Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 39

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 136 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below:

Applications

ACR Lift & Shift: Stratum ACR Lift and Shift is an enterprise methodology available for customers of all sizes. Stratum has designed a turnkey, repeatable process for mass migrations to Azure that will increase cloud adoption.

All in One Marketing Automation & CDP: 4-Wk PoC: Related Marketing Cloud offers personalization and marketing automation solutions for omnichannel marketing integrated with Customer Data Platform to increase conversion rates for customer lifecycle stages.

AllOrg: Wavelip's AllOrg is an Azure-based platform for end-users to easily and quickly create a computer automation system. What Wix and WordPress do for your websites, AllOrg does for your internal system to handle your information.

AltitudeCDN Multicast+: Multicast+ is integrated with Microsoft 365, making it easy for organizations using Microsoft Stream, Teams, Yammer, and Skype for Business to conduct live video broadcasts without stressing the corporate network.

appICE Growth Marketing Platform: appICE ensures customer profiling and segmentation is available on the fly and enables a single dashboard that tracks users' lifecycle from acquisition to monetization to churn.

AppService certificate automation tool: This application provides easy automation of the Let's Encrypt for Azure app service.

arQive Digital Media Platform: arQive provides a complete solution to store, use, and share digital media files. This application is available only in Dutch.

Azure Monitor for Citrix Environments: Use the power of Azure Monitor and Log Analytics with this agent for your Citrix Workers – servers and desktops. Collected data are analyzed and shown in your Azure Monitor workspace.

BABEL: The BABEL cloud-based library system centrally manages inventory and reservations with its branch function. This application is available only in Japanese.

Calfitec Grid – calculs intensifs: Calfitec is an innovative calculation engine with a user interface in natural mathematical language and automatic, exhaustive documentation ensuring the calculation audit trail. This application is available only in French.

CampusPlan for Azure: CampusPlan is a school information system that centralizes information, boosts efficiency, and improves student service. This application is available only in Japanese.

CareX Healthcare Communicator: CareX Healthcare Communicator automates communication workflows using text, voice, and email, which helps providers, payers, and FQHCs reduce their workload while engaging patients at scale before, during, and after care.

Computer Aided Dispatch: RapidDeploy Computer Aided Dispatch combines advanced telematics with first-hand experience to provide relevant, intuitive systems that help maximize the efficiency of service and enable teams to share and report critical information in real time.

COPD Service: The Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Service allows high-risk patients to securely share health data from connected hardware with healthcare professionals.

Cyber Security Awareness Solution: Terranova Security Cyber Security Awareness Training and Phishing Simulation Platform helps CISOs and security professionals instill a culture of security and reduce human risk by increasing alertness to cyberattacks.

DeepCam Loss Prevention: DeepCam's core IP, (Deep Learning)2, combines facial recognition with deep data mining to deliver accurate predictions from source data others consider inadequate.

devNXT_Architect_Bot_Integration: This information and document chatbot helps developers by providing pre-created sample projects and templates of different kinds of software as well as information related to these projects.

devNXT_Face_Integration: The application recognizes a patient's face and retrieves their records, which is useful in the health sector for electronics health record retrieval.

devNXT_Image_Classification: Image Classifier can be used to predict online sales growth and provide all information about a product.

Discovery Hub with Azure Data Lake and SQL MI: Discovery Hub provides a cohesive data fabric across Microsoft data platforms, allowing you to connect to various data sources, catalog, model, move, and document data for analytics and AI.

Discovery Hub with Azure Data Lake SQL MI and AAS: Discovery Hub provides a cohesive data fabric across Microsoft data platforms, allowing you to connect to various data sources, catalog, model, move, and document data for analytics and AI.

Dodai Campus: Dodai Campus has all the necessary functions for teaching and academic affairs from kindergarten to university. This application is available only in Japanese.

Effector: Effector has a robust BPMN 2.0-compliant workflow engine with visual workflow designer, making the platform suitable for back-office workflow digitalization projects.

FAISapp: FAISapp is an innovative software product that offers a range of digital options to replace paper-intensive, time-consuming, and expensive processes.

Field Service Management System: Tuten Labs' state-of-the-art field service management solution helps streamline core activities for all stakeholders related to the field operations business.

FlourishDx: The FlourishDx cloud-based platform combines risk management with wellbeing promotion to assist in the prevention of mental illness and optimize employee mental health.

Intelligent Store – Smart Pages: The Intelligent Store suite provides tools for efficient communication between online retail and customers to personalize the experience for each client. This application is available only in Portuguese.

Intelligent Workplace – LiveTiles QnA Bot: RDA delivers an easy-to-use platform built on the Azure QnA Maker and Azure Language Understanding services, providing a way to quickly build out QnA bots.

ITRS OP5 Monitor: OP5 Monitor for the enterprise monitors the complete stack from hardware level all the way up to application layer.

Lenus Digital Health Platform: Lenus enables patient-generated health data in the form of physiology and patient reported outcomes from apps, wearables, and sensors to be shared with health professionals and machine learning models as part of new care pathways.

Manage and secure your Microsoft 365 and Azure: Softeng's self-management portal allows customers to manage their cloud subscriptions directly and as autonomously as desired while optimizing and gaining visibility of their usage.

Microsoft Professional Program (Open edX on Azure): The Microsoft Professional Program service enables students to acquire the skills required in the fourth industrial revolution era through a series of online courses. This application is available only in Korean.

moca: moca is a cloud-based e-learning system based on one of the most widely used open source learning management systems. This solution is available only in Japanese.

