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Preview of S+S Application Marketplace Architecture Guidance

Frederick Chong
DPE Platform Architecture Team
Microsoft Corporation

March 2008

(15 printed pages)

Contents

Scenario Screencast 1: ISV Publishing an Application to Marketplace
Scenario Screencast 2: Marketplace Administrator Approving an Application-Publication Request
Scenario Screencast 3: Small Business Purchasing an Application from the Marketplace
Architecture and Design Details
S+S Resources

The Impetus: Long-Tail Software Economy

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Long-Tail Forces for Software and Services

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What Application Marketplaces Could Do for You

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Architecture of an Application Marketplace

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Create, Publish, Approve, and Subscribe Scenario

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Scenario Screencast 1: ISV Publishing an Application to Marketplace

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Figure 1.1. Publishing application directly from application designer

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Figure 1.2. Selecting entities, workflows, and roles to publish

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Figure 1.3. Creating application

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Figure 1.4. Usage Based Subscription window

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Figure 1.5. Usage Based Subscription window, with submission message

Scenario Screencast 2: Marketplace Administrator Approving an Application-Publication Request

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Figure 2.1. Queue of applications awaiting certification and approval

Scenario Screencast 3: Small Business Purchasing an Application from the Marketplace

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Figure 3.1. Marketplace logon page

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Figure 3.2. Selecting application(s) to purchase

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Figure 3.3. List of purchased application(s)

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Figure 3.4. Provisioning of application to tenant workplace

Architecture and Design Details

Monetization and Licensing

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License Definition, Purchase, and Assignment

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Application-License Enforcement

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License-Usage Reporting

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Marketplace-Tenant Provisioning

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Titan Business-Application Platform

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Microsoft Popfly Integration

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S+S Resources

Architecture Articles

· Application Marketplaces and the Money Trail

· Architecture Strategies for Catching the Long Tail

· ISVs Are from Mars, and Hosters Are from Venus

· Multi-Tenant Data Architecture

· SaaS: An Enterprise Perspective

· Efficient Software Delivery Through Service-Delivery Platform

S+S Sample Application

· LitwareHR

MSDN Blogs

· http://blogs.msdn.com/fred_chong/

· http://blogs.msdn.com/gianpaolo/

· http://blogs.msdn.com/eugeniop/

 

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