Microsoft Finland - Software Developing Companies monthly community series.
Tervetuloa jälleen mukaan Microsoftin webinaarisarjaan teknologiayrityksille! Microsoft Finlandin järjestämä Software Development monthly Community series on webinaarisarja, joka tarjoaa ohjelmistotaloille ajankohtaista tietoa, konkreettisia esimerkkejä ja strategisia näkemyksiä siitä, miten yhteistyö Microsoftin kanssa voi vauhdittaa kasvua ja avata uusia liiketoimintamahdollisuuksia. Sarja on suunnattu kaikenkokoisille ja eri kehitysvaiheissa oleville teknologiayrityksille - startupeista globaaleihin toimijoihin. Jokaisessa jaksossa pureudutaan käytännönläheisesti siihen, miten ohjelmistoyritykset voivat hyödyntää Microsoftin ekosysteemiä, teknologioita ja kumppanuusohjelmia omassa liiketoiminnassaan. Huom. Microsoft Software Developing Companies monthly community webinars -webinaarisarja järjestetään Cloud Champion -sivustolla, josta webinaarit ovat kätevästi saatavilla tallenteina pari tuntia live-lähetyksen jälkeen. Muistathan rekisteröityä Cloud Champion -alustalle ensimmäisellä kerralla, jonka jälkeen pääset aina sisältöön sekä tallenteisiin käsiksi. Pääset rekisteröitymään, "Register now"-kohdasta. Täytä tietosi ja valitse Distributor kohtaan - Other, mikäli et tiedä Microsoft-tukkurianne. Webinaarit: 5.9.2025 klo 09:00-09:30 - Teknologiayritysten ja Microsoftin prioriteetit syksylle 2025. Tervetuloa jälleen mukaan Microsoftin webinaarisarjaan teknologiayrityksille! Jatkamme sarjassa kuukausittain pureutumista siihen, miten yhteistyö Microsoftin kanssa voi vauhdittaa kasvua ja avata uusia mahdollisuuksia eri vaiheissa oleville ohjelmistotaloille – olipa yritys sitten start-up, scale-up tai globaalia toimintaa harjoittava. Jokaisessa jaksossa jaamme konkreettisia esimerkkejä, näkemyksiä ja strategioita, jotka tukevat teknologia-alan yritysten liiketoiminnan kehitystä ja innovaatioita. Elokuun lopun jaksossa keskitymme syksyn 2025 prioriteetteihin ja uusiin mahdollisuuksiin, jotka tukevat ohjelmistoyritysten oman toiminnan suunnittelua, kehittämistä ja kasvun vauhdittamista. Käymme läpi, mitkä ovat Microsoftin strategiset painopisteet tulevalle tilikaudelle – ja ennen kaikkea, miten ohjelmistotalot voivat hyödyntää niitä omassa liiketoiminnassaan. Tavoitteena on tarjota kuulijoille selkeä ymmärrys siitä, miten oma tuote, palvelu tai markkinastrategia voidaan linjata ekosysteemin kehityksen kanssa, ja miten Microsoft voi tukea tätä matkaa konkreettisin keinoin. Puhujat: Mikko Marttinen, Sr Partner Development Manager, Microsoft Eetu Roponen, Sr Partner Development Manager, Microsoft Katso nauhoitus täältä: Teknologiayritysten ja Microsoftin prioriteetit syksylle 2025. – Finland Cloud Champion 3.10. klo 09:00-09:30 - Autonomiset ratkaisut ohjelmistotaloille – Azure AI Foundry ja agenttiteknologioiden uudet mahdollisuudet Agenttiteknologiat mullistavat tapaa, jolla ohjelmistotalot voivat rakentaa älykkäitä ja skaalautuvia ratkaisuja. Tässä webinaarissa tutustumme siihen, miten Azure AI Foundry tarjoaa kehittäjille ja tuoteomistajille työkalut autonomisten agenttien rakentamiseen – mahdollistaen monimutkaisten prosessien automatisoinnin ja uudenlaisen asiakasarvon tuottamisen. Kuulet mm. Miten agenttiteknologiat muuttavat ohjelmistokehitystä ja liiketoimintaa. Miten Azure AI Foundry tukee agenttien suunnittelua, kehitystä ja käyttöönottoa. Miten ohjelmistotalot voivat hyödyntää agentteja kilpailuetuna. Puhujat: Juha Karvonen, Sr Partner Tech Strategist Mikko Marttinen, Sr Partner Development Manager, Microsoft Eetu Roponen, Sr Partner Development Manager, Microsoft Rekisteröintilinkki: Microsoft Finland – Software Developing Companies Monthly