New Retail solution with supply chain digitized: New Retail merges online, offline, and logistics to create a dynamic new world of retailing. The concept turns traditional convenience stores into self-service fulfilment centers located regionally or locally.

New World Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD): This application manages single- or multi-jurisdictional dispatching activities for law enforcement, fire, and EMS, empowering dispatchers and call takers with rapid access to data, mapping capabilities, and more.

O365 Migration by SkyKick: The SkyKick Migration Suite helps IT partners automate entire Office 365 migration projects from pre-sales to project completion.

OBC: Make all My Number jobs in your company safe and effortless and store all My Number data securely in Azure. This application is available only in Japanese.

OBC (SaaS): Make all My Number jobs in your company safe and effortless and store all My Number data securely in Azure. This application is available only in Japanese.

OCR by Primesoft: This multilingual application speeds up the process of data entry by analyzing scanned document images.

Odyssey Courts & Justice Solution: Odyssey’s powerful web-based court solutions are anchored by Odyssey Case Manager, offering robust solutions for judges, clerks, and attorneys, as well as the public.

Omnimap – Low code/No code Rapid Innovation Power: Built on Azure, Omnimap continuously adds new low-code functionality to the platform and provides centrally managed access to external APIs.

OneStream Software: Deployed in the cloud or on-premises, OneStream's single unified platform simplifies financial consolidation, planning, reporting, analytics, and financial data for large enterprises worldwide.

OpenLM for Engineering Licensing – Cloud Solution: OpenLM is a management system for engineering software licenses that monitors and analyzes the usage of software in your organization and allows you to enforce the usage policy of your floating licenses.

Oscar Campus CRM: Designed with the help of many schools, Oscar Campus CRM is dedicated exclusively to higher education institutions. This application is available only in French.

OWI.Mail: OWI provides large companies with an omnichannel virtual assistant based on a new semantic approach, automating tasks with low added value and processing emails based on their real priority.

Palo Alto Networks VM-Series: The VM-Series next-generation firewall allows developers and cloud security architects to embed inline threat and data loss prevention into their application development workflows.

Paxata Self Service Data Preparation (SaaS): Paxata Self-Service Data Preparation is a solution for business analysts and data professionals to discover, ingest, explore, transform, and export data, creating clean and contextual information from raw data.

Pivotal Postgres: Pivotal Postgres on Azure is a powerful, open source object-relational database system.

PiXYZ Review: PiXYZ Review is a cost-efficient CAD viewer that enables users to easily import a wide range of complex assemblies from industry-leading solutions and perform desktop, VR, or AR collaborative reviews.

plmpacklib: TreeDiM's web application and web services give access to a full library of parametric models for packaging and a set of stacking optimization tools for packing, palletization, and truck or container loading.

Pluriportail Mobile: Pluriportail Mobile brings together K-12 school administrators, teachers, parents, and students to enhance communication and collaboration. This application is available only in French.

PowerInbox Email Monetization: With its data algorithms and sophisticated matching capability, PowerInbox gives publishers insight into the types of content they should be creating to drive more clicks and keep customers happy.

PowerStats – managing associations' industry data: PowerStats is an intelligent platform that enables trade bodies – be it an association, society, institute, organization, council, or college – to effortlessly collect, manage, and visualize industry data from members.

Predica Cargo Management Example: Predica Cargo Management is a customized, integrated system that gathers information on shipment localization and potential obstacles to make it easy to plan alternate routes.

PriceSynergy advanced eCommerce market analytics: The PriceSynergy suite of business tools allows you to identify weaknesses and strengths in your product portfolio and adjust accordingly.

Printer Management – easyPRIMA & Fleet Management: SEAL Systems' Printer Management solution includes the maintenance, administration, installation, and removal of printers in a multiple system environment (SAP, Windows, etc.) in one central database.

ProcessRobot – Scalable Robot Process Automation: With ProcessRobot, all enterprise stakeholders and process owners can rely on a single, easy-to-use automation platform to automate processes, distribute workloads to robots, and track and assess performance.

Product Cloud – Product Matching: The Product Cloud Suite provides tools to organize the catalogs of online retailers, helping improve customer experience. This application is available only in Portuguese.

ProjectReady: ProjectReady is a modern end-to-end project management and document control solution for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry.

Punchh Acquire: Punchh Acquire obtains a customer’s digital identity and creates a dynamic customer profile used to generate and deliver targeted marketing offers that drive omnichannel engagement in-store and online.

Punchh Loyalty: Punchh Loyalty helps restaurants, physical retailers, and CPG brands convert customers to brand advocates by creating consistent and powerful experiences both in-store and online.

Punchh Offers: With Punchh, brands are equipped with the end-to-end functionality required to run a successful campaign – ranging from real-time offer code generation and omnichannel distribution and processing to offer reporting and insights, fraud prevention, and more.

Q10 Académico: Q10 Académico is a cloud-based solution that supports academic, administrative, and virtual education management for educational institutions. This application is available only in Spanish.

Questica Budget: Questica Budget is a fully featured, multi-user web-based operating, capital, and salary budgeting and performance measurement tool.

Quick License Manager: Quick License Manager is a license protection framework that creates professional and secure license keys to protect software against piracy.

QUNIS Automation Engine: QUNIS Automation Engine is a solution for automated code generation, deployment, and maintenance of Data Warehouse solutions based on Microsoft SQL Server. This application is available only in German.

Records365: Records365 brings hassle-free compliance to content stored in a variety of sources. Manage content without cumbersome manual processes or interfering with the daily workflow of your end users.

