Here is the graph showing the overall scores—for the week of Nov 10, 2025—of the UI definition of all Azure Application plans (Managed Apps or Solution Templates) in the Microsoft Marketplace....

Azure Marketplace statistics and trends for the week of Nov 10, 2025. The Microsoft Marketplace is a vibrant bazaar of applications and solutions that are built on top of Azure in one way or another. While it's true that some of the Marketplace's SaaS offers are not entirely hosted on Azure, a significant number is. The Azure Marketplace has a great potential and opportunities for growth, especially in the Azure Application offer—an area that has recently become more appealing for agentic AI and bundling AI solutions....

Here is the graph showing the overall scores—for the week of Nov 3, 2025—of the UI definition of all Azure Application plans (Managed Apps or Solution Templates) in the Microsoft Marketplace....

Azure Marketplace statistics and trends for the week of Nov 3, 2025. The Microsoft Marketplace is a vibrant bazaar of applications and solutions that are built on top of Azure in one way or another. While it's true that some of the Marketplace's SaaS offers are not entirely hosted on Azure, a significant number is. The Azure Marketplace has a great potential and opportunities for growth, especially in the Azure Application offer—an area that has recently become more appealing for agentic AI and bundling AI solutions....

When deploying Azure Managed Applications, CreateUiDefinition.json files are essential. They define the user interface for your solution, guiding users through configuration options in the Azure portal. But let’s be honest—writing these files manually can be time-consuming and error-prone....

Expressions are one of the gnarliest parts of a createUiDefinition.json when it comes to debugging and troubleshooting issues. There are no validation tools for UI expressions. Maestro Studio ENSEMBLE sports a parser that generates an Abstract Syntax Tree and a JIT compiler that takes the AST to the next level, generating validation messages, warning and error locations, and just-in-time values of expression in design-time....

The best way to learn how to build an Azure Managed Application (AMA) is to start with a real, working example, NOT a simple, hello world sample!...

Yes, the stat is correct. The number would have been even closer to 100% if it weren't for some enterprise customers who have their subscriptions created and initialized by their IT team before furnishing the subscriptions to the business units that will be using them. This issue is specific to a type of Azure Marketplace offer called Azure Applications. And within that offer type, it applies mainly to a plan type called Azure Managed Application (AMA)....

AI assistants are everywhere. Conversational AI has become mainstream. There is the good, but there is also the bad and the ugly. AI assistants are getting better, much better, as they start to rely on AI models that are improving at a fast rate, and a lot of effort is being put into making these assistants more reliable and consistent. They are amazing when they work, and that's most of the time, but then comes the occasional hallucination that spoils things. Depending on the context of the problem space, companies are figuring out ways to create guardrails to mitigate most of these problems....

Anyone today can go to one of the available AI assistants or chat bots and use natural language to try and get an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solution that fits their requirements. Anyone that has already tried this knows that you are more likely to get an invalid solution or one that has one or more invented pieces of information; things that don't really exist and are totally made up (even though they might seem at first blush to be authentic!)....