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Learn more about your animated characters in your Video

by Contributed | Apr 5, 2021 | Technology

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Detecting and recognizing faces in videos is a common task. Models are trained to detect the general attributes of the human face, as well as delicate details that are the unique features that make each one of us one of a kind. With the right algorithms and sufficient training models can detect a face in the video, and even, when trained for it, assign the correct name to each face.

What about an animated character? Can the human-based models detect a cartoon version of a human, or even a talking fork? The answer is that in most cases, no. Animated characters have their own unique features, and not only that they are different from humans, but they also differ a lot between themselves.

The animated characters detection and recognition task is indeed a big challenge for the Data Science community. The Video Indexer DS team has been dealing with this task in the past year and half, and today we release a big milestone of improvement in these models. The final goal of this task is to recognize the animated character by its name and specify all its appearances in the video. This is a big task that is separated to three sub models.

Example of Animated Characters Recognition

We would like to create a model that recognizes the characters in the video [1]. Since there is only one episode for this video, to demonstrate that the recognition of characters works on parts of the video that were not used for training the recognition model, I trimmed the video to two parts – part 1 of ~3 minutes, and part 2 – the rest of the video.

We start from creating an empty animation model:

Go to Model Customization (the left arrow), and to the “Animated characters (preview)” tab. Press on the “Add model” (red arrow), and enter a model name.

Pic 1: screenshot from Video Indexer website creating a custom model for animated characters.

Pic 2: screenshot from Video Indexer website after creating a custom model for animated characters.

Next, we index the first part of the video using the “Animation models (preview)” option, and our new model:

Pic 3: screenshot from Video Indexer website uploading a video selecting an animation characters custom model

This is how the video looks after indexing:

Pic 4: screenshot of Video Indexer player page, showing the detected animated characters of the indexed video [1]

We see that 5 characters were detected in the video, and I’m interested in creating a model for the characters Big Buck Bunny, Rodent1, Rodent2, Rodent3 and Butterfly:

Pic 5: Representative images of the characters that were detected and grouped when indexing the video [1]

I edit the relevant group names in Video Indexer website, and they are automatically shown in the Custom Vision website for the model, with all the images behind each character.

Pic 6: screenshot of custom vision website showing the group of one of the characters [1]

I go over the groups in the Custom Vision website, and delete images that were grouped wrongly, or contain multiple characters in the same image:

Pic 7: screenshot of custom vision website showing the group of one of the characters when images are being deleted [1]

I train the model from the Video Indexer website. It is important to train the model from Video Indexer and not from Custom Vision website.

I then index the second part video with the trained model:

Pic 8: screenshot of the player page of video indexer website. Rodent3 was recognized.[1]

We see that all 5 characters were recognized:

Pic 9: screenshot of the insight panel of video indexer website, showing all 5 characters were recognized successfully. [1]

The black lines below the recognized character indicate the places in the video that this character appears at.

Getting the best results from your animation model

To get good results, we recommend following these guidelines:

For the initial training, each should be preferably longer than 15 minutes.,. If you have shorter episodes, we recommend uploading at least 30 minutes of video content before training to ensure variability of the training. The multiple videos will contribute to more angles, versions, backgrounds, and outfits of the different characters, and will enable better recognition later.

Before naming a group, view its images in the Custom Vision website to make sure it’s a good group.

Remove images that are mistakenly placed in a group. For example, if an image contains multiple characters, it is recommended not to leave it in the group. In addition, an image that is very blurred, or contains an object that is not the wanted characters, should be deleted. This can be done in the Custom Vision website, by checking the images and pressing “Delete”.

If an image is mistakenly grouped with the wrong character, it is recommended to change its group. This can be done by checking the image, pressing “Tug Images”, writing the correct group’s name, and removing the incorrect one.

Merge groups of the same character by giving them the same name in Video Indexer.

Do not leave groups that are smaller than 5 images.

Once you have completed this initial work on the model’s output you are ready to train the model and start using it for recognition.

How does it work?

The first step is detecting that a specific object in the video is indeed an animated character, and not a still object. A character in animation videos can be anything from a girl to a talking car, therefore the detector has a difficult and wide mission. The animation detector was built a year ago and was incorporated in Video Indexer successfully.

