Unlocking the power of co-sell: what to expect in the upcoming webinar series with Rubrik and Tackle
For ISVs, partnering with cloud providers is a powerful growth engine, opening doors to new customers, expanding market reach, and driving revenue. Co-selling is a key lever in this partnership, enabling ISVs to align with cloud providers like Microsoft to accelerate growth, strengthen relationships, and close larger deals. However, developing a successful co-sell practice doesn’t just happen overnight—it requires strategic alignment, scalable resources, and a deep understanding of partner incentives. To help you navigate this journey, Rubrik and Tackle are teaming up for a two-part webinar series designed to help you build, operationalize, and scale a strong co-sell strategy with Microsoft. In these sessions, you’ll learn how to: Develop a scalable co-sell strategy aligned with Microsoft’s goals Streamline your co-sell motion with workflows, CRM alignment, and deal-sharing strategies Strengthen relationships with Microsoft sellers and aligning with Azure’s consumption goals Led by Rubrik Head of Global Cloud Alliances Jasmine Kronk and Tackle’s co-sell experts, this webinar series will equip you with the tools and knowledge you need to co-sell with confidence. Here’s a preview of what you’ll learn in each session: Session 1: Building a Winning Strategy to Accelerate Growth with Microsoft Date: February 24, 2025 at 9:30 am PST To successfully co-sell with Microsoft, ISVs need a clear strategy that aligns with Microsoft’s priorities, streamlines collaboration, and maximizes growth opportunities. In this session, experts will share key insights on how to operationalize co-sell, build strategic relationships, and leverage marketplace to accelerate revenue. Here are the top takeaways from this session to help you build a winning a winning co-sell strategy: Use Co-Sell as a strategic GTM motion. Co-selling with Microsoft is not just a checkbox activity; it's a fundamental go-to-market (GTM) strategy that can drive growth, increase deal sizes, and accelerate sales cycles. ISV should leverage co-sell partnerships to shorten sales cycles and close larger deals. Understand the value proposition. To succeed in the Microsoft ecosystem, ISVs must clearly define their unique value proposition. Aligning your solution with Microsoft’s priorities, like driving Azure consumption, creates mutual benefits and strengthens co-sell opportunities. Operationalize co-sell for scale. Streamlining internal processes is key to scaling co-sell efforts. This includes integrating CRM systems, defining deal-sharing criteria, and maintaining a structured approach to pipeline management. Regularly sharing deal updates, tracking performance metrics, and ensuring cross-team alignment helps optimize efficiency and collaboration. Measuring key indicators, such as deals won and revenue impact, ensures ongoing success. Build relationships with Microsoft stakeholders. Establishing a network of advocates within Microsoft is critical for driving future co-sell opportunities. By building trust and understanding, you can create an environment where Microsoft reps actively refer and promote your solutions to customers, ultimately generating more leads and sales. Leverage marketplace as a growth engine – Combining co-sell efforts with marketplace sales streamlines procurement for customers, improves accessibility, and accelerates revenue generation. Session 2: How to Operationalize and Scale Your Co-Sell Motion with Microsoft Date: February 26, 2025 at 9:30 am PST To scale their co-sell motion, ISVs need a structured approach that integrates co-selling into their overall GTM strategy, fosters alignment with Microsoft stakeholders, and prioritizes high-impact opportunities. In our second session, we share key strategies for operationalizing co-sell, from creating scalable resources to building cross-functional support. Here are the top takeaways to help you drive repeatable success and accelerate growth: Co-sell as a strategic element: Co-selling should be treated as a fundamental part of your go-to-market strategy, not just a one-off tactic. It’s about embedding co-sell into your broader sales approach to drive sustained growth. A strategic co-sell motion can accelerate sales cycles, increase deal sizes, and create longer-term partnerships. By making co-sell a core component of your GTM plan, you ensure it aligns with your broader business objectives and supports scalable growth over time. Align product-market fit: For co-sell success, your product must seamlessly integrate within your partner’s ecosystem and address critical customer pain points. It’s not just about having a solution that works technically, but one that directly ties into your partner's goals and creates clear value for the customer. This ensures both parties can demonstrate the solution’s unique value, which not only drives immediate sales but fosters repeatable success and strengthens your co-sell partnership. Understand mutual incentives: Co-selling is most effective when both parties benefit. To maximize this, you need to understand your partner’s motivations—whether that’s driving Azure consumption, hitting specific adoption targets, or achieving quota goals. By aligning your co-sell strategy with these priorities, you create a win-win dynamic that fosters stronger collaboration and accelerates the deal process. Recognizing and addressing