Grow your business
Build innovative business apps and services that reach millions of customers by becoming a Microsoft Business Applications partner.
Why Microsoft Business Applications?
Modern cloud LOB solutions
Create innovative offerings using a common data model, Microsoft Power Platform, and next-generation AI and mixed reality.
Faster time to value
Get your services and IP to market faster with familiar tools, unique data assets, and industry accelerators.
Broad reach
Expand your business by leveraging the Microsoft peer-to-peer partner ecosystem and our best-in-class go-to-market support.
Resources to help you get started
Build a solution
Get started with apps
Learn how to become a Business Applications partner, get a development environment, explore programming models, start coding, package your app, and publish to AppSource.
Accelerate sales
Explore available partner programs to help expand your business opportunities.
- Learn about the Business Applications program for ISVs
- Explore Microsoft ISV co-sell opportunities
- Engage with other Microsoft partners
Create a consulting practice
Develop solutions and skills
Expand your knowledge and skills with Business Applications training courses and expert resources.
Get go-to-market support
Take your Business Applications solution to market using our comprehensive set of assets and resources.
Learn about other consulting practice solutions
Find out how systems integrator partners are growing their practices with Business Applications.
Jump-start your development with industry solution accelerators
Healthcare
Build enhanced solutions for patient care using data model entities including care coordination, patient condition, and care plan.
Higher education
Develop solutions that increase student and faculty engagement, improve institutional effectiveness, expand insights, and predict outcomes.
Nonprofit
Enable development of new applications that optimize various nonprofit business processes across the funding-to-outcomes lifecycle.
Automotive
Build connected customer experiences designed to transform vehicle retail and enable smart mobility.
Banking
Develop solutions to engage customers, share and manage referrals, improve banking processes, and derive and act on new insights.
“Simple reviewed multiple technology partners, but Microsoft’s focus on delivering true digital transformations, investment in Power Apps, and collaborative global go-to-market approach clearly differentiated them”
Aden Forrest
CEO, Simple
“We bet on Business Applications and the cloud, and that bet paid off. Through Microsoft cloud and the flexibility of the Microsoft Power Platform, we can meet every customer need quickly and easily.”
Rik Dubbink
Partner, CRM Partners
“We win with customers because we are focused and partner solely with Microsoft. We focus on field services using the Connected Field Service scenario and…90 percent of the time we can engage with other workloads and extend our service offering.”
Dirk Fedder
Director Professional Services, Prodware
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