit Program, and Trial.
Eligible association types CSP (CSP Tier 1 and CSP Tier 2), Digital Partner of Record (DPOR), Partner Admin Link (PAL)
Points to note ACR – Azure Consumed Revenue(Workload eligibility is subject to change.)

Metric 2

Skilling Category

Intermediate Certifications
Scoring

4 Points per certified individual.

Maximum 20 points from 5 certified individuals.

Mandatory Prerequisites

2 x Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate | AZ-104 certified individuals

Note: No points will be awarded for completing prerequisites.

Both individuals above are eligible to sit for the certifications below.

Thus, 2 pax certifying in 2 certifications below will be 2 certified individuals.

3 more individuals certified in any of the certifications below would produce maximum Skilling Points.

AZ-700 Azure Network Engineer Associate
Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate | AZ-800 & AZ-801
AZ-800 Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure
AZ-801 Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services
Advanced Certifications
Scoring

4 Points per certified individual.

Maximum 20 points from 5 certified individuals.

Mandatory Prerequisites

2 x Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert | AZ-305 certified individuals

Note: No points will be awarded for completing prerequisites.

Both individuals above are eligible to sit for the certifications below.

Intermediate Certified individuals may apply for the Advanced Certifications.

Thus, 2 pax certifying in 2 certifications below will be 2 certified individuals.

3 more individuals certified in any of the certifications below would produce maximum Skilling Points.

AZ-140 Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty
AZ-120 Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty

Metric 3

Customer Success Category

Usage Growth Deployments
The usage growth customer success metric measures your ability to increase the use and consumption of qualifying products. The deployments metric measures the number of advanced Azure services represented in ACR over the last 12 months.
Each 1% growth in ACR contributes one point, up to a maximum of 20 points. Each eligible deployment contributes two points, up to a maximum of 10 points.
Calculation
Percentage usage growth = (Total qualifying ACR last month - Total qualifying ACR same month last year) * 100 / (Total qualifying ACR same month last year) Eligible deployments = # of unique Azure services contributing > $1,000 ACR over the last 12 months
Eligible Azure services
All Azure Service Level 2 services are eligible All Azure Service Level 2 services are eligible except Virtual Machines and Virtual Machines Licenses.
Eligible Offers
All offers are applicable except Support, Internal, Benefit Program, and Trial
Eligible association types
CSP Tiers 1 and 2, Digital Partner of Record (DPOR), Partner Admin Link (PAL)

Solutions Partner Designation – Modern Work

There are two distinct attainment paths to get the Solutions Partner for Modern Work designation: Enterprise, and Small and Medium business (SMB). Each path has its own requirements,

Metric 1

Performance Category

The Performance category is a measure of your organization's ability to increase the customer base using Microsoft products for Modern work and productivity.

Net customer adds metric

Categorization Enterprise SMB
Calculation Net customer adds = [Total qualifying current customer tenants] – [Total qualifying customers tenants 12 months ago]
Scoring
(20 Points)
Maximum points attainable from 5 net new customer adds @ 4 points each Maximum points attainable from 10 net new customer adds @ 2 points each
Eligible customer tenants: Each customer tenant having at least 1 workload with paid seats greater than 300 Each customer tenant having at least 1 workload with paid seats between 11 to 300
Eligible workloads: Intune, Exchange, ProPlus, SharePoint, Teams, Teams Meetings, Teams Phone, Teams Phone calling, Teams Platform, Yammer.
Eligible association types: Claiming Partner of Record (CPOR) and Digital Partner of Record (DPOR) Claiming Partner of Record (CPOR) and CSP (CSP Tier 1, CSP Tier 2)

Metric 2

Skilling

There are two attainment paths: Small & medium business and Enterprise.

Metric 3

Customer success category

The customer success category measures your ability to enable growth in the use of Microsoft products, or in the expansion of Microsoft's services and workloads utilized by customers.

There are two metrics in this category: Usage growth and Deployments.