RedLock Cloud Threat Defense and Compliance: Prisma Public Cloud (formerly RedLock) dynamically discovers cloud resources and sensitive data across AWS, Azure, and GCP to detect risky configurations and identify network threats, suspicious user behavior, malware, data leakage, and more.

REFLEKT Remote: REFLEKT Remote is a “one-button solution” that connects technicians on-site with the right support experts and allows real-time video support with augmented reality.

RemoteScan Enterprise: RemoteScan Enterprise makes it easy to connect your scanners to an Azure cloud environment, enabling you to scan documents directly from applications hosted in Azure.

Revenue Premier Integrated Tax Solution on Azure: Revenue Premier, hosted in the Azure Government Cloud, gives agencies an adaptive and capable software solution with world-class standards adherence and compliance.

RoboMQ Hybrid Integration Platform: RoboMQ accelerates digital transformation and helps businesses generate competitive advantage by creating integrated business processes using SaaS, cloud, on-premises applications, and IoT devices.

Rubrik Accelerator for Microsoft Azure: Rubrik Accelerator for Microsoft Azure simplifies backup and recovery, delivers automation at scale, and accelerates your cloud journey to Azure.

Sagitec HealHub: HealHub is an enterprise-class HIPAA-compliant digital health stack built on Azure that ingests and merges/transforms data, ensures data quality, manages lineage, and performs analytics.

Samsung SDS Nexledger: Easily deploy and configure your Nexledger blockchain in a structured DevOps environment.

Sensing+ for Agriculture by The Yield: Sensing+ is an integrated system of hardware and software that provides visibility over crop growing conditions as they happen and seven days in advance.

SICCAR Enterprise Blockchain Platform: SICCAR Enterprise Blockchain Platform has a comprehensive set of templates and tools so that you can design and deploy your application quickly and with the customization you require.

Sideways 6: Sideways 6 is idea management software for Microsoft Yammer and Teams, enabling employees to share ideas using the tools they know and love.

Silvermedia Cloud Demand Forecasting: Silvermedia Cloud Demand Forecasting is a solution for manufacturing-sales enterprises that wish to avoid the losses that occur when failing to respond effectively to market demand.

Sincro – Intégrez l'entreprise étendue: Sincro is a management and intermediation platform that allows you to control your processes and develop your network. This application is available only in French.

Sinefa Probe: Organizations use Sinefa to boost the customer experience by ensuring business-critical applications are given priority over the data network and are protected from aggressive and recreational data traffic.

SiteFlow: SiteFlow offers an agile work methodology that unleashes your productivity, centralizes your knowledge, and makes your procedures and technical content reusable from one project to another.

Skolebordet dashboard: Schoolboard is a collaboration portal to Microsoft Office 365 for Education, making it easy for teachers and students to start using Office 365 and all its possibilities.

SkyKick Cloud Backup for Office 365: SkyKick Cloud Backup for Office 365 is an ideal second service for Office 365 that helps protect customer data, improves customer retention, and increases recurring revenue.

Smart Building – Integrated Visitor/Guest Journey: Built on the Omnimap platform and powered by Azure, our solution connects email and calendars, access systems, point of sales systems, lockers, and suppliers to provide guests with a fully integrated experience.

SmartForest: SmartForest enables the complete management of end-to-end forest inventory in a single solution, delivering powerful insights and combining information generated by IoT devices and artificial intelligence algorithms.

Smartwork mobile: With Smartwork mobile, your employees always have their worklist ready on their mobile device. The integrated appointment calendar allows quick visualization and simple adjustment of scheduled appointments. This application is available only in German.

Spectrum Customization Platform: With Spectrum, everyone's a product designer. From WebGL product design through factory integration, Spectrum is an end-to-end solution for product customization.

SQL 2008/R2 End of Support: Avoid business disruptions and use this as an opportunity to modernize your environment in Azure. Our support means your IT can focus on things that matter and drive the business forward.

StagedPay Credit Card/ACH/Recurring Payment Portal: StagedPay safeguards your customers’ credit card information whether you take orders over the phone, online, or in person.

Starburst Presto (v 302-e) for Azure HDInsight: Architected for the separation of storage and compute, Presto queries data in Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage, relational databases (Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL), Cassandra, MongoDB, Kafka, and more.

Stormshield Elastic Virtual Appliance: The Stormshield Elastic Virtual Appliance helps you in a seamless transition to the cloud. All the multilevel security features that have contributed to the success of Stormshield products are available in this dedicated application.

Stratio: By applying machine learning models to detect anomalies and faults, Stratio allows vehicle development teams to automatically find and continuously label new issues and deviations in data.

StreamWeaver for Azure Application Insights: StreamWeaver utilizes built-in Azure assignment groups to forward events, allowing IT to focus on event routing instead of setting up events in source tools​.

StreamWeaver for Azure Logs: StreamWeaver enables sending Azure Logs data to Splunk in real time, avoiding the additional step to stage the data first in Azure Event Hubs. This provides a cost-effective solution that allows customers to integrate Azure and Splunk quickly.

Sunlight Enterprise: Sunlight Enterprise is an end-to-end solution including rating, policy, billing, claims, CRM (agent, insured, agency, etc.), workflow, producer management, BI reporting, and data warehousing.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for HPC: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for HPC is a highly scalable, high performance, open source operating system that provides a parallel computing platform for high performance data analytics.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for HPC (Priority): SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for HPC is a highly scalable, high performance, open source operating system that provides a parallel computing platform for high performance data analytics.

Symantec Cloud Workload Protection for Storage: Use Symantec Cloud Workload Protection for Storage (CWP for Storage) to protect your Azure Blob Storage from malware using Symantec's latest built-in anti-malware technologies.

