Ok time for some serious Prototyping today. Based on the announcement stated below I had the perfect use case to finally test some of the functionality provided by Azure IoT Hub and Power BI Streaming dataflows.
Some time ago I bought this cool DevKit after I had attended a Microsoft workshop in Munich.
An all-in-one IoT kit built for the cloud (microsoft.github.io)
The walkthrough in this article is very precise.
Connect an MXCHIP AZ3166 to Azure IoT Hub quickstart | Microsoft Docs
I was able to successfully install all the required software on my local machine. Same is true for the Azure part and so I ended up with this – A piece of hardware sending real time data to my Azure IotT Hub. How cool is that.
The Power BI part was the last thing to do. Again, I followed this well written article.
Streaming dataflows (preview) – Power BI | Microsoft Docs
Et voila I ended up with data which went all the way from my local machine to Azure from there to Power BI and back to my local Power BI Designer. I am still very impressed with the result. For me it was so much fun to glue all this stuff together. This really made me smile for the rest of the day.
ERP and BI 