1. Microsoft Education
Better outcomes, proven results, trusted technology

2. What is Cloud Solution Provider Program?

3. Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider
Enable YOU to grow, attach, and share
Microsoft Azure
What are we trying to accomplish?
Own and control the billing
Provision, manage and support
Sell integrated offers and Services
Reducing costs and complexity for our customers
Supporting you as the center of the customer relationship
Increase your opportunity to solution sell and easily integrate your own tools, products and services
Office 365
Dynamics CRM Online
Enterprise Mobility Suite
Create cloud subscription + partner offer
Cloud Solution Provider Program is both a licensing model and also a partner engagement program that puts partners at the center of the customer relationship by enabling partners to sell and service the complete customer lifecycle. It’s also a platform for maximizing partner profitability in the Cloud economics. Academic priced EDU offers are available in CSP to qualified partners (O365, Intune for Education, CRMOL, Power BI, etc.)
Place order for Microsoft Cloud Services 1 3
Set package price and sell to customers 2
Enabling YOU to offer a single packaged solution

4. CSP & Partner Economics
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CSP & Partner Economics
Potential business models enabled through CSP & partner profitability
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5. I am a SI / Reseller Capture the customer lifetime value
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Traditional model
New model
YEAR 1
YEAR 2
YEAR X
YEAR 3
UPGRADE TO NEW VERSION
LAND
EXPAND
I am a SI / Reseller
Capture the customer lifetime value
If you are a SI or Reseller, deliver & capture Customer Lifetime Value through CSP:
Schools are looking for ways to optimize operations in order to stay competitive. Become the trusted advisor of your education customers and guide them through the digital transformation journey. Leverage every customer touch points enabled through CSP, to look for opportunities to improve a system or add a tool and services to better serve customers. In return, capture the recurring revenues in perpetuity enabled through the relationship and trust you’ve built with your customers.
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6. I am an ISV Own the customer relationship & Increase customer reach
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I am an ISV
Own the customer relationship & Increase customer reach
If you are an ISV, CSP will enable you to
Embed and resell Microsoft services directly to your end customer as part of the total application or service offering you provide.
Power your solution with Azure and provide management services as part of the application or services you offer and charge customers on a subscription basis. (provide the operations of the app – involving user provisioning, policy management, delivery and maintenance of the SaaS solution)
Along with your unique solution, resell & support MSFT solutions – expand product portfolio
Also, think about leveraging CSP partners to expand your customer reach
Application lifecycle mgmt. & support
: provisioning, policy mgmt., delivery & maintenance
Other MSFT Cloud stacks + mgmt. services
Tap into the CSP partner ecosystem
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7. I am new to reselling Cloud
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I am new to reselling Cloud
If you are new in reselling Cloud…
CSP is a great place to start as you can start developing direct customer relationship.
If you do not have infrastructure to support customer billing, provisioning, and support, you can always participate through the Indirect CSP model (+100 CSP Indirect Providers WW)
CSP is an easy to place to start. Get started & grow.
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8. EDU offers in CSP Office 365 Intune for Education *Coming soon
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Office 365
Intune for Education *Coming soon
Dynamics CRM Online
Power BI
Minecraft: Education Edition *Coming Soon
Azure metered services *No incremental EDU discounting
…..and more
EDU offers in CSP
Qualified EDU offers with Academic Pricing are available to Authorized Education Partners (AEP) in CSP
Most current EDU offers and Academic Pricelist can be found on the Microsoft Partner Center ( in the Pricing and offers page. (Partner Center log in required)
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9. Cloud Solution Provider
CSP models – Direct & Indirect
Direct CSP Model
Indirect CSP Model
The Direct model is for partners that already have support and billing capabilities, or are willing to invest in building out their infrastructure.
Indirect CSP model is for partners that want to invest gradually in developing support and billing capabilities. MSFT is partnering with key Indirect CSP Providers through the world which can assist to transact as an indirect reseller by proving help on support and billing.
Cloud Solution Provider
Microsoft
Customer
Office 365, Intune for Eduation, Enterprise Mobility Suite
20% discount from EDU Pricing + promo incentives
Azure
15% discount (from Commercial Pricing) + promo incentives
CRMOL
25% discount from EDU Pricing+ promo incentives
Indirect CSP Provider
Discount + promo incentives
Indirect Reseller
Microsoft
Customer
Discount passed down from Indirect CSP Provider + promo incentives

10. Partner Average gross margins
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How do I make money?
Partner Average gross margins
(aka.ms/cloudprofit)
CSP margins & incentives
Direct CSP partner margins
Azure = 15%
Office 365 (paid SKUs), Intune = 20%
Dynamics = 25%
Incentives requirements & details
Active MPN ID and signed agreement
Managed partner list
Onboard to Incentive Payment Tool
8% for direct partners & indirect resellers (FY17 rate)
Local incentives may be available
Partner Margin & Incentive information on the left hand side.
However, the ultimate profit of successful CSP partners should really be coming from the price of the total solution that you provide to the customers.
Find out more at aka.ms/cloudprofit
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11. Financials - Example 4/24/2018 6:19 PM Partner services
Ongoing
management
Services/ app
Lifecycle mgmt
X$ / Month
Partner
Productize IP
Avg. 35% ~ 75% margin
Deployment/
Customization
Consulting
Services
Analytics &
Operational biz
intelligence
Microsoft EDU services stack
O365
Add-ons
$/user/mo
Minecraft
Education
Azure &
Cloud IT
Mgmt
$X/mo
CRMOL
Product margin (15%~25%)
8% CSP incentive
Microsoft EDU core offerings
Microsoft is committed to create more customer demand & help you deliver more MSFT offerings – the left and middle.
With CSP, we make it easier for partners to build & deliver Partner Services to your customers.
New Windows 10 device & O365
$199 / device (example)
Intune for Education
$30 / device
Device margin
20% margin
8% CSP incentive
EduWins Incentive (for EduWins partners only)
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12. Let’s get started CSP & Partner Profitability Resources
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Let’s get started
CSP & Partner Profitability Resources
Aka.ms/Cloudsolutionprovider
Aka.ms/Cloudprofit
Aka.ms/Modernpartner
MEPN.com
Successful cloud partners are far more profitable, but it isn’t easy
Define your core customer offering
Develop an approach to support your customers
Your cash flow will change over time so need to plan for it
Your marketing and sales approach may need to change dramatically
Pick an approach – let us help you to help our customers and grow!
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