The Microsoft Partner Network announced the 2025 Partner of the Year Awards. This post highlights the 2025 winners and finalists of the business applications category.
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Stijn Geeroms shares insights on Cegeka, the company that Microsoft awarded as Partner of the Year for supply chain.
The Partner Enablement Workshop, with sessions from Microsoft executives, industry leaders, and partners, brought focus to what it means to thrive in the AI era.
Microsoft’s Eric Fink discusses the increased integration across the Microsoft product stack.
Microsoft’s Kyle Richardson defines three key patterns that Microsoft is focused on as it continues developing in the era of AI.
Microsoft’s Sanju Nair encourages partners to get familiar with building agents, as Copilot Studio has been added to every AI workload for partners.
Seth Bacon and Olga Karpman review the benefits of MCP, such as increased user adoption and improved scaling capabilities.
Microsoft’s Tafara Pulse shares three ways that partners can deepen engagement through the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program.
Microsoft’s Eric Fink explains the role that agent consumption and Copilot Studio license sales play in overall revenue growth for partners, with Copilot Studio seeing 4x the amount of revenue growth in FY25.
C5 Insights’ Geoff Ables discusses his company’s journey adopting AI early on and why organizations should invest in AI.
MAICPP Director, Steve Thomas, outlines the evolution to the program to include generative AI and agent workloads.
RSM’s Mike Gillis provides suggestions on areas that could be improved for Microsoft to better support partners.
Microsoft’s Eric Fink speaks to Business Central’s revenue growth and how securing Copilot Studio ACR could benefit other products.
Microsoft’s Lori Borg encourages business leaders to embrace AI to activate the culture shift of AI across organizations.
Docusign’s Chris Maddox defines the company’s AI frameworks that back two of its offerings, Intelligent Agreement Management and Navigator.
Satish Thomas describes how Microsoft is working toward developing Dynamics 365 as the most agent-ready business application.
Steve Thomas describes how Microsoft’s Partner Program encourages the concept of the frontier firm for further market opportunities.
During the keynote session, Microsoft’s Swamy Narayana reviewed Microsoft’s Success by Design program.
Microsoft’s Alex Pombo explores how AI has become so disruptive in just two years, and outlines why this is important for customers and partners.
Microsoft’s Tafara Pulse explains that being a frontier firm involves embracing AI across business processes to get the most value.