Overview of Microsoft commercial marketplace

Cloud marketplaces are transforming the way businesses interact. They offer a convenient channel for customers to search, purchase, and handle applications and services that help them reach their goals. The Microsoft commercial marketplace is a comprehensive B2B marketplace that links mobility customers to partner solutions.

You can use different channels to sell your mobility solutions through the Microsoft commercial marketplace.

  • Azure Marketplace is an online shop that helps you publish Azure solutions, which customers can discover and buy online. The Azure solutions include Azure benefit-eligible solutions that count toward your cloud consumption commitment.

  • GitHub Marketplace helps you publish apps and actions that seamlessly integrate with GitHub.

  • Visual Studio Code Marketplace lets you enhance your customers' coding experience by adding useful mobility tools. You can use Visual Studio Code extensions to add extensions for new languages, debuggers, and tools to customers installations and support their development workflow.

  • Microsoft AppSource is an online store that lets you host business applications and services. As shown in the connected fleets reference architecture, you can build mobility applications such as financial and insurance applications through the guidance and hosted on Microsoft AppSource. The types of solutions hosted on Microsoft AppSource include Software as a Service (SaaS) apps, Dynamics 365 solutions, Microsoft 365 solutions, and Power Platform solutions.

The value and benefits of Microsoft commercial marketplaces include cost savings, innovation, flexibility, security, and trust. It includes smarter spending where customers can apply eligible purchases towards their organizations' cloud commitment and customize offers where you can create private offers for specific needs of customers. For more information on the Microsoft Commercial Marketplace, see the official documentation.

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