The second step is grouping all the instances of the same animated character together. This is in fact a clustering problem, which is an unsupervised task. Our work here included analyzing many animation videos of different types, manually tagging the characters’ images to their assigned groups, and searching for the best algorithmic solution that fits the widest range of animation types. The input for the clustering is an embedding representing the detected animated characters – a numeric representation of each image by a vector of numbers, which is the output of the first step – the detector. We take the embedding, fit it to our needs and apply the clustering algorithm to it, to find the groups of images that represent the same character. Our solution relies on an algorithm of the density-based clustering family, which we trained and expanded for the animation specific needs.

Finally, comes the recognition of the character group that allows for naming the group. This is a step that you might know from using Video Indexer that can recognize hundreds of thousands of celebrities by their name, or any other person that you train your own custom models to recognize. The same can be done with animated characters. After indexing one or a few videos of the same series, the groups of character images that were found, can be named, and merged if necessary. You can then train your own animated model and index new episodes of the same series. The known (trained) characters will be recognized and named automatically.
The recognition step was also improved in the new version we released to be more precise.

Pic 10: Illustration of the algorithmic process [1]

Learn More

Review the animated character’s model customization concept to learn how to upload animated videos, tag the characters’ names, train the model and then use it for recognition or use the how to guide.

In closing, we’d like to call you to Review the animated character’s model customization concept to learn how to upload animated videos, tag the characters’ names, train the model and then use it for recognition or use the how to guide. We are looking to get your feedback.

For those of you who are new to our technology, we’d encourage you to get started today with these helpful resources in general:

Use https://vi.microsoft.com/en-us to access Video Indexer Website and get a free trial experience.

a quick tour of Video Indexer in Video Indexer Website

Use stack overflow community for technical questions.

To report an issue with Video Indexer (paid account customers) Go to Azure portal Help + support. Create a new support request. Your request will be tracked within SLA.

Read our recent blogs in Azure Tech Community

Visit Video Indexer Developer Portal

Search the Video Indexer GitHub repository

Review our product documentation.

Get to know the recent features using Video Indexer release notes

[1] Big Buck Bunny is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. © copyright Blender Foundation | www.bigbuckbunny.org

IoT Asset discovery based on FW logs

by Contributed | Apr 4, 2021 | Technology

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When protecting your network, you need to have full visibility on your assets. While traditional IT devices are well covered, IoT devices are becoming a bigger blind spot for security operators. IoT devices are added to environments without a proper security solution to protect and monitor them. These devices are becoming a weak spot in every environment, making the entire environment more vulnerable to attacks.

To address this issue, Azure Defender for IoT and Azure Sentinel have created a dedicated workbook, named: IoT Asset Discovery. The workbook includes identification of the IoT devices and their type, the countries those IoT devices are communicating with and if there is any malicious indication related to those devices. Using this dashboard will give a basic assessment of IoT devices and their security exposure.

Currently this feature supports only Fortinet FW logs.

Although this workbook discovers IoT assets, without the need to deploy Azure Defender for IoT. In order to gain a more comprehensive and complete solution for securing and monitoring your IoT environment, we recommend using Azure Defender for IoT. Defender for IoT is built to enhance the security capability of your entire IoT environment. Natively integrated with IoT Hub and Azure Sentinel, Azure Defender for IoT will enrich your environment with unprecedented comprehensive investigation, monitoring and response capabilities.

To explore more about security features on the IoT platform, Join IoT Security community.

General availability and public preview of Microsoft unified DLP key features April 2021 update

by Contributed | Apr 2, 2021 | Technology

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Microsoft’s unified Data Loss Prevention solution provides an ever-expanding set of capabilities to address the needs of organizations to protect sensitive information from risky or inappropriate sharing, transfer, or use in the modern workplace.

Since our last announcements at spring Ignite a few weeks ago (see blog here), we are proud to introduce two new capabilities in general availability and also offer an exciting new public preview.

Advanced Controls in DLP for Email Protection – General Availability

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of 27 new controls (conditions and actions) for DLP policies in Microsoft Exchange.

