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Smart Manufacturing: Unlocking Real-Time Intelligence With Azure IoT Operations and Microsoft Fabric
In smart manufacturing, a scalable edge platform and the ability to quickly implement business-relevant use cases are crucial for success. With Azure IoT Operations and Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft offers two revolutionary technologies that provide real-time insights into production. Learn how these solutions unlock the potential of use cases such as predictive maintenance, process optimization and generative AI, transforming them from concepts into real value drivers.

Snowflake Document AI – Easily Extract Data From Unstructured Documents
With Snowflake Document AI, information can be easily extracted from documents, such as invoices or handwritten documents, within the data platform. Document AI is straightforward and easy to use: either via a graphical user interface, via code in a pipeline or integrated into a Streamlit application. In this article, we explain the feature, describe how the integration into the platform works and present interesting application possibilities.

Terraform: Infrastructure as Code – Handling External Changes
You want to manage your infrastructure with Terraform, but then it happens – manual changes are made, and you need to find a solution. How to handle this depends on the specific case.
One of Terraform’s greatest strengths is its ability to handle changes made outside its managed resources. The keywords are: data, import, removed, ignore_changes, lock, variables.

Framework for SAP Data Integration: Flexible, Efficient, Scalable
SAP data integration is complex: performance issues, storage limitations, and third-party system integration pose significant challenges for businesses. With our flexible framework, you can create a powerful and scalable solution that seamlessly complements SAP BW and S/4HANA—efficient, future-proof, and cost-effective.

Extending AWS Redshift’s Data Processing With AWS Compute Services
Learn how to extend AWS Redshift capabilities with minimal complexity by using Lambda, Fargate, and SQS.

Fabric Security: More Than Just Private Endpoints?
Many security considerations involving Azure revolve primarily around network security. Other important security aspects to be considered in the context of Microsoft Fabric are indicated below.

SAP Data Integration Into Microsoft’s Azure Cloud
General Requirements of Enterprises
Many companies with SAP source systems are familiar with this challenge: They want to integrate their data into an Azure data lake in order to process them there with data from other source systems and applications for reporting and advanced analytics. The new SAP notice on use of the SAP ODP framework has also raised questions among b.telligent's customers. This blog post presents three good approaches to data integration (into Microsoft's Azure cloud) which we recommend at b.telligent and which are supported by SAP.
First of all, let us summarize the customers' requirements. In most cases, enterprises want to integrate their SAP data into a data lake in order to process them further in big-data scenarios and for advanced analytics (usually also in combination with data from other source systems).Â


Fabric Security: Potentials & Limits of the Network Setup
How can I integrate data sources that are secured via private endpoints into Fabric? How do I deal with Azure Data Lakes behind a firewall? This blog post shows the possibilities which Fabric Nativ offers

Sizing and Scaling Azure AI Search
Azure AI Search, Microsoft’s top serverless option for the retrieval part of RAG, has unique sizing, scaling, and pricing logic. While it conceals many complexities of server based solutions, it demands specific knowledge of its configurations.

Efficient Distance Joins in Polars
Polars: Develop Faster, Execute Faster
Polars, the Pandas challenger written in Rust, is much faster, not only in executing the code, but also in development. Pandas has always suffered from an API that "grew historically" in many places. Polars is completely different: it ensures significantly faster development, since its API is designed to be logically consistent from the outset, carefully maintaining stringency with every release (sometimes at the expense of backwards compatibility). Polars can often easily replace Pandas: for example, in Ibis Analytics projects and, of course, for all kinds of daily data preparation tasks. Polars’ superior performance is also helpful in interactive environments like Power BI.

Data Platform Migration
As part of their current modernization and digitization initiatives, many companies are deciding to move their data warehouse (DWH) or data platform to the cloud. This article discusses from a technical/organizational perspective which aspects areof particularly important for this and which strategies help to minimize anyrisks. Migration should not be seen as a purely technical exercise. "Soft" factors and business use-cases have a much higher impact.