The go to market strategy for Microsoft’s Business Applications for the company’s fiscal year 2022 (FY22) places a significant amount of focus on the company’s Digital Sales Teams as well as the segmentation and verticalization of the Enterprise market. New selling tools and technologies, a strengthened worldwide workforce to assist sellers, and ambitious new targets targeted at speeding market share increases are all things that we can anticipate seeing in the near future.
Enterprise acceleration
Microsoft has expanded their SMC classifications to include two more tiers: major and strategic. They have increased the number of field salespeople to accounts and linked the sellers with the situations that are most important to the sector, which fuels their sales plays. Manufacturing, health care, banking and financial services, retail and consumer packaged goods are some of the target industries. Other industries may also be targeted.
Additional financing programmes have been made available by Microsoft in relation to presales accelerator activities such as Catalyst Envisioning Workshops, and even post-implementation subsidies have been made available for bigger clients who are still in the process of deployment. Additionally, Microsoft has increased the number of teams working on cloud acquisition and concierge programmes in order to provide partners with the ability to strengthen their engagements with Microsoft sales and support teams.
Digital sales (SMB)
The number of people working in digital sales at Microsoft has expanded dramatically during the past several years. This group was formerly known as the SMB Inside Sales Team, and their mission has always been to maximise the positive impact they have on customers, provide in-depth expertise, and maximise potential at scale. The general manager of the Demand Response and Customer Success Team, Mark Slater, has been given the responsibility of leading the worldwide project to simplify the creation of leads and demand as well as the subsequent response across a variety of channels. It is quite a difficult process to link those leads with AI-based lead scoring and vendor tele-sales when demand response professionals are located in countries such as Australia, Ireland, the United States, and more. The success of the partners’ efforts to develop new income streams is directly dependent on the Microsoft regional teams in their respective regions.
Goal-setting
High expectations are inevitable as a result of all this investment, and Microsoft has established some challenging targets for itself. The SMC teams have witnessed several field sellers leaving Microsoft and going on to other companies. The difficulty of achieving double-digit growth places an incredible amount of pressure on Microsoft sellers and the partners who are responsible for reselling Microsoft’s products. In order to reach and surpass these targets, Microsoft field sellers will need to cooperate closely with partners that possess in-depth product expertise in order to speed up the process of closing agreements.
Microsoft was more focused on boosting its market share, despite the greater emphasis that has been placed on growth. According to their own estimates, their rate of expansion is six percentage points higher than that of their main competitors. The Business Applications line and the Security capabilities that Microsoft provides are two major differentiators that we see for the company as it fights against Amazon (AWS) and Google for market share in the cloud computing sector. Amazon Web Services and Google just do not have the breadth of products necessary to meet the requirements of corporate enterprises, such as field service-enabled devices, data loss prevention, and security, in the same way that Microsoft does. Microsoft is quickly becoming more than simply an online mailbox because to the maturation of programmes such as Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 Field Service, and Dynamics 365 Project Operations. These products position Microsoft as a best-of-breed app builder.
Throughout a nutshell, the goal of Microsoft’s strategy for the fiscal year 2022 (FY22) was to provide the appropriate resources to the appropriate customers at the appropriate moment in the course of their digital transformation journeys. Microsoft has been putting its money where its mouth is by increasing the number of financing programmes it makes accessible to its partners and acquiring the people it needs to allow its partners to be successful.
Based in Colorado, Maria Davis is best known for her contributions to media marketing, translation and writing. She is currently working as a CX Manager for Routeget Technologies. She entered the writing world to explore her passion for contrastive linguistics, adaptation and lexicography. Ava also enjoys skiing, social media management and vegan parties.
Based in Colorado, Maria Davis is best known for her contributions to media marketing, translation and writing. She is currently working as a CX Manager for Routeget Technologies. She entered the writing world to explore her passion for contrastive linguistics, adaptation and lexicography. Ava also enjoys skiing, social media management and vegan parties.
