Partners...What is Your Revenue Potential?

Explore Your Revenue Potential with Profitability Tools

Plan your business more effectively with tools that enable you to estimate profit and loss in multiple business areas, including virtualization, software-plus-services, and mobility. Digital WPC webcast provides additional insight.

Make better business decisions by utilizing Microsoft provided profitability resources and tools. Assess the extent to which you’ve adopted financial and operational best practices, see how you compare with the competition in terms of cost and operational efficiencies, and use this data to help chart a course for increased profitability and financial success. Microsoft can guide you through this three-step process.

Partner Profitability Resources and Tools

Assess

Find out what factors contribute to strong business performance. Take the Microsoft partner Assessment Survey. Survey data is based on Microsoft partners' completed responses, covering 83 countries.

Answer a set of questions in a completely secure and confidential environment and you’ll receive a customized report containing:

• Your personalized performance dashboard, based on approximately 14 key performance indicators —including revenue growth, sales speed, and customer-base growth.

• IDC observations regarding best practices for improving business performance.

Compare

Read a variety of independent analyst reports and case studies to gain insight into how your business compares with the competition.

Microsoft SharePoint-Based Solutions: More Profitable Than Open Source

IPED research shows that Microsoft collaboration-solution providers see up to 25-percent greater profits than competitors.

Microsoft Competencies: Partner Pathway to Business Performance

IDC reports that partners with a Microsoft Competency in Advanced Infrastructure Solutions or Information Worker Solutions outperform industry benchmarks.

See more reports

Plan

Use the Microsoft partner Profitability Tool and Guide to estimate your P&L for new business opportunities and get answers to strategic business questions:

• Which business models are best for my type of business?

• How can I evaluate Microsoft Software plus Services based solutions?

• What is my new opportunity plan and executive decision roadmap?