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Key Takeaways:

• Intelligent ResOps is an upsell, not a new logo: Any customer already on Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 is a warm conversation and new deals are an opportunity to attach from day one.
• The Microsoft 365 intelligence conversation is also a migration catalyst: It gives you a business-driven reason to move customers from Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 to Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365, up to 2x+ average revenue uplift per customer.
• AI Undo is the sharpest competitive differentiator: No other vendor can actually roll back AI-driven changes. Competitors can monitor or detect, but only Intelligent ResOps can undo.
• Once data classification and AI tracking are running, customers are deeply embedded: Churn risk drops, and renewal conversations become expansion conversations.
• Four use cases, one conversation: Each one opens a billable services engagement, from compliance assessments to AI governance reviews to storage cost reduction.
• Service providers have the same opportunity: Delivered as a managed service. Higher recurring revenue per tenant and stronger tenant stickiness are the key outcomes.
• Your customers have Microsoft 365 backup covered: What they don’t have is the intelligence to act on it, and that’s exactly where your next conversation starts.

You know this story well. An IT admin gets asked where sensitive data lives across SharePoint and Teams. A compliance team scrambles before an audit. A Copilot rollout stalls because nobody can answer what the agent can actually see. And after an AI agent touches files overnight, there’s no clean way to undo exactly what changed.

Backup and recovery is working. Context and controls aren’t in place.

That’s the problem Veeam Intelligent ResOps for Microsoft 365 was built to solve. Now that it’s available, there’s a real revenue opportunity for partners who move on it. Let me walk you through what matters most.

What Veeam Intelligent ResOps for Microsoft 365 Actually Is

Let’s be clear on what this is and what it isn’t. Veeam Intelligent ResOps for Microsoft 365 is an add-on to Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365. It’s not a standalone product. It’s not a rip-and-replace. It gets your customers’ data ready for AI, audits, and incidents by bringing contextual intelligence and controls across their entire Microsoft 365 estate.

It’s powered by the DataAI Command Graph, the only intelligence layer that continuously connects Microsoft 365 data, AI agents, permissions, access, and backup status in one place.

Think of it as the answer to every question your customers can’t confidently answer today:

• Which files are sensitive, and which carry GDPR, HIPAA, or SOX retention requirements?
• Which data is redundant, obsolete, or trivial and costing money to protect?
• Which AI agents have access to what, and what have they been doing with it?
• When something goes wrong, what changed, and how do you undo it?

Without those answers, your customers are making protection decisions blind. Intelligent ResOps changes that.

Four Use Cases to Lead With

Minimize Compliance Overhead

Sensitive data is scattered across SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Exchange and most customers have no real picture of where it all lives or who can access it. Add Copilot into the mix, and this instantaneously becomes a compliance and governance problem.

Intelligent ResOps gives customers the visibility they’ve been missing:

• Discover, classify and label files with sensitive data across the Microsoft 365 data estate.
• Leverage graph powered context and policies to detect toxic combination of risk.
• Assess data controls from retention, sovereignty, and access to protection.

Customers who start using data classification become loyal. They’re platform-dependent in the best sense: Harder to displace, more likely to expand, and that renewal conversation quickly evolves into one on based on expansion.

Accelerate AI Projects Safely

Customers are under pressure to roll out Copilot and AI agents safely, and most don’t have the visibility to do it with confidence. This is where Intelligent ResOps extends resilience into AI adoption by:

• Discovering AI agents, users and the sensitive data they can access.
• Govern AI data access with granular file access intelligence, labeling and quarantine.
• Automatically UNDO AI-driven changes to data including file modification for deletion.

The competitive reality is straightforward: No other vendor can actually undo an AI mistake. Competitors can monitor or detect at best. Intelligent ResOps can show a customer exactly what AI agents are touching in their Microsoft 365 environment right now, before anything goes wrong. That’s a conversation that doesn’t even need backup as the entry point.

Reduce Storage Costs

This is the one you can walk into almost any account with. Most Microsoft 365 environments are carrying a significant volume of redundant, obsolete, and trivial files, and customers are paying to protect all of it. When the storage bill keeps climbing and nobody has a good answer, this is your opening.

Intelligent ResOps addresses this by:

• Finding duplicate and near-duplicate files.
• Flags obsolete files with no owner, access, or reason to keep.
• Automatically quarantine files to minimize ROT safely.

The win is immediate, easy to demonstrate live, and creates a natural path into the sensitive data conversation once the cleanup begins.

Drive Minimal Viable Recovery, Fast

Most customers assume their critical data is backed up, but do they know where to start recovery? Doubtful. Intelligent ResOps confirms their most critical data is genuinely recoverable and guides you right to it when it counts. The DataAI Command Graph links production and backup data in one place, connecting data context to backup coverage to identify which business-critical data is actually backed up, where the gaps are, and what needs to be prioritized when something goes wrong.