Usage Growth

Categorization Enterprise SMB
Usage growth [Eligible Active users last month] – [Eligible Active users same month last year]
Eligible customer tenants Each customer tenant having at least 1 workload with paid seats greater than 300 Each customer tenant having at least 1 workload with paid seats between 11 to 300
Eligible workloads Both tracks: Intune, Exchange, ProPlus, SharePoint, Teams, Teams Meetings, Teams Phone, Teams Phone calling, Teams Platform, Yammer
Scoring Combined points based on calculation below – max 30 points
Usage growth net score Combined points from each associated metric up to a maximum of 30 points
Eligible Association Types Claiming Partner of Record (CPOR) & Direct Partner of Record (DPOR) Claiming Partner of Record (CPOR) & CSP (Tier 1 & Tier2)
Thresholds to earn maximum points
CPOR – 1,000 Usage Growth DPOR – 4,000 Usage Growth
CPOR - 500 MAU CSP – 2,000 MAU
Calculations (actual growth / threshold growth level) * max points

i.e. 2,000 Usage growth threshold based points

2,000/4,000 * 30 = 15

Deployments

Categorization Enterprise SMB
Deployments (Eligible deployments last month) – (Eligible deployments same month last year)
Eligible Deployments # of unique eligible customer tenants having 40% of paid seats as Active seats (MAU - Monthly active usage)
Eligible Workloads Both tracks: Intune, Exchange, ProPlus, SharePoint, Teams, Teams Meetings, Teams Phone, Teams Phone calling, Teams Platform, Yammer
Eligible association types Claiming Partner of Record (CPOR) & Direct Partner of Record (DPOR) Claiming Partner of Record (CPOR) &CSP (Tier 1 & Tier2)
Scoring

CPOR –

5 net new

deployments @

5 points each

DPOR –

10 net new

deployments @

2.5 points each

CPOR –

5 net new

deployments @

5 points each

CSP –

10 net new

deployments @

2.5 points each

Calculations (actual deployments / threshold deployments level) * max points

i.e. Threshold based deployments = 4 threshold based points

4/10 * 25 = 10 points

Deployments net score Combined points from each associated metric up to a maximum of 25 points
Note If there is more than one association type, points are awarded based on the one that earns the most points.

Solutions Partner for Security Specialist

As a Solutions Partner for Security, we demonstrate our capability to help customers implement, manage, and monitor security and compliance solutions for cloud and hybrid environments.

Metric 1

Performance Category

The performance category is used to measure your organization's ability to increase the customer base who is using Microsoft Security products and services. This category is made up of Net customer adds as the primary metric for Microsoft 365 and Azure Security workloads.

Net customer adds metric

Net Customer Adds # of eligible customers added to your customer base during the trailing 12-month period.
Calculation (Total qualifying customers with qualifying ACR in current TTM) –
(Total qualifying customers with qualifying ACR in previous TTM)
Scoring
(20 Points)
Each net new customer contributes to 2 points, maximum 10 customers.
Categorization Azure Microsoft 365
Eligible customers # of unique customer tenants contributing at least $100 ACR (Azure Consumed Revenue) # of unique customer Tenants having at least 25 paid seats in given month
Eligible services / workloads: Advanced Data Security, Advanced Threat Protection, Application Gateway, Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory for External Identities, Azure Bastion, Azure DDOS Protection, Azure Defender, Azure Firewall, Azure Firewall Manager, Azure Front Door Service, Azure IoT Security, Key Vault, Network Watcher, Security Center, Sentinel Azure Active Directory Premium, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Defender for Endpoints, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Microsoft Information Protection, Intune
Eligible offers All offers except "Support", "Internal", "Benefit Program" and "Trial" are applicable
Eligible Association Types Partner Admin Link (PAL) Claiming Partner of Record (CPOR)
Scoring Net Customer adds on both categories above are counted.
Maximum 20 points attainable from a combined total 10 new customer adds.

Metric 2

Skilling

Scoring Maximum 40 points attainable from 6 certified individuals @ 6.6 points each.
Prerequisites

Each individual must be certified in both–

AZ-500 Azure Security Engineer Associate
SC-200 Microsoft Security Operations Analyst
Intermediate Certifications

Each of the above prerequisite certified individuals must certify in any one of the following –

SC-100 Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Expert
SC-300 Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator
SC-400 Microsoft Information Protection Administrator
Note – An individual is worth the same number of points irrespective of how many intermediate certifications have been completed.

