Microsoft Netherlands ISV Academy

Kick-Off

Microsoft loves Software companies! Join this session to learn why ISVs are considered the main game changers and innovation drivers in tech. Important details about the different sessions of the ISV Academy will be shared, as well as key opportunities and benefits the ISV participants can immediately activate.

SaaS product & price

How to set up a competitive price for your SaaS solution? This is one of the most asked questions and during this session we are going to explain the different pricing models and methods to choose the one that is most suitable for your B2B SaaS product.

SaaS Place & Promotion

You’ve successfully set up a competitive pricing model for your SaaS Product – now what? Join this session to find out how to reach your ideal customers and explore the different direct and indirect sales channels suitable for your B2B SaaS product.

Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub

Find out how Microsoft supports everyone with an idea. Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub is designed to support all founders from idea to a successful SaaS business, Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub brings together the technology, guidance, and support you need to hit your next milestone. Join this session to learn how to build quickly with free access to Microsoft tools and platforms.

Marketplace SaaS Accelerate (In Person)

According to Gartner's Future of sales report, by 2025 80% of supplier and buyer interactions will occur in digital channels - this is also why Marketplace is (living rent free) on the minds of many companies, in particular B2B SaaS vendors. Microsoft's Commercial Marketplace promise is to support in targeting a new customer segment, to enable expansion to new geographies and help reduce the cost of sales. Even though marketplaces are considered to be the future of selling and buying software, they are still a rather unchartered territory, as only recently conversations around integrating them in the overall sales strategy were initiated. Join us at our Amsterdam Schiphol office to learn directly from Microsoft employees and ISV partners how Marketplace can be embedded into sales engines and how in doing so, new opportunities for SaaS businesses can be unlocked.

Preparing your organization for rapid growth

How do we deliver the quality of financial reporting required by our board and investors? How do we scale our backbone? We are expanding to another country, which local laws and regulations should be considered? Learn from industry leading experts what it takes to prepare your company for growth, international expansion, and the challenges along the way.

Azure – the cloud for software companies

Given its nature as a software company, Microsoft created the Azure platform for application workloads. Running modern cloud-native applications has been in Azure's roots from its birth. Nowadays, Azure is a full-blown cloud platform with the ability to run any workload you can imagine.

The truth about the Well Architected/Cloud Adoption Framework

How do you build a strong cloud foundation that accommodates growth as a SaaS business? What are the Well-Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework and how can they help? Both the Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework provide guidance on cost optimization with a focus on moving from on-premises physical servers into the cloud’s virtualized hardware.

SLA & Monitoring on Azure

What happens when cloud services stop working and how to minimize the impact of this unwanted scenario? We'll answer that question by exploring Service Level Agreements (SLA) for specific services in Microsoft Azure and using the power of Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights to detect possible failures in time.