Direct vs Indirect CSP: What Actually Changes for Your Business

Reading Time: < 1 minute“If I move to indirect, do I lose the automation I have built?” It is the question we hear most often from partners thinking about the change.

Your customers already expect self-service.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteCustomers just assumed it would exist. And when it did, the taxi companies that required a phone call started losing customers not to a better phone call, but to a different model entirely.

The CSP Billing Audit: 5 Numbers Every BC Partner Should Track

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMost revenue leakage in a CSP practice does not announce itself. There is no failed transaction, no system error, no alert.

Work 365 is Heading to Directions NA 2026

Reading Time: < 1 minuteDirections North America is the one event in the Business Central calendar where the whole community shows up.

Beyond Automation: How Enterprise Microsoft CSPs Maintain Control at Global Scale

Reading Time: < 1 minuteEnterprise Microsoft CSPs face a fundamentally different set of challenges than their smaller counterparts. You are not trying to get billing off spreadsheets.

PSA Billing Is the Start, Not the End of CSP Billing Automation

Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor most Microsoft partners, your PSA is the operational backbone of your business. It tracks work, manages contracts, and generates invoices.

NCE, MCA, EST: Why Your CSP Platform Must Evolve Faster

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMicrosoft ships a policy update. Partner Center changes a workflow. Your billing team inherits a new operational edge case — and somewhere downstream, a customer gets a surprise on their invoice, your margin takes a quiet hit, and someone on your team spends three days in a spreadsheet figuring out why.

How Abakion Automated CSP Licensing and Billing with Work 365

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs Microsoft partners grow their cloud businesses, operational complexity grows with them.

Billing Schedules in CSP Billing: The Missing Layer Between Contracts and Invoices

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you’ve ever finished monthly billing and still felt uneasy, like something slipped through, you’re not alone.

Build vs Buy: Why Infinity Group Chose Work 365 to Scale CSP Billing

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen Microsoft makes a change to its commercial programs, it rarely reverses course. NCE. GDAP. Monthly billing enforcement. Auto-renewal defaults. License-based services. Usage-driven pricing.