FPC Program ideas/suggestions

Translation provided by FPM Tamami Mitani
 

The FRP would like MS account team to know which FRP are engaged with their customers so that they won’t ask non-FRP partners to support their customers.

It seems there have been cases where MS Sales introduced non-FRP partners to their users who the FRP claimed CPOR for.

I think the point is we need to raise FRP awareness internally and provide those kind of information with sales team.

Also we have to recommend the FRP should reach out account team proactively with utilizing contacts information in FTOP.

S2500のユーザはSMEやMWAと情報共有等することができています。
S2500ではないユーザは、SMEやMWAがいません。
また、S2500ではないユーザは、MS営業はFRPがアサインされているかどうかも知りません。
そのため、FRP登録したユーザに対して、MS営業がFRP以外のパートナーを紹介するケースが出ています。
S2500ではないユーザに対してFRPが登録されている情報を、
貴社営業と共有する仕組みを検討ください。
FRP登録したメリットがなくなるのは残念です。

Hello,

We have several disputes about having a customer claimed in Bucket size XXS for a POC that is running. At time of claim the AU is over 20%.
In the current T&C this means a FRP will not be rewarded for supporting the customer achieving milestones in higher bucket sizes after additional licenses were purchased.

In this scenario the FRP is spending time to support the customer but will not get paid on this. This seems illogical and not fair.

Would like other FRP experiencing similar issues to like this idea, so MSFT Program Owners can update the T&C to become eligible for the effort spend.

[Translated] Power BI is currently covered by FastTrack.
In addition to Power BI, Power Platform
I want you to add it to the privilege target.
Best regards.

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現在Power BIが、FastTrackの対象となっています。
Power BIだけでなく、Power Platfrom を FastTrack の
特典対象に追加して欲しいです。
よろしくお願いいたします。

We love the focus on referrals for OneDrive for Business, but we received some regular FastTrack Referrals that should be Non Incentive Referrals instead.

As example: we received a regular referral for a customer in size Extra Small for ODFB. We already deployed SharePoint Online, so there would be no incentive for this left. The customer was asking for file migration to ODFB, but the customer is not eligible for the Migration Benefit.

We would like to understand why the RFA Gateway is approving such RFA and send this as regular referral. We understand that some areas around RFAs/Non-Incentive RFAs are a little cloudy woul dlike to have documentation that outlines and confirms the conditions that a RFA must meet, in order to be considered as a Request for Assistance, as opposed to a Non-Incentive Referral.

So two questions:
1. Are there any other FRP's facing this unclear situation?
2. Could MSFT share documentation that outlines and confirms the RFA conditions?

With the goal of EOM to have MAM policies in use, can we eliminate the need for Intune and Exchange claims.  The effort to get a client to implement MAM is above and beyond Intune or EXO and requires additional focused effort.  In many cases we may not have claims for EXO or Intune with a client. For example, when we migrated to CPOR under our new FPM's guidance we didn't migrate any Exchange claims past 40% so as it is, there is no gain to us to pursue EOM with those clients.  Another example is we have clients that had an initial FRP and our now working with us.  While they have passed 40% in Intune, they are not using MAM.  My ask is to simplify this claim so we can focus on having a MAM policy put in place.  Why does it need to include the other claims which already have payouts.  Can we just be paid for meeting the EOM requirements without the other claims? 

We need to log CPOR for program performance. We have clients that decline to complete the POE for CPOR because we are claiming Copilot or other Modern Workloads all because in partnercenter currently CPOR of Modern work or Security workloads is called Security Usage Incentive this is confusing for the client! please rename the partnercenter ability to CPOR to something more generic like CPOR for Modern Work/Security or something but not only "Security Usage Incentive"     many thanks

Why not have automated forms sent out to partners after a certain period of time to provide feedback on a referral? 

Hi team, regarding the Modern Work Deployment Vouchers we are seeing a lot of delay in customers deciding the affiliate partner for whom to give the voucher. This results in delay of activating the voucher and getting the deployment activities ongoing. Some customer segments have more delays than others, for example critical infrastructure related companies or government entities. Public sector overall is usually slower and resources in the customer side are really thin. This affects gravely in the project activities and we run great risk in not being able to deliver within the timeline because of customer resourcing. For better program experience for partners and better success for deployment activities one idea would be to extend the initial standard voucher deadlines for these kind of customers. The current possible extension of 2 months through request to the program team would come on top of this.

Referral team does a poor job differentiating between FastTrack referral and Standard referrals. I have received a FastTrack referral that clearly stated in the case history "not a FastTrack assistance".