Some customers have previously used Exchange Transfer Rules (ETR) to define special handing actions for email messages that met specific criteria. While this approach provided them with the ability to enforce messaging policies, many deployments required a broader and more streamlined approach that leveraged integration with DLP to simplify policy creation, policy monitoring, and event remediation.

These new DLP conditions and exceptions announced in general availability for Exchange enhance the already existing capabilities in DLP (See highlighted in Figure 1: New DLP Conditions for Exchange and Figure 2: New DLP Actions and Sensitivity Labels) to offer customers the ability to configure the same conditions, exceptions, and actions they previously used in ETR, within DLP, to offer additional granular control over the scoping and application of a DLP policy, and ensure policies are applied as intended in Exchange.

This new approach provides customers with a fully consolidated view of all DLP policies, alerts, and alert management across Microsoft’s unified DLP offerings that operations teams will find valuable in their day-to-day tasks.

Figure 1: New DLP Conditions for Exchange

Figure 2. New DLP Actions for Exchange

Sensitivity label-aware DLP policies – General Availability

We continue to invest in developing cutting-edge information protection solutions for our customers. Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) is an intelligent, unified, and extensible solution to know your data, protect your data, and prevent data loss across an enterprise – in Microsoft 365 Apps, services, on-premises, devices, and third-party SaaS applications and services.

Sensitivity labels are a core capability of MIP. They allows customers to classify data according to sensitivity such as Public, General, Confidential, Highly Confidential or any other sensitivity label created by the organization to meet its needs.

This sensitivity information is added to the file information and is used to guide users, applications, and services in the proper handling and use of sensitive data such as:

Protect content in Microsoft 365 Apps across different platforms and devices

Enforce protection settings such as encryption or watermarks on labeled content

Protect content in third-party apps and services

Extend sensitivity labels to third-party apps and services

Classify content without using any protection settings

Expand the quality of insights to intelligently flag potential insider risks

With the general availability of sensitivity label-aware DLP policies, organizations can apply a MIP sensitivity label as a foundational component for a DLP policy, thereby streamlining the process to help ensure sensitive information is protected with DLP from risky or inappropriate sharing, transfer or use.

Figure 3. Sensitivity Label-aware DLP policies

Figure 4. Supported services, items, policy tips and enforceability

Dynamic Policy Scoping by User in OneDrive for Business (Security Groups and Distribution List support) – Public Preview

Organizations often have a need to scope DLP policies in Microsoft OneDrive for Business (ODB) to specific groups of users to address the unique use cases that are applicable only to some user communities and not others.

With the public preview of security groups and distribution lists for ODB, its now easier than ever for organizations to leverage their existing security groups and distribution lists as the applicable context in an ODB DLP policy.

This means that as users are added or removed from a security group or distribution list, they are automatically added or removed from the associated ODB DLP policies without any additional configuration in the DLP policy definition itself. This approach offers significant benefits for organizations who have very large or dynamic user populations such as groups with high turnovers, or changes in business function.

Using security groups and distribution lists as the applicable context in ODB DLP policies also provides a simplified means for bulk inclusion and exclusion of user communities. This is particularly beneficial for example when a ODB DLP policy is only intended to apply to a group of users located in a specific geography, business unit, or role.

Figure 5. Security Groups and Distribution Lists for OneDrive for business

Figure 6. Security Groups and Distribution Lists – Inclusion

Figure 7. Security Groups and Distribution Lists – exclusion

Quick Path to Value

To help customers accelerate their deployment of a comprehensive information protection and data loss prevention strategy across all their environments containing sensitive data and help ensure immediate value, Microsoft provides a one-stop approach to data protection and DLP policy deployment within the Microsoft 365 Compliance Center.

Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) provides a common set of classification and data labeling tools that leverage AI and machine learning to support even the most complex of regulatory or internal sensitive information compliance mandates. The more than 150 sensitive information types and over 40 built-in policy templates for common industry regulations and compliance in MIP offer a quick path to value.

Consistent User Experience

No matter where DLP is applied, users have a consistent and familiar experience when notified of an activity that is in violation with a defined policy. Policy Tips and guidance are provided using a familiar look and feel users are already accustomed to from applications and services they use every day. This approach can reduce end-user training time, eliminates alert confusion, increases user confidence in prescribed guidance and remediations, and improves overall compliance with policies – without impacting productivity.

