Overview of Microsoft commercial marketplace
Cloud marketplaces are transforming the way businesses interact. They offer a convenient channel for customers to search, purchase, and handle applications and services that help them reach their goals. The Microsoft commercial marketplace is a comprehensive B2B marketplace that links mobility customers to partner solutions.
There are several channels that Microsoft offers to help mobility partners commercialize their solutions.
Azure Marketplace is an online shop that helps mobility partners to publish Azure solutions, which create a convenient discovery experience for partner solutions. The Azure solutions include Azure benefit-eligible solutions that count toward your cloud consumption commitment.
GitHub Marketplace helps mobility partners to publish apps and actions that seamlessly integrate with GitHub.
Visual Studio Code Marketplace empowers mobility partners to enhance customers coding experience by adding useful mobility tools. Visual Studio Code extensions let mobility partners add extensions for new languages, debuggers, and tools to customers installations and support their development workflow.
Microsoft AppSource is an online store that allows mobility partners hosts business applications and services. As shown in the connected fleets reference architecture, you can build mobility applications such as financial and insurance applications through the guidance and hosted on Microsoft AppSource. The types of solutions hosted on Microsoft AppSource include Software as a Service (SaaS) apps, Dynamics 365 solutions, Microsoft 365 solutions, and Power Platform solutions.
The value and benefits of Microsoft commercial marketplaces include cost savings, innovation, flexibility, security, and trust. It includes smarter spending where customers can apply eligible purchases towards their organizations Azure cloud commitment and customize offers where partners can create private offers for specific needs for customers. For more information on the Microsoft Commercial Marketplace, see the official documentation.