Services Ready Program

Microsoft Partners Discuss Services Ready Benefits

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Eight Services Ready partners share their perspectives on the Services Ready program. Hear how the Services Ready program enabled these partners to leverage intellectual property developed by Microsoft Consulting Services to strengthen their businesses. Thanks to the following Services Ready partners who participated in this video. Lowell Messner  / VP Operations / ProSource Solutions... »

Microsoft Launches SharePoint 2010 Practice Accelerator for Managed Partners

Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Microsoft Launches SharePoint 2010 Practice Accelerator for Managed Partners

Microsoft announces a new SharePoint 2010 Practice Accelerator program specifically for Microsoft Managed and Services Ready Partners. The SharePoint 2010 Service Offering helps IT Pros learn key best practices for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010.  Training participants receive access to the SharePoint 2010 Service Offering content, which contains detailed project guidance, and tools and best... »

Services Ready Partners Qualify for Free Training on SharePoint 2010 Service Offerings

Saturday, March 27, 2010
Services Ready Partners Qualify for Free Training on SharePoint 2010 Service Offerings

The release of Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 is scheduled for May 2010. SharePoint 2010 gives users unprecedented ease of use and ability to connect, collaborate, and engage with knowledge resources wherever and whenever they need them. When combined with the upcoming release of Microsoft® Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 establishes a new benchmark for business collaboration.... »

Welcome to Services Ready

Monday, January 18, 2010

Welcome to the launch of the Services Ready Blog! Our intent in creating this blog is to provide our worldwide partner network with a single source for information about the Services Ready program. The blog format enables us to quickly share information and ideas with you and your organization. We value your participation in... »

What Is Services Ready?

Monday, January 18, 2010

Services Ready is a partner empowerment program developed by Microsoft’s Enterprise Services group. It enables Gold Certified Partners to leverage Microsoft Services’ expertise to achieve scale in their local market. Equally important, it provides transparency and predictability when working with Microsoft to accelerate solution deployment opportunities. Services Ready has the most current product, sales,... »

Why Services Ready?

Monday, January 18, 2010

I do a lot of work with Partners around the world and they sometimes ask me, “Hey, what is this thing with Services and Partners? Is Services Ready for real? Why are you doing this?” I realize that it is important for our Partners at large to understand why Microsoft and Microsoft Services in... »

What is an Offering?

Saturday, January 16, 2010

For the past several years, Microsoft Enterprise Services has consistently invested time and money to identify and harvest best practices learned by Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) Architects and Consultants. These experts work closely with Microsoft Product Teams and early adopters during deployments of Microsoft products. When we have validated these best practices, we create architecture... »

Training Overview

Saturday, January 16, 2010

The goal of Services Ready training is to transfer lessons learned during early deployments of Microsoft technologies, by Microsoft Consulting Services consultants working in tandem with Microsoft product teams and early adopters. This field-tested knowledge is documented by Microsoft subject matter experts and transferred to our participating partners during online and instructor- led training... »