Edition Six
Navigating Azure Marketplace:
An overview for IT Professionals
What is Azure Marketplace?
Azure Marketplace is a platform where you can find, try, buy, and deploy thousands of industry-leading apps and services that run on Azure. It’s like a marketplace for cloud software and solutions that are certified and optimised to work seamlessly within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem. Whether you’re an IT professional or a developer, Azure Marketplace offers a wide range of options to meet your needs.
As we want to give our customers a fast introduction to the benefits, Ultima are offering a complimentary Licensing Optimisation Assessment to demonstrate how you can benefit from Azure Marketplace and optimise any committed costs as part of a Microsoft agreement.
Benefits of Azure Marketplace
- Procure at Pace: Quickly find and deploy top-quality Azure cloud solutions.
- Control and Choice: Decide which solutions your employees can access, from an expansive ecosystem of pre-approved applications and services.
- Cost Optimisation: Leverage Ultima’s expertise to draw down on existing MACC or EA agreements, ensuring every investment is maximised.
Ultima’s Value Proposition
- Simplified Procurement: Ultima’s expertise as Azure Marketplace natives simplifies the procurement process, allowing for fast, efficient deployment and management of cloud solutions.
- Unlocked Savings: With Ultima, gain access to deeper discounts and custom pricing through Private Offers, ensuring the best deals that contribute to your MACC agreements.
- Exclusive Early Access: As an MPO Preview Partner, Ultima provides early access to the latest Azure Marketplace innovations and offers.
Ultima & Microsoft’s Partnership
Our status as launch partner brings together the strength of Ultima as a Microsoft and multi-vendor services partner with the power of Microsoft’s cloud marketplace, to deliver elastic cloud-first software solutions. With solutions from a select group of Independent Software Vendors (ISV’s), this new mechanism combined with Ultima’s trusted advisory skills, cost optimisation processes and customer first approach will drive better value, governance, and commercial terms as UK organisations look to modernise their application portfolios.
