When Should Enterprise AI Workflows Use Azure Logic Apps, Durable Functions, or Power Automate?
As AI-enabled business workflows become more complex, the orchestration layer becomes just as important as the AI model itself. I’m interested in how teams are deciding between Azure Logic Apps, Durable Functions, and Power Automate when building production workflows that may include AI models or agents. For example, consider a workflow such as: AI request → data lookup → business-rule validation → external API call → human approval → final action Some areas I’m particularly interested in: When is Logic Apps the better option for integration-heavy workflows? When do Durable Functions become preferable for stateful or long-running processes? Where does Power Automate fit for business-user-driven automation? How are teams handling retries and partial failures? What patterns work best when an AI agent is only one component of the overall workflow? How are human approval steps being implemented? I’d be interested to hear how others are approaching this architecture in production environments.
Matching customer invoices to multiparty private offers
What’s the best way for a reseller to match an Azure Marketplace customer invoice to its multiparty private offer and subscription in Partner Center? We’ve had invoices missing from our reporting and multiple charges tied to the same offer with different Asset IDs. Which reports or fields should we use to match them? Can we also see whether a credit was issued, or does that require the customer’s billing access or Microsoft Support?
Partner credits (billing profile redemption): Cost Analysis shows $0 everywhere
Hi all, I'm a Microsoft partner (MAICPP, Partner Success Core) and I'm stuck on cost visibility for the Azure credit benefit. Has anyone run into this with the new redemption model? Redeemed the $2,400 Azure credit in Sep 2026 through the new Partner Center flow, where credits are deposited directly onto an MCA billing profile. No separate "sponsored" subscription was created. The credit sits on the billing profile and applies to the subscriptions under it. The subscription runs Azure DevOps and Microsoft Fabric. The problem Billing profile > Payment methods > Azure credits shows the credit as Active, with about $320 already consumed (balance around $2,079). Cost Analysis shows $0.00 for everything, at both subscription scope and billing account scope. Services appear in the breakdown, but every value is zero and Actual cost shows "--". So the credit is clearly being drawn down, but I can't see what is consuming it. What I already know / tried I know Cost Analysis doesn't show credits themselves, but it should still show pre-credit usage cost for an Azure plan subscription. The older threads about Sponsorship subscriptions (MS-AZR-0036P) and microsoftazuresponsorships.com seem to describe the legacy model, not this one. I've seen that Microsoft documents a "Transactions" view on the credit resource for MAICPP credits issued after Aug 1, 2026, but I'm still checking it. Questions Has anyone on the new billing profile model seen Cost Analysis stay at $0 while credits were consumed? Did it eventually fix itself? Where did you finally get per-resource usage? The credit Transactions page, the usage CSV on the invoice, the Cost Details or Consumption APIs, or a support ticket? If you opened a billing ticket, what did support say? Is this expected or a bug? Any tips for budgets or alerts while credits are active, so usage doesn't burn silently? Thanks!
Getting first customers after publishing what actually worked for you?
I published two transactable SaaS offers earlier this month (Microsoft 365 security and compliance assessment). The technical side went fine, with good support from the ISV team. Getting the offers in front of customers is where I'm stuck. So far I've reached Rewards Tier 3 and activated the listing optimisation benefit. I understand customer references are the gate to co-sell readiness, which feels like a chicken-and-egg problem when you have none yet. For publishers further along than me: what actually produced your first few customers? Was it private offers to targeted tenants, co-sell once you had references, the Marketplace Rewards activities, or something outside the marketplace entirely? I'd rather spend my limited time on what works than keep guessing.Burst IBM Spectrum Symphony workloads into Azure with the new Azure Compute Fleet provider plugin
A new resource connector links Symphony Host Factory to Azure Compute Fleet, so established Symphony environments can elastically extend into Azure. Why this matters for large-scale compute Enterprises running large scale AI, analytic, and high-performance computing (HPC) environments need more than infrastructure. They need to dynamically match thousands of jobs with available capacity while balancing performance, resilience, availability, and cost. Microsoft Azure and IBM are announcing the IBM® Spectrum Symphony Provider Plugin for Microsoft Azure Compute Fleet. The integration enables IBM Spectrum Symphony and Azure Compute Fleet to dynamically access and manage Azure compute capacity, providing an optimized execution environment and allowing enterprises to extend and elastically burst established Symphony environments to Azure. IBM Symphony is a proven workload orchestration platform used across financial services, manufacturing, life sciences, energy, and other compute-intensive industries. How the integration works At the center of the integration is an Azure resource connector for IBM Host Factory. The connector translates Symphony resource requirements into Azure Compute Fleet requests, creating a direct bridge between the Symphony orchestration layer and Azure infrastructure. The architecture maintains a clear separation of responsibilities: Symphony manages the workload while Azure Compute Fleet manages access to compute capacity. The request path is straightforward: When workload demand increases, Symphony determines the additional resources required through Host Factory. The Azure resource connector translates those requirements into a Compute Fleet request, and Azure provisions eligible infrastructure. The resulting Azure virtual machines join the Symphony environment as execution hosts and begin processing jobs. As workload demand decreases, the resources can be returned. What the plugin delivers The Microsoft and IBM collaboration brings together Symphony's enterprise workload orchestration capabilities with the scale and flexibility of Azure Compute Fleet: Dynamically provision and scale as Symphony workload demand increases or decreases, keeping resource use matched to actual need. Maintain workload performance through policy-driven elasticity governed by existing workload priorities and service- Take advantage of Azure Virtual Machines' wide array of SKU choices by flexibly deploying based on workload requirements and