Get Microsoft Advanced Specializations. Enable Funding Now

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Advanced Specializations are more than a credential — they’re a gateway to Microsoft’s incentive engine.

• ECIF (End Customer Investment Funds): Microsoft funds partner-led delivery for modernization projects.
   
• Azure Innovate & Azure Migrate Funding: Programs that offset costs for cloud adoption, analytics, and migration work.
   
• Brand Advantage: Microsoft field sellers prioritize specialized partners for co-sell deals.
   

Without advanced specializations, partners:

• Miss out on millions in funding.
   
• Can’t participate fully in co-sell opportunities.
   
• Struggle to stand out in Microsoft’s partner ecosystem.
   

Microsoft requires real client evidence in:

• Module A (Cloud Foundations): FinOps reviews, governance, ALZ deployments, Well-Architected Reviews, skilling plans.
   
• Module B (Workloads): Analytics solution design, ingestion, PoCs, deployments, validation, documentation.
   

Most Microsoft partners don’t have:

• The in-house FTEs to cover all requirements.
   
• Repeatable templates and evidence frameworks.
   
• Processes to stay compliant after initial certification.

 AI Cloud Partners provides a turnkey framework to get certified and stay certified.

• Slimmed-Down Expert Team: 5–6 fractional specialists covering strategy, governance, architecture, deployment, and compliance.
   
• Pre-Built Templates & Deliverables: FinOps reports, ALZ deployments, Well-Architected outputs, Skilling Plans, and Post-Migration Docs.
   
• Evidence Tracking Across Engagements: We piece together deliverables from multiple client projects to satisfy audit controls.
   
• Ongoing Compliance: Training and project tracker to keep every engagement aligned with Module A & B requirements.
   
• Audit Support: End-to-end coordination with ISSI to ensure 100% audit readiness.g.

Staying certified isn’t just about passing once — it’s about proving compliance year after year.

AI Cloud Partners keeps you always audit-ready with:

• Partner Training: Enablement sessions for your teams to ensure best practices are applied consistently.
   
• Project Tracker: A centralized dashboard (integrated with Salesforce/CRM) that flags qualifying engagements and maps them to Module A & B evidence.
   
• Quarterly Compliance Reviews: Regular checkpoints so gaps are closed long before renewal audits.

 Why This Make Sense

• Full in-house specialization team will cost you (9–10 FTEs): $1M+ annually
   
• Our specialization-as-a-service (5–6 experts): 50–70% cost savings
   
• Certification in 6–8 weeks
   
• Ongoing compliance program included — you never risk falling out of alignment. 
• We build you an in-house tracker that will align to your CRM to alert you when engagements qualify for Module A + Module B requirements.
   

 Qualification Review: We analyze your partner profile and current engagements.
 

1. Engagement Tagging: We identify which projects map to Module A & B controls.
    
2. Evidence Assembly: Our team delivers the outputs Microsoft requires.
    
3. Supplier Enablement: We guide you through Microsoft’s ECIF onboarding process as a qualified supplier.
    
4. Audit & Beyond: We ensure you pass the ISSI audit, and our tracker keeps you compliant for renewals.