{"id":7126,"date":"2017-07-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/dynamics-365\/blog\/2017\/07\/10\/building-intelligent-business-applications\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T11:58:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T18:58:16","slug":"building-intelligent-business-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/dynamics-365\/blog\/business-leader\/2017\/07\/10\/building-intelligent-business-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping partners innovate in business applications"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Microsoft Inspire this year, more than 17,000 partners, customers and business leaders will hear our CEO and leadership talk about the critical role our partners play in enabling customers to transform their businesses across industries. Microsoft invests billions annually in innovation to bring the best products to market to support our customers, and to give our partners a set of technology solutions and services they can build their business atop.<\/p>\n

This ecosystem of Microsoft Cloud Partners is 64,000 strong \u2013 one of the largest in the world. As our partners look to develop or grow their cloud practice we offer them the most comprehensive cloud – spanning Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), application-platform-as-a-service (aPaaS) through leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings. These services are enterprise ready and have been built from the ground up to work together.<\/p>\n

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ISV\u2019s have always been able to build on Microsoft Azure. In fact, we have over 35,000 partners already using Azure IaaS and PaaS services for their apps. Increasingly we\u2019re being asked by these partners to make our higher-level cloud services \u2013 particularly those that make up our business applications platform \u2013 available as embeddable building blocks.<\/p>\n

We pioneered this with Power BI<\/a> \u2013 which has been available as a partner-embeddable building block for nearly a year. Since then we\u2019ve watched ISVs take advantage of Power BI Embedded to add powerful business analytics capabilities to their applications.<\/p>\n

Now we want to give our partners even more capabilities with our award-winning business application services, such as:<\/p>\n