Follow this guidance to get the basics right in building your Software as a Service on Azure.
Get informed and make the right platform and partnership decisions for your SaaS business.
- Evaluate these Azure service architecture options to find the right real world Azure architecture for your service.
- Evaluate complementary Azure Marketplace services to enhance your app.
- Evaluate the enablement options available for our partners.
- Evaluate what migration options could suit your needs.
Get up and running quickly.
- Onboard to the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN).
- Create a free Azure Account.
- Set up Cost Management in Azure to avoid any surprise bills.
- Set up Azure Advisor to receive recommendations around cost optimization, security, performance and more.
- Understand these recommended Azure architectures to find the right real world Azure architecture for your app.
- If you are a startup, consider this specialisted architecture guidance for startups
- Consider what tenant isolation or sharing model you will implement using our multitenant architectural guidance.
Create a solid plan and reduce risks during development and/or migration.
- Deploy the enterprise-scale landing zone for small enterprise.
- Implement source control, manage code changes and set up continuous integration/delivery pipelines.
- Complete your detailed architecture.
- Perform a Well Architected Framework Review.
- Design your billing and metering strategy.
Ensure successful deployment, launch to market and smooth oeprations.
- Deploy the production environment to your landing zone (see build your app above).
- Perform a security review and review your Azure secure score.
- Implement a customer metering strategy and create a transactable marketplace offer.
- Launch your app!
Accelerate your Go-to-Market strategy and innovate your product to drive competitive differentiation.
- Achieve Microsoft Co-Sell status to co-sell alongside Microsoft sellers world-wide.
- List your SaaS app with our Cloud Solution Provider partners to expand your salesforce.
- Extend your app to Teams in order to meet your users where they are working all day long.
- Integrate with Microsoft Power Platform to enable your customers to build low-code/no-code apps that address requirements in their eco-system.
- Extend your app with Machine Learning and AI Cognitive Services to discover new insights and respond to events programmatically.
- Schedule quarterly Azure Advisor review of cost saving, performance and security recommendations.
- Schedule annual cost optimisation and well architected framework review.
- Stay up to date with the latest expert guidance from the Microsoft SaaS Academy