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Are you using the UK SI Partner Toolkit?

tara — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:57:49 GMT

If not, why not?!

At the beginning of 2009, your intrepid team of Partner Technology Advisors worked night and day to create and collate all of the best resources for SharePoint, Enterprise Project Management, Unified Communications, Business Intelligence, Security and Management and Virtualisation.

We’ve included product positioning presentations, software demos, PowerPoint sales presentations, case studies, competitive insights, training and readiness, solutions and add-ons and much more into one rich media, interactive application.

Partners can use the SI Toolkit to aid in presales and consultative engagement. It’s available now for partners to download here.

Due to the sensitive nature of some of the content, a password is required to enable access and download the toolkit which can be requested via the download site.

We’re very interested to hear what you think of the SI Toolkit – do you find it useful? What should be changed/ improved? Send your feedback to uksipma@microsoft.com or directly to me.

Partner Learning Paths

tara — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:40:09 GMT

There's an awful lot of information available from Microsoft! Too much, I'm sure some partners would say! The sheer volume of resources, training courses, exams and specialisations can be overwhelming for new Microsoft partners, or even for existing partners looking to include a new technology area in their offering.

One of my colleagues, Jessica Meats, has looked through the available training and resources available for each technology area, and created Partner Learning Paths. These may help you filter the most useful materials to help your employees (both technical and sales) quickly skill up in new products.

Learning paths are available for many Microsoft technologies, including:

SharePoint
Business Intelligence
Enterprise Project Management
Unified Communications
Exchange
Office
Office Live
Windows Server
Vista

There are also learning paths available for gaining knowledge in other areas of Microsoft, such as

Core Infrastructure Optimisation (IO)
Licensing
Partner Hosting Solutions
Public Sector