Forum Discussion
ISV Offering SaaS vs On-Prem
Hi all,
We are a partner and have some apps on the marketplace (appsource) for customers to download. We would like to offer the same apps for on-premise deplyments as well.
How would we go about object numbers and customers' licenses? How do we add our object id range we develop in to be part of the customers' license?
Thanks in advance!
- JillArmourMicrosoft
Community Manager
I have forwarded this to the team and will post their response when I receive it. Thanks for being part of the community.
- JillArmourMicrosoft
This is what the team came back to me with:
The commercial marketplace is designed for cloud licensing only. It doesn’t support On-Prem licensing and doesn’t recognize such licenses in a buy-flow process. Additional details below explain that answer, also references areas of “On Prem” being mentioned in AppSource ISV offers.
Transact: Designed for products in the cloud.
- A 3P solution built upon a first-party D365 or Power product, the first-party license is part of the fulfillment of a transacted offer. In this case, the customer must either: 1. Currently possess the appropriate cloud license, which buy-flow detects. 2. Acquire the cloud product license through the buy-flow, when one isn’t found.
- LM: License Management in the buy-flow only recognizes cloud licenses, it will not know a customer may have any type of On-Prem license.
Non-transact: Designed to allow ISVs to advertise/merchandise, generate interest, and potentially fulfill through their own channels.
- When you move from transact offer to a Free/Get Now, Contact Me, or Free Trial there are a number of examples that are marketed as On-Prem, that stretches that definition into different ways, such as a product that allows BC customers to connect to devices that are On-Prem, yet the BC license is itself cloud.
- In everyone of these use cases, whatever the use of “On-Prem” is specifically about, the client must discuss those details directly with the ISV, they are not supported by LM in the commercial marketplace.
- A 3P solution built upon a first-party D365 or Power product, the first-party license is part of the fulfillment of a transacted offer. In this case, the customer must either: 1. Currently possess the appropriate cloud license, which buy-flow detects. 2. Acquire the cloud product license through the buy-flow, when one isn’t found.
