Hi everyone,

We are a Databricks Partner now and Salesforce Partner with over 15 years of experience. We have developed a Databricks App using Free Edition and seek for publication of our App on the Databricks Marketplace. We would appreciate guidance from anyone who has experience with the Marketplace publishing process, particularly for Databricks Apps (Streamlit).

We have a few questions regarding the overall process and would be grateful for any insights or best practices.

Workspace Requirements

• Does Databricks provide a partner sandbox or development workspace for Databricks Partners building Marketplace applications? And if yes , Does it include the necessary functionality to develop, test, and publish Databricks Apps to the Marketplace?
• If we develop and submit our application using the Databricks free trial that includes $400 in credits for 14 days, what happens after the trial expires?
• Or Is a paid Databricks workspace mandatory for developing and publishing Marketplace Apps?
• What is the recommended long-term deployment model for Marketplace applications?

Also our application provides interactive dashboards and AI-powered analytics . We are not publishing a Delta Sharing dataset or acting as a data provider , so do we need Data Provider Partnership, Delta Sharing validation, and preparing sample datasets as onboarding steps or if there is a separate onboarding and publication process for application providers?

Thank you in advance for your guidance and support!

Pragya Sharma ,

Astrea IT Services( pragya@astreait.com )