Partnerships

Credentials,
not a logo wall.

Two Microsoft accreditations that change what we can actually do for a client — and one paragraph on what they don't mean.

We hold them because the advice has to survive contact with a real tenant. When the recommendation is Microsoft, we can price it, provision it, and stand behind it — instead of handing the work to a reseller who wasn't in the room.

The credentials

What we hold,
stated plainly.

Both are current, both are direct with Microsoft, and both are verifiable — ask and we'll send the Partner Center record.

Microsoft Cloud Partner Program Active

Microsoft Cloud Partner

Membership in Microsoft's partner program — the accreditation that puts us inside Microsoft's technical, roadmap, and support channels rather than outside them.

Scope
Azure, Microsoft 365, Copilot, Power Platform
Access
Partner technical resources, roadmap briefings, escalation paths
Means for you
Advice benchmarked against Microsoft's reference architecture, not a vendor deck
Cloud Solution Provider Active

Microsoft CSP

Authorization to sell, provision, bill and support Microsoft cloud licenses directly — so procurement stops being a separate project with a separate vendor.

Scope
Microsoft 365, Azure, Copilot licensing and subscriptions
Access
Tenant provisioning, consumption visibility, first-line support
Means for you
One contract, one invoice, and the people who set the strategy still own the outcome
Verification

Our Microsoft Partner ID is available on request — quotable on any RFP, security questionnaire, or procurement form.

What it changes

Four things a client
actually notices.

01

Licenses you can buy through us.

Procurement

Microsoft 365, Azure and Copilot procured, billed and supported under one agreement. The strategy conversation and the purchase order stop being two separate relationships.

02

One party owns the result.

Accountability

Most Microsoft programs fail in the handoff — advisor recommends, reseller sells, integrator builds, nobody answers for the outcome. Holding CSP means we don't get to point sideways.

03

Tenant work done against the reference architecture.

Build quality

Identity, licensing model, data boundaries and Copilot readiness configured the way Microsoft documents it — so the next audit, migration or acquisition doesn't reopen the decision.

04

Consumption is a standing agenda item.

Cost

CSP gives us visibility into what the estate actually consumes. We treat spend drift as an operating problem with an owner, not a line item you discover at renewal.

The limits

What an accreditation
is not.

01

A badge is not a strategy.

Nobody's growth ceiling was ever a licensing problem. The credential is a floor — it says the execution can be trusted, not that the diagnosis has been done.

02

We are advisory first, not reseller first.

The license margin is not the business. If the right answer is fewer seats, a different platform, or no software at all, that is the answer you'll get in writing.

03

We will say when Microsoft isn't the answer.

Being inside the partner program makes us better at knowing where it stops. A recommendation you can't refuse isn't advice.

The next step
ADVANCE CONSULTING GROUP MICROSOFT CLOUD PARTNER — CSP

Bring the tenant.
We'll bring the accountability.

Book a 30-minute conversation
Verification

Ask for the record.

We'll send the Microsoft Partner ID and the Partner Center record — quotable on any RFP, security questionnaire, or procurement form.

Nothing else — this doesn't add you to a list.