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Microsoft Solutions Partner With Certified Software Designations

Becoming a Microsoft Solutions Partner with certified software means your solution meets Microsoft’s technical criteria for interoperability with the Microsoft Cloud and shows a proven record of customer success. Achieving this designation provides significant go-to-market, sales, and marketing benefits to boost your growth and increase demand for your solutions. By leveraging the marketplace for co-sell opportunities, you enable Microsoft sellers to quickly and confidently identify your solution for collaboration, maximizing the advantages of being a Microsoft Solutions Partner with certified software.

Pathways To Attain A Microsoft Solutions Partner With Certified Software

There are two main pathways to becoming a Solutions Partner with certified software and both pathways require your solution to demonstrate marketplace readiness, interoperability with the Microsoft Cloud, customer success, and specific technical criteria. Certified software designations are offered at the solution level and if your software solution solves challenges for multiple solution areas and/or industries and is interoperable with different Microsoft products and services then you can attain multiple certified software designations with a single solution.

Checks And Validations

To become a Solutions Partner with certified software for solution areas, you must meet all the eligibility requirements and checks.

1. Customer Evidence Review
All solution areas have the option to fulfil the customer satisfaction requirements through the submission of customer case studies and associated requirements. The partner ISV solution must meet at least one of the solution areas, and the solution plays as described under the checklist.

• Azure Solutions
• Security Solutions
• Business Applications Solutions
• Modern Work Solutions

The ISV partner must provide the details of the solution and customer case study in their submission.

2. Azure Technical Check
Each software solution is validated by a technical review before it becomes certified. Technology Specific Requirements are categorized according to the Azure services as follows:

• Azure Data Services
• Azure AI or Machine Learning Services
• Azure Compute Services
• Azure Container Services
• Azure Integration Services
• Azure Control Plane Services

The ISV partner must ensure their solution meets specific technical requirements from any one of the above categories.

3. AI Technical Check
For the ISV solution to be successfully certified, it must belong to one of the validation criteria patterns:

• Microsoft Copilot Industry
• Extension Industry Copilot
• Application Industry Fabric
• Application Industry Foundational Model

All the requirements of the chosen validation criteria must be met.

Pricing

The cost for each of the checks and stages to attain a Microsoft Solutions Partner with Certified Software Designations.