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# Azure Managed Applications Reviews
**Vendor:** Microsoft  
**Category:** [Managed IT Services Providers](https://www.g2.com/categories/managed-it-services)  
**Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 15
## About Azure Managed Applications
Azure Managed Applications provides an ecosystem that enables Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), and corporate central IT teams to deliver turnkey solutions through the Azure Marketplace or Service Catalog




## Azure Managed Applications Reviews
  ### 1. A Streamlined and Reliable Managed Deployment Experience

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** ILCHO I. | expert buyer, Airlines/Aviation, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2025

**What do you like best about Azure Managed Applications?**

What I like best about Azure Managed Applications is the fully managed, standardized deployment experience they provide.
They allow complex solutions to be delivered in a controlled, consistent way without requiring deep operational management on our side. I appreciate how updates, patches, and maintenance are handled by the publisher, ensuring the application stays secure and up to date with minimal effort from our team.

The clear separation between what we can configure and what the provider manages creates a dependable environment that reduces risk and simplifies governance. Additionally, the integration with Azure Marketplace makes deployment fast, predictable, and easily repeatable across environments.

Overall, the combination of simplicity, reliability, and reduced operational burden is what stands out the most.

**What do you dislike about Azure Managed Applications?**

The main drawback of Azure Managed Applications is the limited level of control and customization available to the customer.
Because the solution is fully managed by the publisher, certain configurations and permissions are locked down, which can make it difficult to adjust the environment to specific internal requirements. At times, this restricted access can slow down troubleshooting or limit flexibility when trying to tailor the solution to unique use cases.

Additionally, the dependency on the publisher for updates and maintenance means that release schedules or fixes are not always fully within our control. Documentation around some advanced scenarios could also be more detailed to simplify onboarding.

Despite these limitations, the managed model still provides strong value by reducing operational overhead.

**What problems is Azure Managed Applications solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Azure Managed Applications helps solve major challenges around deployment consistency, lifecycle management, and operational overhead.
Instead of manually managing infrastructure or worrying about complex configurations, the solution provides a fully managed, repeatable, and secure deployment model. This ensures that environments are set up correctly every time, reducing the risk of misconfigurations and downtime.

Another key benefit is that updates, maintenance, and support are handled by the application publisher, which significantly reduces the internal workload for IT teams. This allows the organization to focus on using the application rather than managing it. Compliance and security are also easier to maintain because the managed application enforces standardized, pre-approved configurations.

Overall, Azure Managed Applications help save time, improve reliability, and ensure a consistent, secure deployment experience across the organization.

  ### 2. easy to maintain and manged cloud based appliation

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** GAURAV K. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2023

**What do you like best about Azure Managed Applications?**

ease of setup on azure cloud, operations and billing and support provided by the partner or developer or microsoft

**What do you dislike about Azure Managed Applications?**

cloud bills are not customized so that we can see where the infra cost is going. abstraction level is too high which does not refer any implementation design.

**Recommendations to others considering Azure Managed Applications:**

look for setup catlog, ease of use and support provided. they are a great savior for us to provide flexibility to use the functionality without having to develop cloud native application inhouse

**What problems is Azure Managed Applications solving and how is that benefiting you?**

we dont have to manage the infrastructure, security, keys, login mechanism. these apps can be downloaded from marketplace and cane be deployed as ease. support also can be provided by the partners or vendors

  ### 3. Excellent way to provide and consume applications.

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2023

**What do you like best about Azure Managed Applications?**

The ease for both the supplier and the consumer, this model of deploying the application greatly simplifies everything from billing to network configuration.

**What do you dislike about Azure Managed Applications?**

The interface at times can be quite laggy

**Recommendations to others considering Azure Managed Applications:**

I think it's a great service at an attractive price point, I would recommend to just give it a go using a trial subscription.

**What problems is Azure Managed Applications solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Azure Managed Applications provides us with a means to deploy applications into other people’s subscriptions/tenants whislt still being able to manage the applications lifecycle.

  ### 4. It was very good

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Mehul S. | System Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2022

**What do you like best about Azure Managed Applications?**

It was very cost-effective and can also save your time in developing anything and also helps us in guiding the correct path for effectiveness and fewer errors and can also increase performance.

