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Microsoft Azure IoT Hub

Composite Score

7.1 /10

CX Score

7.3 /10

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What is Microsoft Azure IoT Hub?

Enable highly secure and reliable communication between your IoT application and the devices it manages. Azure IoT Hub provides a cloud-hosted solution back-end to connect virtually any device. Extend your solution from the cloud to the edge with per-device authentication, built-in device management and scaled provisioning.

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Microsoft Azure IoT Hub Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

91 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

89 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+84 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Microsoft Azure IoT Hub?

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100% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Efficient Service
Inspires Innovation

Feature Ratings

Average 78

Data Management

Security

High Availability

IoT Application Development

Device Management

Interoperability & Integration

Analytics

Managed Service Model

Scalability

Performance

Machine Learning

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 81

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Data Integration

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Vendor Support

Ease of Implementation

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

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Microsoft Azure IoT Hub Reviews

Saral k.

Role: Student Academic
Industry: Education
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Jun 2021

"The best cloud to device communication platform"

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure IoT Hub from other similar products?

Microsoft Azure IoT Hub provides the best device-to-cloud and cloud-to-device communication. This product provides a cloud-hosted solution to connect with any device virtually. This product includes device libraries for the most commonly used platform and language for device connection. This product allows data to be sent on secure communication channels for sending and receiving data from IoT devices. For building a hybrid IoT application, the compatibility with Azure IoT Edge and Azure stack makes this product unique. Users can create and deploy IoT Edge modules to transmit code between the cloud and the Edge device.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Microsoft Azure IoT Hub is a fully managed cloud service that enables reliable and secure bidirectional communication between millions of IoT devices. This product support language like C, Java, Python, C# and operating systems like Windows, Linux, and other real-time operating systems. This product supports messaging patterns like device to cloud automatic measurement and transmission data, file upload from devices, request-reply methods which enables devices to be controlled from the cloud. Users can add AI models using Azure Machine Learning. Each device connects securely to the Hub and each device can be managed securely.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Since I have used this product never face any issue. Microsoft Azure IoT Hub provides the best features and services for the users.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Microsoft Azure IoT Hub provides reliable communication between the Internet of Things application and the devices. You can connect your devices and their backend solutions reliably and securely. This product supports monitoring so you can track creating devices, connecting devices, and device failures. Using this product users can manage industrial instruments, tracking data related to healthcare.

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Microsoft Azure IoT Hub Ratings

91 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

89 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+84 Net Emotional Footprint

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Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Data Management Data management at scale, handling structured and unstructurd data from thousands of sensors, data storage.

Security Authentication and encryption at all points of connection, audit IoT configurations, monitor security metrics from devices, and alerts.

High Availability Sensors and devices need discrete and continuous communication and thus applications and services need to guarantee high availability for continuous operations.

IoT Application Development SDKs, Libraries, Frameworks, tools and APIs to enable and make it easy for developers to rapidly prototype and to add/build custom solutions, plugins, adapters

Device Management Securely register, organize, monitor and remotely manage IoT devices at scale, register connected devices individually or in bulk, and easily manage permissions

Interoperability & Integration Enables devices to securely and efficiently communicate with IoT Platform, follow standard protocols, orchestration, ensure throughput and scalability.

Analytics Easy to run and operationalize sophisticated analytics on massive volumes of IoT data.

Managed Service Model IoT services manged by the client and offered "as a service.

Scalability Solutions and services need to scale as number of devices and sensors increase at exponential rate.

Performance Solutions and services needs to be deal with high throughput real time data.

Machine Learning Easy to run ML algorithms on massive volumes of IoT data for pattern recognition, insights, and decisions.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

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Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

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Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Microsoft Azure IoT Hub Reviews

Saral k.

"The best cloud to device communication platform"

Likeliness to Recommend

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Feature Ratings

Data Management

Security

High Availability

IoT Application Development

Device Management

Interoperability & Integration

Analytics

Managed Service Model

Scalability

Performance

Machine Learning

Vendor Capability Ratings

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Data Integration

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Vendor Support

Ease of Implementation

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Usability and Intuitiveness