Welcome to the Crucible

A forge for Microsoft Partners

This project aims to serve as an entry point into the wealth of information and services available to Canadian Microsoft partners. The Partner Crucible will curate links, models, and insights to ensure our partners have an overview and a quick path forward.

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The ChangeLog

The ChangeLog

The ChangeLog and Generative Partner Crucible reflect recent updates.

Innovation

From a blog series presenting points of view from experts and practitioners, to a collection of resources for partner practice building around key industries, to examples of innovation across the partner ecosystem.

Signal:Noise

Signal:Noise

Signal:Analytics aims to provide points of view from experts and practitioners to help you identify the paths that carry the most signal and can accelerate your digital (or cloud) ambitions.

Innovation

Innovation

A collection of resources for ideas stemming from research and innovation at Microsoft.

Partner practice

A collection of partner resources related to practice building from profitability and growth, to skilling journeys, to ensuring recognition for your successes. From ISV, SaaS and Marketplace, to CSP, FinOps and Support.

Solution areas

The partner designations and specialisations span 6 distinct solution areas. Each of these includes a learning journeys align to specific Microsoft Cloud technologies and capabilities. Learning resources than span all the solution areas are listed below:

Microsoft Copilots

Microsoft Copilots

Modern Work

Modern Work

A collection of resources for Microsoft practice building in the Modern Work solution area

Security

Azure Infrastructure

Infrastructure

Data and AI

Data & AI

A collection of resources for Microsoft practice building in the Data and AI solution area.

Digital and App Innovation

Business Applications