Bob Familiar is the National Pracice Director for BlueMetal. Bob Familiar has been in the software industry for 30 years having worked for both ISVs such as Dunn & Bradstreet Software and ON Technology and for Microsoft as a Principal Consultant, Architect Evangelist and Director of Technology Evangelism. Bob holds a Masters in Computer Science from Northeastern and a patent for Object Relational Database and Distributed Computing and is the Author of Microservices, IoT and Azure by Apress.Jeff Barnes is a Cloud Solution Architect on the Microsoft Partner Enterprise Architect Team (PEAT) where he helps global Microsoft partners with pre-sales Azure architecture support. Jeff has been in the industry for over 30 years and he has been with Microsoft for the last (18) years. During that time, he has held several key Software Architect roles at Microsoft including consulting, evangelism, and partner divisions. Priorto Microsoft, Jeff worked for several Fortune 500 financial, manufacturing, and retail companies. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Management Information Systems from Florida State University and is the author of Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Machine Learning by Microsoft Press.

Provides a business case for IoT and Advanced Analytics that focuses on operational efficiencies and new revenue opportunities

Details both architecture patterns and implementation for a complete end-to-end IoT and Advanced Analytics solution built on the Azure PaaS Platform

Provides DevOps automation scripts, source code and step by step instructions on how to implement the reference implementation that accompanies the book