Microsoft Teams is the hub for teamwork, bringing together the best of Office 365 to empower customers to chat, meet, share files, and work together with business apps. Starting August 1, 2019, the partner-initiated Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) trial enables you to provide customers who don’t currently have access to Microsoft Teams the ability to experience the full power of modern collaboration and integrated cloud workloads for six months. With this trial, you’ll have access to Partner Center reports that can help you confidently engage with customers throughout the sales and deployment cycle.
Eligibility
The partner-initiated Teams trial is open to new and established Microsoft customers who don’t currently have licenses that include Microsoft Teams (such as Exchange Online and Microsoft 365 Apps Business). This trial is available only through CSP.
Customer benefits
The six-month, partner-initiated trial provides the full Teams experience and functionality, including scenarios that support strategic small and medium business (SMB) customer needs.
- Online file storage
- Document sharing
- Co-authoring
- Chat
- Teams meetings
- Integration with third-party apps
Partner opportunity
With the partner-initiated Teams trial, you can more effectively drive customer acquisition, retention, and upsell with powerful business scenarios.
The trial gives new customers a chance to enjoy the full-featured Microsoft Teams collaboration experience in their everyday work lives. As a result, it provides a natural onramp to transition participants to paid SKUs that include Teams, such as Microsoft 365 Business Standard, Office 365 E3, Office 365 E5, and Microsoft 365 Business Premium.
For established customers, you have the opportunity to grow wallet share by helping customers consolidate their communications stack. Help relieve your customers’ headaches from having to juggle integration and payments to other vendors with a robust consolidated hub for all their communication needs.
How to use it
The partner-initiated Teams trial is a sales tool that can help you identify upsell opportunities by defining business use cases that matter most to your customers. Use the trial period to engage with your customers to identify their needs and business objectives, opening the door to opportunities to offer your value-added advisory and adoption services.
Next step....
Ready to start your trial? Contact your TD SYNNEX Microsoft Cloud team. For more information click here for an FAQ or read our Remote Working Smart Guide here.