**What do you dislike about Azure Managed Applications?**

There is nothing that I dislike in this, but certain things can be improved cause there is always a window for improvement. The learning modules should be developed, which can benefit freshers who are using that application for the very first time.

**Recommendations to others considering Azure Managed Applications:**

I you want to save your cost and time you can use this.

**What problems is Azure Managed Applications solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It was very cost-effective and can also save your time in developing anything and also helps us in guiding the correct path for effectiveness and fewer errors and can also increase performance.

  ### 5. Excellent services to run your business critical applications

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Ankit S. | Senior Security Consultant - Cloud Security, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2022

**What do you like best about Azure Managed Applications?**

These services are easy to use and manage. The deployment or implementation time is very less. You can run the services without worrying about the hardware or infra capacity.

**What do you dislike about Azure Managed Applications?**

There is nothing to dislike as such. The only thing which can be improved further is customer support.

**Recommendations to others considering Azure Managed Applications:**

Go for it, if you're looking to run your business without worrying about scalability and availability aspects.

**What problems is Azure Managed Applications solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Used the Azure-managed applications to host our client services. It helped the customer to focus on their business without worrying much about the availability and maintenance of the application.

  ### 6. Super easy way for consumers to deploy and operate

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Akash B. | Senior Security Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2022

**What do you like best about Azure Managed Applications?**

The infra support and setup part. Easy to use and manage. You can also define terms for managing the application, and all charges are handled through Azure billing.

**What do you dislike about Azure Managed Applications?**

There is nothing specific to dislike about. The only thing is the pricing point where the certain application can be worked around.

**Recommendations to others considering Azure Managed Applications:**

It will for sure going to help establishing ongoing relationship with your consumers.

**What problems is Azure Managed Applications solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The managed application services from Azure helped us to grow our business without thinking about the underlying infra and support. It was pretty easy to deploy and manage.

  ### 7. Azure Managed services from Microsoft-adopted software

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Samer A. | A, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2022

**What do you like best about Azure Managed Applications?**

Services and apps are easy to use and seamlessly integrated

**What do you dislike about Azure Managed Applications?**

User management and privileges. When invite users outside my org and assign roles, the users were not able to use services. I'm saying not behave as expected

**Recommendations to others considering Azure Managed Applications:**

Although the service seems  easy and straightforward to implement, you may need extra time to use to. Need some times training and advise from partners  or jump test implement piolt project y get your hands dirty to learn more

**What problems is Azure Managed Applications solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It is good place for people using Microsoft technology for long time and no need to investing time and efforts learning something new

  ### 8. LoadView For AzureManaged Application

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Hifzul R. | Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2022

**What do you like best about Azure Managed Applications?**

Load view gives exact load testing for production worloads.

**What do you dislike about Azure Managed Applications?**

I used  it and my only dislike is the Pricing, which is relatively high.

**Recommendations to others considering Azure Managed Applications:**

Check Pricing and compare before use.

**What problems is Azure Managed Applications solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Load Testing for Azure Managed Applications.

  ### 9. Easy to use and deploy

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2022

**Describe the project or task Azure Managed Applications helped with:**

Azure Managed applications are very easy to configure. These applications backed is completely handled by Azure so we do not have to take any hassle of administration and maintenance of the application. It is easy to set up any application for any customer deployment. Updates and maintenance of the application is done by Azure.

**What do you like best about Azure Managed Applications?**

Hassle-free deployment of any application. Very easy updates and maintenance.

**What do you dislike about Azure Managed Applications?**

Only specific versions which are latest are available.

**What problems is Azure Managed Applications solving and how is that benefiting you?**

On-prem and individual licenses are not anymore required by using azure applications.

  ### 10. Excellent customer service.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Levi B. | Information Technology, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2021

**Describe the project or task Azure Managed Applications helped with:**

The Azure Managed Applications team helped me with my request to automate certain steps within their virtual ecosystem for how to compress and decrypt applications with foreign formats for better analytics flow.

**What do you like best about Azure Managed Applications?**

Following the guidance of the Azure IT team it was easy to resolve and finish my request in record time, they were patient and very professional, they used easy to understand terms and the speed of their response was immediate.

**What do you dislike about Azure Managed Applications?**

I have not had any problems using the service

**Recommendations to others considering Azure Managed Applications:**

The service is very good and the cost is low.