Community Series – Autonomiset ratkaisut ohjelmistotaloille – Azure AI Foundry ja agenttiteknologioiden uudet mahdollisuudet 31.10. klo 09:00-09:30 - Kasvua ja näkyvyyttä ohjelmistotaloille – hyödynnä ISV Success ja Azure Marketplace rewards -ohjelmia Tässä webinaarissa pureudumme ohjelmistotaloille suunnattuihin Microsoftin keskeisiin kiihdytinohjelmiin, jotka tukevat kasvua, skaalautuvuutta ja kansainvälistä näkyvyyttä. Käymme läpi, miten ISV Success -ohjelma tarjoaa teknistä ja kaupallista tukea ohjelmistoyrityksille eri kehitysvaiheissa, ja miten Azure Marketplace toimii tehokkaana myyntikanavana uusien asiakkaiden tavoittamiseen. Lisäksi esittelemme Marketplace Rewards -edut, jotka tukevat markkinointia, yhteismyyntiä ja asiakashankintaa Microsoftin ekosysteemissä. Webinaari tarjoaa: Konkreettisia esimerkkejä ohjelmien hyödyistä Käytännön vinkkejä ohjelmiin liittymiseen ja hyödyntämiseen Näkemyksiä siitä, miten ohjelmistotalot voivat linjata strategiansa Microsoftin tarjoamiin mahdollisuuksiin Puhujat: Mikko Marttinen, Sr Partner Development Manager, Microsoft Eetu Roponen, Sr Partner Development Manager, Microsoft Rekisteröintilinkki: Microsoft Finland – Software Developing Companies Monthly Community Series – Kasvua ja näkyvyyttä ohjelmistotaloille – hyödynnä ISV Success ja Azure Marketplace rewards -ohjelmia 28.11. klo 09:00-09:30 - Pilvipalvelut omilla ehdoilla – mitä Microsoftin Sovereign Cloud tarkoittaa ohjelmistotaloille? Yhä useampi ohjelmistotalo kohtaa vaatimuksia datan sijainnista, sääntelyn noudattamisesta ja operatiivisesta kontrollista – erityisesti julkisella sektorilla ja säädellyillä toimialoilla. Tässä webinaarissa pureudumme siihen, miten Microsoftin uusi Sovereign Cloud -tarjonta vastaa näihin tarpeisiin ja mitä mahdollisuuksia se avaa suomalaisille ohjelmistoyrityksille. Keskustelemme muun muassa: Miten Sovereign Public ja Private Cloud eroavat ja mitä ne mahdollistavat? Miten datan hallinta, salaus ja operatiivinen suvereniteetti toteutuvat eurooppalaisessa kontekstissa? Mitä tämä tarkoittaa ohjelmistoyrityksille, jotka rakentavat ratkaisuja julkiselle sektorille tai säädellyille toimialoille? Puhujat: Juha Karppinen, National Security Officer, Microsoft Mikko Marttinen, Sr Partner Development Manager, Microsoft Eetu Roponen, Sr Partner Development Manager, Microsoft Rekisteröintilinkki: Microsoft Finland – Software Developing Companies Monthly Community Series – Pilvipalvelut omilla ehdoilla – mitä Microsoftin Sovereign Cloud tarkoittaa ohjelmistotaloille? 12.12. klo 09:00-09:30 - Mitä Suomen Azure-regioona tarkoittaa ohjelmistotaloille? Microsoftin uusi datakeskusalue Suomeen tuo pilvipalvelut lähemmäksi suomalaisia ohjelmistotaloja – olipa kyseessä startup, scaleup tai globaali toimija. Webinaarissa pureudumme siihen, mitä mahdollisuuksia uusi Azure-regioona avaa datan sijainnin, suorituskyvyn, sääntelyn ja asiakasvaatimusten näkökulmasta. Keskustelemme muun muassa: Miten datan paikallinen sijainti tukee asiakasvaatimuksia ja sääntelyä? Mitä hyötyä ohjelmistotaloille on pienemmästä latenssista ja paremmasta suorituskyvystä? Miten Azure-regioona tukee yhteismyyntiä ja skaalautumista Suomessa? Miten valmistautua teknisesti ja kaupallisesti uuden regioonan avaamiseen? Puhujat: Fama Doumbouya, Sales Director, Cloud Infra and Security, Microsoft Mikko Marttinen, Sr Partner Development Manager, Microsoft Eetu Roponen, Sr Partner Development Manager, Microsoft Rekisteröintilinkki: Microsoft Finland – Software Developing Companies Monthly Community Series – Mitä Suomen Azure-regioona tarkoittaa ohjelmistotaloille? – Finland Cloud ChampionPartner experience using Microsoft ECIF Funding for Federal sector?