Synergy JOIN: Synergy JOIN provides a simple, user-friendly method to schedule and start video meetings. Users can book a meeting in Outlook without plug-ins and join with one click from videoconference systems, desktop, and mobile regardless of vendor.

Talentsoft: Talentsoft is a European leading developer of cloud-based talent management software. Its application provides concrete results in recruitment, performance, career development, learning, compensation management, as well as core HR and analytics.

TeamSearch: TeamSearch delivers a unified set of relevant search results for content found in email, Skype conversations, Teams, Yammer, and more. Search using custom parameters and intelligently filter the results to provide insights that span your team.

Telebreeze IPTV/OTT Platform: Telebreeze Video Platform provides a flexible, modular, open ecosystem that enables TV operators to offer competitive next-generation video services. The platform includes advanced technologies, management features, and more.

Thingscare Remote Access: Thingscare Remote Access is a simple remote tool for kiosk, digital signage, and IoT devices.

TIBCO Cloud Mashery: TIBCO Cloud Mashery delivers full lifecycle API management capabilities for enterprises adopting cloud-native development and deployment practices, such as DevOps, microservices, and containers.

Touchify: Touchify is a SaaS platform that allows enterprises to create, share, and analyze interactive content for their touch screens with no technical skills.

Track’em – Materials, Activity & Asset Tracking: Replace your spreadsheets, paper forms, and manual processes with a modern platform to improve productivity and achieve your schedules on time.

Transparency-One: Transparency-One enables companies to discover, analyze, and monitor all suppliers, components, and facilities in the supply chain, from source to store.

Tulip Manufacturing App Platform Free Trial: Build apps for all your shop-floor needs with intuitive visual development. Create user-friendly, functional apps that improve the productivity of your operations, without writing any code.

UiPath Orchestrator (WebApp with SQL): UiPath Orchestrator is a web application that enables you to securely schedule, manage, and control your enterprise-wide digital workforce of UiPath robots.

Vade Secure for Office 365: Vade Secure augments the reputation and signature-based defenses of Office 365 with AI-based predictive email defense, helping to protect users from advanced phishing, spear phishing, and malware attacks.

VivoSense Data Services: VivoCapture and VivoSense provide a regulatory compliant platform for the analysis of wearable sensor data in pharmaceutical clinical trials. The platform makes use of Azure authentication and secure cloud storage.

Vormetric Data Security Manager v6.2.0: The Vormetric Data Security Manager provisions and manages keys for Vormetric Data Security Platform solutions including Vormetric Transparent Encryption, Vormetric Tokenization with Dynamic Data Masking, and more.

VRTY – Education through Virtual Reality: This easy-to-use platform supports teachers and students in creating, building, and sharing their curriculum-aligned projects for others to experience.

Vyu realtime streaming CDN: The Vyu real-time CDN is a patent-pending innovation that delivers live streams at sub-second latency to any digital user.

WATS – Test Data Management: WATS for electronics and electromechanics manufacturers features global data acquisition from your own and sub-contracted manufacturing and a top-down approach to data analytics that guides your investigation to the most pressing issues.

Webalo Appliance for Azure: Webalo's patented technology enables companies to easily transform their enterprise applications into actionable, persona-based applications, where each user has the information needed on their device to help get their job done.

Windows Server – End of Support: Avoid business disruptions and use this as an opportunity to modernize your environment in Azure.

xGenCloud: This cloud service provides a full cycle of work with genetic data, ranging from differential diagnosis and recommendations for genetic testing to clinical interpretation of the results of genetic tests.

Zoho Analytics: Zoho Analytics is a self-service business intelligence, reporting, and analytics service that enables users to visually analyze large amounts of data.

Zoho Connect: With a host of built-in tools and integrations with other apps, Zoho Connect simplifies your team's work and increases productivity.

Consulting services

1 Day Workshop: Windows as a Service Planning: This is a 1-day planning and knowledge transfer engagement to review the current state of Windows-as-a-Service and deploying Windows 10 on Azure.

AI Ideation Workshop: 5 Hour Workshop: Do you find yourself wondering how AI could amplify your business sites or applications? Our experts will work with your team to explore scenarios where AI solutions can add maximum benefit and support market competitiveness.

Azure Accelerator: 2-Week Implementation: The Azure Accelerator combines planning, migration, mentorship, and management support to increase your cloud knowledge and set the foundation for future success.

Azure Accelerator: 2-Week Implementation (US): The Azure Accelerator combines planning, migration, mentorship, and management support to increase your cloud knowledge and set the foundation for future success.

Azure Foundation 4-Week Implementation: Azure Foundation solves some of the biggest challenges organizations face when using and consuming services on the platform. The three pillars of this offering are Azure security, Azure governance, and Azure cost management.

Azure Infrastructure Design: 1-Wk Assessment: This assessment is based on outputs of two workshops, delivered on-site over five days, where consideration is given to how Azure will assist with consolidation of IT assets, including decommissioning superfluous assets.

AzureStart: Oracle to Azure 8-Wk Implementation: AzureStart is typically a short-term, high-value engagement based on a series of repeatable steps that can be used to incrementally, securely, and safely migrate selected Oracle workloads to the cloud.

BizTalk Migrate/Upgrade to Azure Cloud – 3-Day POC: By focusing on your integration workloads, you will leave this POC with an understanding of what it takes to migrate all your BizTalk applications to Azure and a preliminary plan to help get you started.

Data Science & ML – 1/2 day Assessment: Understand the suitability of your data and architecture, and validate your business challenge to prove that data science can drive value for your business.