Integrated Insights

Microsoft DLP interoperates with other Security and Compliance solutions such as MIP, Microsoft Defender, and Insider Risk Management to provide broad and comprehensive coverage and visibility required by organizations to meet their regulatory and policy compliance obligations.

Figure 8: Integrated Insights

This approach reduces the dependence on individual and uncoordinated solutions from disparate providers to monitor user actions, remediate policy violations, and educate users on the correct handling of sensitive data at the endpoint, on-premises, and in the cloud.

Get Started

Microsoft unified DLP solution is part of a broader set of Information Protection and Governance solutions within the Microsoft 365 Compliance Suite. You can sign up for a trial of Microsoft 365 E5 or navigate to the Microsoft 365 Compliance Center to get started today.

Additional resources:

For more information on Data Loss Prevention, please see this and this

For videos on Microsoft Unified DLP approach and Endpoint DLP see this and this

For more information on Advanced Controls in DLP for Email protection see this

For more information on Sensitivity Labels as a condition for DLP policies, see this

For a Microsoft Mechanics video on Endpoint DLP see this

For more information on the Microsoft Compliance Extension for Chrome see and this

For more information on DLP Alerts and Event Management, see this

For more information on Sensitivity Labels, please see this

For more information on conditions and actions for Unified DLP, please see this

For the latest on Microsoft Information Protection, see this and this

Thank you,

The Microsoft Information Protection team

Ready, Set, Go … Deploy Azure VMware Solution

by Contributed | Apr 2, 2021 | Technology

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Originally posted on virtualworkloads.com

First things first, you need to start with collecting up all the prerequisites. There isn’t much, but it’s essential. Generally speaking, most can be done on the fly, assuming the person doing the deployment has at least Contributor rights to Azure and understands the overall Azure standards that their company has put in place. The complete list of prerequisites can be found here.

The items from the prerequisite list that absolutely need to be done ahead of time are;

getting the AVS quota added to your subscription

defining the IP address segment to be used for AVS infrastructure

working out the ExpressRoute Gateway setup for Azure VMware Solution.

Once all those prerequisites are completed, you can move on to the deployment.

There are two ways to do the deployment; via the Azure Portal or a Powershell deployment script.

After the deployment completes, you most may want to connect Azure VMware Solution back to your on-premises environment via ExpressRoute and then setup VMware HCX to migrate workloads from your on-premises environment to Azure VMware Solution.

You should check out the Azure VMware Solution Hands-on-Lab and give a read to Emad Younis’ blog post Overview of Azure VMware Solution Next Evolution. He does a great job going over the deployment in detail and post-deployment and unique benefits to Azure VMware Solution.

Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 128

by Contributed | Apr 2, 2021 | Technology

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We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 108 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below:

