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Microsoft 365 Copilot Business: SMB offers and opportunities.
From July 1, Microsoft's new SMB Copilot pricing creates a bigger partner opportunity. Here's what's changed and how to turn it into more sales.

Eliminate the need for disparate communication tools and help your customers to break down cross-department collaboration barriers with Zimbra.
Zimbra offers an integrated suite of solutions for email, calendaring, file sharing, activity streams, social communities, search, and analytics, designed for social, mobile and the cloud. Give your customers a solution that ensures the flexibility to work from virtually anywhere, via computers, tablets, and mobile phones.
With its vibrant open-source community and worldwide partner network, Zimbra is the third largest collaboration provider in the world, and is trusted by more than 5,000 companies, service providers and government agencies.
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Zimbra 9 offers extensible version integrates with Slack, Dropbox and Zoom. Best-in-class security privacy and data sovereignty, and modern responsive UI delivers everyone the best collaboration experience, everywhere.
Get everything you need – chat, video calls, file sharing – all within the familiar Zimbra Web Client.
Open-source power meets enterprise-grade security. Email, chat, video, tasks, files, storage – all in one secure platform. Choose your deployment: cloud, on-premises, or hybrid.
Easily add real-time backup, mobile sync, & other features to your Zimbra Open Source. Affordable options deliver powerful functionality without breaking the bank.
Crayon and Zimbra provide a powerful partnership for success. We offer partners a path to increased revenue with productivity solutions, while Zimbra empowers your customers with a flexible, open-source platform. Deliver exceptional value on-premises or in the cloud.
The Zimbra Partner Program, offered through Crayon, is not just another channel program – it’s a strategic partnership designed to propel both Zimbra and its partners to new heights. With nearly 100% of Zimbra sales globally driven by the partner network, the program prioritizes partner success. You retain complete control over your customer relationships while benefiting from exceptional Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and a robust incentive structure.
Joining the Zimbra Business Service Provider program through Crayon unlocks a treasure trove of benefits designed to fuel your business growth:
Partners attaining Gold or Silver status also gain:
The Zimbra Business Service Provider Program is a licensing program allowing partners to host Zimbra software in their own data centres to provide the collaboration service back to end customers.
The Zimbra VAR program allows partners to provide value-added sales and services to Zimbra end-customers, across multiple geographies and industry verticals. There are three designation levels of VARs: Authorised, Silver and Gold. Please refer to the Program Prerequisites section, in the Zimbra partner Portal, for more details.
There is a monthly minimum spend of 200$ USD for a new BSP partners. Higher tiers like Silver BSP and Gold BSP has a monthly minimum spend of $1000 USD and $5000 USD respectively.
BSP Partners can attain three levels of status with Zimbra, Gold, Silver and Registered Partner.
Partners are required to host their solutions in a multi-tenant environment for end-user organisations to become registered partners as a pre-requisite. For Silver and Gold, there is a higher monthly revenue commitment requirement with stronger eligibility requirements around technical proficiency and customer satisfaction ratings.
Zimbra has both a free Open-Source Edition as well as a premium Network Edition but Zimbra 9, which is the latest version, is exclusively only in Network Edition.
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