Join the elite tier of partners

Demonstrate your proven expertise in delivering quality solutions in a specialized area of business. Microsoft competencies are certifications designed to help you meet the business needs of your existing customers while simultaneously making you appealing to fresh prospects.

Find a competency and level that best suits your business’ size and customer focus. Each competency offers a gold and silver level. Partners who achieve a gold competency receive greater IUR benefits and privileges tailored for today’s Microsoft technology experts. Silver competency partners gain the knowledge and experience necessary to become the experts of tomorrow.

Use the powerful scalability, computing power, and overall performance of advanced workloads, like Microsoft Azure, Yammer, and Skype for Business, to deepen your understanding of Microsoft’s cloud technologies. You’ll gain the expertise and capabilities to grow your solutions and services to resolve your customers’ most complex issues.

Easily scale your business with the help of the cloud products available to you. If you’re an ISV or application builder, Xamarin and Visual Studio are great for visualizing, collaborating, and building out your application across devices and platforms.

Offer simplified communications solutions and deeper data analyses with a powerful security infrastructure. As a Cloud Productivity or Communications Competency Partner, your IUR benefits give you access to Office 365 E5, our most comprehensive offering for enterprise businesses.

Your IUR benefits also give you a monthly credit for Microsoft Azure services, which include the powerful cloud-based analytics capabilities of machine learning. Easily build, deploy, and share predictive analytics solutions with your team.

Everything you need to successfully run your business

Begin, build, and grow your Microsoft practice in the cloud-first, mobile-first world with this affordable, yearly subscription to software, support, and benefits. Microsoft Acton Pack provides the latest IUR software to run your business, sell your solutions, develop applications, and train your employees.

IUR benefits provide you with the cloud products to accomplish more and see greater success. Enable greater communication across your teams and customers with Skype for Business and Exchange Online. Create Linux and Windows virtual machines in minutes, securely store data in the cloud, and build integrated web services using your Microsoft Azure monthly credits. Microsoft Action Pack simply gives you the benefits your business will need–now and in the future.