Economic Assessment – Modern Workplace (4 weeks): The Stratum engagement model is designed to be agile and act as an extension of your team, allowing your team to quickly realize ROI and improve profitability by increasing operational throughput and scalability.

Economic Assessment & Migration – Azure (4 Weeks): Our process allows your team to quickly realize ROI and improve profitability by increasing operational throughput and scalability.

Image Recognition Application: 8-Week Imp: This is an application that enables companies to automate and scale the process of data extraction from physical documents such as CNH, CPF, and any other document through an API using image recognition.

Microsoft Azure AI Chatbot Development: While the benefits of chatbots may seem clear, how your company should use chatbots is more complicated as it depends on the company’s line of business. That’s where we come in to provide you with best suggestions and solutions.

ML & AI Accelerator Assessment: 2-Hr Assessment: This assessment will review a customer's environment to determine its present state, including business and technology maturity around AI adoption.

Predictive Analytics, ML, AI: 2-Hr Briefing: We invite you to spend a couple of hours with our machine learning experts to see how the process works and discuss how we can help you utilize predictive analytics to optimize your business performance.

Quelle: Azure

Microsoft and Truffle partner to bring a world-class experience to blockchain developers

Last month, Microsoft released Azure Blockchain Service making it easy for anyone to quickly setup and manage a blockchain network and providing a foundation for developers to build a new class of multi-party blockchain applications in the cloud.

To enable end-to-end development of these new apps, we’ve collaborated with teams from Visual Studio Code to Azure Logic Apps and Microsoft Flow to Azure DevOps, to deliver a high-quality experience that integrates Microsoft tools developers trust and open-source tools they love.

As we looked at the open source projects for Ethereum-based blockchains, we saw Truffle addressing core needs of developers looking to create, compile, test, and manage smart contract code. We kicked off our relationship in 2018 by co-authoring guidance for using Truffle for consortium DevOps and incorporating Truffle-based tooling in our Azure Blockchain Development Kit for Ethereum.

This week, we doubled down on our relationship by announcing an official partnership between our organizations to bring Truffle blockchain tools for developer experience and DevOps to Microsoft Azure. This will manifest not just in Visual Studio and Azure DevOps, but also upcoming tools from Truffle such as Truffle Teams. Through this partnership, developers working in Truffle environments will have access to Azure services, and Azure customers will have access to the suite of tools Truffle provides to make developing on Ethereum easy, such as:

Standalone, local nodes for testing: Development starts on a developer’s laptop or local machine, and Truffle provides a local, standalone blockchain node that is lightweight and can be quickly spun up for local dev/test.
Easily populate a node with test data: Once a local node was available, developers also wanted to be able to have a copy of data in the blockchain to test. Unlike a relational database where test data could easily be loaded from a script, a blockchain is populated via signed transactions that require significantly more effort to set up in a test environment. The Truffle Suite solves this by providing the ability to “fork” a blockchain so that developers can get a local copy of real network data to test against.
Easily deploy smart contracts: Developers wanted to easily script deployments of their smart contracts to local, private chain or public chain environments.
Write and execute tests for smart contracts: With Truffle, developers can write tests using the popular Mocha framework. Those tests can then be executed locally or in Azure Pipelines by individual organizations or as a consortium.
Interact with smart contracts: The ability to do interactive testing via the console or a UI can help quickly validate or troubleshoot behavior, which can be especially important for scenarios that span multiple smart contracts.
Debug smart contracts: When tests are executed, they aren’t always successful, and that’s where enterprise developers expect to have a debugging experience comparable to what they’ve seen in .NET and Java development.

As partners and as end users, we are big fans of Truffle’s technology and the people behind it. Their customer obsession and open orientation has made them the trusted choice for blockchain developers, and we are eager to see what you will build with Truffle on Azure.

To learn more, check out our Truffle videos on BlockTalk and get started today with the Truffle extensions for Visual Studio Code.
Quelle: Azure

Azure Stack IaaS – part ten

This blog is co-authored by Andrew Westgarth, Senior Program Manager, Azure Stack 

Journey to PaaS

One of the best things about running your VMs in Azure or Azure Stack is you can begin to modernize around your virtual machines (VMs) by taking advantage of the services provided by the cloud. Platform as a Service (PaaS) is the term often applied to the capabilities that are available to your application to use without the burden of building and maintaining these capabilities yourself. Actually, cloud-IaaS itself is a PaaS since you do not have to build or maintain the underlying hypervisors, software defined network and storage, or even the self-service API and portal. Furthermore, Azure and Azure Stack gives you PaaS services which you can use to modernize your application.

When you need to modernize your application, you have the option to leverage cloud native technologies and pre-built services delivered to you by the cloud platform. Many teams choose to utilize these capabilities when they add new capabilities or features to their existing app. This way they can keep the mature parts of their application in VMs while tapping onto the convenience of the cloud for new code.

In this article we will explore how you can modernize your application with web apps, serverless functions, blob storage, and Kubernetes as part of your Journey to PaaS.

Web apps with Azure App Services

Back in the virtualization days we had VM sprawl. So many VMs were taking up resources just to perform a single purpose. The most common was an entire VM just to host a website. Using an entire VM not only is wasteful from a resources point of view, but also in its on-going management. Azure App Services gives you a new option. Instead of creating a VM and installing a web server, you can just create a website directly on the platform. It is super easy to create a web app in the Azure Stack portal. Really the main thing you must provide is the website name which becomes part of the overall DNS name just like in Azure, but on the network you have installed your Azure Stack.

Once your web app is deployed you can push your website to it using FTP or web deploy or from a repository. You can access this simply by accessing the deployment options of the web app.

