Azure Marketplace acts as a centralised hub for solutions built on or for Microsoft Azure, integrating offerings directly with your cloud environment, making deployment and management seamless and effective.

Azure Marketplace offers a multitude of benefits that enhance the overall experience for users. Here are some key features:

• Applications and services: cloud solutions spanning various categories like software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and platform as a service (PaaS), including databases, virtual machines, and more
• Trusted vendors: solutions are provided by trusted and governed independent software vendors (ISVs) and partners
• Consulting services: options to connect with certified partners for implementation, migration, and consultation
• Pricing and purchase flexibility: Azure Marketplace offers flexible pricing terms for customers, ensuring all cloud costs are as optimised as possible, without any budget wastage

Azure Marketplace acts as an online shop for variety of solutions, such as virtual machines, SaaS applications, and development tools.

Within Azure Marketplace, you are able to:

• Browse solutions: explore a wide variety of software applications and services across categories
• Access free trials: test solutions before committing to a purchase
• Purchasing options: buy solutions with different payment options, including subscription-based, one-time purchases, or usage-based billing, seamlessly integrated with your Azure subscription
• Deploy solutions directly: launch applications or services directly into your Azure environment, such as pre-configured virtual machines, managed services, or APIs
• Manage permissions: use Azure’s role-based access control (RBAC) to govern who can deploy and manage marketplace resources
• Monitor costs: Azure’s cost management tool are built into marketplace, helping keep an eye on expenses
• Access partner solutions: benefit from a broad range of applications offered by independent software vendors (ISVs), not just Microsoft

Organisations like yours are starting to utilise Azure Marketplace to make the purchasing of cloud solutions easier for everyone involved. Azure Marketplace adoption come with several benefits:

• Operational improvement and simplified purchasing: use one platform to research, manage, procure, and deploy software and SaaS solutions to support your organisation’s digital success and growth
• Tailored solutions and flexible pricing: access a comprehensive catalogue of certified solutions and work with us to develop private offers to get exactly what you need, with the ability to use flexible pricing terms to support your business needs
• Consolidated billing: Marketplace enables you to combine purchases of multiple products and services under a single monthly bill, making it easier to manage and spot areas for optimisation
• Budget optimisation: reduce your committed cloud budgets with personalised private offers, helping you meet your spending goals and maximise your investments
• Modernise your cloud procurement strategy: work with us to build third party software and SaaS solutions into future cloud commitments to provide an alternative source of spending for your IT requirements

Deployment assistance

Azure Marketplace doesn’t just make it easier for organisations to find the solutions they need, it also makes it easier to deploy them.  

Azure is built-in to Marketplace, and all accounts are connected, meaning deployment can proceed direct to Azure environments with minimal configuration. Pre-configured templates and automated scripts help streamline the deployment process, enabling users to implement complex solutions efficiently with no specialist knowledge.  

Phoenix holds strategic partnerships with key software and cloud-focused vendors, who are also closely aligning with the key hyperscalers as the growth of cloud marketplaces continues to immensely progress in our digital focused economy. Our relationships with key technology partners allow us to leverage commercial support, flexible terms, and provide our customers with advice on the most suitable cloud products to benefit your organisation.

Multi-Party Private Offers (MPOs) enable organisations to negotiate custom, private agreements with multiple vendors simultaneously, ensuring tailored solutions that meet specific business needs.

Phoenix offer MPOs to enable organisations like yours to get maximum value out of your IT solutions. We can build customised private offers for you, in collaboration with our software partners. Everything is built, delivered and accepted, and deployed on the cloud platform, making it a digitally seamless process.

Phoenix can assist you in navigating your digital procurement journey and support you in building a commercially and operationally effective route to market. We work closely with our customers to provide guidance on how to implement and manage a digital marketplace strategy within your organisation.

Through our Digital Procurement Workshop, you’ll gain a better understanding of how marketplace could offer an easier and more cost efficient method of procurement for your organisation.

Find out more about digital procurement with our free workshop. 

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