A model you need a degree to follow
Designations per solution area, with requirements, scores and incentives that can change from month to month. Everything is in Partner Center somewhere, but you need serious study to find it and make sense of it.
Samurai Partner Insights
Keep your designations.
Earn every incentive.
Always know where you stand with Microsoft. Samurai brings your designations, incentives and risks together in one place, always current and ready to act on.
A CloudBilling product
The problem
Complex and constantly moving
All or nothing, with immediate financial impact
Drop below the points threshold and you lose the designation. Internal licences that used to be free suddenly have to be paid for and kickbacks on customer revenue stop immediately. That quickly adds up to tens of thousands of euros per month.
Risks surface too late
Many partners only see where they stand just before their renewal date. By then it is all hands on deck, or too late.
The Microsoft partner programme is complex and changes often. Partner Insights brings calm and clarity to it.
The solution
One place for your entire Microsoft partnership
Partner Insights gives you a clear, always up to date view of your designations, incentives and risks, and helps you make the right choices to get the most out of your partnership. Control your costs and claim the incentives and funding that currently go unused.
Know what you get
What Partner Insights gives you
Know your status, today and tomorrow
All your designations and specialisations on one screen, with the score, renewal date and underlying skilling for each designation.
Spot risks and know what to do
See which designation is at risk and why, down to the customer or certification that falls just short. Every risk comes with the concrete step to fix it.
See which incentives you can earn
Which incentives are within reach, what they are worth and what you need to do to claim them. Including the full catalogue, filtered to what you are eligible for.
Track your earnings and payments
Follow your claims from submission to payout, see which customers bring in the most and compare your incentive income across multiple years.
Keep an eye on your security
Your own secure score and your customers' security posture in one place, so you can see straight away where action is needed.
Discover the opportunities Microsoft sees
Commercial opportunities from the Microsoft ecosystem, ranked by fit and intent. Your partner status becomes a source of new revenue.
Who it's for
Two use cases, one platform
For MSPs
Take control of your own partnership
You manage the partnership yourself and feel it directly in your margin when a designation slips away. Samurai gives you visibility of status, risks and earning opportunities, ready to act on. The digging around in Partner Center is history.
- See your designation status calculated against your renewal date
- Know which incentives you are leaving on the table and what it takes to claim them
- Keep your team's certifications in order, even when people leave
For distributors
All your partners in one overview
You have your own agreements and targets with Microsoft. Samurai shows you each partner's health, revenue and designations, so you go into every conversation well prepared. Offer the solution to your MSPs and use Microsoft funding to do it.
- See at a glance which partners need attention
- Sell training with precision: for indirect partners, skilling is often the shortest route to incentives
- Strengthen your role as partner manager with a tool that shows its value straight away
Always current
Samurai moves with Microsoft
Microsoft changes the partner programme in a fixed rhythm. Samurai follows that rhythm, so you can keep up in one place.
Monthly
Small changes
Training and certifications, eligibility and points rules for designations and incentives.
Quarterly
Bigger changes
Programmes and names change, measurements are adjusted, often with immediate effect.
Annually
Programme overhaul
Once a year Microsoft revises the structure of the partner programme. Partner Insights moves with it.
How you start
Up and running fast, no project
Connect your Partner Center tenant, grant the right permissions once with MFA and your dashboard fills itself automatically. Everything runs in the cloud, so you are live the same day.
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Connect your Partner Center tenant
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Grant permissions once with MFA
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Your dashboard fills itself automatically
Ready to take control of your Microsoft partnership?
Email us for a demo and see your own designation status, risks and incentive opportunities in one overview.
Request a demo