How ISVs Can ‘Do More with Less’ with Microsoft Azure

The idea behind doing more with less on Azure is to achieve optimized cost, resilience, and?growth for ISVs (independent software vendors). With constant tech evolution, ISVs always need to stay?abreast in order to navigate through changing markets and accelerate growth.?

As businesses are now looking forward to becoming more innovative and flexible, Microsoft Azure is offering expert help, guidance, cloud credits, and joint GTM opportunities?to ISVs to scale faster. Doing more on Azure is all about getting more value from your IT investments with less cost and?disruption.?

Below are some of the values that ISVs can leverage with #domorewithless :?

1. Be data-driven and optimize with Azure?
2. Deliver efficiency with automation and AI?
3. Innovate with a cloud developer platform?
4. Re-energize your workforce with Microsoft 365?
5. Protect everything, everyone, everywhere?

Also, let’s take a quick glance at the stats of how ISVs are achieving more with less on Azure.?

• 16% average savings of direct infrastructure-related costs with Azure?
• 37% average three-year cost savings when you run equivalent workloads on Azure?
• 54% potential total cost of ownership savings on Azure versus running on-premises?

This initiative is brought?to ensure ISVs hosted on?Microsoft Azure can future-proof their businesses and do more with less. The three pillars of this initiative are something that helps ISVs emerge much stronger.?

1. Migrate and Save?

With Azure, ISVs can save on energy and data center costs and gain more efficiency across their cloud environment. Moreover, Azure can help ISVs reduce costs by taking advantage of its scalable, automated, and managed services, as well as its pay-as-you-go and reserved instance pricing model.?

• With pay-as-you-go rates, you can save up to 85% when you choose to migrate Windows and SQL Server licenses with the Azure Hybrid Benefit.?
• With Azure, you can manage escalating energy costs efficiently while reducing your energy usage and carbon emissions.?
• Azure lets you save on IT infrastructure costs as well and helps you improve operational efficiency and maintain agility.?

2. Optimize Cloud Spending?

Being of Microsoft Azure gives ISVs the flexibility to optimize their cloud spending. This means you can forecast cloud costs, perform cost management, and improve agility by increasing the efficiency of your cloud investments.?

• According to a study, organizations saved up to 34% on Azure spending just in one year of usage by leveraging Microsoft Cost Management to understand, monitor, and forecast cloud costs.?
• With the Azure savings plan, ISVs can optimize their savings automatically and reduce costs.?
• Additionally, this helps in increasing security and improving reliability. In fact, with Azure Advisor, you can also ensure that your workloads are well-architected.?
• Leveraging Azure Arc helps you manage your on-premises, edge, and multi-cloud environments efficiently.?

3. Reinvest to Accelerate Growth?

The aim behind doing more with less is to ensure that ISVs reinvest their savings to become more resilient and drive innovation in their SaaS businesses. Also, this cycle of reinvestment will continue in order to accelerate business growth.?

• Save costs by minimizing downtime and data loss. Also, this ensures that you are able to secure your hybrid and multi-cloud environments with the help of backup and data recovery.?
• With this, you achieve a 93% reduction in unplanned downtime. Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup will help you achieve this.?
• Azure AI services and Azure App Service will help you leverage the developer skills in order to drive growth and modernize applications.?
• Moreover, you can focus on developing sustainable and innovative solutions. This will reduce your carbon footprint and create value for the business.?

Leveraging these benefits as early as possible will ensure you are ahead of your competitors and able to deliver the best services to the customers. In this endeavor, G7 CR is helping CXOs achieve more with STAB, designed in partnership with Microsoft. STAB is a unique program that will help ISVs get access to 2X logo growth with a 3X geographic reach.?Contact G7 CR or comment below to understand how you can be a part of this initiative to achieve more cost savings, more resilience, and more growth.?