Microsoft Cloud Partner Program

Representatives with Microsoft talked to attendees about the company’s recently renamed Microsoft Cloud Partner Program.

Formerly known as the Microsoft Partner Network, the MCPP is part of a batch of changes Microsoft has announced this year for partners. Some of the more controversial changes include a premium on month-to-month commitments for popular Microsoft packages – including Microsoft 365 – and a new partner capability score to determine who is a “solutions partner” with the Redmond, Wash.-based company.

Ingram Micro, Pax8, TD Synnex and other distributors have been helpful for some partners grappling with the Microsoft partner program changes.

Ingram has facilitated 1,800-plus “new commerce experience” migrations, helped partner customers expand capacity and capability through CloudBlue automations of NCE transaction types and provided complementary support programs, resources and representative teams, according to Ingram.

The distributor has offered dedicated in-house engineering groups and partnered with IT agreements-as-a-service provider ITagree for additional legal support and term discussion assistance for NCE agreements and to help partners cover financial risk and liability.