My pleasure! Glad I could help, and thank you for reading. :-)

Thanks, Marc. I worry sometimes that I'm too worried about sounding intelligent, and not worried enough about being understood. You validate me. :-)

Barb, I'm flattered that you find this of interest, and grateful for the conversation. Thanks, as always, for adding your insights!

Thanks for the comment, Sadie, although you give me more credit than I deserve for alluding to the resources/roles needed (perhaps via the confused mix of first-person pronouns I will now say that I employed for just such purpose?). :-) In any event, it's a great dimension to include. I wonder if Stage Five is frequently preceded/precipitated by a key departure on the partner or MSFT side of the relationship, and would love to benchmark this across a broad sample of partners.

Thanks, Nancy, for the idea and your perspective. As my team works on building solutions that are "user-friendly," it helps us to be mindful of your point of view and your competency in creating users who are "solution friendly."

Hi Scott, and thanks for your comment. I haven't gone looking for Amir's dataset specifically, but I would start at the Azure Data Marketplace, where (at last count) there were 169 data sets available, most of them from public-sector sources: https://datamarket.azure.com/browse/data?price=any

Thanks, Becky T! I look forward to hearing of your continued success as well, and was glad you were able to make it to the "Mike is outta here" get-together. See you soon.