Looking for some general feedback from ISV, SI, MSP community... We're a mid-sized ISV with some enterprise services capability focused on deployments, cloud migration of both our own and some Microsoft security workloads. We've never used ECIF, but have a few targets where it would be valuable. I'm getting great support from Microsoft program team to onboard to the program and expect to have us activated shortly. Scope-wise, we have a handful of targets and would probably be pleased to execute with them in upcoming year. Question - what are your experiences with ECIF for Fed? What's the "operational lift" to manage a program and capture this benefit? Has this worked well for you? Has it been cumbersome? Any particular areas we should especially focus attention to ensure smooth execution? Any general guidance appreciated.Azure Native Integrations: General Availability of LambdaTest HyperExecute on Azure
We're excited to announce the general availability of LambdaTest HyperExecute on Azure. This integration empowers Quality Assurance (QA) teams with a unified TestOps control plane embedded directly in Azure, enabling faster, more reliable, and scalable testing workflows. With the integration with Azure, customers can leverage KaneAI which is a GenAI-Native testing Agent. Cloud-Native + AI-Native: The Future of QA Layer Cloud-Native (HyperExecute) AI-Native (KaneAI) Combined Benefits Performance • Intelligent parallel orchestration across Azure regions • Fast environment spin‑up via reusable templates • Dependency caching for sub‑minute starts • AI‑driven test script generation • Automated maintenance and updates • Smart test orchestration with fewer manual triggers Up to 70% faster test cycles with AI-assisted authoring and seamless, scalable orchestration Reliability • Auto‑scaling infra with built-in failover • Consistent environments remove “works on my machine” • Retry logic & flaky test suppression • Predictive flaky test detection • Auto‑healing with ML-suggested fixes • Root cause analytics with learning feedback loops Near-zero flakiness and increased release confidence via intelligent infra + AI-powered recovery Precision • Granular test matrices for environment-specific runs • Broad platform coverage (OS, browsers, frameworks) • Controlled, versioned infra • Risk-based test prioritization • Predictive coverage analysis • Intelligent gap detection Maximized ROI by executing only the most critical tests with minimal noise and optimal coverage Together, they form a QA productivity engine that scales with your velocity, reliability, and precision needs. Next steps We would love for you to test out the experience and share your feedback! You can review our documentation, browse to the following link and create the Azure Native LambdaTest – HyperExecute resource right from the Azure portal. Do share you feedback here.Azure Native Integrations: General Availability of Arize AI on Azure
We are excited to announce the general availability of the Azure Native integration with Arize AI, unveiled at Microsoft Ignite 2024. This integration brings advanced AI observability and evaluation capabilities directly into the Azure ecosystem, enabling data scientists and ML engineers to monitor, troubleshoot, and improve their models with ease. Why Arize AI? Arize AI addresses critical challenges in AI observability and evaluation, offering: Real-time model monitoring to detect performance degradation Automated root cause analysis for faster troubleshooting Bias detection and mitigation to ensure fairness Performance tracking across different segments and cohorts Seamless integration with Azure ML and other Azure services Azure Native Integration: Enterprise-Grade AI Observability Arize AI is deeply integrated into Azure across four key dimensions: Category Azure Native Capabilities Security & Compliance Azure AD, RBAC, and policy inheritance Deployment Provision and manage Arize AI applications using Azure portal, ARM templates, CLI and SDK Resource Management Instant provisioning, elastic scaling, cost-optimized infrastructure, single sign-on Procurement & Billing Available via Azure Marketplace with integrated billing Cloud-Native + AI-Native: The Future of AI Observability Arize AI delivers an intelligent observability platform: Auto-generate insights from model performance data Risk-based prioritization using historical performance and business impact Conversational debugging with natural language queries Predictive performance degradation detection and auto-healing Together, they form an AI observability engine that scales with your velocity, reliability, and precision needs. Next steps We would love to hear from you! You can go through our documentation, try out the experience and share your feedback.Azure Native Integrations: Public Preview of Arize AI on Azure