your partner’s evolving incentives ensures that both sides remain motivated to drive deals forward. Create scalable co-sell resources: To sustain and scale co-selling efforts, it’s critical to build reusable resources and processes. This includes developing playbooks, one-pagers, email templates, and other assets that can be quickly deployed across teams and regions. With these resources, sales teams spend less time creating new materials and more time engaging meaningfully with partners. Scalable resources streamline operations, maintain consistency, and support seamless collaboration, which ultimately drives more efficient and impactful co-selling motions. Prioritize high-value accounts: Rather than spreading your co-sell efforts across a broad spectrum of clients, it’s more effective to focus on high-value accounts. Start by identifying where your ideal customer profiles overlap with your partner’s customer base, and build upon these existing synergies. This focused approach allows you to dedicate time and resources to deals with the highest potential for revenue growth. It reduces wasted effort on low-impact accounts and increases your chances of closing more significant, higher-value deals with your partner. Join us to master co-selling Whether you’re just getting started with co-sell or you’re looking to optimize existing efforts, these sessions will provide actionable insights you can immediately apply to your strategy. Register now to secure your spot and take your co-sell strategy to the next level!ISV Success: New and expanded benefits for software companies with AI projects
As an ISV pursuing new AI solutions, you're changing the way businesses solve complex challenges and meeting the demand of global customers looking to do more with AI. That’s why we’re bringing new resources and financial incentives to ISV Success—benefits that are designed to help software companies build innovative AI applications and grow sales in the commercial marketplace. New AI benefits & incentives: 1. Technical guidance AI Envisioning Events - learn from our generative AI experts during interactive AI Envisioning Events with sessions designed for both business and technical teams. These monthly sessions will help you identify the most impactful AI use cases for your business and then create a development plan for execution. Check out our events page to sign up. AI Consultations - software companies in ISV Success also receive free AI-focused 1:1 consults to support scenarios that include extending Copilots, integrating AI services, and responsible AI practices. To accelerate development and uplevel your team, all participants can now access GitHub Copilot using Azure credits and take AI certification exams with free vouchers. 2. Expanded package for AI apps ISVs with high-potential AI projects will be upgraded from core to expanded package. With up to 50 hours of technical consultation and additional Azure credits, you’ll be set up to build and test new market-place ready apps. These ISVs also receive GTM benefits, including customer propensity scoring and Azure sponsorship to close deals, through marketplace rewards at an earlier stage. To find out if your project is eligible, schedule an Architecture Design Session or Architecture Review Session in Partner Center, or reach out to your Engagement Manager to learn more. 3. New advanced package with financial incentives ISV Success now offers a new advanced package for ISVs with a certified software designation. These ISVs are eligible for up to 100K in financial incentives to build and deploy AI and analytics apps. Additionally, there is an opportunity for ISVs to qualify for up to 50K in financial incentives to migrate end-customers to Azure-based applications. Visit the offer benefits page on the ISV Hub to learn more about the advanced package. To become eligible for certified software designations, partners must meet the following criteria: - Have a transactable offer in the marketplace - Undergo a technical review for interoperability with Microsoft products - Demonstrate a proven track record of customer success ISVs that qualify for the advanced package can access financial incentives in the incentives workspace. Note: these incentives have previously been available as part of the Azure Innovate and Azure Migrate and Modernize offers. Take advantage of these benefits For current ISV Success members, many of these benefits are available now in your Partner Center Dashboard if qualified. If you’re not enrolled and are ready to explore what ISV Success can offer your business, apply today to access our benefits package. Learn more by visiting the ISV Hub and chatting with our AI-assistant.Essential strategies and tools to maximize your marketplace growth
With over 100% growth in Marketplace Billed Sales and spending from customers with MACCs, the marketplace momentum on the Microsoft commercial marketplace we’ve seen is not slowing down. However, there can be no growth without our partners, as you and your customers hold the key.New FY24 Incentives for ISVs including richer earning opportunities
Our FY24 ISV incentives feature richer earning opportunities for driving billed sales of transactable offers on Marketplace and driving Azure consumption growth through core and strategic workloads. Please read this message carefully, review relevant links, and sign up for one of the upcoming ISV partner incentives webinars.
