Understanding the Microsoft commercial marketplace

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The Microsoft commercial marketplace is a cloud marketplace that supports your organization to get the vendor solutions you need to innovate, while balancing business requirements. Through the marketplace you can:

  • Increase efficiency: Shop a single catalog for solutions across infrastructure, data and AI, industry solutions, and more.

  • Buy with confidence: Buy directly from Microsoft by onboarding Microsoft partner solutions and adding to your Microsoft agreement.

  • Spend smarter: Apply eligible purchases to your organization's Azure cloud commitment to get more value for investments.

 The commercial marketplace is most valuable when an organization aligns its Azure strategy to the marketplace. This alignment:

  • Accelerates innovation

  • Simplifies procurement

  • Reduces time to value

Using the Microsoft commercial marketplace

The marketplace meets you where you are. Whether you’re a small business looking to get a few solutions or an enterprise with a Microsoft contract, the marketplace supports a series of buying scenarios, including:

  • Digital direct: Shop across the digital storefronts, Microsoft AppSource and Azure Marketplace. Microsoft AppSource is best for independent purchasing or for Microsoft 365 or Power BI applications. The Azure Marketplace is a front-end to the Azure portal, where you can buy pre-vetted vendor solutions to deploy seamlessly.

  • Through-partners: If you rely on a channel partner to manage your Azure cloud estate, your partner can use multiparty private offers to source solutions on your behalf. Direct your partner to the documentation to learn more.

  • Enterprise buying: Negotiate pricing and customer terms through private offers that count toward a Microsoft Azure consumption commitment and safeguard your investments with governance tools by creating a private marketplace.

[Navigating the Microsoft commercial marketplace](>[!VIDEO https://youtu.be/8BjmufCODpU])