A story about our journey on the marketplace. I hope it will inspire and help on your journey
I would like to share my experience with publishing transactable apps on the Microsoft commercial marketplace, the Microsoft 365 App Certification Program, Marketplace Rewards, and certified software designations. Starting with publishing our apps on to the marketplace: We have several apps that operate within the context of Microsoft 365, including apps for Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Copilot Agent, Office, and SharePoint. We have been in AppSource for many years and have customers worldwide. We developed an in-house license application to manage our customers' licenses. Before the commercial marketplace, we managed all invoicing and license management manually. Now, everything has become much easier. We have published monetized SaaS apps connected to the AppSource apps. Using the SaaS Fulfillment API, we integrated the purchasing process with our in-house license application. We have gained numerous benefits, including: Significant time savings in the invoicing and billing process, as purchasing, adding, removing, or cancelling licenses is automated and managed by Microsoft Customers appreciate the ability to manage licenses themselves, finding it easier Improved market awareness due to promotion in the marketplace And new customers are joining regularly. It is also important to mention Marketplace Rewards, which offer various benefits. For example, customer case stories can be published through Marketplace Rewards on Microsoft customer case stories. Here is a link to our latest story: Microsoft Customer Story - Design for Leisure improves efficiency 30% with iGlobe solutions and Microsoft Planner. Additionally, the Transact & Grow Incentive Campaign has provided us with financial incentives through marketplace sales, as well as Azure sponsorship credits to offset deployment costs. Considering these advantages, there is potential to make the apps CSP Ready as well: https://aka.ms/P2PeBook. Equally important is obtaining the Microsoft 365 App Certification. Certification confirms that an app solution is compatible with Microsoft technologies, compliant with cloud app security best practices, and supported by Microsoft. This is significant because: It provides certification from Microsoft, confirming app security and compliance It saves time in the sales process, as security and compliance are already verified It makes the app easier to find on AppSource, the Commercial Marketplace, and in the Teams App admin portal, where it will be listed in a special category Achieving sales in the marketplace, having customer case stories, and obtaining the Microsoft 365 App Certification provides the foundation to obtain Certified Software Designations, which come with additional benefits and opportunities for co-selling with Microsoft. Today two of our apps have achieved the Certified Software Designation for Modern Work. Soon iPlanner Pro for Teams that includes a Copilot Agent will follow as well. I share this story not to boast but to inspire and motivate others. There is nothing exceptional about us or our experience here – it can be completely replicated by leveraging the resources that Microsoft provides. Was it all very easy…. No. Is it doable? Yes!$10K+ FY24 opportunity for Teams publishers
Does anyone here have a Teams transactable offer in the Marketplace? If you do, you could be eligible for $10K+ incentives. Great video and insights from Elena Kennedy (Microsoft partner leader) on how Teams solutions developers to take advantage of FY24 incentives https://lnkd.in/gUczm_FZ Get your step-by-step guide hereWelcome our Teams ISVs!
Hi everybody – I’m excited to share that as of today we are expanding the marketplace community and welcoming a group of Teams ISVs that have published apps onto the commercial marketplace into the community forum. What does this mean for you? We now have more partners who have already published onto the marketplace taking part in discussions in the community. This merging of communities is a great opportunity for community members to learn from even more partners and learn more about Teams apps along the way. We also have a dedicated team of Microsoft SMEs focused on Teams apps that are here in the community to answer your questions, hear your feedback, and share announcements for Teams ISVs. If you are interested in conversations related to Teams apps on marketplace, you can subscribe to the “Teams” label to get updates on Teams-specific conversations. And if you are creating a new discussion post related to Teams, just select the “Teams” label on your post before submitting. Below are some of the key pieces of information for our very special Teams Publishers: Watch our Teams ISV Webinar to learn more about the benefits available for Teams publishers Join our ISV Success Program to get Technical Support and much more Enroll in the Marketplace Transact and Grow Partner incentive to get cash in your bank! Share your Teams ISV Success Stories to build awareness for your solutions & cosell with Microsoft sellers Any questions about this new merging of communities? Comment below!How we increased trials 200% with Marketplace Rewards
