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SaaS Architecture fundamentals
When building software as a service, you also gain responsibility for keeping customers and their data safe, and you need to maintain compliance when operating in different verticals. what can you do as a software provider to reach these levels of security and what Azure components can you utilize to help you with this challenge. Let's discuss security, governance and compliance and get some tips and tricks during this session. Security overview and services for the SaaS solution: - ASC -Defender - API management - Identity - Frontdoor - What we do next to you Compliance in SaaS: - Trust Center and Service Trust - Regulatory Compliance with ASC - Other tools that can help in governing data (SQL)
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How Microsoft does DevOps
By changing the way we work through DevOps, we deliver better products to our customers and better results to the business. But DevOps adoption isn’t easy. Beyond implementing new processes and technology, the ultimate key to a successful DevOps practice is embracing a DevOps culture. And cultural change is hard, especially in a large company that’s been around for decades. At Microsoft, we know a lot about this challenge. Here are stories of some of the experimentation and learning we’ve experienced in our ongoing DevOps journey. 1. Created clarity - We adopted objectives and key results (OKRs) to create clarity across engineering teams and changed how we measured success. 2. Became customer obsessed - We have relied on the idea-to-data (I2D), which involves updating our key performance indicators (KPIs) and collecting telemetry to continually measure the value our products bring customers. 3. Evolved to full stack teams - Engineering teams own the entire lifecycle of a feature, from inception through operation. As issues or incidents arise, engineering teams are responsible for owning the customer response. 4. Changed how we collaborate, develop, and deliver - Developers own the end to end lifecycle of their products. This means introducing ways to better collaborate on code, raising the quality bar, and adopting feature flags to get early feedback. 5. Build for resiliency - We trained people to be responsible for the operation, fixes, troubleshooting and ownership in production of each line of code they write.
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Collecting Customers' feedback
We all know that user-centered design is fundamental to the success of a product. Of all the things you need to do, collecting feedback from your users is one of the most important points in making good product and technical decisions. But how do you do it? At the end of this session, you will have some techniques to collect this feedback, but also to integrate it into your development workflow. These techniques come from my experiences at different scales: from the startup in a garage to Azure Engineering teams through various startups & Scale-Ups.
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Well Architected Framework for SaaS
For all the aspects of solution development there's 5 topics that come back: Security, Cost, Operations, Reliability and Performance. We poured those in a guidance based upon these 5 pillars, called the Well-Architected Framework (WAF). In this session we will couple this with insights on better design approaches and the available guidance from WAF. - Architecture Failure Design - WAF Pilar 1 : Cost optimization - WAF Pilar 2 : Operational Excellence - WAF Pilar 3 : Performance Efficiency - WAF Pilar 4 : Reliability - WAF Pilar 5 : Security
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AI in SaaS
Talking about artificial intelligence is easy. Building it into your SaaS applications less so. Or is it? In this live session we show that you can start building with AI in the same time it would take you to build a PowerPoint about it. Using Azure Cognitive Services, we demonstrate how to utilize pre-built and customizable AI models across image recognition, speech and text analytics. We also walk you through how some of our customers have deployed these in practice. No technical expertise is required to follow along (although we might show some code at times). Sure, technical skills are needed in your organization to build this, and we'll show you how to gain those. You are welcome to ask any questions around AI on Azure in the Q&A at the end of the session.
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Identity in SaaS Solutions
This session demonstrates why independent software vendors (ISVs) and developers should integrate their applications with Microsoft identity and Microsoft Graph. This is a high-level presentation of the business value and integration opportunities of the Microsoft identity platform and how easy it is to integrate your applications with the Microsoft identity platform. Speaker: Jonathan Lyon, Microsoft , Senior Program Manager at Microsoft
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SaaS Solutions on Teams Platform
Microsoft Teams is the home for teamwork in Microsoft 365. It brings together people, content, tools, processes and apps in an integrated workflow experience that helps customers boost their productivity. As a SaaS company, leveraging Microsoft Teams, you can make your solutions available and easily discoverable directly in the same front-end that customers use everyday - Microsoft 365 and Teams, expanding your customer base with another distribution channel and tapping into advanced functionality and integration features to bring even more value to your solutions. Join us in this webinar to hear all about the Teams Platform opportunity and to get the scoop on the amazing journey ISV partner Medxnote is taking in this space.
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SaaS solutions with Azure IoT
The evolution of SaaS, driven by advancements in cloud-native technology, has fundamentally changed the software industry, and how it operates. Businesses are transforming using a SaaS model in order to deliver greater value to their customers more than ever before. Are you ready to migrate your existing software products or upcoming solutions to be delivered as a service but simply do not know where to begin? In this session, we will discuss the steps to create or convert your software into a SaaS-based service. We will cover recommended patterns and practices around SaaS platform architectures, microservices, multi-tenancy, user/customer onboarding, identity management, security best practices, automation, billing and DevOps. Finally, we will also be introducing the ‘Azure SaaS Development Kit’, which is a GitHub hosted open-source project with everything you need to quickly begin building SaaS solutions on Azure.