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Learn from Microsoft leaders about FY27 priorities, how to drive Frontier Transformation and securely scale AI execution, and growth planning in the coming year.
Go from Solutions Partner to proven specialist. Microsoft specializations validate your depth of expertise in the scenarios where customers need it most.
To earn a specialization, partners must first attain one of the Solutions Partner designations it’s aligned with. Below you’ll find the three commercial solution areas, the designations they encompass, and which specializations align to those designations.
Explore specializations aligned with this commercial solution area once you’ve attained one of the following:
Showcase your experience and success in implementing Power BI to strengthen organizations.
Validate your expertise in implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance to create resilient finance organizations.
Highlight your expertise in implementing Power Automate solutions for organizations.
Spotlight your ability to help customers streamline their businesses with custom and flexible line-of-business low-code solutions.
Elevate your Microsoft 365 Copilot expertise—including Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and agents—by earning the Microsoft Copilot specialization.
Showcase your experience and success in implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 solutions in sales organizations.
Showcase your experience and success in implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 solutions in service organizations.
Demonstrate your experience and proven success in implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central for small and midsize businesses.
Showcase your experience and success using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management to drive supply chain transformation.
Showcase your extensive experience and proven success in providing adoption and change management services while driving Microsoft 365 usage and organizational change.
Prove your expertise in deploying and managing Microsoft 365 Phone System to drive customer business value.
Validate your Teams capabilities, open more opportunities, and close more deals.
Showcase your proficiency in compliance-driven markets so you can accelerate growth by winning more high-value sovereign projects and delivering your secure cloud solutions at scale.
Demonstrate your proven success in delivering Meetings and Meeting Rooms services and solutions for Microsoft Teams.
Highlight your expertise in delivering secure, holistic management solutions designed for the hybrid workplace.
Earn recognition for your experience and proven success deploying core workloads in Microsoft 365.
Validate your expertise in developing AI solutions with AI, app, and data platforms by earning this specialization.
Showcase your validated capabilities enabling customer adoption of AI and implementing Azure solutions for AI-powered apps with the AI Platform on Microsoft Azure specialization.
Validate your capability to plan and deliver tailored Microsoft analytics solutions using Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, and Azure Databricks.
Showcase your success in implementing Power BI to strengthen organizations.
Validate your expertise in analyzing workloads, generating schema models, and performing ETL operations to migrate data to Azure.
Validate your organization's ability to help customers take advantage of the benefits of a hyperconverged infrastructure on Azure.
Spotlight your expertise in migrating and optimizing production workloads on Windows and SQL Server, Linux, and/or MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, or MongoDB databases to Azure.
Showcase your success in deploying production workloads to the cloud using containers and managing hosted Kubernetes environments in Azure.
Validate your expertise in migrating and deploying production web application workloads, applying DevOps practices, and managing application services in Azure.
Validate your organization's expertise implementing secure software development practices using DevOps principles.
Showcase your proven capabilities enabling customer adoption of AI and implementing Azure solutions for AI-powered apps with the AI Platform on Microsoft Azure specialization.
Showcase your experience and success in implementing Power Automate solutions for organizations.
Validate your expertise in deploying production workloads to the cloud using containers and managing hosted Kubernetes environments in Azure.
Showcase your capabilities helping customers streamline their businesses with custom and flexible line-of-business low-code solutions.
Showcase your organization's ability to help customers take advantage of the benefits of a hyperconverged infrastructure on Azure.
Validate your expertise in migrating and optimizing production workloads run on Windows and SQL Server, Linux, and/or MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, or MongoDB databases to Azure.
Validate your technical capability in deploying, optimizing, and securing virtual desktop infrastructure on Azure with Windows Virtual Desktop.
Validate your capabilities with Azure VMware Solution to migrate on-premises workloads to run natively on Azure.
Showcase your validated capabilities designing, implementing, operating, and optimizing customers' network architecture, cost, and security.
Validate your expertise in deploying SAP solutions on Azure.
Explore specializations aligned with this commercial solution area once you’ve attained the Solutions Partner designation for Security.
Validate your organization's capability to implement comprehensive security solutions across your customers' Microsoft Azure, hybrid, and multicloud environments.
Demonstrate your proficiency in implementing Microsoft data security solutions and developing data security strategies for AI applications and customer tools.
Differentiate your technical capabilities in evaluating and delivering Microsoft Identity workloads with Microsoft Entra ID.
Showcase your Microsoft 365 Copilot expertise—including Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and agents.
Show customers you can help them protect against threats by validating your capability to deploy Microsoft Defender for Identity, Microsoft Cloud App Security, or Microsoft Sentinel.
Certifications are a requirement for earning specializations; they show you're keeping pace with the evolving tech landscape and sharpening in-demand skills.
A designation identifies your broad technical capabilities and experience in high-demand solution areas and is a prerequisite to earning a specialization.