New opportunities for sales, services, and education partners
Today, we are excited to announce the expansion of Copilot for Microsoft 365 with the general availability of new offerings for sales, services, and education—providing new ways for customers and partners to embrace AI to achieve their goals and significantly enhance how they work.Dynamics 365 Blog | Accelerate your journey to AI-first selling with Microsoft AI Accelerator for Sales and new sales agents
AI transforms the way people work, the way every function operates, and the way businesses drive competition and growth. It’s also transforming the business application landscape as customers adopt Microsoft 365 Copilot as the UI for AI and agents for every business process. Nowhere is that more true than in sales. The combination of Copilot, agents, and human ambition can free time to focus on closing deals, help teams build a stronger pipeline, and drive new levels of profitability. That matters because in sales, time is money. We’re announcing a new program—Microsoft AI Accelerator for Sales—to help more customers rapidly transform their sales organization with Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents, as well as two new agents—Sales Agent and Sales Chat—to help scale the team’s ability to nurture and close deals. Read on for more information on each of these announcements on our full blog.Partner Blog | Capturing the marketplace opportunity: Part one of a series by selling path
Cloud marketplaces have become the fastest growing channel for B2B software sales, driven by continuous growth in IT spending that is projected to reach $5 trillion in 2024 1 . More customers are centralizing their cloud portfolios and making marketplaces their preferred buying platform. For software companies, adopting cloud marketplaces as a core go-to-market strategy helps close deals faster and increases deal sizes. At Microsoft, the marketplace is the center of gravity for how we go to market with our software partners to solve customers’ technology challenges. The Microsoft commercial marketplace promise The marketplace democratizes IT, helping empower any Microsoft partner to sell to any Microsoft customer worldwide. As a B2B global commerce engine, the marketplace adapts to how customers want to buy and how you want to sell, whether that is digital direct (always-on selling to help grow your pipeline), through partner (selling alongside the Microsoft global ecosystem of over 500,000 partners), or with Microsoft (unlocking enterprise deals alongside Microsoft sellers). This blog is the introduction, and first in a four-part series on maximizing your marketplace opportunity across these different selling paths. Our next edition will dive into always-on selling with digital direct. Continue reading here You can continue to stay connected to us through the Marketplace Community and follow our Marketplace Blog for important announcements.
