The marketplace opportunity for your organization
The marketplace offers a centralized view of cloud investments, helping organizations increase efficiency, buy with confidence, and spend smarter. As technology needs expand beyond IT, the marketplace supports business leaders and the buying office in meeting the demands for innovation, while balancing business requirements.
The commercial marketplace offers valuable support for various roles in your organization:
IT roles: IT decision makers, or those involved in technology buying decisions, are under increased pressure to optimize budgets and effectively align teams.
Business leaders: Business leaders face unprecedented pressure to innovate faster than ever and require easy access to solutions that address both current and future challenges.
Buying office: As cloud budgets grow, buying offices and procurement teams play a crucial role in managing costs and maximizing investments.
For IT professionals
IT teams can simplify their organization's cloud portfolio and evaluate investments based on consumption. Buy confidently knowing that vendor solutions are prequalified for seamless deployment on Azure.
Often, IT managers secure better pricing by locking in vendors for multiple years. For upcoming renewals or to migrate on-premises solutions with BYOL (bring your own license), evaluate if the vendor offers the solution in the marketplace. If so, consider shifting that workload to the marketplace.
With the commercial marketplace, you can:
See a unified view
Evaluate your cloud portfolio based on consumption, allowing flexibility to turn solutions on and off as business needs change. You can also consolidate purchases into your Azure invoice for a unified view of your cloud investments.
Reduce time-to-value
Know that vendor solutions acquired through Azure using the marketplace are preconfigured for seamless deployment and adhere to Microsoft certification policies.
Get more for your budget
With a holistic view of your Azure portfolio, you can centralize your investments and optimize consumption. Additionally, if the solution is Azure benefit eligible, the purchase counts towards your cloud consumption commitment, giving you more value for your budget.
For business leaders
In today's fast-paced business environment, the pressure to accelerate innovation is immense. Speed-to-market is crucial for staying ahead of the competition, especially with the increasing demand for niche industry solutions.
Shop the marketplace to evaluate solutions tailored to your business needs. With thousands of solutions available, organizations can access free solutions to trial, start with a proof-of-concept, or buy a few low-cost licenses for teams to evaluate before making a larger investment.
With the commercial marketplace, you can:
Align teams
Effectively align your teams through the marketplace. Business leaders can centralize the tools needed to solve business challenges. Teams can test solutions with limited licenses and make well-informed investments after thorough evaluation.
Unlock data
The proliferation of SaaS presents a significant challenge today, and the potential of cloud services can't be fully realized without a unified data strategy. By consolidating solutions through the marketplace, business leaders can eliminate fragmentation and verify solutions will work on Azure to avoid data silos.
Shop one catalog
Commercial marketplace offers Microsoft partner solutions that include everything from infrastructure, AI solutions, to industry-specific applications, and many more. This is your one-stop shop for all that you'll need for Azure-based solutions to grow your business
For procurement
Procurement teams or members in the buying office can optimize cloud investments by consolidating purchases through the marketplace. If your organization has a cloud consumption commitment, it's advantageous to cross-reference Azure benefit-eligible vendor solutions available on the marketplace.
With Microsoft commercial marketplace, your organization can achieve tremendous cost savings and enhance the efficiency of your cloud investments.
With the commercial marketplace, you can:
Maximize investments
Microsoft automatically counts eligible purchases towards your organization's Azure consumption commitment. Once this commitment is fulfilled, your organization earns discounts on Azure infrastructure.
Streamline vendor onboarding
Microsoft pre-vets all solutions listed on the marketplace. When an organization makes a purchase, they're buying from Microsoft and can eliminate the overhead of vendor onboarding.
Simplify purchasing
Marketplace purchases are seamlessly included in the Azure invoice through the customer agreement. Adjust based on usage to make the most of your investments.
Next steps
Start finding solutions your organization needs or define your procurement strategy as it relates to the marketplace.