Metric 3

Customer success category

The customer success category measures your ability to enable growth in the use of Microsoft products, or in the expansion of Microsoft's services and workloads utilized by customers.

Common

Categorization Azure Microsoft 365
Eligible customers # of unique customer Tenants contributing total of $12,000 ACR (Azure Consumed Revenue) in past 12 months # of unique customer Tenants having at least 25 paid seats in given month – with at least 15% active
Eligible services / workloads: Advanced Data Security, Advanced Threat Protection, Application Gateway, Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory for External Identities, Azure Bastion, Azure DDOS Protection, Azure Defender, Azure Firewall, Azure Firewall Manager, Azure Front Door Service, Azure IoT Security, Key Vault, Network Watcher, Security Center, Sentinel Azure Active Directory Premium, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Defender for Endpoints, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Microsoft Information Protection, Intune
Eligible offers All offers except "Support", "Internal", "Benefit Program" and "Trial" are applicable
Eligible Association Types Partner Admin Link (PAL) Claiming Partner of Record (CPOR)
Scoring Total accumulative points with a maximum of 20 points total is calculated from both metrics below.

Deployments

Net New Deployments (Eligible deployments last month) – (Eligible deployments same month last year)
Scoring

Each net new customer contributes to 3.3 points for up to a maximum of 20 points, obtained from 6 deployments

Net new deployments in both categories above are counted.

Usage Growth

Categorization Azure Microsoft 365
Calculation Eligible Security ACR last month - Eligible Security ACR same month last year Eligible Microsoft 365 protected users last month - Eligible Microsoft 365 protected users same month last year
Scoring Every Security Azure consumed revenue (ACR) growth of USD 1,250 gets you one point Every Microsoft 365 protected users growth of 125 gets you one point
Notes Security ACR = ACR (Azure Consumed Revenue) totaling over trailing 12 months across entire customer base Microsoft 365 protected users is the # of active paid seats across entire customer base
Scoring

Net new deployments in both categories above are counted.

Maximum 20 points attainable from a combined total of usage growth points.

Solutions Partner for Business Applications Specialist

As a Solutions Partner for Business Applications, we demonstrate our capability to deliver solutions with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform.

Intermediate certifications metric

To score points for the Intermediate certifications metric, members of your organization can apply any of the following certifications. Each certified member counts as one point, regardless of the number of certifications they complete.

Metric 1

Performance category

The performance category is a measure of your organization's ability to increase the customer base that is using Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power platform products.

Net customer adds metric

Categorization Enterprise SMB
Monthly Revenue per eligible workload > $1,500 > $250
Eligible Workloads AI Builder, Business Central, CE Bundle, Commerce, Customer Insights, Customer Service, F&O Bundle, Field Service, Finance, Fraud Protection, HR (Human Resources), Intelligent Order Management, Marketing, Mixed Reality, Omni Channel, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Pages, Power Virtual Agent, Project Operations, Sales, Supply Chain, and Non-workload specific (This is the category for all miscellaneous workloads).
Partner Association Types

CPOR RevRec, CPOR OSA, CPOR RevRec Performance, CSP Tiers 1 and 2, and Digital Partner of Record (DPOR).

Note: Multiple partners can get credit and points for adding new workloads for the same customer in the same time period.

Scoring Maximum 15 points @ 3 points per net customer adds | Max 5 adds
Calculation

(total qualifying workloads with active subscriptions > 1500 USD latest month) – (Total qualifying workloads with active subscriptions > 1500 USD 12 months ago)

i.e. Given the customer is calculating for the solutions partner designation in June 2023,

If the Partner has 15 qualifying active workloads as at June 2022, the Partner needs to have 20 qualifying active workloads as at June 2023, to earn maximum points in the given matrix.

Metric 2

Skilling Category

The skilling category measures the capability and skills acquired by a partner organization as the number of certified people in that organization.

Intermediate Certifications
Scoring

Maximum 20 Points.

