Partner Blog | How software development companies are paving the way for AI transformation
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept; it is a transformative force that is reshaping industries and redefining the future of software development. As AI continues to evolve, ISVs—as well as companies that develop software—are at the forefront of this revolution, leveraging AI to drive innovation, enhance productivity, and create the next generation of intelligent applications and solutions. Microsoft, with its extensive resources and deep domain knowledge, is playing a pivotal role in enabling software development companies (SDCs) to harness the power of AI and shape the future of software development. A recent report published by Microsoft provides comprehensive insights into the state of generative AI (GenAI) for business leaders, detailing its immediate impact, future potential, and best practices for implementation. The report highlights how partners that develop software leveraging Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, and Azure OpenAI Service are achieving faster innovation cycles, greater operational efficiency, and new revenue streams. The AI Decision Brief details how Microsoft software development partners have already seen significant benefits from the adoption of generative AI technologies: Accelerating development cycles: AI-powered tools help developers code up to 55% faster, debug more efficiently, and automate repetitive tasks. For example, GitHub Copilot users complete coding tasks 46% faster on average, enabling teams to ship software more quickly and focus on innovation. Enhancing product innovation: AI enables companies to create smarter applications with predictive capabilities, personalized experiences, and dynamic automation. Dentsu, a multinational media company, used Microsoft Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI Service to develop an AI-powered predictive analytics tool that reduced media planning time by 90%. The ability to analyze vast datasets and generate insights in real time is transforming industries. Driving operational efficiency: Generative AI is cutting operational costs by up to 30% for businesses leveraging automation. Easton, a global leader in intelligent power management, streamlined the creation of 1,000 standard operating procedures (SOPs) using Microsoft 365 Copilot, reducing the time required per SOP from one hour to just 10 minutes—an 83% efficiency improvement. Expanding customer impact: AI-powered applications are increasing customer engagement and satisfaction by delivering more personalized, responsive, and intelligent experiences. Properstar, a real estate technology company, leveraged generative AI to analyze unstructured real estate data and provide advanced filtering and search capabilities, helping customers find the perfect property faster and with greater accuracy. Continue reading herePartner Blog | What's new for Azure partner-led offerings: ISV Success and specialization updates
As a partner-first company, Microsoft is dedicated to investing in partner success and creating new opportunities to drive business and AI transformation. In this blog post, we'll share what's new for Azure Migrate and Modernize and Azure Innovate as of January 1, 2025—including expanded AI benefits and incentives with ISV Success, updates to specializations, and the growing Azure Essentials momentum. Throughout the year, you can find key updates here on the partner blog as new scenarios and workloads are added. Overview of Azure partner-led offerings Azure partner-led offerings—which include Azure Innovate and Azure Migrate and Modernize—are built to work together to simplify the adoption of Azure. With comprehensive resources, extensive coverage across scenarios, and tailored incentives in one easy-to-navigate hub, accredited partners can access these offerings to better support customers from migration to innovation. To underpin these offerings, Azure Essentials equips partners with foundational guidance, best practices, and dedicated skilling to help you elevate security, reliability, and ongoing performance for cloud and AI workloads. What's new effective January 2025 Continue reading full blog herePartner Blog | The ISV opportunity at Microsoft Ignite
We look forward to uniting with customers and partners at Microsoft Ignite in November to discuss the future of AI and how all software companies, including start-ups and independent software vendors (ISVs), can capitalize on these opportunities for their business.Partner Blog | LexisNexis elevates legal work with AI using Copilot for Microsoft 365
Ever since the introduction of Microsoft Copilot, AI is quickly being woven into the workplace and people's daily work habits. Three-quarters of global knowledge workers already use it, and more than 80% say AI helps them save time, focus on important work, and be more creative, according to the Microsoft 2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report.Generally Available Now: Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud – An Azure Native ISV Service
We are happy to launch Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud – An Azure Native ISV Service as a generally available offering. This is a result of a close collaboration between Microsoft and Informatica. This integration enables creation and management of Informatica organizations and serverless runtime environments within the Azure Management console. With serverless runtime environments, you are not required to instantiate VMs in your Azure tenants to install Informatica secure agents. You can focus on creation of their data management tasks without worrying about managing the infrastructure. You can find the Informatica announcement here Azure Native ISV Services enable you to easily provision, manage, and tightly integrate ISV software and services on Azure. By leveraging the power of Azure, the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud – An Azure Native ISV Service, offers you a range of benefits, including scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness. It also provides secure connectivity to Informatica’s IDMC portal using single sign-on via Azure portal, CLI, and SDK. You can easily sign up for this service via the Azure Marketplace. Managing Informatica Secure Agent infrastructure in your Azure tenant could be an elaborate and time-consuming task, requiring expertise in areas such as networking, security, and scaling. By using serverless run time environments, you can focus on integration mappings while Informatica manages the underlying Infrastructure. Key Capabilities Seamless onboarding: You can create an Informatica Organization or Link an existing Informatica Organization in Azure pod from Azure portal, CLI or SDK like any other Azure resource. For example, you can discover the service from search bar in Azure portal. Figure 1: Informatica IDMC – Azure Native ISV Service in Azure portal Figure 2: Creating the IDMC Azure Native ISV Service from the Azure portal Figure 3: Linking an existing IDMC Organization in Azure pod to Azure Native ISV Service from the Azure portal Single sign-on to IDMC portal: An auto generated SSO link securely redirects you to IDMC portal. Figure 4: Newly created Informatica organization resource with SSO URL on Overview page. . Figure 5: The SSO URL redirects to the newly created Informatica organization in the IDMC portal Management of IDMC serverless runtime environments: Within the Azure portal, you can create and manage Informatica Cloud Data Integration Advanced Serverless, a service of IDMC, to eliminate the need for creating VMs to run secure agents. Figure 6: Serverless runtime created from Azure portal with management options highlighted Figure 7: Serverless runtime in Informatica portal Azure SDK and CLI integration: You can easily manage IDMC resources from the Azure Java, Java Script, Python, Go and .NET SDKs and from command line interfaces like Azure CLI, PowerShell. This enables you to automate repetitive tasks and complex processes using scripts and provides greater flexibility and customization in managing Azure resources. CLIs can also easily be integrated into continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, enabling seamless integration with DevOps practices and workflows. Get started with Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud – An Azure Native ISV Service Setup and subscribe to your Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud – An Azure Native ISV, from Azure Marketplace. Follow the documentation to create an Informatica organization and run time environments to deploy your integration mappings.Marketplace Business Central products available in CSP channel
Business Applications adds new offer types to Microsoft AppSource to assist Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partners in building solutions with Dynamics 365 and Power Platform products when they transact through the commercial marketplace.FY24 Opportunities for Teams Publishers
What would you do with an extra $10,000? Are you a Microsoft partner who has published a Teams app in Appsource? Microsoft is offering a $10,000+ incentive when you monetize your Teams App by pairing it with a Transactable SaaS offer on the Commercial Marketplace and then transacting $10,000 through the Marketplace. We will help you understand what it takes to qualify and share the steps to activate this incentive, but you need to act fast, it ends June 30, 2024! You could qualify for free sessions to learn more - simply submit your email address and we'll be in touch.
