Discover the benefits of the ISV Success Program, now in public preview
Accelerate innovation with the ISV Success Program
Build, sell, and thrive on the Microsoft Cloud. Grow your business as an ISV with powerful tools, one-to-one consultations, and training resources—and gain access to millions of Microsoft customers across the globe through the commercial marketplace.
Gain access to powerful tools
Tap into cloud credits and best-in-class developer tools to accelerate time to market—and build your business as your needs evolve.
| Product | Includes | Retail value |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Azure |
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$5,000 |
| GitHub Enterprise Cloud subscription |
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$5,040 |
| Visual Studio subscription benefits |
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$75,000 |
| Azure Standard support plan |
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$1,200 |
| Dynamics 365 Sales, Field Service and Customer Service partner sandbox |
|
$40,500 |
| Microsoft 365 E5 developer subscription |
|
Free |
Get expert guidance with 1:1 consultations
Meet with Microsoft experts for app and marketplace consultations to help you get to market faster.
App architecture design
Kick off your project with a 1:1 technical engineering session to plan your application design.
Publishing consult
Get step-by-step technical guidance on how to publish your app to the commercial marketplace.
App architecture review
Finalize your project with a technical engineering review session to ensure your application is optimized for the Microsoft Cloud.
Marketplace listing optimization1
Talk with an expert to optimize your marketplace listing to drive customer engagement.
Explore valuable resources and events
Discover new ways to build, sell, and thrive with training resources and community events hosted by Microsoft experts.
Discover curated content for ISVs
Expand your knowledge with resources tailored for common ISV application and publishing scenarios, including code samples, client libraries, reference architecture, and SaaS accelerator tools.
Accelerate your growth with events
Gain access to virtual and community events, where you can hear from experts, ask questions, and increase your knowledge.
Connect with your community
Join the community to connect with peers and Microsoft experts, get support, and participate in ask-me-anything sessions.
Frequently asked questions
- [1] Additional eligibility requirements may apply.
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ISVs from any country, managed and unmanaged, are eligible to participate if they’re currently building a B2B application leveraging the Microsoft Cloud, and they’re willing to publish this app to the Microsoft commercial marketplace. Additionally, any ISVs not yet part of the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program will need to join prior to participating.
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The benefits are available for 12 months after signing the program agreement. This 12 month preview period starts once a qualified and accepted ISV completes a kick-off call with their designated engagement manager. If accepted, your assigned engagement manager will review all benefits in detail with you.
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Marketplace Rewards is now included in the ISV Success Program, available—at no cost—to all participants of the program, automatically. Benefits are designed to help you market and sell your solutions, generate leads with Microsoft's field and through Microsoft's channel by leveraging the commercial marketplace as your platform.
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While Marketplace Rewards will be combined with the ISV Success Program, the benefits will continue to be available to every partner who has an existing or new service or solution listing in the commercial marketplace. To see your company’s available Marketplace Rewards, from the Partner Center dashboard, navigate to Benefits and go to the Marketplace Rewards page and select Sales and Marketing benefits.
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Consolidating Marketplace Rewards as automatic benefits within the ISV Success program will help simplify and streamline all the benefits to take advantage of as ISVs build, publish, and grow with Microsoft.
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We’ve recently announced a partnership with Tackle to accelerate the ISV journey to the commercial marketplace and unlock sales and go-to-market channels. Through our partnership with Tackle, we’re looking to bring expertise to help onboard, mature and grow your business more quickly in the commercial marketplace. For more information about how you can take advantage of the benefits from this partnership, please sign up for the ISV Success program to learn more about a subsidized offer.
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You can expect a response on the status of your application typically within three to five business days. Note that the team will not be processing applications nor sending status updates during these holiday closures: November 23rd through 25th and December 23rd – January 2nd.