We are excited to announce the public preview of the Azure Native integration with Arize AI, unveiled at Microsoft Ignite 2024. This integration brings AI agent observability and evaluation to Azure, empowering AI engineers and developers to build more scalable, reliable, and effective AI applications and AI agents The integration of Arize AI with Azure provides AI teams with the ability to detect issues, troubleshoot why they happened, and improve overall AI agent and application quality. Benefits of Arize AI Evaluate and Improve the Quality of AI Agents and Apps: Arize AI offers powerful tools to develop, evaluate, and monitor AI applications. It enables prompt optimization and management, supports real-time evaluations of live systems, and provides deep observability for end-to-end tracing. Improved Application Reliability: By continuously evaluating and monitoring generative app performance, Arize AI helps ensures AI applications are working with enterprise quality outcomes. Faster Development Cycles: Arize AI allows for rapid iteration using pre-production app evaluations and workflows to test models, prompts and agents. Automatically optimize prompts with auto-optimization services and test AI applications with CI/CD based experiment runs. Features of Azure Native Integration with Arize AI Seamless Development Experience: Azure Native Integrations facilitate a smooth onboarding process, allowing you to quickly integrate Arize AI into your existing Azure workflows while leveraging Azure’s secure and scalable infrastructure. Simplified Deployment: Easily provision and manage Arize AI applications using familiar tools such as Azure portal, ARM templates, CLI, and SDK. Ease of Billing: Control your third-party spends directly from the Azure Marketplace, simplifying the billing process. Single Sign-On: Seamlessly switch between Azure resources and Arize AI without needing to enter your credentials again. How it works? Next steps We would love to hear from you! Try out the public preview experience and give us feedback. For more information, you can refer to our documentation.Azure Native Integrations: Public Preview of LambdaTest HyperExecute on Azure
Power of Azure Native Integration The native integration with Azure brings several key advantages to organizations already invested in the Microsoft ecosystem: Seamless Resource Management Provision HyperExecute resources directly from the Azure portal Unified billing and cost management through your existing Azure subscription Single-Sign on capability to the LambdaTest-Hyperexecute instance Streamlined CI/CD integration Native connectivity with Azure DevOps pipelines and integration with GitHub Actions running in Azure Built-in support for Azure Artifacts and container registries Automatic test result synchronization with Azure Test Plans Enhanced Security and Compliance Integration with Azure Active Directory for identity management Leverage existing Azure security policies and compliance certifications Data residency controls aligned with Azure regions Why LambdaTest HyperExecute? LambdaTest HyperExecute is an AI-native next-generation test orchestration platform designed to run automated tests at incredible speeds. It addresses common pain points in test automation: Test execution speed: Dramatically reduces test execution time by up to 70%. Flaky tests: Minimizes inconsistent test results by delivering stable, standardized, and consistent test environments Infrastructure management: Eliminates the need to maintain testing infrastructure, saving on hardware costs, and IT management overhead Scalability challenges: Provides instant access to thousands of browser and OS combinations without requiring you to provision, configure, or maintain these environments yourself enabling on-demand scaling for peak testing needs. Customers today can have 1000+ parallel sessions. LambdaTest HyperExecute's advanced Test Intelligence capabilities provide unprecedented visibility into your test suite performance, helping teams move beyond simple pass/fail metrics to truly understand test behavior patterns. Comprehensive Flakiness Management Automated Error Analytics HyperExecute doesn't just run tests faster—it fundamentally transforms how teams approach testing by combining acceleration with intelligence to help you ship better software with confidence. How it works? Next steps We would love for you to test out the public preview experience and share your feedback! Browse to the following link and create the Azure Native LambdaTest HyperExecute resource right from the Azure portal. Do share you feedback here.Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution
