This is my third blog article covering Windows 10 IoT Core. Part 1: https://blogs.perficient.com/microsoft/2016/01/windows-10-iot-editions-explained/. Part 2: https://blogs.perficient.com/microsoft/2016/01/iot-development-with-windows-10-and-raspberry-pi-what-you-need/ By now we got development environment all set up (installed Windows 10 production release, enabled development mode, installed Visual Studio 2015 and IoT templates). We also set our mind on specific board which we’ll be using: Raspberry Pi […]
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IoT development with Windows 10 and Raspberry Pi – What you need
This is my second blog article covering Windows 10 IoT Core. See the first part here: https://blogs.perficient.com/microsoft/2016/01/windows-10-iot-editions-explained/. So, you decided to develop your first IoT (embedded) application using Windows 10 IoT Core. Awesome! What do you need for that? Surprisingly, not that much. First, you need a device, a IoT board. At the moment, Windows […]
Windows 10 IoT editions explained
Windows has a long history of deployments outside of traditional desktop (or laptop) computers. Embedded versions of Windows existed for a long time, powering check registers, kiosks, outdoor displays and even car entertainment systems. Pretty much every version of Windows is recent times had it’s embedded incarnation (XP, 7, 8 and now 10). The OS […]
Cortana Analytics and Information Management
In previous posts I’ve provided an introduction to Microsoft’s cloud-based Cortana Analytics Suite, and we’ve looked at what data and event ingest capability it provides. This time, I want to shed some light on what happens after Ingest. Where do you land the data so that you can work to transform it into actionable intelligence? […]
Announcing Windows IoT Core Preview and IoT Core Starter Kit
Exciting news in the world of IoT! Back in August, Microsoft announced the preview build for the Windows IoT Core operating system for the Raspberry Pi 2 and the MinnowBoard Max. Windows 10 IoT Core is a new edition for Windows targeted towards small, embedded devices that may or may not have screens. For devices with screens, […]
Azure: Did you know? Application Proxy for Web Applications
Have you ever needed to publish an internal web application for use outside of your corporate firewall? If you have, you’re probably aware of many of the complications that come up while exploring that option including what ports need to be exposed, to DMZ or not to DMZ, various authentication challenges, etc. Well, now you can with […]
Azure SQL – Row Level Security Now Available
Row-Level Security (RLS) for Azure SQL Database is now generally available. RLS simplifies the design and coding of security in your application. RLS enables you to implement restrictions on data row access. For example ensuring that workers can access only those data rows that are pertinent to their department, or restricting a customer’s data access […]
Pfizer Wants To Know How You’re Feeling (In Hong Kong)
According to a recent letter written in the South China Morning Post by Chien Wai-tong, a professor and the associate head (of research) in the school of nursing at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, one in about every four people in Hong Kong has been affected by a mental health issue at some point in […]
Northwestern Medicine Uses Epic to Deliver Value-Based Care
Recently, Kate Tuttle, my colleague and healthcare marketing guru, wrote a post over on Perficient’s Healthcare Industry Trends blog, describing the shift from a fee-for-service based model to a value-based care model and the subsequent need for a 360-degree patient view. Many healthcare organizations are facing challenges around transforming data into meaningful information – information […]
Azure: Did You Know? Block vs Page Blobs
Azure storage service supports two types of blobs (blob, or BLOB, stand for Binary Large OBject, i.e. an unstructured binary data): block and page blobs. Blob type is selected when blob is created and then it can’t be changed. Although both blob types allow for storage of large binary objects in Azure, they are optimized […]
Azure: Did You Know? Hybrid Connections as VPN Alternative
In real life cloud deployment scenarios one of the very common cases is when only part of the application resides in the cloud. Usually, it’s when there is a legacy system which can’t be migrated to the cloud and resides on premises, or it’s not optimal to deploy entire system to the cloud. After all, […]
On-Premises BI Gets a Boost in SQL Server 2016
At their recent Ignite conference in Chicago, Microsoft unleashed a flood of new information about their products and services across a wide variety of functions. Business Intelligence was not left out, by any means, with announcements of exciting new cloud-based offerings such as Azure Data Warehouse and Azure Data Lake. But given all the focus […]