SaaS Lab

Objective

SaaS Lab is a series of events that will help you modernize your application to make use of multi-tenant SaaS architecture patterns and technologies in Azure.

This series of events will help you develop SaaS applications that can:

• Scale to serve hundreds, thousands or millions of customers.
• Make use of modern PaaS and container technologies to reduce operational cost.
• Increase quality and reduce lead times by adopting DevOps and Continuous Delivery.
• Adopt multi-tenant architecture to increase tenant density and reduce cost-to-serve.
• Build a platform ecosystem by enabling partner integration.
• Innovate and disrupt by building AI and Machine Learning into your application.
• Enable best-of-breed security and identity features in your application with Azure AD and Azure AD B2C.
• Reach new markets, enable trials, simpler transacting and new commercial models by leveraging Azure Marketplace.

Sessions

Session 1 - The ISV Modernization Journey

Description: Hands-on walk-through modernizing a .NET app.

In this session you will learn the steps to modernize a legacy on-premises application, including upgrading and migrating the database to Azure and updating the application to take advantage of serverless and cloud services. Azure services and related products includes:

• App Services
• Azure Active Directory
• Azure Cognitive Services
• Azure Database Migration Service
• Azure Key Vault
• Azure Redis
• Azure Cognitive Search
• Azure SQL Database
• Azure Storage
• Azure Virtual Machines
• Flow
• PowerApps
• Visual Studio
• Xamarin

Session 2 - Modern Architecture Patterns and Modernizing Compute

Description:

In this session you will learn: How to modernize everything on Azure platform so your organization can stay up and running now and in the future. End up with highly scalable, maintainable, and modernized applications and the knowledge you need to take on your own company’s next migration project.

• Architecture styles
• Architecture of Modern Cloud Application
• Design Patterns
• Cloud Adoption Framework
• Azure's unique approach
• App transformation in context
• How to break down monolith to microservices
• QnA

Session 3 - Identity in SaaS

Description: Architect your apps with Microsoft identity to accelerate adoption and protect your app

In this session you will learn:

• AuthenN vs AuthorN
• Value Proposition of the Microsoft Identity Platform
• The Developer Journey
• How to architect your App for Identity-driven Security

Session 4 - Infrastructure as Code

Description:

In this session you will learn: How to working with ARM template, automation and DevOp with an interactive discussion style and demo.

• ARM template from introduction to practical authoring with visual code
• Resource deployment and how to see the resource visulization
• Automation with Azure DevOps
• Infrastructure code testing, security and validation

Session 5 - Application Storage Modernization

Description:

Data storage is a key part of any application. This could be relational databases, document data or simply just file & blob data. Modernizing and optimizing how your application stores and manages data is a key part of any strategy in building SaaS in Azure.

This session will provide you with a technology road-map that you can use to modernize your application with a cost-effective, secure and scalable multi-tenant application storage architecture.

We'll take you through the architectural decisions and trade-offs Tailwind Traders make to modernize the storage on their single tenanted VM based monolithic application into a modern multi-tenanted application leveraging cloud specific patterns, ensuring they achieve positive technical and commercial outcomes.

In this session you will learn:

• Fundamentals of modern cloud storage
• Some common storage services in Azure: Relational DB, NoSQL, blob
• High availability in multi-tenant storage
• The stages of modernizing different kinds of storage
• Common architectural patterns for multi-tenant application data
• Keeping storage secure in a multi-tenant environment
• Building a robust tenant migration strategy
• Special considerations: Front-end scalability, noisy-neighbor, security & isolation, backup and resiliency
• Commercial considerations of multi-tenancy
• Factors to consider when multi-tenanting an application
• Some multi-tenancy storage pitfalls to avoid
• Monitoring in a multi-tenant environment
• Advanced techniques such as row based security, token brokers, bring-your-own-key encryption, valet key

Session 6 - Innovation with Data & Analytics

Description: How do you add value to your solutions through data and analytics?

In this session you will learn:

• Data-Driven digital strategy
• How to start Data & Analytics in the workplace
• Modern Data Warehouse Architecture
• Data DevOps
• Azure Synapse Analytics
• Azure Synapse Analytics & Power BI demo

Session 7 - Innovation with AI & ML

Description: How do you add value to your solutions through data and analytics?

In this session you will learn:

• Overview of AI & ML
• AI stack on Azure
• Deep Dive on selected Cognitive Services

Session 8 - Integration

Description:

Adopting API First design principles enables SaaS applications to scale past their user interface, unlocking opportunities for users to integrate an app's functionality into their unique workflow.

In this session you will learn how to design an app with extensibility in mind, and what solutions you can adopt to scalably manage and monetize your APIs. You will also learn how Microsoft Power Platform and Microsoft Teams can empower citizen developers to leverage your APIs with their productivity suite.

Related products and services will include:

• Azure API Management
• Microsoft Power Platform
  • Power Apps
  • Power Automate
  • Power BI
  • Power Virtual Agents
• Microsoft Dataverse
• Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft Bot Framework

Session 9 - Azure Marketplace

Description:

The Commercial Marketplace is Microsoft's online product catalog, where first-party and third-party offers are available to millions of monthly users, Microsoft sellers, and resellers from organizations worldwide. The Commercial Marketplace enables Microsoft ISV partners to sell tech solutions directly through and with Microsoft, expanding addressable markets and driving business growth.

In this session you will learn how partners create, publish, and manage commercial marketplace offers using the Partner Center. You will learn about transactable and non-transactable solution types, and the tools and APIs available to integrate and build a transactable offer.

Related products and services will include:

• Microsoft Commercial Marketplace
• Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource
• Microsoft Partner Center
• Azure Active Directory
• Azure Virtual Machine Images
• Azure Shared Image Gallery
• Azure Storage
• SaaS Fulfillment APIs
• Marketplace Metering Service APIs
• ARM Templates

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