Applications
	[ui!] UrbanPulse: [ui!] UrbanPulse is a centralized urban data platform on Microsoft Azure that delivers real-time actionable insights by visualizing a wide variety of data across systems.
	AI Operator: Chemical Technologies’ AI-powered AI Operator ingests data from industrial processes and provides real-time recommendations to your production team or fully automated process optimization decisions.
	Allpro: Allpro expands your existing ERP system by collecting and confirming data about employee-related and project-related costs for key processes, including time reporting, project expenses, and business trip approvals.
	AssistEdge Discover: Discover gaps and variations in your processes and identify opportunities for automation across your organization with AssistEdge Discover. Capture human-machine interactions nonintrusively, improve process transparency, gain actionable insights, and more.
	AtScale Adaptive Analytics 2021: AtScale Adaptive Analytics unleashes the power of data to help businesspeople and data scientists alike make data-driven decisions quickly, easily, and at scale.
	BI-Clinical for Providers: Citiustech’s BI-Clinical analytics platform on Microsoft Azure offers an extensive range of configurable apps covering more than 900 KPIs for clinical, financial, operational, and regulatory requirements.
	Bitnami Shell Container Image: Bitnami offers this preconfigured container image of Bitnami Shell. Based on minideb, Bitnami Shell is well-suited for helper tasks such as running initialization tasks in init containers from Helm charts.
	CareSeed HEDIS Quality Reporting: CareSeed Forecast is a reporting solution that empowers your organization to execute key tasks and deliver improved results for the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) and other quality measures.
	CentOS 7 Minimal: This preconfigured image from Cloud Maven Solutions provides a minimal installation of CentOS 7, which includes several major changes that pertain to booting up and managing the system.
	CentOS 8 Minimal: This preconfigured image from Cloud Maven Solutions provides a minimal installation of CentOS 8, which includes a system-wide cryptographic policy that means you don’t have to modify security configurations for individual applications.
	Certified Apache NiFi – Calculated Systems: Apache NiFi enables you to automatically capture, move, enrich, and transform machine data, Internet of Things (IoT) data, and streaming data between systems. Build data pipelines from commercial data feeds, manufacturing equipment, IoT sensors, web servers, and more.
	ChillETL Framework: Built on Microsoft Azure Data Factory, ChillETL is Cloud Data Solutions’ framework for addressing common design patterns associated with scheduling and logging ETL processes, intelligent restarts on failures, notifications, and more.
	cloudstep – cloud cost modelling done right: cloudstep helps IT organizations develop a fully costed migration plan for their customers. Summarize an organization’s change program in waves, enabling technical teams to understand what is ahead, where savings will occur, and what internal effort is required.
	Cognite Data Fusion: Cognite Data Fusion is a specialized DataOps and AI platform providing DataOps at scale for heavy-asset industries. Make all industrial data accessible, understandable, and useful for data scientists and developers alike.
	Colibri: Built on Microsoft Azure, Colibri is a cloud-based supply chain planning solution that covers sales and demand forecasting, distribution and supply planning, and sales and operations planning management.
	Connect Plus: The value of data continues to increase along with the need to be able to exchange it effectively. Connect Plus serves as a central hub that simplifies, scales, and standardizes data exchange. This application is available only in Dutch.
	Cosmos Lite: Cosmos Lite for virtual broadcast channel playout provides a fast Microsoft Azure-based playout solution that enables broadcasters and service providers to spin up both OTT and traditional TV channels in a few minutes.
	CSMART by Celebal: A comprehensive cloud management platform for Microsoft Azure, C-SMART simplifies Azure usage with easy monitoring, management, optimization, and reporting along with automated deployment and data migration features.
	CXP Cloud Enterprise: Built in partnership with leading healthcare systems to meet enterprise needs, Oneview Healthcare’s Care Experience Platform (CXP) Cloud Enterprise edition scales to thousands of endpoints across every type of healthcare facility.
	eCarUp – EV Charging Solution: Easily manage, bill, and rent your e-charging station with eCarUp on Microsoft Azure. Once connected to eCarUp, you can use a growing set of parameters to customize charging stations to your use cases (public, semi-public, private).
	EDGE Next: EDGE Next is a smart building solution that uses sensors and other sources to gather data and deliver actionable insights. Make your building smarter, safer, and more sustainable with EDGE Next.
	EDISPHERE Private Instance using MS-SQL Database: Available on Microsoft Azure as a private instance using SQL Server, EDISPHERE is a cost-effective electronic data interchange (EDI) software and web services integration platform that uses traditional EDI formats to integrate ERP and cloud systems.
