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Organizations often time require rapid building of purpose-built custom LOB apps. These may require data from many sources whether these are from cloud services, on-premise data, or business applications such as Dynamics 365.
PowerApps and Flow provide integration via Connectors and Gateways that make it possible for organizations to get data out of services they are already using.
Options:
Connector for Dynamics 365 (AX/CRM) is a purpose built connector to get data out of Dynamics 365 apps.
Connectors for cloud services is a custom built connector organization can build to get data out of services.
On-Premises Data Gateways make it possible to get data out of in-house LOB solutions/apps.
New: Office 365 integration using SharePoint Modern lists
Fraud detection is just one scenario where we’re seeing very broad use of Advanced Analytics. The above is just a snapshot, but it gives you an idea of the other areas where Advanced Analytics is helping solve tough business problems.
For example sales and marketing is the #1 use of Advanced Analytics today. That’s because most any business of any type can benefit from knowing what customers are going to stay or leave, how to keep the churn risk segment happy and how to make the most of their most valuable customers. We have some more specific examples of that coming up.
While there are a lot of interesting IoT scenarios unfolding in the consumer space, based on our experience in working with customers and partners we see the majority of IoT value being enabled in the commercial space.
This is backed by a recently released McKinsey report that states that 70% of the value enabled by IoT will come from B2B scenarios.
Whether its Rockwell Automation, from whom you'll hear from later on today, that is helping its oil and gas customers improve efficiency by monitoring supply chain assets, or ThyssenKrupp elevators that is doing predictive maintenance on elevators to prevent unscheduled downtime for their customers, or the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) that is using IoT to continuously monitor various sensors of the linear accelerator to anticipate problems, take action and prevent failure; organization of all types are starting to harness the value of IoT to transform themselves.
Of course, as a solution provider you could very well be working with a customer that's creating a consumer product, let's say a car manufacturer. However, the value you'll be providing in this B2B2C scenario is helping that organization build an enterprise grade IoT solution so they can launch their products.
Our focus here is simply to enable build enterprise grade internet of their things solutions for your customers. Our goal is to provide you the best platform to do this.
