BVPS is designed to help customer Business Decision Makers (BDMs) develop a plan to leverage the strategic value of the Microsoft Information Worker (IW) platform by improving an impactful business process, working with the customer to document, analyze, optimize, justify, sequence, and propose a plan to improve their business using Office System. We provide a reliable, repeatable process for certified BVPS partners to conduct, and be compensated for 3, 5, 10 or 15-day engagements according to the level of their customers' Software Assurance benefits.

You can find out more about this service from https://iwsolve.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/BVPS/

When I tell partners what they should be doing, I like to practice what I preach so I went and did the "Delivering Business Value Planning Services" certification exam 074-674 (which is required to qualify for these engagements) yesterday and passed. I normally complete exams in less than half the time allocated so I thought I could squeeze this into the 1 hour gap in my schedule at TechReady 8 here in Seattle (there is a testing canter onsite for the event). Boy was I wrong about the time estimation for this one so I had to skip reading the last case study (30-40 minutes is allocated to each of the 5 case study's) and just answer the questions. There are no practice tests and I hadn't checked the study guide http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exams/74-674.aspx which says that" This exam has a Case Study format."

So partners, get onto it and customer, leverage those SA benefits...