It’s no secret that AI is transforming the way businesses operate. It’s revolutionizing both how applications get built, and what they can achieve—opening the door to exciting innovation, with developers at the center of this transformation.  

Data in the era of AI 

The era of AI also brings an unprecedented growth of data, an explosion that presents both opportunities and significant new demands. For example, AI helps us interact with data in powerful new ways—extracting, summarizing, detecting anomalies, identifying patterns. In a world rich in data, we now have exciting new capabilities to reason over it. High-quality data is not only the fuel that powers AI models and helps them learn and improve. It is also the foundation of any successful AI implementation. This places new demands and imperatives on data quality, security, and governance, as well as data integration, storage, processing, and analysis. The challenge may start with access to data, move to ensuring quality, and rapidly evolve to the need for a resilient platform to support real-time, operationally ready data. As organizations begin to leverage AI in their solutions and operations, developers require new tools, techniques, and solutions to ingest, operationalize, handle, and use the massive and complex data sets that are generated and consumed by AI systems.  

Discover and deploy AI solutions through the marketplace 

The Microsoft commercial marketplace, an extension of the Microsoft Cloud and AI stack, offers Microsoft first-party solutions, as well as a rich and growing catalog of partner-built solutions vetted and certified by Microsoft. It’s a powerful resource for developers to help you find solutions, tools, and models to power your AI projects. You can do this from one central catalog, where you can compare solutions, read peer reviews, and also use trials and proofs-of-concept to evaluate solutions and ensure they meet your needs before committing to purchase.  

When ready to buy, you can deploy seamlessly from Microsoft Azure in a secure environment with the confidence that these solutions are built on Azure and will seamlessly work well together and integrate into your existing IT environment, helping you save time and innovate faster.  

With triple-digit year-over-year growth of AI solutions available through the marketplace, this is our most robust catalog of industry-leading AI offerings you can discover and buy with the simplicity of a credit card and get to work faster. Plus, the marketplace provides a left-to-right view of your cloud and AI portfolio for easier management, reducing the need for technical overhead. Whether you’re bringing an application to your organization or to market, the marketplace makes it easier to get the AI tools you need to build efficiently and effectively.   

Accelerate AI innovation with partner solutions 

Whether you are looking for leading solutions to stream and process your data, search your data, aggregate and monitor data across your stack, democratize access to your data through low-code or no-code capabilities, or bring intelligence to your solution, there’s a solution on the Microsoft commercial marketplace to help power what you are building and unlock new use cases. Here is just a sampling of AI-powered offers in today’s catalog that developers are putting to use in their projects and organizations: 

Apache Kafka and Apache Flink on Confluent Cloud 

Stream, connect, process, and govern your data as it moves across Azure and multicloud environments with Confluent’s cloud-native data streaming platform. With 10 times the elasticity, performance, and resiliency of open source Apache Kafka, Confluent gets your data to the right place, in the right format, when you need it, to build reusable data products faster and unlock endless use cases.

Datadog—An Azure Native Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Service 

Use Datadog to gain comprehensive monitoring and real-time insights into your applications, infrastructure, and more than 750 integrations in one place for all teams, ensuring your AI solutions are robust and reliable.

Elastic Search (Elasticsearch)—An Azure Native ISV Service 

Deliver richer, more relevant, privacy-first search experiences across all of your organization’s proprietary data with a suite of powerful developer tools on the Elastic Search AI platform. This flexible platform includes the world’s most used vector database and supports teams with out-of-the-box capabilities and developer tools to completely customize functionality. 

Matillion Data Productivity Cloud 

Build and manage data pipelines, transform data with no-code extract, load, transform (ELT), and build generative AI into your data pipelines to deliver analytics and AI at scale with a single platform—Matillion’s Data Productivity Cloud.  

Each of these solutions are built on Azure, powered by AI, and available for purchase in Azure Marketplace or the Azure Portal to help you capture AI opportunities and build innovative solutions for your organization.  

Get started with marketplace 

94% of business leaders say AI is critical to success.¹ Yet we know developers require the right tools and solutions to truly capitalize on the potential of AI. Visit the Microsoft commercial marketplace today to find and deploy the solutions that will help you unlock insights with your data and accelerate AI transformation.  

• Learn more about the Microsoft commercial marketplace.
• Start browsing solutions in Azure Marketplace.
• Check out the marketplace quick guide.

¹Deloitte, State of AI in the Enterprise, 5th edition report.

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