Cloud computing is becoming one of the current technology trends continue to grow, both in the corporate and SME. Cloud-based product is currently very diverse and has a specific function to support business needs. In response to the high trend, Microsoft Innovation Center with Microsoft Indonesia held a workshop titled "Microsoft Cloud Essentials".

On March 18, 2015 a workshop was held at UGM, Yogyakarta. Attended by 30 participants, some of the material on the use of Microsoft's cloud platform delivered by a team of MIC. Discussion on Microsoft Azure becomes the main agenda of the workshop. Each participant gets access to Azure for free through a AzurePass worth USD 100. Hopefully with such access participants can really practice tools from Microsoft's cloud-based computing.

In addition to tasting a variety of cloud computing services are ready applicability in Microsoft Azure, participants were also taught about the simple cloud application development with Visual Studio 2013. With the implementation of this event, the participants are expected to become more familiar with cloud computing technology that provides many benefits for business computing systems.