The Customization area is where most developers and solution and deployment administrators spend their time. As shown here, this area comprises three sections: CUSTOMIZATION, SOLUTIONS, and DYNAMICS MARKETPLACE:
Dynamics Marketplace is the app store for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Here, partners and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) can commercialize their specific applications and solution extensions. This concept was introduced with Dynamics CRM 2011 and is meant to simplify the process of selling solutions for Dynamics CRM and to provide a common area for all solutions to be made available. While this is a good concept, not all ISVs commercialize their solutions through the Dynamics Marketplace.
Dynamics Marketplace is a searchable repository from within your Dynamics CRM organization. The following screenshot shows that you can filter the results by popularity and date, or you can navigate to the online repository:
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