This is a quick overview of the Office 365 & BPOS Practice Builder Program

1. Practice Accelerator
for Microsoft® Business Productivity
Online Suite – Standard
PRACTICE ACCELERATOR FOR MICROSOFT BUSINESS
PRODUCTIVITY ONLINE SUITE – STANDARD
With newer compliance regulations, stronger privacy laws and
higher demand for tighter security, customers are looking for
increased control over their IT environments. Help your
customers move from their on-premise environments to online
services with the same functionality, security and with the agility
of the web.
With Practice Accelerator for Business Productivity Online Suite –
Standard, you will receive detailed guidance to manage BPOS-S,
Exchange, and SharePoint Administration. Additionally, you will
gain insight on what to expect when the transitioning process
begins for customers from BPOS to Office 365 and receive the
methodology, Microsoft Online Deployment Guide (MODG), used
when Microsoft deploys or migrates its customers to BPOS.
Note – BPOS-S continues to be a valuable cloud service for many
customers. Practice Accelerator for BPOS-S will not only prepare
DELIVERY INFORMATION
you to sell and deliver BPOS-S engagements today, but also
Cost – 10 Partner Advisory Hours (Partner Advisory Hours are the
provide a foundation for Office 365 when it becomes available in
payment method for Practice Accelerator.)
2011.
If you are a Cloud Accelerate member or Cloud Essentials
subscriber, Practice Accelerator for Business Productivity Online
PARTNER TECHNICAL SERVICES Suite – Standard will continue to be available to you at no cost
Increase revenue, accelerate the sales cycle, win more deals, beat through June 30, 2011.
competitors, expand a skill set, provide more reliable
Attendees – Up to 4 consultants per partner organization can
deployments, and increase customer satisfaction with Partner
participate. Participants should have basic to intermediate (100-
Technical Services packaged and custom solutions. Partner
200) technical level in the solution, but we recommend a 200
Advisory Hours provide a single method of payment (hours) to
level to get the most out of Practice Accelerator.
use for Partner Technical Services. A full catalog of offerings will
be provided to present solutions relating to each phase of the Delivery method – PA for BPOS-S is presented by Microsoft
business cycle. New solutions will be made available throughout experts via Microsoft Office Live Meeting for 4 hours per day
2011. over 4 consecutive days (totaling 16 hours).