{"id":5123,"date":"2014-02-06T18:56:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T18:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5123"},"modified":"2015-08-18T22:07:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T21:07:50","slug":"microsofts-new-focus-on-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/02\/microsofts-new-focus-on-solutions.htm","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft’s new focus on solutions…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Throughout its history, Microsoft has relied on a partner ecosystem to drive their business forward. \u00a0Now, as the Redmond giant transforms from a software\/platform company to a devices and services company, that’s starting to change – and multiple teams are focusing all or part of their time on developing and publishing lab-tested, multi-product, end-to-end solution content.<\/p>\n

As an employee of one of Microsoft’s largest partners, we can either ignore this, or work with Microsoft to ensure that we benefit from their solutions content and use it to improve our own, value-add services. \u00a0With that in mind,\u00a0a colleague alerted me to the presence of Microsoft’s Solutions Advisory Board<\/a>\u00a0(SAB) and, yesterday, I attended the first of the bi-monthly webinars that the SAB team are hosting.<\/p>\n

In an hour, we briefly covered 4 topics – at a very high level – but to give some idea of the scenarios that were discussed:<\/p>\n