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Get the resources you need to convince business and technical decision makers to build their systems on the Microsoft Windows platform, and improve your ability to answer competitive questions that can help you secure your customers' lasting satisfaction.

Analyze Your Company's Profitability
Although you keep track of your bottom line closely, it's not always easy to truly understand what drives your business performance, especially in the fast-paced IT industry. Between June 2005 and May 2006, Microsoft commissioned IDC to conduct partner profitability research. The Microsoft Partner Profitability Assessment provides a customized performance report that compares your company with industry data on similar solution providers. We invite you to assess your business by building a personalized performance dashboard for your company. Build your report.

Reduce Your Time-to-Market, Your Costs, or Both
Prebuilt components help you add features to your applications without adding development time. Delivering quality products on time and on budget requires that product managers balance three key elements: time, cost, and product features. Read More.

New ISV Competency Benefits!
ISV Competency Partners have access to even more licensing benefits: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and Microsoft Dynamics.Read More.

Should You Go Vertical? Check Out the Partner Vertical Resource Center
Set yourself apart and increase your competitive advantage by marketing "vertical". Take advantage of the industry research and online tools that are available from this site, including a quick start guide that helps you evaluate vertical opportunities and that walks you through the process of going vertical. Read More.

Evaluate Your Advertising Options
When you sift through the array of paid-advertising vehicles, keep the following tips in mind to reap the greatest impact for your investment. Read the entire article.

Help Drive Your Sales with MicrosoftIncentives.com
Here is a resource to help you increase your return on investment. This site provides valuable offers, special financing, and incentives for Microsoft products. Take advantage of current offerings. Save Now.

Get the Help You Need to Close Deals Faster
Looking for sales support? Your sales team is just one phone call away. Call Microsoft support professionals to get the free, unlimited competitive and technical help you need to close deals faster.

Telephone-based Pre-sales Technical Support (TPTS) handles questions about all Microsoft technologies, including Microsoft Dynamics. Find out more.

Build New Partnerships
Extend your market reach to the worldwide partner community and create new partnerships by using Partner Channel Builder. Start networking.

Partner Insight: A Financial Institution Sees No ROI on Desktop Linux Gartner Reports
Annual maintenance costs for desktop Linux, IP risks, and compatibility issues with open-source office products persuaded the institution to upgrade to Windows XP and Office 2003 instead of moving to Linux/OSO. Read the entire report.

Web Content Delivery Gets an Upgrade
Getting Web content when and how you want it has become increasingly difficult. Microsoft has extended Really Simple Syndication (RSS) to allow subscribers to receive more relevant news and information from the Web. Read the article.

Develop a Strong Sales Model with Solution Selling
Available exclusively to Microsoft Certified and Gold Certified Partners, Solution Selling Online provides you with a customer-focused sales process to help identify critical customer business issues. This fee-based training can help you increase win rates and revenue production by motivating customers to purchase software and services.

Promote Your Solutions and Reach More Customers
Enter a summary of your company's offerings in Partner Solution Profiler and start making connections. Partner Solution Profiler provides tools to help you market your solutions to potential customers throughout Microsoft.com. Profile your solution.

Communicate Your Expertise
As a Microsoft Certified or Gold Certified Partner, you can use Partner Logo Builder to create and download custom logos for achieved competencies. It also gives you access to the 2005 Partner Program Award logos. All partners enrolled in the Microsoft Small Business Specialist Community have access to the Microsoft Small Business Specialist logo.

Microsoft Business Solutions ISVs: Submit Your Vertical References
Validate your vertical solutions to let Microsoft promote them in powerful online search engines used by customers worldwide. Two references in one country validate your vertical solution in that country's Microsoft Dynamics Solution Finder as well as the global solution finder. Learn more.

Industry Trend Report: Windows Users Have Fewer Vulnerabilities
After collecting a year's worth of vulnerability data, Forrester analyzed Windows and four key Linux distributors on metrics about responsiveness to vulnerabilities, severity of vulnerabilities, and thoroughness in fixing flaws. Learn more.

Competitive Selling: Meeting the Linux Challenge
This guide can help you meet your sales and business objectives. It provides you with key topics to cover when talking with customers about reasons to use Microsoft solutions. Read the report.

Showcase Your Solutions to Millions of Potential Customers
The Windows Marketplace is a comprehensive, easy-to-use shopping and download portal designed to help Windows customers find innovative Microsoft Certified and Gold Certified Partner solutions right from their desktops. Showcase my solution.

Deliver Your Solution as a Hosted Service with Help from Microsoft
Offer your software as a service with the help of the Microsoft Services Provider Licensing Agreement (SPLA). SPLA gives you the latest software with no term commitments so you can deliver services globally without licensing limitations.

Market Your Advantages To Prospective Customers
Tailor your marketing collateral to specific potential customers. Choose from hundreds of free, customizable marketing materials, including business letters, presentations, and sales sheets.

ROI Resources

Microsoft ROI Calculator for ISV Solutions
A great investment starts with a great plan. Use this solution-based tool to assess the potential business value of the technology resources being considered by your internal teams and clients. Learn more.

ROI Resources
Plan before you invest. Use these tools to assess the potential business value of the technology resources being considered by your internal teams and clients.

Competitive Selling

Competitive Selling
As a solution provider, developing long-term relationships with your customers is crucial to your business growth. Improving your ability to address competitive questions will help you secure your customers' lasting satisfaction with the Microsoft® Windows® platform.

Lead Generator

Spread Your Net Wider with Partner Solution MarketPlace
Forget trawling around looking for solutions. Now there's a site that puts all you need to know about certified software solutions from other Microsoft partners in one easy-to- use site. Partner Solution MarketPlace is a fantastic new web-based community. Read about the solutions and contact other partners directly to explore how you might be able to work together. Sign up now and showcase your solutions!

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Get all the facts, quickly and easily. With our fact sheets on Microsoft products and solutions, it's easy to research and compile the information you need to help your sales force win new contracts.
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