Jeff Teper, corporate vice president of Microsoft 365 collaboration, doesn’t believe there’s a product in tech that offers as many partner opportunities as Microsoft will create with its Teams collaboration app in the next five years.
Teams, which launched in 2017, is growing faster than just about any other product that Microsoft has created, and the company continues to innovate very quickly for both end users and developers, according to Teper.
That equates to a lot more opportunities for partners, he said.
“There’s no better way for partners to make money right now than to help organizations retool their real estate, their employees and their applications for the hybrid workplace,” Teper told CRN. “If I was talking to the CEO of any one of our partners, I would say, ‘Ride the wave and respond to the need of the hybrid workplace.’ And it’s going to touch facilities, apps and employees.”
Jeff Teper, corporate vice president of Microsoft 365 collaboration, tells CRN why there's not a product in tech that offers as many opportunities as Microsoft will create with its Teams collaboration app in the next five years
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who’s been absorbed in the technology giant’s “partner-first” culture for nearly 30 years, spends a lot of time contemplating how solution providers are impacted by every decision the company makes.
“One of the things that I want to design in our core is whether it’s the move from license to consumption or license to subscriptions what is the partner opportunity,” Nadella said in an exclusive interview with CRN. “We want to [know] from day one in any change we make whether it’s a program change or business model change what does it mean for partners?”
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who’s been absorbed in the technology giant’s “partner-first” culture for nearly 30 years, spends a lot of time contemplating how solution providers are impacted by every decision the company makes.
“One of the things that I want to design in our core is whether it’s the move from license to consumption or license to subscriptions what is the partner opportunity,” Nadella said in an exclusive interview with CRN. “We want to [know] from day one in any change we make whether it’s a program change or business model change, what does it mean for partners?”
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