available capacity. Seamlessly leverage Spot instances, so that workloads can run at optimal cost. Support hybrid workload orchestration that extends established Symphony environments to Azure, realizing the cost and availability benefits of hybrid multicloud deployment. Capabilities available to Symphony customers on Azure Symphony on Azure enables customers to: Access a broader pool of Azure capacity by provisioning across multiple eligible VM families instead of relying on a single VM SKU. Select infrastructure using workload attributes such as vCPU, memory, storage, and other requirements. Balance availability and cost through a flexible combination of Azure Spot Virtual Machines and pay-as-you-go VMs. Increase workload throughput and infrastructure utilization by matching queued jobs with suitable Azure capacity. Expand compute capacity during periods of peak demand while provisioning steady-state infrastructure for typical usage. These capabilities are particularly valuable for financial risk calculations, scientific computing, engineering analysis, and other large-scale batch workloads. Different jobs can require different combinations of CPU, memory, performance, availability, and price, and Azure Compute Fleet can provision across eligible VM types and purchasing models, expanding the pool of infrastructure available to execute those workloads for faster, more cost-efficient deployments. Bringing established environments forward Many enterprises have invested years developing sophisticated Symphony environments with application-specific scheduling policies, priorities, queues, service-level objectives, and operational processes. The plugin preserves that investment: scheduling policy and operational process stay in Symphony, while Azure supplies elastic capacity underneath. Microsoft and IBM are working with joint enterprise customers across financial services and other compute-intensive industries to expand adoption and advance the integration. "Symphony's native enablement on Azure gives our joint customers a best-in-class platform for orchestrating HPC workloads with the performance, resilience, and cost efficiency they require," said Sripriya Srinivasan, General Manager, IBM Software Products, IBM. "This is a transformational step forward for hybrid computing." Partner opportunity For partners with HPC, risk analytics, or scientific computing practices, this opens repeatable engagement motions: assess existing Symphony estates, design the Compute Fleet capacity strategy across Spot and pay-as-you-go, package burst-to-Azure as a managed offer, and grow consumption as workloads scale. Get started Read the full technical walkthrough on how to burst IBM Spectrum Symphony into Microsoft Azure with the new Azure Compute Fleet cloud provider: Microsoft and IBM bring enterprise-scale workload orchestration to Azure with IBM Spectrum Symphony | Microsoft Community Hub To download the Azure Compute Fleet plugin for IBM® Spectrum Symphony, visit the Azure Marketplace.Matching customer pricing on Azure Marketplace private offers
Hi everyone, I create multiparty private offers as a reseller and sometimes need several decimal places in the markup to match our customer quote. Is there a recommended way to calculate the markup so the total and each annual installment match exactly? I’ve been running into small rounding differences.
Dell PowerScale for Azure is now Generally Available
We're excited to announce that Dell PowerScale for Azure – Dell managed is now Generally Available (GA). Following a successful Public Preview announced at Ignite, PowerScale for Azure is now production-ready for enterprise workloads. Co-developed with Dell as an Azure Native Integration, this fully managed service brings Dell's proven scale-out NAS technology and the PowerScale OneFS operating system directly into Azure — delivering the performance and scale enterprises expect with the simplicity of Azure-native provisioning, management, and billing. The solution is purpose-built for modern, data-intensive workloads such as AI/ML pipelines, media & entertainment, electronic design automation (EDA), high-performance computing, backup & recovery, and enterprise content management. Product highlights Dell-Managed Service: A streamlined experience where Dell handles deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and upgrades — freeing IT teams to focus on higher-value initiatives. Azure-Native Experience: Provision, manage, and monitor PowerScale directly from the Azure portal, with full Azure Resource Manager (ARM) integration and unified billing on your monthly Azure invoice. Enterprise-Grade Durability: Data is distributed across multiple nodes within the cluster for high durability and fault tolerance. Advanced Protection: Space-efficient erasure coding plus SyncIQ asynchronous replication across sites keep data available even during outages. Secure Private Access: Integrates into your Azure Virtual Network (VNet) via VNet Injection, with data encrypted at rest using Microsoft-managed keys. Massive scale & multi-protocol: Up to 8.4PB in a single namespace with simultaneous NFS, SMB, and S3 support, powered by custom PMEM-enabled compute SKUs engineered for Dell Consider a large health system running PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) imaging archives, Electronic Health Record (EHR) data pipelines, and AI/ML diagnostic workloads on an on-premises Dell PowerScale cluster. As PACS volumes grow alongside demand for AI-driven diagnostics, the team wants to scale into Azure for GPU-accelerated model training without re-architecting their environment. With Dell PowerScale for Azure, they can provision the fully managed service directly from the Azure portal, giving clinicians, researchers, and applications low-latency multi-protocol access to the same global namespace across NFS, SMB, and S3. Since Dell handles deployment, monitoring, and upgrades, IT teams stay focused on patient outcomes rather than infrastructure, while enterprise-grade durability and encryption at rest help protect sensitive patient data. Availability Dell PowerScale for Azure is generally available through the Azure Marketplace and Azure portal (search for Dell PowerScale for Azure – Dell managed). GA is rolling out in waves, starting with US East, with additional regions coming online shortly. Get started Azure Marketplace: Dell PowerScale for Azure – Dell managed Microsoft Learn: Dell PowerScale – Azure Native Integrations Solution Brief: Dell PowerScale for Microsoft AzureCan a reseller set exact customer totals on an Azure private offer?
When we create a multiperiod private offer, we enter our markup as a percentage. Sometimes the customer total Azure calculates is a few cents off the signed quote, even when we use all eight decimal places. Is there a way to set the exact customer price for each period? If not, how are other resellers handling these rounding differences?
