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Get the new product, support and advisory benefits designed to help build your cloud and AI practice. Explore our three cost-saving packages today.
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Driving growth for software development companies

Discover offerings that help maximize profitability as you build successful cloud and AI solutions and extend software to Microsoft customers.

Modernize and create apps that delight customers

With customer value at the center of how we invest in our cloud and AI technology, we provide your business with tools to solve critical customer challenges—faster. Drive your customers’ transformation with best-in-class platforms like Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, and Microsoft 365 Copilot. Our AI technology leads the industry in enterprise-qualit properties, such as integration, scalability, performance, and responsible use. Explore how Microsoft is evolving to better meet the needs of partners who build and extend software.

How we’re investing in your success

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Join software development company Success

We created software development company Success as the pathway for partners who develop software to work with Microsoft and accelerate growth as you build, extend, and sell across the Microsoft Cloud. With benefits curated for your business—such as cloud credits, software licenses, and developer tooling with GitHub and Visual Studio—we’ll help you grow successful solutions at scale.

Become a Solutions Partner with certified software

When you become a Solutions Partner* with certified software**, customers can easily identify the quality, capability, reliability, and relevance of your software solution. This distinction shows customers that your solution meets technical criteria for interoperability with the Microsoft Cloud—aligned with solution areas or Industry AI—and demonstrates a proven track record of customer success.
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Develop AI-powered software

Create and deliver intelligent apps that reshape customer success across industries. Get started by exploring resources and offerings purpose-built to help you drive innovation.
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Expand your business through the marketplace

Scale your reach to more customers, simplify sales, and unlock opportunities to grow through the Microsoft commercial marketplace—a partner-focused business platform.
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Explore other resources for your business

Expanded Azure benefits in software development company Success
Learn about the updated AI benefits and cash incentives designed to help you build innovative experiences, provide technical guidance, and grow your business globally.
Discover Business Applications for partners
For partners building on Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform, we’ll help speed up your time to innovation and expand your customer base.
Tap into the opportunities of Microsoft 365
Build, integrate, and sell apps on Microsoft Teams or Microsoft Viva to innovate where over 270 million monthly users are already working.
Lead the way in security with Microsoft
Discover resources to help you stay ahead of the latest cybersecurity trends and build your technical skills in a rapidly evolving industry.
Build your AI startup with Founders Hub
Through Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub, get no-cost access to leading AI models with Azure, up to $150,000 in Azure credits, one-on-one guidance from Microsoft experts, and more.
Accelerate cloud and AI adoption
Access comprehensive resources, expert help, and funding to help you drive AI transformation for customers through Azure Innovate and Azure Migrate and Modernize.
Scale with multiparty private offers
With multiparty private offers available in the marketplace, deliver your software solutions alongside other partners’ service offers by making and closing custom deals within minutes.

Discover developer tools

Explore Visual Studio
Whether you want to code, build, debug, deploy, or analyze software, Visual Studio can help.
Try Azure DevOps
Explore DevOps services that complement your existing workflows so you can run a more efficient cloud practice.
Build on GitHub
Use the complete developer platform to build, scale, and deliver the secure software your customers depend on.

*“Solutions Partner” refers to a company that is a member of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program and may offer software, services, and/or solutions to customers. Reference to “Solutions Partner” in any content, materials, resources, web properties, etc. and any associated designation should be not interpreted as an offer, endorsement, guarantee, proof of effectiveness or functionality, a commitment or any other type of representation or warranty on the part of Microsoft. All decisions pertaining and related to your business needs including but not limited to strategies, solutions, partner selection, implementation, etc., rests solely with your business.

**A certification is (1) specific to the solution’s interoperability with Microsoft products and (2) based on self-attestation by the solution owner. Solutions are only certified as of the date the solution is reviewed. Solution functionality and capability are controlled by the solution owner and may be subject to change. The inclusion of a solution in the marketplace and any such designations should not be interpreted as an offer, endorsement, guarantee, proof of effectiveness or functionality, a commitment or any other type of representation or warranty on the part of Microsoft. All decisions pertaining and related to your business needs including but not limited to strategies, solutions, partner selection, implementation, etc. rest solely with your business.