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Partner Crucible

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.

Industry - Healthcare, Agriculture, Manufacturing, Public safety

Purpose

A Collection of resources for Microsoft practice building around the Microsoft key industries. For a view of other solution areas, please see the Taxonomy.

To contribute to the PartnerCrucible, see Contributor’s Guide.

Microsoft Industry Partner Community

The objective of these communities is to provide an open forum and encourage two-way communication and collaboration with key Microsoft subject matter experts, as well as fellow partners alike.

Source Description Notes
Education Community The community will act as a central hub for resources and exclusive content related to the Education industry, as well as tailored solutions to help you and your team drive and close deals. Microsoft Community
Health and Life Sciences Community The community will act as a central hub for resources and exclusive content related to the Health & Life Sciences industry, as well as tailored solutions to help you and your team drive and close deals. Microsoft Community
State and Local Government Community The community will act as a central hub for resources and exclusive content related to the State and Local Government industry, as well as tailored solutions to help you and your team drive and close deals. Microsoft Community
Energy and Resources The community will act as a central hub for resources and exclusive content related to the Energy & Resources industry, as well as tailored solutions to help you and your team drive and close deals. Microsoft Community
Manufacturing Community The community will act as a central hub for resources and exclusive content related to the Manufacturing industry, as well as tailored solutions to help you and your team drive and close deals. Microsoft Community
Retail and Consumer Goods The community will act as a central hub for resources and exclusive content related to the Retail and Consumer Goods industry, as well as tailored solutions to help you and your team drive and close deals. Microsoft Community

Industry References

Source Description Notes
Partner Knowledge Exchange for Industry Gain a competitive edge with marketing tailored for industry Microsoft Partner
Industry Resources Industry resources Microsoft US
Microsoft Solution Center Ready to set up a new deployment? Choose the cloud solution designed for your industry to get started.  
Industry Cloud Partner Sandboxes This portal is used for SI/ISV Connect partners to obtain free or discounted non-production environment licenses with Biz Apps and Power Platform products to learn, test, and deliver end-to-end customer demos with their own solutions. These offers are to be used only on partner tenants, never on customer tenants. Includes Cloud for Sustainability, FSI, Healthcare, Retail, Nonprofit
GPS Industry Cloud Labs and presentations Github

Agriculture

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Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture Announcing Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture: accelerating innovation across the agriculture value chain  
FarmVibes.Edge FarmVibes.Edge involves developing technologies to process large amounts of data in the farm itself – either in the farmer’s house or office, or next to the base stations. Microsoft Research
FarmVibes.Connect FarmVibes.Connect involves inventing new ways to bring Internet to the middle of a farm, such as leveraging unused TV channels, Narrowband IoT, and space communications. Microsoft Research
FarmVibes.Bot The FarmVibes.Bot platform allows organizations to communicate simply and effectively with any user who has a feature phone (by USSD or SMS) or any user who has a smart phone (WhatsApp, Facebook, Telegram, etc.). Microsoft Research
FarmVibes.AI FarmVibes.AI merges data sources, like heat maps, super-res satellite imagery, and other technologies to create a big picture view about a farm. Microsoft Research

