Accelerate your business with an Azure free account
Start building your cloud solutions with a $200 Azure credit and free services, plus the advantage of the industry’s most extensive partner network and direct sales force
Why build your business on Azure?
Largest addressable market
Tap into a market of 350 million Azure Active Directory users, and reach the 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies that already use the Microsoft Cloud.
Flexibility
Buy, build, combine, and distribute apps in the business model that works best for you because Azure doesn’t limit you.
Open source friendly
Whether you run Linux or Windows, write in Java, Node.js, or any other programming language, Azure supports both Microsoft and open source technologies.
Deep business resources
From application or solution ideation through deployment and sales, our technical, marketing, and sales resources will help your business grow.
“With Microsoft Azure, PROS quickly extended the reach of our modern commerce solutions to serve our global customer base across six continents, helping us drive more than 80 percent of our business to the cloud and 31 percent growth in subscription revenue in our first year of cloud transformation.”
Andres Reiner, President and CEO, PROS
“Over the past year-and-a-half, there has been a tremendous change in the way we’ve been able to interact with Microsoft, the field teams, and the new industry resources that have been assigned for the benefit of our customers. The end result is that customers see a single interface with a stronger business value message instead of two or three separate vendors.”
Prabal Acharyya, Worldwide Director of IoT Analytics and One Microsoft at OSIsoft
“Co-selling with Microsoft enables us to reach more customers in more markets and leverage Microsoft’s enterprise credibility. This approach has resulted in new business with four customers to date, including Toca Boca and the Women’s Tennis Association.”
Aanal Bhatt, Senior Director of Channel Sales, Ooyala
Three ways to start building your cloud business
- Is your business a Start up? Drive growth with BizSpark.
- Become a Microsoft partner.
- Market and Co-Sell your solution with Microsoft Go-To-Market Services.
Build with Azure
Discover how to turn your intellectual property (IP) into a long-term, profitable business with help from Microsoft. Access platforms, development tools, and support to create and test your apps, plus training to keep your team ahead of the curve.
Grow your business with SaaS apps
Download SaaS white paper from Keystone Research
Learn more about Microsoft resources for app developers like you
Advance your Azure business with unique partner resources
- Reach more customers and generate new business with the support of Microsoft.
- Take advantage of the largest enterprise sales force channel in the industry by qualifying to become Cosell ready with Microsoft.
- Get your apps and solutions in front of more customers, and get the infrastructure you need to grow, by collaborating with other partners.
- Increase your solution’s visibility with business users by listing it on Microsoft AppSource to reach more customers.
- Promote and sell your apps and services—and grow your success—through Azure Marketplace.
Offer a managed service
Get customers to the cloud and keep them there by delivering assessments, enablement, and operations in the cloud. Design a managed service that adds value for your customers such as IT-department-as-a service or custom application-development-as-a-service.
Advance your Azure business with unique partner resources
- Reach more customers and generate new business with the support of Microsoft.
- Take advantage of the largest enterprise sales force channel in the industry by qualifying to become Cosell ready with Microsoft.
- Get your apps and solutions in front of more customers, and get the infrastructure you need to grow, by collaborating with other partners.
- Increase your solution’s visibility with business users by listing it on Microsoft AppSource to reach more customers.
- Promote and sell your apps and services—and grow your success—through Azure Marketplace.
Create a services consulting practice
Build your business faster, and provide more value to your customer by designing, building, and managing Azure solutions specific to your customers' needs.
Advance your Azure business with unique partner resources
- Reach more customers and generate new business with the support of Microsoft.
- Take advantage of the largest enterprise sales force channel in the industry by qualifying to become Cosell ready with Microsoft.
- Get your apps and solutions in front of more customers, and get the infrastructure you need to grow, by collaborating with other partners.
- Increase your solution’s visibility with business users by listing it on Microsoft AppSource to reach more customers.
- Promote and sell your apps and services—and grow your success—through Azure Marketplace.
Resell Azure
Learn how by becoming an authorized reseller with Microsoft and provision licenses of genuine Microsoft products to your customers.
Advance your Azure business with unique partner resources
- Reach new customers and build a more profitable business through smart partner marketing opportunities.