We are excited to announce the public preview of Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution. This Azure service offers native-like integration of Pure Storage's innovative enterprise-grade fully managed block Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) with Azure VMWare Solution (AVS) aiding seamless VMware migrations to the cloud along with scalability, simplicity and data resiliency. Azure Native Integrations enable you to easily provision, manage, and tightly integrate independent software vendor (ISV) software and services on Azure. By leveraging the power of Azure, Pure Storage Cloud Service offers you many benefits, including scaling flexibility, native Azure experience, unified billing, and cost-effectiveness. You can easily discover and sign up for this via the Azure Marketplace. "We’re pleased to see Pure Storage’s integration with Microsoft Azure Native service. Through this collaboration, Pure and Microsoft can better serve customer needs by enabling them to provision, use and manage Pure Storage on Azure just like other Azure services. With this integrated offering, Pure and Microsoft are helping customers to quickly leverage Pure's enterprise-grade storage with Azure cloud services securely to open up a whole new set of possibilities for customers bringing enterprise-scale environments to the cloud. Together, Pure and Microsoft are helping customers save time and operational overhead while driving innovation." - Scott Hunter, Vice President Product Management, Microsoft Developer Division. Gartner report from Sept 2024 states that by 2028, consumption-based storage as a service (STaaS) will replace over 33% of enterprise storage capital expenditure (capex), up from less than 15% in 2024. Pure Storage® is a pivotal storage player among the Enterprise customers in revolutionizing the storage, management and resiliency while ensuring flexibility. From AI to archive, Pure Storage delivers a seamless cloud migration experience with one unified Storage as-a-Service (STaaS) platform across on-premises, private and public cloud, and hybrid environments. They are a 11x consequent leaders in Gartner® Magic Quadrant report for Primary Storage Platforms, with highest rating in Execution & Vision. Thus proving why, they are undoubtedly the Enterprise favorites! Some key customers for Pure Storage include Meta, ServiceNow, AC Milan, Comcast and many more! Fig 1: Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage, Sep 2024, Gartner Inc. How will Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud for AVS help me? Fully managed block-storage-as-a-service solution, providing decoupled scalability and flexibility across Compute and Storage solutions. Optimized Total Cost of Operations (TCO) up to 40% with data reduction and compression tools. Seamless data mobility and migrations of VMware workloads across on-premises, hybrid and multi-cloud solutions to the Azure cloud. Enterprise-grade Data protection and Data resilience, with solutions such as Hybrid Disaster Recovery support in the roadmap. Get started with Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution Setup and subscribe to your Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud, available easily in the Azure Marketplace. You can start your journey free of cost and pay as you use the service. Look for “Pure Storage Cloud" in the Azure Marketplace and sign up via Contact Me button to show your interest for the preview. Fig 2: Contact Me offering on Azure Marketplace Once you have been allowlisted for the preview, you can also look for it using the search bar on Azure Portal or visit the marketplace on Azure portal to see the offer in your list of private plans. Fig 3: Searching for Azure Native Pure Storage via Azure portal Pure Storage in Marketplace private plans via Azure portal Provisioning a Storage Pool via Azure: Follow the instructions in the QuickStart to easily spin up your Pure Storage resource. Once you have created the Pure Storage resource on Azure, follow the simple steps in the Microsoft Learn docs, or navigate directly via the Overview blade to create Storage pools. 2. Quick-and-easy Connect to AVS: You can now easily connect your Pure Storage with your Azure VMWare Solution (AVS) using the “Connect” button in Storage pool. Resources Subscribe to the “Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution” available as Pay as You Go via Contact me in the Azure Marketplace. Create an Azure Native Pure Resource and storage pools via the service, see QuickStart: Get started with Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud Service in Microsoft Docs. To learn more, check out the Pure blog and Pure’s Press release. Learn more about the Pure Cloud Block Store and how to use it with AVS here.
