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justinroyal
Microsoft
MicrosoftISV Success FAQ: ISV Success benefits vs MAPS
Q: How do ISV Success benefits compare to the benefits an ISV can purchase through the Microsoft Action Pack Subscription (MAPS)?
A: The benefits provided through ISV Success are free and are tailo...
Rsdraig I'm totally in the same boat as you. In our case, we ignored the request to "renew" the ISV for a fee payment in Year 2. I agree with your observations.
We're renewing (and I'm replying for those in a similar position). Its around £1,300 - £1,400 (can't remember), but we get $5,000 of Azure credits, so its a very simple decision for us. There are other direct benefits too, but MAPS pretty much covers us (we're a small ISV).
We did quite a few (about 10) SaaS listings in our first year - they're really easy as there was little change to what we already do. We'll remove about half of them this year and add some more (which will help us qualify to stay in). Though historically we get little in the way of MS referrals, since we overhauled our listings we are getting around 1 inbound enquiry a month - not 'formal' ones via the MS Store (which is so hard to use, its almost impossible), but people who have seen our listings, googled as and made contact.
This year, we're going to build template VMs with our software pre-installed, so will be able to start to list them too. (apologies if I'm using 'proper' MS terms!). Again, this is an easy(ish) step, we've improved the product to self-provision from a license key and we're going to start writing the use of Azure template VMs into our quotes as an option for customers to deploy our solution, but with us still engaged with implementation services.
So, ISV Success is good for us, we're on a 3-5 year plan to make our solution fully self-provisioning (i.e. 'buy it now'), but it can be broken down into manageable steps (SaaS listings, template Azure VM + services, etc).
Sorry, I have digressed from the original question and my original point, but it has taken a lot of reading and fitting our plans into/around ISV success, but we are seeing the benefits beyond the direct (azure credit) benefits.
We did quite a few (about 10) SaaS listings in our first year - they're really easy as there was little change to what we already do. We'll remove about half of them this year and add some more (which will help us qualify to stay in). Though historically we get little in the way of MS referrals, since we overhauled our listings we are getting around 1 inbound enquiry a month - not 'formal' ones via the MS Store (which is so hard to use, its almost impossible), but people who have seen our listings, googled as and made contact.
This year, we're going to build template VMs with our software pre-installed, so will be able to start to list them too. (apologies if I'm using 'proper' MS terms!). Again, this is an easy(ish) step, we've improved the product to self-provision from a license key and we're going to start writing the use of Azure template VMs into our quotes as an option for customers to deploy our solution, but with us still engaged with implementation services.
So, ISV Success is good for us, we're on a 3-5 year plan to make our solution fully self-provisioning (i.e. 'buy it now'), but it can be broken down into manageable steps (SaaS listings, template Azure VM + services, etc).
Sorry, I have digressed from the original question and my original point, but it has taken a lot of reading and fitting our plans into/around ISV success, but we are seeing the benefits beyond the direct (azure credit) benefits.