Microsoft offers partners up to $110,000 end-of-year cloud incentives

Sprint to the Finish payments available until the end of Microsoft's financial year

Microsoft is offering its partners up to $110,000 (£77,760) worth of cloud incentives between now and the end of its financial year.

The Sprint to the Finish incentive applies to selected SKUs of Office 365 and CRM Online before 30 June this year, the end of Microsoft's fiscal year.

For Office 365, partners can earn up to $50 cashback per seat when sold on its Open licensing programme or the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) programme. The maximum pay out per partner for this incentive is $10,000.

On top of this, partners can earn up to $100,000 through a CRM Online incentive, which allows partners to earn $120 cashback per seat.

Office 365 and CRM Online have been key areas of focus for Microsoft in recent months, along with other cloud offerings such as Azure.

In Microsoft's Q2, which ended on 31 December, Office 365 revenue grew almost 70 per cent in constant currency, while Dynamics CRM Online seats more than doubled year on year for the fifth quarter in a row.

Microsoft said that the offers provide a "significant" opportunity to earn additional rewards and added: "There's never been a better time to identify opportunities to sell multiple cloud services to customers."