With Microsoft Construct 2024 proper across the nook, I’m excited to share how the Microsoft industrial 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, attempt, and undertake new AI options rapidly. Finally, {the marketplace}—as an extension of the Microsoft Cloud—is how your AI and Microsoft Copilot purposes are found and deployed.
Microsoft industrial market
Discover, purchase, and ship the suitable cloud options in your group’s altering wants
On the coronary heart of {the marketplace} is our in depth catalog of options from Microsoft’s strong community of companions and software program improvement corporations. These options are surfaced throughout our in-product experiences, in addition to in our storefronts. At this time, {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 comparable to Mistral AI, and extra. Whereas Microsoft helps numerous 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 proportion improve year-over-year in transactable AI affords revealed on the Microsoft industrial 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 proportion of gross sales transacted by means of {the marketplace}.*
Throughout one among 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 means of {the marketplace}:
- Pinecone helps corporations construct generative AI purposes sooner with vector databases. Pinecone may be deployed with Microsoft Azure and throughout varied information sources, fashions, and frameworks. Pinecone serverless, coming to {the marketplace} quickly, will ship generative AI purposes even sooner at as much as 50 instances decrease value.
- UiPath’s Enterprise Automation Platform allows prospects to supercharge productiveness, rework person experiences, and innovate sooner with AI-powered automations. With greater than 80 platform integrations, prospects can faucet into UiPath enterprise-grade automation capabilities straight from Microsoft 365, Azure, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Copilot.
Smarter buying by means of {the marketplace}
Microsoft is the one firm that may help your complete ecosystem of AI—from the infrastructure and information layers all the best way to the front-end person expertise with Copilot. This permits builders to construct next-generation AI instruments rapidly and for companions to attach their AI options to the Microsoft buyer base by means of {the marketplace}—making it environment friendly and scalable for organizations to find and undertake AI broadly. Throughout this AI transformation, the Microsoft industrial market is how we’re enabling companies of each measurement to entry the options they want.
With fast technological improvement, it has develop 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 information to get probably the most out of their AI investments:
- Attempt before you purchase. {The marketplace} lets you attempt 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 in your group earlier than making an enormous funding. {The marketplace} additionally helps proofs-of-concept with non-public affords, so you’ll be able to 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 may be onboarded immediately, and billing is simplified by means of 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 authorized options. With non-public Azure market, an administrator can pre-select authorized options so your workforce can compliantly entry what they want. If a wanted resolution isn’t but authorized, workforce members can simply request or not it’s added, empowering innovation with the suitable guardrails to safeguard investments.
All of this interprets into large financial savings of money and time. In a 2023 Complete Financial Impression™ research 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 a 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 can enable you to understand these improvements. Companions also can use Market Rewards to speed up their market progress and generate excessive impression alternatives.
We’ll share extra concerning the worth of {the marketplace} in your group in upcoming periods at Microsoft Construct. Whether or not you’re attending in Seattle or nearly, I hope you’ll be part of our consultants to be taught extra.
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*Inside information from our information analytics workforce