You can even create a custom domain for your web app so that your users can access your website with a more recognizable name. So, a URL like timecard.appservice.midwest.azurestack.corp.contoso.com can become timecard.contoso.com or some other domain entirely.

You can learn more about Azure App Services on Azure Stack:

App Services on Azure Stack (for the operator)
App Service Custom Domains
App Service Documentation
Quickstart guides for App Services

Serverless functions with Azure Functions

If you have something even smaller than a website, why create an entire VM? With Azure Functions you can simply host your code with the platform, no VM required. Example candidates for Azure Functions are scripts that need to be run on a schedule or a script that is triggered by a web request. I’ve seen people using functions to take periodic measurements of resource usage, check if something is responding properly, or notify another system that condition has been met. Azure Stack supports functions written in CSharp, JavaScript, FSharp, PowerShell*, Python*, TypeScript*, PHP*, and Batch* (* indicates experimental languages).

Functions are easy to create directly in the portal. You simply need to provide a name for the function then pick a scenario template to get started:

You can even test and run your function directly in the Azure Stack portal:

Learn more:

Overview of Azure Functions
Create your first function in the Azure Portal

Storage as a service with Azure Storage

Another common but wasteful use of VMs in the virtualization days was storage. Teams set up their own file servers for their web app’s images or for sharing of documents. When you use Azure Stack you can take advantage of the built-in platform storage features. Azure Storage in Azure Stack gives you four storage options:

Blobs for unstructured data like web images, files, and logs that can be accessed by a code-friendly URL instead of a file-system object.
Queues for durable message queuing accessible via a web friendly REST API.
Tables for semi-structured XML data like JSON with OData-base queries.
Disks for persistent storage to support your Azure Virtual Machines.

To get started with Azure Storage you create a storage account in your Azure Stack subscription. Once you create the storage account you can create blobs, tables, or queues. Here I have created a queue of items for my team to bring for a picnic which they can de-queue when they sign up for bringing it:

Using Azure Table Storage is Azure Stack allows you to store and query store semi-structured data for apps that require a flexible data schema. You can access this data through the Azure Storage SDK or use tools like Azure Storage Explorer or Microsoft Excel to view and edit the data. Here is a baseball roster stored in Azure Table Storage viewed from Azure Storage Explorer:

Here is the same data accessed from Microsoft Excel:

Sharing unstructured data is easy as well. Here are all the logs my IoT devices are creating. I can download or even upload logs right in the portal or in code via the blob URL:

Learn more:

Azure Blob Storage
Azure Disk Storage
Azure Table Storage
Azure Queue Storage
Connect Azure Storage Explorer to Azure Stack
Connect Microsoft Excel to Azure Table Storage

Secrets with KeyVault

How did you keep passwords and certificates secret in the virtualization days? Admit it, not always best practices. KeyVault is a built-in Azure platform service that provides a secure place for you to keep your secrets. You can create a VM on Azure Stack with a secret kept in KeyVault. This way you don't need to put passwords or other secrets in clear text in the template you use to deploy the VM.  This is just another example of how you can modernize your VMs by taking advantage of the Azure platform services.

Learn more:

Azure KeyVault Overview
Create a VM in Azure Stack using a secure password in KeyVault

Containers with Kubernetes

Another great way to modernize your application is to take advantage of containers. Azure Stack gives you the option to host your containers in a Kubernetes cluster. This Kubernetes cluster is created using the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) engine so that you can easily move your applications between AKS in Azure and your Kubernetes cluster in Azure Stack. Creating a Kubernetes cluster is easy in Azure Stack, simply deploy it from the portal’s marketplace.
Azure Stack Kubernetes Cluster is currently in public preview.

Learn more:

Deploy Kubernetes to use containers with Azure Stack
Add Kubernetes to the Azure Stack Marketplace (for operators)
Azure AKS Engine

The platform for apps not just VMs

The primary focus of virtualization platforms is helping improve the life of the infrastructure team. But with cloud platforms the focus is on improving the life for business units and developers. Virtualization VMs will only take you so far. But when you move your VMs to cloud-IaaS in Azure or Azure Stack, you can modernize your app to stay current with your users who now expect cloud cadence. Tapping into native PaaS services gets you out of the business of infrastructure and into the business of your app.

In this blog series

We hope you come back to read future posts in this blog series. Here are some of our past topics:

Azure Stack at its core is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform
Start with what you already have
Fundamentals of IaaS
Protect your stuff
Do it yourself
Pay for what you use
It takes a team
If you do it often, automate it
Build on the success of others

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Azure.Source – Volume 87

News and updates

Microsoft FHIR Server for Azure extends to SQL

Since the launch of the open source FHIR Server for Azure on GitHub last November, we have been humbled by the tremendously positive response and surge in the use of FHIR in the healthcare community. There has been great interest in Microsoft expanding capabilities in the FHIR service, and today we are pleased to announce that the open source FHIR Server for Azure now supports both Azure Cosmos DB and SQL backed persistence providers. With the SQL persistence provider, developers will be able to perform complex search queries that join information across multiple FHIR resource types and leverage transactions.

Now available

Azure Shared Image Gallery now generally available

At Microsoft Build 2019, we announced the general availability of Azure Shared Image Gallery, making it easier to manage, share, and globally distribute custom virtual machine (VM) images in Azure. Shared Image Gallery provides a simple way to share your applications with others in your organization, within or across Azure Active Directory (AD) tenants and regions. This enables you to expedite regional expansion or DevOps processes and simplify your cross-region HA/DR setup. This blog explains the key benefits of this feature.

