Windows Azure New provides marketplace for 50 countries

Distinguished Windows Azure Marketplace User:

We have some exciting news to share with you: we now provide marketplace for 50 additional countries. Since then, the total number of countries/regions we have supported has increased to 88. We have also added some exciting new elements to marketplace, including the Microsoft optical character recognition service, which was recently released at the//build conference, the new data service provided by D&B, the French post Office location service directly provided by La Poste, and Mapmechanics offers UK location services.

1 customers in the following countries/regions can now purchase and use qualified Marketplace services:

Algeria, Argentina, Bahrain, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Domincan Rep., Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Guatemala, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, China Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Venezuela.

have been registered in other markets?

There are a few simple steps you can take to migrate your account to your local market:

go to Https://datamarket.azure.com/account cancel any existing applications or data subscriptions on the Account information page click Edit to select the region that is associated with your Microsoft accounts Click Save to subscribe to all your favorite services and to use a variety of new features, such as local currency pricing and billing

2 The Bing OCR (optical character recognition) control is now available in Windows Azure Marketplace and you can take advantage of the Microsoft cloud-based Optical character recognition feature and integrate it into your Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 applications. Click here to view this service, or click here to learn more about OCR services.

3 We are very proud to receive the data set provided by the prestigious French post office La poste. Please click here to view this service.

The following is a snapshot of the services in our service Explorer:

4 The well-known leading business data and business insight provider D&b (Dun & Bradstreet) added six new APIs to the ever-increasing list of Windows Azure Marketplace Data Services. View new services provided by D&b:

Recognition：

corporate redundancy and matching for Microsoft SQL Server Data quality services-D&B data sets as reference data for data de-duplication redundancy projects using SQL Server 2012 Data Quality Services

Global Address Validation – enables you to authenticate and eliminate redundancy for global corporate addresses.

Enrich：

company Yellow Pages – addresses and phones – can be retrieved directly in marketplace or programmatically by using Excel or API. Company profile-Industry and sales-access methods ditto company family organization-related companies-access methods ditto

Found：

d&b Business Insights (also known as Corporate Outlook builder)-access methods Ibid.