Short for independent software vendor. Such firms build SaaS products for their own customers on Fabric, and Microsoft's Fabric CI/CD guidance offers them a dedicated pattern based on one workspace per customer.
Also called independent software vendor.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains ISV in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- SaaS
A cloud model in which you consume a finished application that the provider operates, Microsoft 365 for instance. Nearly everything is the provider's job; you look after your data, users and devices.
- CI/CD
Pipelines, for example in Azure Pipelines or GitHub Actions, that build, test and deploy code automatically; short for continuous integration and continuous delivery.
- Dedicated
Running Azure Functions on an App Service plan, which removes the execution time limit and offers VNet integration on Basic and higher tiers.
- Pattern
A reusable answer to a recurring problem that places building blocks in context, explaining when, how and why to apply them and what compromises are involved.
- Workspace
Teams in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric collaborate in this folder-style container, which groups items such as reports, semantic models and lakehouses, controls who can access them and is assigned a capacity.