Hi All, Kitameraki Limited's TeamsWork brand provides intuitive and collaborative apps for Microsoft Teams that cater to the needs of small and medium-sized businesses and has successfully launched Ticketing As A Service and Checklist As A Service apps, and just recently CRM As A Service App on the Microsoft Marketplaces. As a Microsoft partner for nearly four years, TeamsWork recognized the importance of maximizing visibility and reach within the Microsoft ecosystem. Our team has been able to leverage many of the benefits available through Marketplace Rewards to help drive significant growth and quantifiable results, thanks to expert guidance and the broad range of resources available to better market apps on Microsoft marketplaces. Just a few of these benefits included: The listing optimization allowed us to receive expert recommendations from Microsoft about how to optimize our marketplace offer pages. Azure sponsorship credits cut down on our costs of marketplace solutions. Press release support featuring a quote from a Microsoft executive helped amplify the announcement of our marketplace availability Our customer success story demonstrated how one of our customers increased administrative efficiency by 20 percent using our marketplace solution. featured category placement on the Azure Marketplace, which spotlighted TeamsWork and drove more users to view offer pages. Marketplace Rewards has helped drive a 200% increase in new trials for our marketplace offerings! Read the full story here: Kitameraki case study What success has your organization seen with Marketplace Rewards?OpenAI Bot SDK in Microsoft Teams - Technical Question
Currently, we are working on a new feature for our 'check it' Microsoft Teams product, we have a technical challenge that MS support is unable to help with and want to see if anyone in here has had a similar issue: Using the OpenAI models, specifically with the OpenAIClient SDK (.net) it has become a common behaviour for all AI bots to stream their response to the user in an organic conversational manner (open AI playground, Chat GPT etc..). When trying to do the same with the team's bot SDK on await turnContext.UpdateActivityAsync(newActivity, cancellationToken); call. I receive a 429 Too many requests issue. Even with the guidance to allow for retries* it fails to find the correct exception type within the retry policy indicating that this is not teams. The same calls can be made in the AI playground without issue or streamed out to a web application. This leads us to assume it's the bot rates that are failing. Is there any way to update an activity in a streaming manner or will the bot SDK look to support this now or in the future? Rate limiting for bots - Teams | Microsoft Learn
Teams Publishers: Share your Marketplace Win Story to build Awareness inside Microsoft
To all our #Teams ISV Publishers, did you sell your solution through our Commercial Marketplace? Is your customer leveraging your Teams Integration? Bonus if you have integrated Copilot / AI within your solution, that would be very interesting to us! We want to hear from you! It's that time again to submit your Marketplace Transaction Win Story to be considered for amplification within Microsoft (nothing will be shared publicly without your and your customer's explicit permission!) Simply fill out this form with your win story details and we'll review it! https://www.linkedin.com/smart-links/AQGOy9PEIQ1tcgAre you ready to take your Teams App to the next level?
As a Teams Publisher, you're sitting on a goldmine of opportunity! You've already taken the first step by investing in the M365 Platform by creating a Teams App, and now you can join Microsoft on the front lines as AI and Copilots are adopted by enterprises and consumers alike. With just a few more steps, you can leverage the work you've already done and extend your Teams App to become an M365 Copilot plugin. Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to grow your Microsoft partnership and get the most out of your AI efforts. Join the ISV Success program, make your Teams App transactable, and extend it to be an M365 Copilot plugin. The future is now, and the possibilities are endless! Drop a link in the comments to your solution on our Marketplace, and tell me more about your plans! Step 1: Join ISV Success: Get Teams App transactable so you can reap the benefits Step 2: Extend your Teams App to be a M365 Copilot plugin: Microsoft Copilot in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem | Microsoft LearnTeams App - Copilot vs Azure Open AI
Morning, For our gauge.it Teams app we have implemented AI to allow the feedback generated by employees to be summarised into suggestions for the manager. When we look at the Team's store I would like it to appear in the AI-powered apps - what is the best process for doing this if we are using Azure Open AI, do we need to add anything to the manifest when pushing the update? Thanks AlasdairMobile Home Screen Icon from 3rd Party Teams App
Recently, I discovered that from Teams you can create a shortcut of a personal app on your device home screen. Do you know how do I set the icon to appear? Is something to do with the manifest? Our app is Teams native, meaning you can't find a web version of it outside Teams. Could that be the problem? I searched in the documentation of MS but I couldn't find. Can someone point me at the right direction?