Intelligent ResOps gives IT teams the clarity to:

• Discover business-critical and sensitive data across Microsoft 365 before and incident happens.
• Plan data backup strategy and expose coverage gaps based on data value.
• Prioritize recovery of business-critical data to enable minimum viable recovery, fast.

This is the use case that gives them the confidence to know what data to recover first and keep disruption short.

Where the Partner Revenue Sits

Intelligent ResOps sits squarely within Veeam’s Command the Expand initiative. The motion is simple: attach it to existing Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 customers, or package it with new deals to drive bigger opportunities from day one.

Your best pipeline is already in your accounts

This is worth repeating: You don’t need new logos for this. With nearly 11,000 organizations globally on Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365, the pipeline is already in your existing base:

• No new logos needed.
• Any existing Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 customer is a warm conversation.
• High attach rate potential with a short sales cycle.
• Attach to new Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 deals at point of sale. Bigger deals, same conversations.

Partners with customers in regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, and public sector) have a particularly strong entry point given the compliance and audit pressure those customers already feel.

There’s an Uplevel Play Here Too

If you have customers still on Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Intelligent ResOps gives you a business-driven reason to have the modernization conversation. One that feels like a value discussion, not a forced upgrade.

• Up to 2x+ average revenue uplift per customer moving to Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365.
• The intelligence layer gives customers a reason to move that makes sense to them.
• One motion and account with significantly more revenue.

It Opens New Buying Centers

Close the IT-led deal first, then follow the conversation deeper into the account. Intelligent ResOps naturally opens doors beyond the backup admin:

• Data classification and AI governance pull in IT Directors and Heads of Infrastructure.
• Those stakeholders control the broader platform and data governance budget.
• Microsoft 365 intelligence leads naturally into broader data governance and AI management conversations, pulling partners further into the Veeam portfolio.

This is how a backup conversation becomes a platform relationship.

The Value-Added Services Attach Play

Every use case creates a natural opening for billable services. The right services mix depends on your practice and your customer. Here are some examples to consider:

• Intelligent ResOps implementation and onboarding: Get customers live and extracting value from day one.
• Microsoft 365 Data Intelligence Assessment: Surfaces ROT, sensitive data, AI agent exposure, and compliance gaps in one engagement.
• Compliance readiness assessment: Retention policy mapping, GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX alignment, with audit-ready reporting across a variety of compliance requirements.
• AI readiness and governance review: Maps what AI agents are accessing, puts guardrails in place before issues arise, and closes the governance gap on fast Copilot rollouts.

VCSP Partners: The Managed Service Opportunity

The use cases above apply equally to Veeam Cloud and Service Provider (VCSP) partners, delivered through managed services and professional services engagements. For VCSPs already delivering Microsoft 365 Backup as a Service on Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365, Intelligent ResOps is a premium tier on top of the resilience services you are already offering. VCSP availability is coming soon. In the meantime, here’s where the opportunity will sit, and how to get your team ready.

Here is where the opportunity sits:

Enhance your existing managed services: Intelligent ResOps strengthens what you already deliver by adding contextual intelligence into customer data, protection gaps, and recovery priorities. The use case Drive Minimum Viable Recovery, Fast is the natural starting point. It makes your existing backup service smarter without changing the motion.

Create new services opportunities. Each use case opens a billable engagement:

• Minimize Compliance Overhead: Data governance and compliance engagements that surface sensitive and regulated data and assess how it is accessed and managed.
• Accelerate AI Projects Safely: AI readiness and resilience engagements that assess AI agents, what they can access, potential oversharing, and resilience against unwanted AI-driven changes.
• Reduce Storage Costs: Data optimization engagements that identify redundant, obsolete, and trivial data and safely quarantine it for review, helping reduce Microsoft 365 production and backup storage costs.
• Drive Minimum Viable Recovery, Fast: Backup intelligence engagements that identify critical data and protection gaps to guide backup and recovery priorities.

• Improve Service Delivery. The built-in intelligence agent reduces the manual investigation effort required to answer complex questions across customer data, access, AI and protection, so your team spends less time digging for answers and more time delivering.

Get Started

Lead with IT and backup admins. This deal moves faster without security and compliance stakeholders in the room early. If they enter the conversation on their own, shift the framing toward risk exposure and regulatory requirements. For VCSP partners, get your team ready now with the training available in the Veeam Intelligent ResOps for Microsoft 365 toolkit on the ProPartner Portal, so you’re set to move the moment VCSP availability opens up.

All enablement resources, demos, and the deal registration guide are available in the Veeam Intelligent ResOps for Microsoft 365 toolkit on the ProPartner Portal.

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