Windows Azure Marketplace
The Windows Azure Marketplace is a global online market for SaaS applications and premium datasets. By listing your Windows Azure-based applications on the marketplace, you can commerce-enable and sell your applications internationally. Plus, you can subscribe to a range of premium datasets listed in the marketplace within your applications or monetize and distribute your own datasets through the marketplace.
Benefits and Capabilities of Marketplace
Global reach
- Commerce-enable your applications, and conduct transactions in multiple geographies and currencies
- Easily search curated marketplace of applications and data by categories and filters
- Datasets and services surfaced in key Microsoft products: Microsoft Office, SQL Server 2012, and Dynamics CRM
Integrated platform
- Common security, billing, auditing, and authentication model, including Single Sign-on experience using OAuth v2
- Easily publish and consume datasets and services using OData; a single, consistent REST-based API
Easy management
- Easy self-service onboarding, creation of terms of use, and trial offers
- Reporting on traffic, subscriptions, and sales
Pricing and Metering for Marketplace
Data and applications available through the Windows Azure Marketplace may be free or paid offers. To learn about how you can subscribe to and use paid offers, visit this page.
Visit the Windows Azure Marketplace to learn more.