	Ekran System Insider Threat Management Solution: Ekran System is a comprehensive insider risk-management solution that helps organizations mitigate threats by deterring, detecting, and disrupting threats from internal users across IT infrastructures.
	FUJITSU Retail Solution Brainforce: Available only in Japanese, Brainforce leverages a microservices architecture to expand the retail value chain by providing a reimagined consumer shopping experience and rewarding stores and employees for their work.
	Gimmal Link: Gimmal Link seamlessly moves content created in SAP to SharePoint and allows SharePoint users to create and link to transactions in SAP. Increase content availability through multiple delivery channels with Gimmal Link.
	Gimmal Records: Gimmal Records integrates with your content repositories to manage all your records and information collectively. Leverage comprehensive records management to help ensure organizational compliance, no matter where your records live.
	Honeywell Quantum Solutions: Honeywell Quantum Solutions’ quantum computers are trapped-ion-based systems with differentiated features that enable you to explore a variety of complex problems. Approach quantum computation in new ways with a robust increase in computational power.
	H-Scale for Providers: H-Scale is a Microsoft Azure-based data integration and management platform that empowers organizations to build a cloud-native data strategy from scratch. Streamline healthcare data acquisition, storage, curation, and provisioning while adding business value.
	Imperva Application Security: Imperva Application Security protects your critical applications and APIs with a defense-in-depth approach. Features include a web application firewall, DDoS protection, and machine learning-powered attack analysis.
	KITT Chatbot: KITT is a text-based and speech-to-text chatbot that can be integrated with websites, instant-messaging systems, intranets, and more. This application is available in German and English.
	Koverse Intelligent Solutions Platform: The Koverse Intelligent Solutions Platform enables organizations to design and build scalable data-driven solutions in a high-availability/high-performance Apache Accumulo-based environment.
	Mask Detection: Volteo Edge’s Mask Detection module for Azure IoT Edge helps improve workplace safety through mask compliance monitoring. Deploy Volteo Edge, connect your cameras, activate your Azure Live Video Analytics graph, and get mask violation events delivered to your Azure IoT Hub.
	Minimal Installation of Debian 10: This preconfigured image from Virtual Pulse provides a minimal installation of Debian 10 optimized for automated use at scale. Debian 10 is used as a common base system on top of which other appliances can be built and tested.
	Modern Requirements4DevOps: Modern Requirements4DevOps lets you author, elicit, automate, trace, and define requirements in Azure DevOps services. Reduce project cycle times by providing the right amount of requirement analysis, quality management, and reporting.
	MultiChain 2 Enterprise with Support: Ready to deploy on Microsoft Azure, this MultiChain 2 Enterprise template is suitable for organizations wishing to run their own MultiChain Enterprise node without the hassle of managing it on-premises. MultiChain 2 Enterprise is a leading enterprise blockchain platform.
	NaviSafe: Hosted on Microsoft Azure, UST NaviSafe is an IoT-based safety and productivity platform designed to significantly reduce unsafe behavior at construction sites. NaviSafe drives worker safety to help you achieve accident-free construction and manufacturing sites.
	Nia DocAI: Nia DocAI is an enterprise-grade solution that leverages advanced AI techniques, including computer vision and natural language processing, to help users across industries derive insights from unstructured data in their documents.
	ORBITS: Students can use ORBITS to study together with peers or use its Smart Transcription service to automatically transform virtual lessons into organized, searchable, and reviewable text or video clips.
	PetaSuite CE: PetaSuite CE provides lossless compression of genomic files. The PetaSuite binary consists of a command-line tool that performs compression and decompression and a user-mode library that allows other tools and pipelines to access data in its original file formats.
	Project Online Data Warehouse: PPM Works Data Warehouse provides an authenticated, cloud-based data solution for your Microsoft Project Online reporting needs. Easily import your old SQL Server Reporting Services assets or build new ones using Power BI and SQL Server Reporting Services, Excel Services, or other reporting software.
	Project Planner Sync: PPM Works Project to Planner Sync enables you to use Microsoft Planner for task management while managing the execution in Microsoft Project Online. Collaborate seamlessly, automate workloads, reduce costs, and more.
	Quisitive LedgerPay: Quisitive LedgerPay seamlessly integrates payments, analytics, and targeted push marketing operations in one cloud-based solution. Increase revenue and customer engagement and loyalty with LedgerPay’s payment intelligence.