**What problems is Azure Managed Applications solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I liked the professionalism and speed with which they attended my request, I was able to carry out the processes and finish configuring on my own the steps that the IT team indicated to me, the whole process was simple.

  ### 11. Managed applications in Azure

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in International Trade and Development | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2021

**Describe the project or task Azure Managed Applications helped with:**

A project was generated in which, with the help of the Marketplace and the catalog of all services, it did not serve to provide a quick and timely response to the birth of a new business model and thus increase the sales that were forecasted for 2021.

**What do you like best about Azure Managed Applications?**

I really liked how easy the turnkey solution was, to provide very quick responses to our clients, and little by little we discovered that it is not necessary to spend all the project time understanding the infrastructure.

Likewise, we reduced costs in repetitive and monotonous operations.

**What do you dislike about Azure Managed Applications?**

In the current projects, I have not seen any issues with Azure Managed Applications.

**Recommendations to others considering Azure Managed Applications:**

Be very clear about how to develop the implementation process, limitations, and above all, ensure that the IT Infrastructure is adequate.

**What problems is Azure Managed Applications solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The benefits I have discovered include how quickly we can implement our solutions, the large-scale cost savings, and thus making projects more efficient and agile.

  ### 12. Azure apps review

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Elyes C. | Application Security Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 08, 2020

**Describe the project or task Azure Managed Applications helped with:**

Azure apps helped to automate full of stuff where i am working especially working with azure logic apps and azure applications. Built in application within azure helped to implement many automation stuff ( SSO, user provisioning,..)

**What do you like best about Azure Managed Applications?**

The workflow and the automation between different applications

**What do you dislike about Azure Managed Applications?**

Until now i didn't faced any issue with azure managed applications

**Recommendations to others considering Azure Managed Applications:**

I recommend azure managed application for better automation

**What problems is Azure Managed Applications solving and how is that benefiting you?**

the automation of the data processing between applications

  ### 13. Azure resource manager

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2020

**Describe the project or task Azure Managed Applications helped with:**

Azure application Insights

**What do you like best about Azure Managed Applications?**

Create everything under one resource group

**What do you dislike about Azure Managed Applications?**

Sometimes azure vm hangout and resolving by restart

**What problems is Azure Managed Applications solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Solving security related problem. Azure handle all things

  ### 14. 1 stop for all your needs

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2018

**What do you like best about Azure Managed Applications?**

Wide library of applications that range from anything to basic onsite to cloud backup to something as complex as configuring your Azure MFA service .

**What do you dislike about Azure Managed Applications?**

The UI seems very windows 8 ish and could do with dropdown menus instead of which it streches the page out further.

**Recommendations to others considering Azure Managed Applications:**

Microsoft have a fantastic trial in which they give you $250 to use any of their services for a month.

Before we got fully on board with this, we used the trial to build a decent specked server for free and used it to test apps such as RADIUS and Azure MFA. Once we were happy with it, it was very easy to purchase the product(S)

**What problems is Azure Managed Applications solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Full server backup.

We initially used the Azure Managed Apps to provide us with a onsite to cloud backup of our shared data.

But the pricing was very competitive so we set it to take a full snapshot of our server (OS and all) This allows us more breathing room in the event that a hardware failure occurs on our server. We can also grant users emergency access to data in the cloud via the web.

  ### 15. Azure Application network

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Sharan Y. | Identity & Access Management Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2018

**What do you like best about Azure Managed Applications?**

The number of applications which you can configure SSO and full life cycle management are vast. It also supports SAML for implementing SSO with applications. 

**What do you dislike about Azure Managed Applications?**

The Azure user interface is slow and saving changes some times does not work.

**Recommendations to others considering Azure Managed Applications:**

This is a very cost effective way to integrate with applications.

**What problems is Azure Managed Applications solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Azure B2B implementation for providing system access to third party users.


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**Planning**
- Needs Assessment
- Resource Allocation
- Stayed within Budget
- Statement of Work
- Best Practices

**Delivery**
- Technical Expertise
- Met Deadlines
- Meeting Management
- Project Updates
- Scope Management
- Roll-out

**Support**
- Go Live Support
- Documentation
- Training 
- Metrics
- Admin Services

**Team Quality**
- Change Management Skills
- Executive Presence
- Vertical Expertise
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