Azure Migrate and Modernize and Azure Innovate are two comprehensive offerings built to work together and enable simpler adoption of Azure—the foundation of the Microsoft Cloud. These offerings provide software and services partners the critical opportunity to support customer organizations from cloud migration to innovation, with Microsoft guidance, enablement, and funding to deliver expert value and win more business.  ​

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What’s new as of April 1, 2024: 

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Expanded eligibility for partners who build software: Azure Innovate has expanded eligibility for ISVs meeting specific performance criteria (details here). Use Azure Innovate to infuse AI into solutions, advance analytics capabilities, and help to build custom cloud-native applications. Accelerate your digital transformation and deliver innovation projects that drive consistent execution and customer experiences, increasing demand, pipeline, and consumption of AI and analytics projects.

​For partners providing services, Azure Migrate and Modernize partner-led introduced an additional incentive: As your customer’s trusted partner, you can give them a modern security solution built for the cloud, and now, earn even more with every migration. Specialized partners can earn an additional incentive specifically for Infrastructure & Database Migration engagements that include Microsoft Defender for Cloud consumption (15% extra funding when compared to standard Infra/DB engagements. Migrations are the perfect opportunity to modernize your customer’s security and compliance with the security platform integrated into Azure and built to span on prem and multi-cloud environments. Defender for Cloud enables you to save costs by consolidating tools, improve visibility across on prem and multicloud systems, and ensure compliance across all workloads. 

For a limited time: Azure Innovate is open to Azure specialized partners: Any Azure Migrate and Modernize or Azure Innovate eligible specialization (with the exception of DevOps for GitHub) can unlock access to Azure Innovate for analytics and AI apps projects and receive funding.  Partners can nominate new engagements now through June 30, 2024, projects do not have to be completed in fiscal year ‘24.​ July 1st onwards, this temporary exception will expire and nominations to Azure Innovate will once again require the corresponding specialization.

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Accelerate deals, maximize earnings, and activate across more scenarios with expert guidance, self-serve tooling, and rapid approval workflows – so you can deliver better customer experiences.​

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