With Microsoft Construct 2024 proper across the nook, I’m excited to share how the Microsoft business market is extending innovation. As we enter the period of AI, I’m seeing builders make the most of {the marketplace} to make use of cutting-edge AI instruments that speed up adoption of next-generation options for his or her organizations. On the identical time, extra prospects than ever are utilizing {the marketplace} to seek out, strive, and undertake new AI options shortly. In the end, {the marketplace}—as an extension of the Microsoft Cloud—is how your AI and Microsoft Copilot purposes are found and deployed.
Microsoft business market
Discover, purchase, and ship the best cloud options to your group’s altering wants
On the coronary heart of {the marketplace} is our intensive catalog of options from Microsoft’s strong community of companions and software program growth corporations. These options are surfaced throughout our in-product experiences, in addition to in our storefronts. Immediately, {the marketplace} helps a various catalog of AI-powered options, together with AI-enabled software-as-a-service (SaaS) choices, Copilot extensions, AI-enabled Microsoft Groups purposes, machine studying fashions from companions resembling Mistral AI, and extra. Whereas Microsoft helps various methods for companions to construct AI-based know-how, {the marketplace} is the place prospects can discover all of those options from one trusted supply.
Companions innovating with AI
We’ve seen a triple-digit share enhance year-over-year in transactable AI affords printed on the Microsoft business market. And prospects are keen to find the AI options that greatest match their distinctive wants. Visits to AI resolution pages on our storefronts have elevated greater than 700% year-over-year, and AI options proceed to make up a quickly rising share of gross sales transacted by {the marketplace}.*
Throughout considered one of our Microsoft Construct periods, you’ll hear from two companions who’re constructing thrilling AI options that leverage the Microsoft Cloud and can be found now by {the marketplace}:
- Pinecone helps corporations construct generative AI purposes sooner with vector databases. Pinecone could be deployed with Microsoft Azure and throughout varied knowledge sources, fashions, and frameworks. Pinecone serverless, coming to {the marketplace} quickly, will ship generative AI purposes even sooner at as much as 50 occasions decrease price.
- UiPath’s Enterprise Automation Platform permits prospects to supercharge productiveness, rework consumer experiences, and innovate sooner with AI-powered automations. With greater than 80 platform integrations, prospects can faucet into UiPath enterprise-grade automation capabilities instantly from Microsoft 365, Azure, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Copilot.
Smarter buying by {the marketplace}
Microsoft is the one firm that may help the whole ecosystem of AI—from the infrastructure and knowledge layers all the best way to the front-end consumer expertise with Copilot. This allows builders to construct next-generation AI instruments shortly and for companions to attach their AI options to the Microsoft buyer base by {the marketplace}—making it environment friendly and scalable for organizations to find and undertake AI broadly. Throughout this AI transformation, the Microsoft business market is how we’re enabling companies of each measurement to entry the options they want.
With speedy technological growth, it has turn into much more vital to stability the necessity to innovate with assembly enterprise necessities. By aligning SaaS technique to {the marketplace}, organizations can unify their knowledge to get essentially the most out of their AI investments:
- Attempt before you purchase. {The marketplace} permits you to strive new options earlier than you make a bigger dedication. Free trials or direct purchases of a small variety of licenses can make sure the know-how works to your group earlier than making an enormous funding. {The marketplace} additionally helps proofs-of-concept with non-public affords, so you may additional vet options earlier than widescale adoption.
- Innovate sooner. Centralizing cloud portfolios helps you lower time-to-value. AI options are a part of one complete catalog and pre-certified to run on Azure. Distributors could be onboarded immediately, and billing is simplified by a single bill.
- Maximize investments. Organizations can optimize cloud spend by counting the options they want in the direction of their Azure consumption dedication. Microsoft routinely counts 100% of eligible affords in the direction of your dedication, serving to unlock reductions on Azure infrastructure.
- Create alignment throughout groups. {The marketplace} makes it simpler to maintain groups aligned utilizing accredited options. With non-public Azure market, an administrator can pre-select accredited options so your workforce can compliantly entry what they want. If a wanted resolution isn’t but accredited, workforce members can simply request or not it’s added, empowering innovation with the best guardrails to safeguard investments.
All of this interprets into big financial savings of money and time. In a 2023 Whole Financial Impression™ examine commissioned by Microsoft, Forrester Consulting discovered {the marketplace} delivers prospects a three-year 587% return on funding (ROI) with a payback interval of lower than six months.
Be part of us at Microsoft Construct
We’re excited to be accelerating the period of AI by setting the usual for the creation and commerce of AI options. For builders constructing new options, I encourage you to take a look at instruments and advantages from ISV Success that may enable you to notice these improvements. Companions may also use Market Rewards to speed up their market progress and generate excessive influence alternatives.
We’ll share extra concerning the worth of {the marketplace} to your group in upcoming periods at Microsoft Construct. Whether or not you’re attending in Seattle or nearly, I hope you’ll be a part of our specialists to study extra.
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*Inside knowledge from our knowledge analytics workforce
