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Organizations exploring AI apps and agents face a critical choice: build, buy, or blend. There’s no one-size-fits-all—each approach offers unique benefits and trade-offs. Tune in for insights into the pros and cons of each approach and explore how the Microsoft Marketplace simplifies adoption by providing a single source for trusted AI apps, agents, and models. Learn how Marketplace accelerates time-to-value, reduces procurement times and serves as the trusted source to access a catalog of thousands of AI models, enabling you to innovate faster without sacrificing governance or cost control.

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This session will be recorded and available on demand immediately after airing. It will feature AI-generated captions during the live broadcast. Human-generated captions and a recap of the Q&A will be available by the end of the week.  

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Updated Dec 11, 2025

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  • Pearl-Angeles's avatar
    Pearl-Angeles
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    Thanks for joining today's session! Below is a recap of the topics covered during the live Q&A portion of the session: 


    Presentation starts – Build, buy, or blend: Charting your AI app and agent strategy with Microsoft Marketplace – starts at 0:58.

    Presentation – Approaches for adopting AI apps and agents – at 1:56.

    Presentation
    – Use cases in industry – at 16:58.

    Presentation
    – Example: Blend scenario – at 22:32.

    Live Q&A starts
    28:57.

    Question – Are LLMs Azure Benefit Eligible?  – answered at 29:03.

    Question – How do you actually buy the solution? – answered at 29:58.


    Question – In the “Blend” scenario, how is integration between custom logic and marketplace models typically achieved? – answered at 30:49.


    Question – Any thoughts on instrumenting agents efficiently? – answered at 31:56.


    Question – How do you measure the business impact and the technical success in the blended scenario, in production? – answered at 35:25.


    Question – Can you share what the main challenges are, in operationalizing a blended solution? How can we mitigate those challenges? – answered at 37:08.

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  • Pearl-Angeles's avatar
    Pearl-Angeles
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