A Microsoft partner in the US is a consultancy credentialed in the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program for delivery on Dynamics 365, Power Platform and Azure — for CX buyers, chiefly Dynamics 365 Customer Insights, Sales, Customer Service and the customer-data workloads that run on Azure. The US ecosystem is vast: global SIs with thousand-person Microsoft practices, Dynamics-heritage mid-market firms, and Power Platform specialists.
Microsoft’s Solutions Partner designations replaced the old Gold/Silver badges and are workload-scoped: a firm can hold Solutions Partner for Business Applications without any Data & AI depth, and vice versa. US evaluation therefore starts with the designation map against your scope — Business Applications for Dynamics, Data & AI for Customer Insights and Azure data work — then specialization and reference depth. This guide covers what Microsoft partners in the US deliver for CX programs, typical costs and how to evaluate; the listings above are filtered to US-serving firms.