Enterprise

Certified people required to achieve maximum points 20 PAX

SMB

Certified people required to achieve maximum points 05 PAX

MB-300 & MB-310 Dynamics 365 Finance Functional Consultant Associate MB-300 & MB-310
MB-300 & MB-500 Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Developer Associate MB-300 & MB-500
MB-300 & MB-330 Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant Associate MB-300 & MB-330
MB-230 Dynamics 365 Customer Service Functional Consultant Associate
MB-210 Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Sales Functional Consultant Associate
MB-240 Dynamics 365 Field Service Functional Consultant Associate
MB-800 Dynamics 365 Business Central Functional Consultant Associate
MB-220 Dynamics 365 Customer Insights (Journeys) Functional Consultant
MB-320 Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Functional Consultant Associate
PL-300 Data Analyst Associate
PL-200 Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate
PL-400 Power Platform Developer Associate
MB-260 Microsoft Customer Insights (Data) Specialty
DP-500 Azure Enterprise Data Analyst Associate
PL-500 Power Automate RPA Developer Associate
Advanced Certifications
Scoring

Advanced | Maximum 15 Points

Enterprise

Certified people required to achieve maximum points 07 PAX

SMB

Certified people required to achieve maximum points 02 PAX

PL-600 Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert
MB-335 Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, Expert
Note –

An individual is worth the same number of points irrespective of how many of the above certifications have been completed.

Metric 3

Customer Success category

The customer success category measures your ability to enable growth in the use of Microsoft products, or in the expansion of Microsoft's services and workloads utilized by customers.

There are two metrics in this category: Usage growth and Deployments.

Notes

* Customer Engagement workload includes usage from Sales, Sales Insights, Customer Service and Field Service

* Finance & Operations workload includes usage from Finance and Project Operations.

Customer Success Points are based on monthly consumption Monthly consumption value (MCV) = Monthly number of active users (Monthly Active Capacity x Consumption Rate)
MCV Rate Card
Workload Rate Usage unit
Business Central 1000 MAU
Core HR 1000 MAU
Common data service (Customer Engagement)* 200 MAU
Customer Insights 0.2 Profiles
Finance & Operations* 100 MAU
Guides 1000 MAU
Power Apps 200 MAU
Power Automate 200 MAU
Power BI 200 MAU
Remote Assist 1000 MAU
Retail 100 MAU
Talent Attract 1000 MAU
Talent Onboard 1000 MAU
Prerequisites

Enterprise: To be eligible for any points in this category, you must have a baseline consumption value of 50,000 last year (12 months ago).

SMB: To be eligible for any points in this category, you must have a baseline consumption value of 25,000 last year (12 months ago).

Calculation (Eligible usage last month) – (Eligible usage same month last year) / (Eligible usage same month last year) X 100
Eligible workloads Business Central, Common data service (Customer Engagement), Core HR, Customer Insights Partner, Finance & Operations, Guides, Portals, Power App, Power Automate, Power BI, Remote Assist, Retail, Talent Attract, and Talent Onboard
Eligible Usage This is total monthly consumption value (MCV) in a given month across entire customer base from eligible workloads for specific Partner association types.
Eligible Association Types

• Eligible attributions for Microsoft Dynamics 365 (except Customer Insights) include CPOR OSU, Digital Partner of Record (DPOR)

• Eligible attribution for Power Platform & Customer Insights include Partner Admin Link (PA

Usage Growth

Scoring

30 points maximum attainable @ 1 point per 1% growth

Enterprise - 30%

SMB - 30%

Deployments

Calculation (Eligible deployments last month) – (Eligible deployments same month last year)
Eligible Deployments
Enterprise SMB
Unique workloads contributing minimum 10,000 MCV Unique customer tenant level workloads contributing minimum 5,000 MCV
Eligible Workloads Business Central, Core HR, Common data service (Customer Engagement), Customer Insights Partner, Finance & Operations, Guides, Portals, Power App, Power Automate, Power BI, Remote Assist, Retail, Talent Attract, and Talent Onboard.
Eligible association types

Eligible attributions for Microsoft Dynamics 365 (except Customer Insights) include CPOR OSU, Digital Partner of Record (DPOR)

Eligible attribution for Power Platform & Customer Insights include Partner Admin Link (PAL)

Scoring

20 points maximum attainable @ 4 points per eligible deployment

Enterprise – 5 eligible deployments
SMB – 5 eligible deployments

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