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November 25, 2019
Enhancing Digital Twins Part 1: Harnessing Data and Predictive Maintenance to Enhance Digital Twins
Part 1 of a 4-part series about displaying Predictive Maintenance insights in Digital Twins, using Azure Databricks. Before we get into the setup details, we’ll introduce the concept of Predictive Maintenance and the tools we used to make predictions.
August 23, 2019
On the road with 365 Saturday
Wagner Silveira, Tharanga Chandrasekara and Steve Gichure have been busy presenting at the recent 365 Saturday events, where you can learn more about Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform. Here's an update from Wagner to give us an insight into what they've been up to. Watch this space for another update once they've finished the series.
August 13, 2019
Microsoft Endpoint Manager: Keeping Your Company Devices Secure
Many of us work from different locations, at various times of the day and use an array of devices including laptops, mobile phones and tablets. Mobility has become a necessity, but what are the security vulnerabilities?
July 30, 2019
Exploring digital twins part 4: AR/VR Digital Twinning with SignalR and Mixiply
This is the final post in a series of by Rose McColl and Lillian Ho, about some recent Innovation Lab work on Internet of Things (IoT), digital twinning, and the 3D visualisation of IoT device sensor data in Mixiply, Theta’s augmented reality (AR) platform.
July 15, 2019
Exploring digital twins Part 3: Raspberry Pi and Azure IoT Hub connection using Python
This is part three in a series of blog posts about some recent Innovation Lab work on Internet of Things (IoT), digital twinning, and the 3D visualisation of IoT device sensor data in Mixiply, Theta’s augmented reality (AR) platform. Extending from part one, this post will demonstrate sending telemetry from a Raspberry Pi IoT device to Azure’s IoT Hub, using Python.
July 8, 2019
Exploring digital twins part 2: IoT Hub, Azure Functions and SignalR
This is the second in a series of tech blog posts by Rose McColl and Lillian Ho, about some recent Innovation Lab work on Internet of Things (IoT), digital twinning, and the 3D visualisation of IoT device sensor data in Mixiply, Theta’s augmented reality (AR) platform.
July 1, 2019
Exploring digital twins part 1: Azure DevKit and IoT Hub
This is the first in a series of tech blog posts about some recent Innovation Lab work on Internet of Things (IoT), digital twinning, and the 3D visualisation of IoT device sensor data in Mixiply, Theta’s augmented reality (AR) platform.
April 17, 2019
Automating expense reporting with robotic process automation
Nobody likes entering expenses into their company’s business management system, so we decided to tackle the frustration head on. How could we make expense reporting faster? Better? Funner? (ok maybe that’s not a word but you know what we mean!). Could robotic process automation help?
September 4, 2018
Blockchain, Smart Contracts and Ethereum
Blockchain is another of those “suitcase words” – like artificial intelligence or UX, a term stuffed with multiple meanings. It’s often held up as a signifier of innovation, and is seen by many as the door to a distributed, decentralised internet, and a solution to almost any technological problem. What ‘blockchain’ actually is can be harder to decipher.
February 21, 2018
Continuous integration and delivery with Team Services and App Center
Recently we launched a new mobile app called Yuppl. It’s an app for 1:1 meetings that helps you have better work conversations. It provides structure to your 1:1s to keep you talking about the right things, and taking action when you said you would.