September 6, 2017
Azure is Microsoft’s flagship cloud product, providing an enterprise-grade cloud platform for outside customers as well as several of Microsoft’s own products (such as Office365 and OneDrive). Before the 2015 announcement of Azure IoT Suite at its annual Microsoft Convergence conference, Microsoft was already well-placed in the IoT market with its Azure IoT Services, key to early-stage development of IoT products. This vendor profile discusses Microsoft Azure's offerings for IoT platforms. MachNation has also evaluated Microsoft most recently in its 2017
IoT Device Management ScoreCard and its 2016
IoT Application Enablement ScoreCard.