In this section:
What are the Desktop Deployment Planning Services (DDPS)?
Why get involved?
Who can participate?
DDPS process (brief overview)
What are the DDPS engagement types?
What are the DDPS payment rates?
Desktop
Deployment Planning Services is a Software
Assurance Packaged Services Benefit that offers pre-deployment planning designed to help guide
customers through deployment and business value planning
stages of Desktop implementation.
Packaged Services engagements are conducted by qualified
DDPS partners who share best practices, analyze their
customers' organization environment and help create
comprehensive deployment and implementation plans. Partners
get compensated for delivering these pre-defined services
that also open the door to downstream deployment services
that will help grow the partners business.
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Microsoft pays eligible partners to deliver Desktop
Deployment Planning Sessions to entitled Software Assurance
Benefit customers. As a DDPS service provider, partners
will receive tools, training and best practices developed by
Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS). Additionally, DDPS can open
the door for new business and/or strengthen existing
customer relationships.
A customer's software lifecycle is a continuous process
often involving three phases: a purchase decision,
deployment, and adoption of the technology by end users.
The partner's efficiency and expertise in delivering the
projected business value builds trust in the partner's role
as their deployment and planning consultant and helps speed
up the software lifecycle - bringing partners more business,
more frequently.
Learn more about the value of DDPS
to partners and customers.
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Microsoft partners enrolled in the Microsoft Partner
Program can apply to be an approved DDPS partner.
Learn more about
eligibility, prerequisites, and how to register.
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To successfully navigate through DDPS from learning
about the program, to technical and sales readiness, through
conducting engagements and getting paid,
view the DDPS
Visual Guide.
This guide leads you through the entire DDPS
process from A to Z. The process at a high level includes:
- Learning About DDPS:
Learn about DDPS including partner requirements and prerequisites, Software
Assurance Benefits, and Packaged Services.
Technical
Readiness:
Get ready with DDPS technical training resources and tools.
:
To register for DDPS, visit
https://iwsolve.partners.extranet.microsoft.com.
Make sure to go through
DDPS registration with the appropriate prerequisites upfront.
Finding & Engaging the Customer:
Find
customers, look at their entitlements and see how the
partner/customer connection works.
Conducting Engagements:
Conduct the DDPS
engagement, including setting the scope of work, conducting
the deployment planning session and completing deliverables.
Getting Paid:
Wrap up the engagement by completing the required deliverables and follow
the steps to get paid promptly.
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DDPS offers 1, 3, 5, 10, and 15 day engagement types. The
following table includes a short summary of what partners
will offer to the customer during each engagement type.
Get started with DDPS
technical readiness materials now.
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The rates of payment are detailed in the Terms and
Conditions document that partners sign during the DDPS registration
- viewing and signing the Terms and Conditions
is outlined in the DDPS registration
instructions. The rates have been set
by Microsoft with input from Microsoft field and partners.
These rates are reviewed by Microsoft annually,
and Microsoft advises that DDPS approved partners review the
rates outlined in the Terms & Conditions prior to delivering
an engagement.
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