{"id":138,"date":"2011-01-28T14:49:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T21:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/?p=138"},"modified":"2011-01-28T14:51:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T21:51:27","slug":"microsoft-partner-network-membership-vs-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Partner Network: membership vs. guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Microsoft Partner Program (MPN \u2013 PartnerNetwork now) has its cycles and now, as any other year, all partners are asked to check and renew their credentials; see <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/e8cvGl\">here<\/a> the support plan from the Partner Team to help out partners in need.<\/p>\n<p>Given the impact of the cloud and the business transformation it necessarily drives (yes, I am talking again of the cloud and its opportunity, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/hQEJBd\">recent study from Unisys<\/a> if you wish to gauge how important it can be for you) &#8211; shouldn\u2019t they help you more in addressing the challenge&#160; at hand? <\/p>\n<p>The move to the cloud it\u2019s not only about products and features and programs, but mostly about planning the business in a new and strategic way! Microsoft should step up and provide more guidance for its partners <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Microsoft Partner Program (MPN \u2013 PartnerNetwork now) has its cycles and now, as any other year, all partners are asked to check and renew their credentials; see here the support plan from the Partner Team to help out partners in need. Given the impact of the cloud and the business transformation it necessarily drives &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/?p=138\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[34,31,33,32],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-go-to-market-acceleration","tag-cloud-computing-2","tag-microsoft","tag-mpn","tag-partner-ecosystem","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}