Microsoft Analytics Services

Microsoft also unveiled two services in the analytics space. The company launched Azure Time Series Insights, which is a fully managed analytics, storage and visualization service that offers customers better insight into their device activities.

Microsoft IoT Central and the Azure IoT Suite Connected factory pre-configured offering both leverage the new Azure Time Series Insights service, which the company said is now available in preview. In addition, Microsoft brought its Azure Stream Analytics capabilities from the cloud on to edge devices. The company launched a preview version of Azure Stream on edge devices for customers with time-sensitive or mission-critical IoT applications.