Microsoft Modern Work: Scaling Your 365 Partner Business
The pandemic massively accelerated the need for and adoption of remote, virtual collaboration, and increasingly virtual and real worlds will blend together.
A key partner program from Microsoft is their Modern Work practice, which spans 365 Cloud services, End User Computing and Unified Communications.
This presents partners with a rich spectrum of product and consulting opportunities, as organizations embrace a rapidly changing world of work.
The Future of Work
The pandemic massively accelerated the need for and adoption of remote, virtual collaboration, and increasingly virtual and real worlds will blend together, creating a fully immersive experience for employees that radically enhances collaboration and learning methods. Microsoft has launched Mesh to extend Teams into this space.
Ai, in the form of ‘Copilots’, is ushering in the next generation of enterprise technologies and will radically advance how it can augment and enhance modern work practices. Microsoft CTO and President of AI Kevin Scott describes this in his keynote talk: The Era of the AI Copilot.
Jared Spataro, Head of Microsoft’s Modern Work team, sets the scene in this Harvard Business Review interview, which looks at the future of work and the technologies that will get us there, and in this WSJ interview he discusses how the company is expanding access to OpenAI tools and the growing capabilities of ChatGPT.
Our accelerator aligns with this massive shift through our 365 Future of Work campaign.
Featured Partners
MSP Builder Blueprints detail the business models and technology platforms needed to address these opportunities at scale, through a XaaS deployment for multiple customers.
Suppliers include vendors who provide the VDI software platforms, which can be deployed in-house or via Cloud hosting, and ‘DaaS’ (Desktop as a Service) providers who utilize that software to offer managed services.
| Supplier | VDI Solution | ||
| Nerdio | FNerdio has a foundation of enabling Azure partners to grow their MSP business, and has recently expanded their product range to support the Modern Work program. MSPs handle way more than just virtual desktops, and with “as a service” offerings on the rise, not every client needs traditional infrastructure. Just like MSPs, Nerdio has evolved with our new Modern Work management and updated pricing model. | ||
| Cloudmore | Okta is a leading IDaaS provider known for its robust identity management platform. Key features include single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and user provisioning. | ||
| N-Able | N-Able offers Commander, which enables MSPs to manage, secure, standardize, and automate Microsoft 365 users, Azure resources, Intune devices and 365 Cloud PCs all from a single console. | ||
| MSP360 | Grow your business faster with MSP360. Powerful data protection, secure remote access, and streamlined IT management in a unified platform. |
