Merge pull request #111185 from anbene/cm-overview

Updated Commercial Marketplace Overview page with info about the migration to PC

Author: American-Dipper

articles/marketplace/partner-center-portal/commercial-marketplace-overview.md

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-title: Overview of the commercial marketplace in Partner Center 
-description: Learn more about the commercial marketplace in Partner Center and how to list and sell offers on Azure Marketplace, Microsoft AppSource, and through the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program.
-author: dsindona 
+title: Overview of the Commercial Marketplace portal in Partner Center 
+description: Learn more about the Commercial Marketplace portal in Partner Center and how to list and sell offers on Azure Marketplace, AppSource, and through the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program.
+author: dsindona
 ms.author: dsindona
 ms.service: marketplace 
 ms.subservice: partnercenter-marketplace-publisher
 ms.topic: conceptual
-ms.date: 02/06/2020
+ms.date: 04/13/2020
 ---
 
-# Overview of the commercial marketplace in Partner Center
+# Overview of the Commercial Marketplace Portal in Partner Center
 
-Welcome to the Commercial Marketplace Portal in Partner Center. The [Commercial Marketplace portal](https://partner.microsoft.com/dashboard/commercial-marketplace/) helps you monetize your products and services, reach customers, and grow your business.
+Welcome to the Commercial Marketplace Portal in Partner Center. The [commercial marketplace portal](https://partner.microsoft.com/dashboard/commercial-marketplace/) helps you monetize your products and services, reach customers, and grow your business.
 
-These articles cover the basics of creating and using your Partner Center account. This includes creating new Software as a Service (SaaS) offers that can be listed on [Azure Marketplace](https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/) or [Microsoft AppSource](https://appsource.microsoft.com/), managing your existing SaaS offers, and providing resources to help with questions and collect your feedback.
+These articles cover the basics of creating and using your Partner Center account. This includes creating new offers that can be listed on [Azure Marketplace](https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/) or [AppSource](https://appsource.microsoft.com/), managing your existing offers that were migrated from the Cloud Partner Portal, and providing resources to help with questions and collect your feedback.
 
-## About Microsoft's commercial marketplace
+## About the commercial marketplace
 
-Enterprises, governments, and organizations of all sizes find business solutions, innovative technology, and enablement services through the [Azure Marketplace](https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/) and [Microsoft AppSource](https://appsource.microsoft.com/) web stores, [Azure portal's in-product experience](https://portal.azure.com), [Cloud Solution Providers](https://partner.microsoft.com/cloud-solution-provider), and Microsoft Sales teams.
+Enterprises, governments, and organizations of all sizes find business solutions, innovative technology, and enablement services through the [Azure Marketplace](https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/) and [AppSource](https://appsource.microsoft.com/) web stores, [Azure portal's in-product experience](https://portal.azure.com), [Cloud Solution Providers](https://partner.microsoft.com/cloud-solution-provider), and Microsoft Sales teams.
 
-Partner Center is the hub of a Microsoft partner experience. For organizations who go to market with Microsoft and take advantage of the commercial marketplace, Partner Center is the portal through which publishers create and manage offers, provide test drive demonstrations, and view analytics on offer performance.
+Partner Center is the hub of a Microsoft partner experience. For organizations who go to market with Microsoft and take advantage of the commercial marketplace, Partner Center is the portal which publishers use to create and manage offers, provide test drive demonstrations, and view analytics on offer performance.
 
 ## Migration from Cloud Partner Portal
 
-Partner Center is evolving to better integrate all aspects of Microsoft's relationship with software publishers. As part of this evolution, we are migrating the functions of the [Cloud Partner Portal](https://cloudpartner.azure.com/) to Partner Center.
+Partner Center is evolving to better integrate all aspects of our relationship with software publishers. As part of this evolution, we're migrating [Cloud Partner Portal](https://cloudpartner.azure.com/) to Partner Center.
+
+Existing commercial marketplace publishers will find a familiar but improved user experience with an intuitive interface. Notifications in the portal and email notifications inform publishers of the migration. Users will be seamlessly directed to the appropriate location. Customers won't be affected by this partner experience upgrade.
 
 >[!NOTE]
->Currently, Partner Center supports the creation and management of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offers, Azure application offers, Dynamics 365 for Customer offers, Engagement & PowerApps offers, Dynamics 365 for Operations offers, and Dynamics 365 for Business Central offers. More offers will be supported soon.
+>Currently, Partner Center supports the creation and management of some offer types as noted in the table below. More offer types will be supported soon as we migrate all offer management to Partner Center.
 