Healthcare

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Conversational AI for Healthcare Create health bots using built-in medical knowledge bases, triage protocols and language models trained to understand clinical terminology. Trigger seamless handoff from a bot interaction to a doctor, nurse, or support agent. Leverage a library of industry specific scenario templates to accelerate the creation of healthcare use cases. Azure
Healthcare AI Models in Azure AI Model Catalog advanced healthcare AI models in Azure AI Studio - Developed in collaboration with Microsoft Research, our strategic partners, and leading healthcare institutions, these AI models are specifically designed for healthcare organizations to rapidly build and deploy AI solutions tailored to their specific needs, all while minimizing the extensive compute and data requirements typically associated with building multimodal models from scratch. Tech Community
Healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric solution architecture The enterprise analytics solution Healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric offers seamless integration, data engineering, real-time analytics, and business intelligence capabilities. It also ensures data privacy and security. It enables efficient transformation of healthcare data for analysis by breaking down data silos, harmonizing disparate data, and providing intuitive tools such as data pipelines and notebooks. Microsoft Learn
What is Healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric (preview) Healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric (preview) are strategically designed to accelerate the time to value for customers by addressing the critical need to efficiently transform healthcare data into a suitable format for analysis Microsoft Learn
Get started with healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric In this Learning Path, you gain a foundational understanding of Healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric, the AI challenges of healthcare organizations, and how healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric helps resolve them. You’ll also learn about the core components of healthcare data solutions. Microsoft Learn
Deploy Healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric (preview)   Microsoft Lean
Overview of Healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric (preview) solution architecture The foundation of Healthcare data solutions (preview) lies in the innovative medallion lakehouse architecture. This framework organizes and processes data in a systematic, multi-layered manner. It continually enhances the structure and quality of data as it traverses through each layer Microsoft Learn
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare Partner Assets Partner readiness and overview assets for Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare.  
Explore Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare    
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare in a Day training    
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare Trial Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare offers a free limited trial for 30 days Solutions Center
GPS Industry Cloud - MC4H Presentations and labs Github
Healthcare landing zone guidance Landing zone for healthcare data platform Github
Azure Health Data Services in Microsoft Fabric (Preview) This preview delivers data solutions that leverage Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse architecture to support the ingestion, unification, harmonization, and transformation of multi-modal healthcare data from disparate sources. Blog
De-identification service for Health and Life Sciences The new de-identification service in Azure Health Data Services so organizations can de-identify clinical data such that the resulting data retains its clinical relevance and distribution while also adhering to the HIPAA privacy rule Tech Community
Microsoft Threat Intelligence healthcare ransomware report highlights need for collective industry action The report offers a holistic view of the healthcare threat landscape with a particular focus on ransomware attacks observed in recent years. By reading the report, healthcare organizations will gain insights that will help navigate these cyberthreats and understand how collective defense strategies can help improve protection and increase access to relevant threat intelligence. Microsoft Security

Manufacturing

Source Description Notes
A Five-Part Guide to Digital Transformation for Manufacturers In this eBook, A Five-Part Guide to Digital Transformation: Learn How Manufacturers Can Build a More Resilient and Sustainable Future, explore how to: Engage customers in new ways, Transform your workforce, Build more agile factories, Create more resilient supply chains, Unlock innovation and deliver new services. Microsoft
Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing: Partnering to manufacture a more resilient and sustainable future Blog post January 2022
The Road to Intelligent Manufacturing: Leveraging a Platform Approach Whitepaper - Learn how Capgemini and Microsoft work together to help organizations successfully pass through each phase of their journey to connectivity, automation, and cloud-scale analytics, data, and decision making. 2020
Stay informed about Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing Updates  

Public Safety

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Microsoft CMMC Acceleration Program We are actively building out Microsoft CMMC Acceleration by developing resources for both partners and Defense Industrial Base (DIB) companies to leverage in their Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) journey. These tools cannot guarantee a positive CMMC adjudication, but they may assist candidate organizations by improving their CMMC posture by going into a formal CMMC review in accordance with CMMC Accreditation Body standards. Microsoft Tech Community
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Home for CMMC support resources Microsoft
CMMC 2.0 Implementation Guide This guide is intended to provide small and medium-sized organizations with guidance for using Microsoft 365 (M365) to satisfy the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 1 requirements.  
Microsoft Product Placemat for CMMC 2.0 (Preview) Interactive view representing how we believe Microsoft cloud products and services satisfy requirements for CMMC practices. Microsoft
CMMC Level 3 Regulatory Compliance built-in initiative The following article details how the Azure Policy Regulatory Compliance built-in initiative definition maps to compliance domains and controls in CMMC Level 3. Microsoft Learn
Understanding Compliance Between Commercial, Government and DoD Offerings - March 2022 Update In this article, we will focus on each of the US-based cloud offerings from Microsoft and compare the differences in compliance, including the compendium of common factors customers may use to decide which of our offerings align with current and future requirements in demonstrating compliance with US Government regulations and underlying cybersecurity frameworks. Tech Community