Partner Blog | Accelerating cloud and AI adoption: What’s new for Azure Innovate & Azure Migrate

Author: Cyril Belikoff, General Manager, Worldwide Azure and Industry Go-to-Market

As we shared Key insights from MCAPS Start for Partners 2024We’ve experienced tremendous growth, delivering thousands of projects with Azure Innovate and Azure Migrate and Modernize. In fiscal year 25, we plan to increase our investment in Azure Innovate to more than $150 million. We’re adding new scenarios and increasing our investment by 50% for Azure Migrate and Modernize.

In this blog post, we’ll provide a brief overview of how these products work together, share new features in Azure partner-led products effective October 1, and summarize the updates we introduced in July. As new scenarios and workloads are added each quarter of FY25, you can find key updates on our partner blog here.

Azure Partner-Led Product Overview

Azure Partner Driven Offerings Built to work together to simplify adoption of Microsoft Azure, the foundation of the Microsoft cloud. With comprehensive resources in one easy-to-navigate hub, broad coverage across scenarios, and custom incentives, partners with Azure specializations and certified software designations can create more value, deliver better customer experiences, and drive more business. can make it happen.

• Azure Innovation We help you accelerate business growth from planning to deployment by infusing AI into your applications and experiences, advancing analytics, and building custom, cloud-native, intelligent applications.
• Azure Migration and Modernization Helps businesses transition their existing applications, data, and infrastructure to Azure. The service provides extensive resources, including assessment and deployment assistance, to ensure a smooth migration process.

To support these services, we have introduced: Azure EssentialsResources with foundational guidance, best practices, and dedicated technologies to help you improve the security, reliability, and sustained performance of your cloud and AI workloads. Using Azure Essentials, partners can access content and support to deliver differentiated solutions for key scenarios across the Azure solution play.