Optimization Partner Kit

Overview

If you are a Microsoft Partner and are interested in assessing your customer’s Infrastructure or Platform Optimization state, visit the partner IO assessment tool. Reporting will include the organization’s score, how they compare to the competition, and quantifiable benefits that will result from improvement.

• Overview Resources (155MB)

  Download all of the Overview resources contained in this section.

• Optimization Customer Kit

  Self-contained, customer-ready deliverable, titled Delivering Business Value by Optimizing your IT Investments, that includes Optimization customer case studies, presentations, and videos that drive home the value and opportunity of Infrastructure and Platform Optimization. Download it now or order a hard-copy version via askmsio@microsoft.com.

• The Optimization Journey - Presentation

  Presents the current IT landscape and introduces the three Optimization models. Discusses how the models address the needs of IT organizations including evidence.

• Microsoft Optimization Models: Foundation, Evolution, and Validation

  Discusses how Microsoft has developed the Optimization models. Specifically, how they were founded, how they evolved, and validation that has taken place.

• The Value of an Optimized Infrastructure - Video

  Discusses how Optimization can help CIOs drive business results through an optimized IT.

• Taking the Lead: Gaining a Competitive Advantage Through an Optimized IT Infrastructure and Platform - White Paper

  This white paper outlines the evolving and expanding role of IT, the challenges it faces as well as the competitive advantages it offers. It also describes Optimization and recommended steps to achieve it.

• Leveraging Microsoft Optimization to Create Your Dynamic IT Roadmap - White Paper

  The Microsoft Optimization Models offer CIOs with a robust and systematic process for assessing their IT infrastructure and platform capabilities needed to build a dynamic IT roadmap. This transformative and iterative process shifts IT from a cost center focus into an innovative business growth enabler.

• Optimization Account Discovery Guidance

  Step-by-step guide to help you through the account discovery process for each of the three Optimization models.

• Optimization Model Images

  Contains Hi-res and low-res images of the Microsoft Optimization models/capabilities for use in your presentations and publications.

• Optimization Models Product Mapping

  Contains Hi-res and low-res images of the Microsoft Optimization models/capabilities for use in your presentations and publications.

• Directions on Microsoft: Optimization Model Structures Sales Effort

  This article offers a serious look at the Microsoft Optimization models and the practicality of its use.

Optimization PR - New - Reviews

• Infrastructure Optimization for IT - Article

  Redmond Magazine's January 2008 cover story: Infrastructure Optimization is Microsoft's shot at an IT maturity model. It may not be a panacea, but it can help streamline IT operations.

• Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization Campaign Gains Steam - Article

  ChannelWeb Network's September 2007 article: Microsoft is getting ready to go full throttle on a program that involves getting its partners to evangelize to customers the long-term benefits of implementing several key Microsoft offerings.

• Optimize Sales: Microsoft's Infrastructure Optimization push gives partners a way to help customers get a handle on their IT investments -- and get a foot in the door on bigger engagements.

  Redmond Channel Partner magazine's second Optimization Series article discusses the partner value of the Optimization model.