Events For Cloud Leadership

Metanga to Train ISVs in Microsoft Azure Boot Camps

MetraTech Corp., the leading provider of agreements-based billing and compensation solutions, will lead a series of training workshops for independent software vendors (ISVs) building applications on the Windows Azure platform. In conjunction with Microsoft's ISV sales team, Metanga, MetraTech's multi-tenant cloud-based billing application, will offer the Metanga Cloud Monetization Strategy boot camp sessions.

Lead by Team Metanga, the regional boot camps will provide ISVs with best practices in cloud adoption and monetization, exploring:

  • Cloud-based enrollment and customer support
  • Successful SaaS pricing strategies
  • Productization and bundling
  • Subscriptions and metered business models
  • Billing and payment capture
  • Customer self-care tools

"These events present a great opportunity for ISVs to learn not only the benefits of the Windows Azure Cloud, but also how they can accelerate adoption and drive monetization of their applications," said Jeff Lear, director of national ISV sales for Microsoft.

To attend the events, register below:

 

Webinar - ISV Monetization Strategies On Windows Azure Feb 24, 2012

 

ISVs can learn how to quickly monetize Azure SaaS or Cloud offerings by simplifying enrollment, account management, subscriptions, billing, payments, entitlements and online customer support.

 

2011 Activities


Cloud Expo Nov 7-10, 2011, Santa Clara, CA 

The cloud is certainly a compelling alternative to running all applications within a traditional corporate data center. And flexibly billing for those cloud-based applications is the key to next generation monetization. But moving from theory into practice is where things get complicated, and this is where Metanga's leadership at a top industry event like Cloud Expo comes in.

 

Tech Crunch Disrupt May 23-25, 2011, NYC, NY

Subscription billing and the emerging subscription economy is proving to be the most disruptive force in the technology arena over the past 20 years.

TechCrunch Disrupt is the only conference that gathers both Web innovators disrupting media and technology and also executives successfully navigating disruption to talk about turning change into opportunity.


GigaOM Structure June 22-23, 2011, San Francisco, CA

The Cloud offers an incredible opportunity for innovation and deployment flexibility. Yet Monetiation of cloud based services is one of the biggest issues facing Cloud offerings today. With Metanga, Structure participants can monetize and optimize their business models no matter what their Cloud solution.

Structure is GigaOM’s flagship conference on Cloud Computing and Internet Infrastructure, bringing together the most influential thinkers in the space for two days.

 

Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference July 10-14, Los Angeles, CA

Metanga is sponsor, featured speaker and active participant in the largest gathering of Worldwide Microsoft ISVs monetizing their applications. With billing as a key building block of the ongoing discussions, and Windows Azure as a focus for the event, we encourage you to join Team Metanga!

The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) is the premier event for Microsoft partners. WPC provides a forum for you to connect with other partners and with Microsoft staff, and to learn about the latest Microsoft programs, strategies, and cutting-edge technologies.

 

2010 Activities

 

Web 2.0 September 27-30, 2010, New York, NY 


Metanga will be exhibiting at Web 2.0 2010. The Expo in New York focuses on Platforms for Growth, diving into the platform opportunities for the whole web ecosystem, particularly mobile, real-time, and the social web. We'll be talking about real-time data and the content being generated, how that data is consumed, and the platforms and applications enabling various services.

Cloud Expo November 1-4, 2010, Santa Clara, CA


Team Metanga will be out in Santa Clara sharing  their strategies for Monetizing the Cloud. "Cloud Expo" has become synonymous with "computing" and "software" in two short years. Cloud Expo is the new PC Expo, Comdex, and Internet World of our decade. By 2012, more than 50,000 delegates per year will participate in Cloud Expo worldwide.

The cloud is certainly a compelling alternative to running all applications within a traditional corporate data center. But moving from theory into practice is where things get complicated, and this is where attending a top industry event like Cloud Expo comes in.

No one can take full advantage of cloud computing without first becoming familiar with the latest issues and trends. The organizing principle of the 7th International Cloud Expo on November 1-4, 2010, is to ensure that attending delegates leave the Santa Clara Convention Center with abundant resources, ideas and examples that they can apply immediately.

Attendees should leave with the goal of leveraging the Cloud, helping them to maximize performance, minimize cost and improve the scalability of their Enterprise IT endeavors.

SaaS University, November 9-11, 2010, Boston, MA

 

Mark Dudman, Metanga GM will be teaching at Softletter's SaaS University 2010. His presentation will focus on the journey to a SaaS offering from the view of a traditional software vendor. 

Learning to Speak SaaS: The Move From Enterprise On-Premise Applications to a SaaS Model

Software companies who have been successful with on-premise solutions and enterprise models, find themselves in a new land, attempting to speak a new language, as they move to a SaaS model. It’s riddled with pitfalls, including:

  • Development teams who will face new concepts that will challenge their thinking.
  • Customer driven, iterative release cycles that break all the old release cycles assumptions. 
  • SaaS revenue models that will be be decidedly different from the models that made the company successful.

Throttling between the two requires requires deft hands. As Mark Dudman explains, learn how to take control of the process at your company.