First of all would like to thank our partners for the energy and momentum are you traveling with Office 365. FY13 Q3 additions was our strongest quarter ever with net seat up to five times compared to the previous year. And as you probably have heard, we have more than 150,000 + registered partner to sell Office 365 and other Microsoft cloud services. Since February when we I have been on the road, GA Office 365 and hearing firsthand about the great business leads to partners and customers see with Office 365 ProPlus, Exchange online, Office 365 midsize business premium meeting with partners from all over the world, SharePoint online and Lync online such as devices and services, opening of new scenarios in collaboration, To embrace Exchange and communication.
This week on the worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) we are announcing several updates demonstrate the continued growth of the Office 365 and new opportunities for partners.
With Office 365 Pension Fund Manager partner the opportunity, through Office 365 open WPC programme last year announced. In response to partner feedback, it provided an opportunity, the billing relationship with their customers - top of the range sales and in advance margin record to have. Now, we will be announcing the expansion of the program open Office 365 ProPlus, Exchange online, business, Government, academic offer and more.
These new SKUs supplement that offers Office 365 medium-sized companies, the open program initiated in March 2013 in life and offer more flexibility and choice for customers and partners in their move to the cloud. Also we more than 100 million to invest $ partner activation, except for margins and channel incentives.
The move to the cloud represents a new era of the partner opportunity. What is only the beginning of clients to the cloud and partners continue to have this relationship to customers, to support the Office 365 with their service offerings. And we will continue on our intention and own the customer relationship for partners deliver.
And with part of the Office family whining now, we have enormous dynamism in social enterprises and the interest of customers and partners as they can start, take advantage of new tools and features. The jammers affiliate program-enable FY14 focuses the activation of Microsoft partners to sell, deliver and whining to integrate. There are also education and best practice guides help reach partner to deliver value across your organization, called around the Yammer method, which brings social travel network customer success and social enterprises.
Announced yesterday we BI to Office 365, makes a self-service-business intelligence (BI) solution, the functionality for analysis and visualization for deeper business insight into both Excel and the power to work together and scale in a trusted cloud environment with Office 365 combines. Connection with data in the cloud, users can power-BI for Office 365 or expand their existing on-premise data sources and systems quickly build and deploy self-service BI solutions.
Power BI for Office 365 allows customers to better results with your own data:
Analysis and insight into appealing Visual formats either indoors or in the cloud from Excel to present.
Percentage reports and records online with content that is always up to date.
Ask questions of your data by using natural language search and immediately receive a reply through interactive tables, charts and graphs.
Access and stay with data and reports from your mobile devices connected, wherever you are.
We know that it's important for them to manage, and enable the collaboration of access to internal data to be in a trusted environment. Customers have access to our BI tools natively in Excel and findings to explore, find answers and can access their data relating to remain where they are. Customers can now for the power-BI for Office 365-preview, come later in this summer at www.office.com/powerbilogin. Watch the Office-News Blogfor more details about the newly launched power-BI.
Based on the success we've seen with Office store, we are 22 new markets with localized Office and SharePoint store fronts, as well as French, German, Spanish and Japanese language introduce apps.
We have already seen strong impulses for the apps in the Office and SharePoint storage, with nearly one million downloads. With Office and SharePoint store, developers have the opportunity to direct Office users through consumer and business audience - with more than to achieve 1 billion Office users around the world, this is a huge untapped market opportunities, to move customers in the cloud. All Office users have access to the store within the Office products and in the store itself, distribution and access, our partner apps make easy and seamless. Looking for more information about our new Office stores and availability of applications in other languages Office-News Blog.
I always appreciate the time I have to connect with our partners at WPC and learn how we can work better with them to better customer service. Feel free to take a look at our Office 365 blog to find out this week, what our partners through Office 365; and even though we just think of Office 365 cloud service, check out the video for a slightly irreverent view.
I'm looking to see what we can accomplish in the next year!
--Kirk Garcia, General Manager, Microsoft Office Division
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