	Replix Data Fabric: Replix Data Fabric is a multi-region data replication service that supports multicloud deployment across any distance. Eliminate the operational complexity associated with setting up and maintaining a data replication infrastructure in your organization.
	Return to Work Solution: Cambay Digital’s Return to Work solution enables organizations to monitor the safety of their workforce by providing daily health assessments and COVID-19 screening for all employees.
	ScrumOnDemand: ScrumOnDemand is a talent-sourcing and fulfilment platform that enables Eyon’s enterprise partners to post project resource needs, which Elyon fulfills based on its global talent pool. Find the right talent for your organization’s needs with ScrumOnDemand.
	Stack Moxie: Stack Moxie on Microsoft Azure provides automated testing and monitoring for your organization’s integrations and configurations. Ensure leads reach your sales team, emails do not contain broken links, analytics are tagged as expected, and more.
	Story City Engagement Platform: Story City is an engagement and economic development platform that gamifies real-world streets to deliver location-based storytelling. The solution geolocates experiential content locations to encourage outdoor activity and increase foot traffic and spending across cities.
	The CloudLab Smart Azure Calculator: Produce a detailed, accurate, and optimized Microsoft Azure migration business case in just a few hours with the CloudLab’s Smart Azure Calculator. Significantly reduce your pre-sales costs and increase your success rate in winning Azure migration business.
	TravelgateX: The TravelgateX global marketplace provides APIs that connect buyers and sellers across the travel industry. Connect to sellers, expand your inventory, and reach new customers with TravelgateX.
	Tufin SecureCloud: Tufin SecureCloud on Microsoft Azure enables security teams to gain visibility into their cloud security posture, establish security guardrails, and achieve continuous compliance without compromising the business benefits of cloud computing.
	Vault – Secrets Management as a Service: Vault can encrypt and decrypt arbitrary key/value secrets without storing them, allowing security teams to define encryption parameters and allowing developers to store encrypted data without having to design their own encryption methods.
	Vendor On-boarding Autopilot: Need to onboard new vendors for your business? Autopilot on Microsoft Azure facilitates the collection of vendor information and documents to help streamline the onboarding process.
	Vital Knowledge – Knowledge Management Platform: Vital Knowledge connects people, knowledge, and ideas to increase your organization’s intellectual capital and improve productivity, creativity, and competitiveness. This application is available only in Traditional Chinese.
	Vormetric Data Security Manager v6.4.4: The Vormetric Data Security Manager (DSM) from Thales eSecurity provisions and manages keys for Vormetric data security platform solutions. Efficiently address compliance requirements, regulatory mandates, and industry best practices with DSM.
	WeDX ARM Template – IoT with Edge AI & Digital Twins: motojin.com offers this ARM template for its WeDX Server 5, an IoT solution that manages customizable edge AI and digital twins on Microsoft Azure. Features include IoT and edge device management, indoor maps for digital twins, and live video analytics management.
Consulting services
	1-Day Master Data Management Workshop: Master data management (MDM) capabilities are a key element of a successful Microsoft Azure data strategy. This free workshop from Agile Solutions will help you identify business use cases along with infrastructure and Azure architecture requirements for your MDM solution.
	1-Day Product 360 Workshop: Product data management capabilities are a key element of a successful Microsoft Azure data strategy. Agile Solutions’ free workshop will help you identify business use cases along with infrastructure and Azure architecture requirements for a customized Product 360 data management solution.
	1-Day Supplier 360 Workshop: Supplier data management capabilities are a key element of a successful Microsoft Azure data strategy. Agile Solutions’ free workshop will help you identify business use cases along with infrastructure and Azure architecture requirements for a customized Supplier 360 data management solution.
	3fifty Cyber Security Assessment: 5-Day Assessment: In this five-day assessment, 3fifty will determine your organization’s level of cloud security and identify technical vulnerabilities and relevant risks. Deliverables include a step-by-step plan to improve security across your organization. This service is available in Dutch.
	3fifty Managed Security Services: Available in Dutch and English, 3fifty’s managed SOC-as-a-service offering includes monitoring and management of your organization’s Microsoft Azure security.
	4-Hour Cloud Migration Assessment: Squid Technologies offers this free cloud migration assessment of your organization’s IT environment and cloud readiness. Deliverables include a server readiness check, cloud adoption roadmap, and network assessment and mapping guidance.
