Commercial marketplace online stores
When Microsoft partners add their solutions to the commercial marketplace, one way that customers can find their products and services is by visiting the online stores. You decide to go to the commercial marketplace documentation to learn more.
Azure Marketplace
As you read the documentation, you learn that Azure Marketplace is the Microsoft online store for IT solutions. It contains technical software and services that are certified to run on Microsoft Azure.
Azure Marketplace has thousands of solutions that are made to extend directly into users’ Azure infrastructure. Products in this storefront include Azure building blocks, digital cloud services, finished software solutions, and consulting and managed services. Products and services are organized by category and can be filtered, making it easy for customers to find the right app or service.
Your customers can access the Azure Marketplace online store by visiting https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com.
Screenshots of the Azure Marketplace web storefront.
Because Azure Marketplace is a part of Azure, your customers can also access these solutions through the Azure portal. Whenever Azure users select Create a resource on the Azure portal homepage, they’re accessing solutions from Azure Marketplace.
Screenshots from the in-product version of Azure Marketplace in the Azure portal.
Both the online store and the Azure portal experiences help customers quickly find, try, buy, and deploy solutions to Azure online in minutes.
In addition to the cloud products and services available through both the online store and the portal, the Azure Marketplace online store also lists consulting and managed services offered by Microsoft partners to help customers in myriad areas including analytics, DevOps, migration, and security.
Microsoft AppSource
Microsoft AppSource contains business software that extends directly into Azure, Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, and the Power Platform. Microsoft AppSource also contains web applications, which are hosted on the cloud and accessed over the internet. Solutions are organized by category and industry and can be filtered, making it simple for customers to find the right app or service.
Your customers can access the Microsoft AppSource online store by visiting https://appsource.microsoft.com.
Screenshots of the Microsoft AppSource online store.
AppSource apps are also available within Microsoft products by selecting Get more apps from the homepage in Dynamics 365, Get apps in Power BI, Apps in Teams, and Insert>Get Add-ins in Microsoft 365 products (excluding Teams).
Example of the Microsoft AppSource in-product experience from Power BI.
In addition to the cloud products that are available through the online store and in-product experiences, Microsoft AppSource also lists consulting services provided by Microsoft partners. AppSource consulting services are organized by industry, service type, location, and Microsoft product type.
Summary
Now that you have a better understanding of the online stores and the applications and services they contain, you're convinced that your future customers will be able to find your solutions when you choose to join the commercial marketplace. Next, you turn your attention to learning more about the different ways you can list your products in Microsoft AppSource and Azure Marketplace.