Top Ten: FAQs About the Microsoft Azure IoT Suite and the Cortana Analytics Suite

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the latest and greatest buzzwords of the past year. But what exactly is the IoT and how can it help your business? Microsoft’s Azure IoT Suite and Cortana Analytics Suite are designed to enable you to take advantage of the IoT related to your business by capturing, collecting and analyzing the data from your company. The Azure IoT Suite helps you get started quickly by providing you with a set of preconfigured IoT solutions. The Cortana Analytics Suite strives to be the holy grail of analytics combining natural language query capabilities with cloud analytics and machine learning. Cortana Analytics Suite is designed to allow the cloud to deliver analytics as a service. Here are the top ten things you need to know about the Microsoft Azure IoT Suite and the Cortana Analytics Suite.

1. What is the Microsoft Azure IoT Suite?

The Azure IoT Suite is a set of Azure services that enable you to capture and analyze the data generated by your business. The Azure IoT Suite can connect with a broad range of devices and operating systems. Devices generate useful operations data like telemetry, temperature readings or other operational data. These devices can send that data to the Azure IoT backend using the Azure IoT cloud gateway or if they cannot communicate directly with the cloud gateway an IoT client or intermediate gateway can collect the data and forward it to the cloud gateway. The IoT solution backend receives, processes and stores the data from these devices. The Azure IoT and Power BI enables you to analyze the data and present it in the form of dashboards or BI reports.