-Existing commercial marketplace publishers will find a familiar but improved user experience with an intuitive interface. Notifications in the portal and via email will inform publishers of the migration. Users will be seamlessly directed to the appropriate location. Customers will not be affected by this partner experience upgrade.
+|Offer Type  |Offer management migrated from Cloud Partner Portal to Partner Center  |
+|---------|---------|
+|Software as a Service (SaaS)     | Available now       |
+|Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement & PowerApps     | Available now         |
+|Dynamics 365 for operations     | Available now        |
+|Dynamics 365 for business central     | Available now        |
+|Azure Application     | Available now        |
+|Azure Virtual Machine     | General availability April–May 2020        |
+|Azure Container     | General availability April–May 2020        |
+|Consulting service     | General availability April–May 2020        |
+|IoT Edge module     | General availability April–May 2020        |
+|Power BI App    | General availability April–May 2020        |
 
-### Improvements on user experience and billing
+### Improvements on publishing and offer management user experience
 
-With the transition to Partner Center, new functionality is available to publishers, in addition to improvements on the user experience. SaaS offerings, which can be billed monthly or annually, support per-user licensing (seat-based) in addition to per-site licensing (flat-rate). This new monetization model is ideal for business software. The introduction of SaaS per-user licensing aligns with new functionality that allows customers to complete purchases in AppSource, the commercial marketplace for business and industry solutions.
+With the transition to Partner Center, new functionality is available to publishers, in addition to improvements on the user experience.  For details, see [Frequently asked questions for migrating from Cloud Partner Portal to Partner Center](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/marketplace/cloud-partner-portal-orig/cloud-partner-portal-migration-faq).
 
 ### Account and user management updates
 
-Account and user management in Partner Center make it easy for individuals to access the portal and for administrators to apply appropriate permissions. Compared to prior offer management portals, the role-based access control capabilities in Partner Center provide security enhancements that will make the publishing process simpler for large organizations.
+Account and user management in Partner Center make it easy for you to access the portal and for administrators to apply appropriate permissions. Compared to prior offer management portals, the role-based access control capabilities in Partner Center provide security enhancements that make the publishing process simpler for large organizations.
 
 ### Improved certification experience
 
-Partner Center provides an improved certification experience. Certification now uses automation and machine learning for improved turnaround times and quicker processing. Maintaining accuracy will remain a top priority, ensuring that the cloud marketplace is safe and contains valuable offers for our customers. Requirements will not change, but now when you submit offers through Partner Center, you will receive more detailed and descriptive certification reports referencing [public-facing policies](https://docs.microsoft.com/legal/marketplace/certification-policies).
+Partner Center provides an improved certification experience. Certification now uses automation and machine learning for improved turnaround times and quicker processing. Maintaining accuracy will remain a top priority, ensuring that the marketplace is safe and contains valuable offers for our customers. Requirements won't change, but now when you submit offers through Partner Center, you'll receive more detailed and descriptive certification reports that reference [public-facing policies](https://docs.microsoft.com/legal/marketplace/certification-policies).
 
 ### Analytics for performance reporting
 
-Partner Center analytics provides a view into the performance of your offers and improved reporting tools. Publishers can monitor sales using the data visualization and insight graphs to optimize listings. The improved analytics tools enable you to act on performance results and maintain better relationships with customers and resellers.
+Partner Center analytics provides a view into the performance of your offers and improved reporting tools. Publishers can monitor sales using the data visualization and insight graphs to optimize listings. The improved analytics tools let you act on performance results and maintain better relationships with customers and resellers.
 
 ## View the roadmap and join the conversation
 
-Learn more about recent and future releases by visiting the [commercial marketplace roadmap](https://aka.ms/publicmarketplaceroadmap), or join the conversation in the [Microsoft Partner Community](https://www.microsoftpartnercommunity.com/).
+Learn more about recent and future releases by visiting the [Microsoft commercial marketplace roadmap](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/marketplace/marketplace-roadmap), or join the conversation in the [Microsoft Partner Community](https://www.microsoftpartnercommunity.com/).
 
 ## Next steps
 
-- For new Microsoft partners interested in publishing a SaaS offer to the marketplaces, see [Create a commercial marketplace account in Partner Center](./create-account.md).
-- For existing partners who have previously published offers in Cloud Partner Portal, [Manage your commercial marketplace account in Partner Center](./manage-account.md).
+- For new Microsoft partners who are interested in publishing an offer to the marketplaces, see [Create a Commercial Marketplace account in Partner Center](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/marketplace/partner-center-portal/create-account).
+- For existing partners who have previously published offers in Cloud Partner Portal, [Manage your Commercial Marketplace account in Partner Center](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/marketplace/partner-center-portal/manage-account).
 - Learn more about cloud marketplace management moving to Partner Center in this [Partner Community blog post](https://www.microsoftpartnercommunity.com/t5/Azure-Marketplace-and-AppSource/Cloud-Marketplace-In-Partner-Center/m-p/9738#M293), which includes a demo video.