This month's partner podcast features Umbrellar guests David Howden (CEO) and Alexandr Basan (Head of Product & Commerce) and covers the latest happenings in and around Umbrellar.

Nadia and Dave chat about the recently announced rebranding of the Microsoft Partner Network to the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program as of October this year. Dave shares the reasons why he feels it represents a big step forward in simplifying and consolidating the program and will provide robust, objective measurements of progress for partners.

Alex, Dave and Nadia discuss the reasons behind the small change to billing cycles happening in May and how the new billing preview feature soon to be available for Umbrellar customers is going to make life in the cloud so much easier.

The gang finish off with a public service announcement about Umbrellar Connect's weekly newsletter, where partners can get all the latest on what's happening in NZ tech - and share their own stories to over seven thousand readers every week.