Technical content

Monitoring on Azure HDInsight Part 3: Performance and resource utilization

This is the third blog post in a four-part series on Monitoring on Azure HDInsight. Part 1 is an overview that discusses the three main monitoring categories: cluster health and availability, resource utilization and performance, and job status and logs. Part 2 centered on the first topic, monitoring cluster health and availability. This blog covers the second of those topics, performance and resource utilization, in more depth.

Simplify B2B communications and free your IT staff

Today’s business data ecosystem is a network of customers and partners communicating continuously with each other. The traditional way to do this is by establishing a business-to-business (B2B) relationship. The B2B communication requires a formal agreement between the entities. Then the two sides must agree on the formatting of messages. The Azure platform offers a wealth of services for partners to enhance, extend, and build industry solutions. Here we describe how one Microsoft partner uses Azure to solve a unique problem.

Accelerating smart building solutions with cloud, AI, and IoT

Throughout our Internet of Things (IoT) journey we’ve seen solutions evolve from device-centric models, to spatially-aware solutions that provide real-world context. Last year at Realcomm | IBcon, we announced Azure IoT’s vision for spatial intelligence, diving into scenarios that uniquely join IoT, artificial intelligence (AI), and productivity tools. This year we’ve returned to Realcomm | IBcon, joined by over 30 partners who have delivered innovative solutions using our spatial intelligence and device security services to provide safety to construction sites, operate buildings more efficiently, utilize space more effectively, and boost occupant productivity and satisfaction. Here we’ll tell you more about a selection of these smart building partners who are accelerating digital transformation in their industries.

Taking advantage of the new Azure Application Gateway V2

We recently released Azure Application Gateway V2 and Web Application Firewall (WAF) V2. These SKUs are named Standard_v2 and WAF_v2 respectively and are fully supported with a 99.95 percent SLA. The new SKUs offer significant improvements and additional capabilities to customers. Read the blog for an explanation of the key features.

Virtual machine memory allocation and placement on Azure Stack

Customers have been using Azure Stack in a number of different ways. We continue to see Azure Stack used in connected and disconnected scenarios, as a platform for building applications to deploy both on-premises as well as in Azure. Many customers want to just migrate existing applications over to Azure Stack as a starting point for their hybrid or edge journey. The purpose of this post is to detail how Virtual Machine (VM) placement works in Azure Stack with a focus on the different components that come to play when deciding the available memory for capacity planning.

Three things to know about Azure Machine Learning Notebook VM

Data scientists have a dynamic role. They need environments that are fast and flexible while upholding their organization’s security and compliance policies.

Data scientists working on machine learning projects need a flexible environment to run experiments, train models, iterate models, and innovate in. They want to focus on building, training, and deploying models without getting bogged down in prepping virtual machines (VMs), vigorously entering parameters, and constantly going back to IT to make changes to their environments. Moreover, they need to remain within compliance and security policies outlined by their organizations. This blog looks at three ways the Azure Machine Learning Notebook VM makes life easier for data scientists.

Creating custom VM images in Azure using Packer | Azure Tips and Tricks

Azure provides rich support for open source tools to automate the infrastructure deployments. Some of the tools include Hashicorp's Packer and Terraform . In few simple steps, we'll learn how to create custom VM Linux images in Azure using Packer.

Additional technical content

Is it cost-efficient to run Spring Boot on Azure Functions?
Fast Focus: Serverless Computing – Azure Functions and Xamarin in 20 Minutes
Schedule Recurring Builds in App Center
Home Grown IoT – Solution Design

Azure shows

Troubleshoot resource property changes using Change History in Azure Policy | Azure Friday

Jenny Hunter joins Donovan to showcase a new integration inside Azure Policy that enables you to see recent changes to the properties for non-compliant Azure resources. Public preview of the Resource Change History API is also now available.

Willow is the digital twin for the built world | Internet of Things Show

Willow and Microsoft are partnering together to empower every person and organization to connect with the built world in a whole new way. This digital disruption is happening today, with Digital Twin technology.

Over-the-air software updates for Azure IoT Hub with Mender.io | Internet of Things Show

Introduction to a secure and robust over-the-air (OTA) software update process for Azure IoT Hub with Mender.io, an open source update manager for connected devices. We will cover key considerations for being successful with software updates to connected devices and show a live demo deploying software to a physical device.

Five things you can do with serverless | Five Things

Serverless is like CrossFit, the first rule is to never stop talking about it. In this episode, Eduardo Laureano from the Azure Functions team brings you five things you can do with Serverless that you might not realize are even possible. Also, Burke wears a sweater vest and Eduardo insinuates that there is a better candy than Goo Goo Clusters. The nerve.

Migrating from Entity Framework 6 to Core | On .NET

Entity Framework (EF) Core is a lightweight and cross-platform version of the popular Entity Framework data access technology. In this episode, Diego Vega joins Christos to show us how we can port out Entity Framework 6 code to Entity Framework Core.

How to get started with Azure Machine Learning Service | Azure Tips and Tricks 

In this edition of Azure Tips and Tricks, learn how to get started with the Azure Machine Learning Service and how you can use it from Visual Studio Code.

Xamarin.Forms 4 – Who could ask for anything more? | The Xamarin Podcast

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Episode 283: .NET and Azure | The Azure Podcast

Sujit and Cynthia talk with VS and .NET Director, Scott Hunter, on how Microsoft is shifting paradigms in the Linux world and .NET development experience with Azure.

