Discover how Microsoft Marketplace can support your FinOps strategy and cost optimization goals
Learn how Microsoft Marketplace can help organizations streamline cloud procurement, optimize spend visibility, and simplify software purchasing through a FinOps-driven approach. This upcoming Microsoft Marketplace customer office hours session explores how partners and customers can leverage Marketplace capabilities to align cloud investments with business outcomes, improve operational efficiency, and maximize the value of Azure consumption commitments. Read the full event details and see why this session is valuable for organizations focused on cloud financial management, procurement modernization, and Marketplace growth strategies. 👉 Register Here: Microsoft Marketplace as a FinOps platform - Microsoft Marketplace customer office hoursDiscover new Microsoft Marketplace innovations announced at Microsoft Build
At Microsoft Build, Microsoft shared new opportunities for software development companies and partners to build, scale, and monetize AI apps and agents through Microsoft Marketplace. Explore how Microsoft Marketplace is helping software companies accelerate go-to-market strategies, expand customer reach, simplify procurement, and unlock new revenue opportunities across the Microsoft ecosystem. Learn how organizations can take advantage of Azure and Marketplace capabilities to support AI innovation and deliver enterprise-ready solutions faster. Whether you’re building intelligent applications, growing your commercial marketplace presence, or exploring new ways to monetize AI-powered solutions, this is a valuable resource for understanding the latest Microsoft Marketplace announcements and opportunities coming out of Build. 👉 Read more: Build, scale, and monetize apps and agents with Microsoft MarketplaceDiscover how AI-powered agents on Microsoft Fabric are accelerating retail merchandising decisions
Retail organizations are under increasing pressure to move faster and make smarter, data-driven decisions at scale. In this latest Marketplace Partner Spotlight, Microsoft highlights how AI agents built on Microsoft Fabric are helping merchandising teams transform complex operational data into actionable insights—without leaving the security of their existing data environment. By leveraging Microsoft Fabric and OneLake as a unified data foundation, partners like Lucid Data Hub are enabling retailers to automate time-intensive reporting processes and shift toward continuous, insight-driven workflows. These business-ready AI agents can analyze large volumes of sales and operational data, surface meaningful trends, and deliver clear recommendations—empowering buyers and store leaders to act faster and with greater confidence. The impact is tangible: merchandising teams can reduce hours of manual analysis into minutes, uncover item-level performance insights, and identify opportunities across store clusters to optimize outcomes. If you’re exploring how AI agents, Microsoft Fabric, and the Microsoft Marketplace ecosystem can drive intelligent automation in retail, this article offers practical insights and real-world examples to help you get started. 👉 Read the full article AI agents on Microsoft Fabric for faster retail merchandising decisions
Accelerate SaaS deals and streamline onboarding with auto activation in Microsoft Marketplace
Discover how the new auto activation capability for SaaS subscriptions in Microsoft Marketplace helps partners close deals faster and scale transactions with less friction. When enabled, subscriptions activate and billing begins immediately at purchase—eliminating manual steps, reducing delays, and enabling faster customer onboarding and time-to-value. This article walks through how auto activation works, when to use it, and how to configure it in Partner Center to align with your offer strategy. Learn how real-time purchase notifications and streamlined onboarding flows can improve conversion rates, enhance the buyer experience, and support more efficient, scalable Marketplace growth. Read the full article to understand how to take advantage of this new capability and optimize your SaaS sales motion in Microsoft Marketplace: Now available: Close deals faster and transact at scale with auto activation for SaaS subscriptions
Marketplace offers as transactable and azure benefit eligible
Query about Marketplace listings - I want to upload a new offer as SaaS. I want to make sure it's transactable and also have the azure benefit tag added to it. I have the banking and tax profile approved and completed. I'm unable to find how do I get the Azure benefit eligible tagged to this offer (or is there a pre-requisite). I have reviewed the Marketplace best practices but unable to find how do I exactly go about doing it.How governed agentic AI is transforming professional services workflows
Discover how partners are building industry-specific AI solutions in Microsoft Marketplace using governed, agentic workflows tailored for professional services. In the latest Partner Spotlight, Richard Baskerville, Senior Director of Strategic Global Alliances at Intapp, shares how “Firm AI” delivers purpose-built capabilities aligned to the unique needs of professional and financial services firms—combining deep workflow expertise with the scale, security, and compliance of Microsoft Azure. This article explores how agentic AI enables end-to-end workflow automation while maintaining human accountability, helping firms modernize operations across client engagement, risk management, and business processes. See how Microsoft Marketplace empowers partners to bring trusted, enterprise-ready AI solutions to customers, accelerating adoption and unlocking scalable growth opportunities. Read the full article: Firm AI for professional services: governed, agentic workflows built on Microsoft Azure | Microsoft Community HubCustomer office hour: Dragon Copilot AI apps and agents in Microsoft Marketplace
May 28 | 8:30 AM PT Join the next Microsoft Marketplace customer office hours session to explore how AI apps and agents and Dragon Copilot can help healthcare organizations reduce administrative burden and streamline clinical workflows. In this session, you’ll learn how to move from AI exploration to real world deployment. Discover how Dragon Copilot can help accelerate time to value by connecting with trusted partner solutions that streamline workflows and embed AI directly into daily operations. Learn more and attend Dragon Copilot AI apps and agents in Microsoft Marketplace - Microsoft Marketplace CommunityBuild observability for scalable AI apps and agents selling through Microsoft Marketplace
Discover how to design observability for AI apps and agents selling through Microsoft Marketplace. This Marketplace Community article explains why visibility into execution behavior is essential for operating AI systems confidently at scale—not just keeping them running. As AI apps and agents reason, branch, retry, and exit dynamically at runtime, traditional infrastructure metrics fall short. Behavioral signals such as execution flow, token usage, latency, and failure patterns help explain what systems are doing, why outcomes occur, and how limits and safeguards shape behavior across tenants and environments. Learn how observability turns runtime telemetry into clarity that supports customer trust, usage‑based billing, and scalable operations. Read more: Design observability for AI apps and agents selling through Microsoft MarketplaceDesign resilient API execution for AI apps and agents in Microsoft Marketplace
Discover how to design resilient and reliable APIs for AI apps and agents selling through Microsoft Marketplace. This Marketplace Community article explains why reliability is a critical readiness requirement and how predictable API behavior protects customer trust when systems encounter failure. AI apps and agents depend on APIs for every stage of execution—from model inference to tool calls and orchestration. Designing clear API boundaries, enforcing timeouts and retries, and applying resilience patterns such as circuit breakers and bulkheads helps contain failures, prevent cascading issues, and keep agent behavior bounded as solutions scale. Learn how to design AI systems that fail safely, operate predictably, and remain stable under real customer load across Marketplace environments. Read more: API resilience and reliability patterns for AI apps and agents selling through Microsoft MarketplaceDesign predictable AI performance to scale selling through Microsoft Marketplace
Discover how to design predictable AI performance that scales when selling apps and agents through Microsoft Marketplace. This Marketplace Community article explains why performance variability can undermine customer trust and how intentional design boundaries help customers evaluate value with confidence. As AI systems reason, retrieve data, and orchestrate tools at runtime, latency, quality, and cost become tightly linked. Bounded execution paths, cost‑aware orchestration, and layered performance controls help ensure responses remain fast, reliable, and predictable—without sacrificing output quality as usage grows. Learn how to design AI architectures that customers can trial confidently, scale sustainably, and operate without surprises across Marketplace environments. Read more: Design Predictable AI Performance for Apps Selling Through Microsoft Marketplace
