Business Intelligence once was a luxury used by corporations and enterprises who invested in a team of data scientists and IT specialists. Modern technology and software tools have made it possible for anyone to increase their BI value within their organization. Small and medium-sized businesses can use the same tools without investing a lot of […]
Archives for February 2019
5 Data-Backed Benefits Of Using YouTube To Grow Your Business
YouTube has become an iconic app over the last decade. It has helped artists, comedians, and business people grow their careers. Because of the reduced reading culture in modern society, video marketing is essential nowadays. A related website deals with the fact Social10x enlighten how videos became a crucial source of information. Denying the effectiveness […]
Can the IoT save the high street? Yes, if it concentrates on the basics
Like anyone who wants to keep up with IoT fashions, says freelance technology writer, Nick Booth, I spend a lot of time shopping for ideas. I don’t care how many boxing day sales riots you’ve witnessed, you haven’t seen crowd madness until you’ve experienced ‘FIRA Frenzy’ at the annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This vast, out-of-town emporium now seems […]
New device modeling experience in Azure IoT Central
On the Azure IoT Central team, we are constantly talking with our customers to understand how we can continue to provide more value. One of our top pieces of product feedback has been for a clearer device modeling experience that separates the device instance from the device template. Previously, viewing the device and editing the device template took […]
Creating IoT applications with Azure Database for PostgreSQL
There are numerous IoT use cases in different industries, with common categories like predictive maintenance, connected vehicles, anomaly detection, asset monitoring, and many others. For example, in water treatment facilities in the state of California, IoT devices can be installed in water pumps to measure horse power, flow rate, and electric usage of the water […]
Cognitive Services Speech SDK 1.3 – February update
Developers can now access the latest Cognitive Services Speech SDK which now supports: Selection of the input microphone through the AudioConfig class Expanded support for Debian 9 Unity in C# (beta) Additional sample code Read the updated Speech Services documentation to get started today. What’s new The Speech SDK supports a selection of the input […]
PTC Fuels Leadership Momentum in Industrial IoT with New Manufacturing Workforce Productivity Solution
Latest Release of ThingWorx Introduces Operator Advisor; Enhances Data Sourcing, Analysis, Visualization, and Security. PTC today announced the availability of a new version of its award-winning ThingWorx® Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solution platform. ThingWorx 8.4 introduces new capabilities, including Operator Advisor, designed to increase productivity of factory workers by simplifying the way critical operational […]
Introducing Microsoft Azure Sentinel, intelligent security analytics for your entire enterprise
Security can be a never-ending saga—a chronicle of increasingly sophisticated attacks, volumes of alerts, and long resolution timeframes where today’s Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) products can’t keep pace. SecOps teams are inundated with a very high volume of alerts and spend far too much time in tasks like infrastructure set up and maintenance. […]
Will 5G be the catalyst for Blockchain & IoT adoption?
Over the last year or so, we have started seeing the inevitable marketing of the “next big thing” from the cell phone carriers – 5G. The Big 4 carriers in the US have all announced plans for rollouts of their 5G networks. While what 5G actually means seems to currently differ from carrier to carrier, […]
How Secure Are The Most Popular Mobile Payment Methods?
As technology gets increasingly more advanced, things become smaller and easier to access than ever before — including our shopping and spending habits. The switch from using physical cash first moved to payments through checks before onward to credit cards. Now we process payments entirely online with a series of numbers without ever taking a […]