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Industries and partners

Join Microsoft at ISC2019 in Frankfurt

The world of computing goes deep and wide in regards to working on issues related to our environment, economy, energy, and public health systems. These needs require modern, advanced solutions that can be hard to scale, take a long time to deliver, and were traditionally limited to a few organizations. Join us at the world's second-largest supercomputing show, ISC High Performance 2019. Learn how Azure customers combine the flexibility and elasticity of the cloud and how to integrate both our specialized compute virtual machines (VMs), as well as bare-metal offerings from Cray.
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Make your data science workflow efficient and reproducible with MLflow

When data scientists work on building a machine learning model, their experimentation often produces lots of metadata: metrics of models you tested, actual model files, as well as artifacts such as plots or log files. They often try different models and parameters, for example random forests of varying depth, linear models with different regularization rates, or deep learning models with different architectures trained using different learning rates.
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Learn by example: How IoT solutions transform industries

Businesses often face similar challenges, from improving productivity and creating a positive customer experience to reducing costs and increasing revenue. By turning to Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, organizations across industries—retail, agriculture, energy, healthcare, and manufacturing—can use data to drive insights and actions, ultimately transforming their business model, increasing their bottom line, and improving customer experiences.

The Microsoft IoT in Action events and webinars provide inspiration in the form of actionable insights, best practices, and real-world examples of how industry leaders transformed their own industries with innovative IoT solutions. Below are a few key examples of how IoT solutions can benefit your business and reasons to get started on your IoT journey today. You can also peruse our collection of on-demand IoT in Action webinars to learn about the latest Azure IoT technology and business models related to your specific industry.

Delivering a positive customer experience

Delivering a positive customer experience is a constant goal and challenge across industries today. Businesses are often looking for ways to ensure that interactions between customers and employees are engaging and frictionless, while also reducing costs. The implementation of IoT solutions can enable businesses to proactively determine customers’ needs and then provide a personalized experience.

The retail industry is increasingly using IoT solutions to collect data and reimagine the retail experience. For example, customers cannot make purchases if they are unable to find the specific item or size that meets their needs. Secure IoT solutions on the intelligent edge and intelligent cloud can help make sure every item is on the right shelf. They can also keep track of items that are moving within the store, for instance, to the fitting rooms and racks outside them.

In a world where online retailers try to get products in front of customers with the fewest number of clicks, brick-and-mortar retailers can also use IoT solutions to minimize the number of steps a customer has to take. This can be accomplished by using cameras and sensors to analyze store traffic patterns and layering this data over inventory and purchase data. From these insights, stores can optimize their physical layout and better enable shoppers to quickly find items and be inspired by complimentary items.

Genetec, a Microsoft partner, has an IoT solution powered by Microsoft Azure that leverages existing store security cameras to provide retailers with customer and operational insights that help improve business outcomes and the in-store experience. For example, their solution can detect increased congestion at checkout terminals to reduce abandonment due to delays checking out and provide customer traffic and flow information for making good merchandising decisions based on that intelligence. Learn more about how you can use Azure to support your IoT solutions in this retail-focused webinar.

Rapidly processing large amounts of complex data

With the amount of data available to businesses, figuring out how to quickly process all the collected data can be a challenge. IoT solutions allow businesses to seamlessly collect and process data, often without interrupting employees and customers. Businesses deploying IoT solutions are able to position themselves to efficiently handle the data needed to meet changing customer expectations and improve productivity.

With the ability to not only collect a wide range of data, but also use it to gain real-time insights, security officials are increasingly turning to IoT technology to increase security in public buildings. For instance, using SoloInsight’s Cloudgate software, which is built on Microsoft Azure, organizations can use self-service kiosks in low-traffic areas to provide a higher level of security than previously possible. Self-service kiosks can also remember previous visitors and employees and immediately grant access to the building, which increases satisfaction. Additionally, IoT visitor management systems can deactivate access to the network and data when a person physically leaves the building.

Watch this public safety webinar for additional insight around how you can use Azure IoT to enable millions of devices and terabytes of data in most regions worldwide.

Viewing real-time data and providing proactive solutions

Previously, businesses could only review historical data and determine solutions for events that had already happened. This approach often resulted in lost productivity, reduced customer satisfaction, and higher costs. Many industries are turning to IoT to give them a real-time view into their businesses and customers. This improves the ability to prevent issues before they occur versus only reacting to events that have already happened.

The manufacturing industry is a prime example of the need to discover anomalies before they become critical issues. Through the use of Azure IoT solutions for discrete manufacturing, companies can connect their systems and products with sensors that gather data, send it to the cloud, and provide real-time insights. This means companies can extend equipment lifespans and efficiency, reduce unplanned downtime, and minimize unexpected maintenance costs.

The healthcare industry is no exception to the need for proactive IoT solutions. Counterfeit drugs and product integrity are among the major issues impacting the industry, resulting in lost income and productivity, as well as negative health impacts. But Azure IoT-enabled healthcare solutions, like Titan Secure from Microsoft partner Wipro, are helping to solve these challenges by providing real-time shipment visibility, data streams, and alerts. Learn more about using IoT solutions to proactively monitor data in this on-demand webinar.

Using IoT to transform your industry

As businesses continue to advance and disrupt their industries through the use of IoT solutions, your business has the opportunity to lead the charge. Start your journey today and begin taking the actions your company needs to transform your industry. By taking the initiative and watching these available on-demand IoT in Action webinars, you can receive practical strategies for implementing and developing solutions using Azure IoT that can advance your business and position you as an industry leader.
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Three ways to get notified about Azure service issues

Preparing for the unexpected is part of every IT professional’s and developer’s job. Although rare, service issues like outages and planned maintenance do occur. There are many ways to stay informed, but we’ve identified three effective approaches that have helped our customers respond quickly to service issues and mitigate downtime.
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