	5-Week Migration to Azure: This five-week migration offer from Genesis Technology will help your organization improve service availability and enhance system security by moving your applications and services to Microsoft Azure. This service is available in Traditional Chinese.
	6-Week CAF Adopt Assessment: Accelerate your cloud adoption journey to Microsoft Azure with Alithya’s six-week assessment aligned with Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure. Alithya will provide an in-depth Azure migration report, recommendations for app migration patterns, and a best-practices presentation.
	AI Fast Start: 10-Hour Workshop: Wondering how you can use artificial intelligence to improve your business processes? Altitudo’s AI Fast Start workshop will help you understand the benefits of AI and how the Azure AI platform can deliver a measurable competitive advantage.
	AKS Migration: 1-Week Assessment: Assess your organization’s cloud readiness and plan your application modernization and migration to Microsoft Azure and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in Canonical’s one-week assessment. Accelerate time to market and drive agility with Azure and AKS.
	Analytics with Azure Machine Learning: 8-Week Implementation: Available only in Portuguese, Blueshift Brazil’s offering aims to help you reduce costs and gain agility in your strategic decision-making with Azure Machine Learning Studio and Power BI.
	AVS Pilot Accelerator: 4-Week Proof of Concept: Phoenix Software’s Azure VMware Solution (AVS) Pilot Accelerator will enable you to run your VMware workloads natively on Microsoft Azure. Manage your environment using familiar VMware tools while modernizing your applications with Azure-native services.
	Azure Application Modernization: 5-Day Assessment: This application modernization assessment from Cloud Direct will provide you with an understanding of what’s possible for your applications on Microsoft Azure. Get a roadmap of migration options along with optimization recommendations and solution paths.
	Azure DevOps Quickstart: 3-Day Proof of Concept: Quickly launch your first application running on Microsoft Azure in Petabytz’s DevOps quick-start proof of concept. Deliverables include a detailed overview of different Azure DevOps modules and components.
	Azure Kubernetes for Dev: 1-Day Workshop: Learn how to access and navigate an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster, deploy an application to AKS, and monitor the application’s status in Deep Network’s one-day workshop.
	Azure LifeCycle Solution – 8-Week Implementation: Data#3 uses a five-step approach in its implementation offering to assess everything from network connectivity to security before considering migrating workloads to Microsoft Azure. Migrate and optimize workloads for the cloud and tap into Azure services to drive digital innovation.
	Azure Migration Readiness: 6-Week Assessment: In this six-week server infrastructure assessment, Practical Solutions will analyze your organization’s workload utilization and provide recommendations and cost projections for a migration to Microsoft Azure.
	Azure Spring Cloud: MVP Build & 4-Week Assessment: Kin + Carta will evaluate your organization’s digital estate and assess your software development processes, then create a Spring Cloud instance on Microsoft Azure. Easily deploy Spring Boot-based Java microservices with Spring Cloud on Azure.
	Azure SQL: 3-Week Consulting & Implementation: Simplify the management of your big data environment by migrating SQL workloads from SQL Server to Microsoft Azure virtual machines. In this engagement, CROC will help you migrate your data-processing tools to Azure.
	Azure VMware Solution: 5-Day Workshop: Learn about the benefits of an Azure VMware Solution and get a range of solutions tailored to your needs along with an overview of how they can help your business in this workshop from Synapsys.
	Azure Workload Migration: 8-Week Proof of Concept: Practical Solutions’ proof of concept includes a server assessment to analyze workload utilization, migration recommendations, and cost projections as well as the migration of an IaaS workload or containerized application to Microsoft Azure.
	Citrix on Azure Service: 1-Hour Briefing: Looking to migrate, modernize, and transform your Citrix environments with Microsoft Azure? Cloud Direct’s free briefing covers how to optimize costs, performance, and security when migrating Citrix workloads to Azure.
	Cloud Migration Modernization: 4-Week Implementation: QuantiQ offers a cloud migration and modernization service to help you modernize your existing applications and tackle more extensive cloud migration projects. This offering includes a migration assessment, lift-and-shift migration to Microsoft Azure, and optimization.
	Cybersecurity Solution Assessment: 2-Week Assessment: Waterleaf Digital’s cybersecurity assessment includes a review of your organization’s IT infrastructure and security-related policies and practices. Gain an understanding of your organization’s compliance with security regulations and resilience against potential harm.
	Data & BI Maturity Framework: 6-Week Assessment: Birlasoft’s assessment framework will help you realign your technology roadmap from on-premises legacy data and BI systems to Microsoft Azure-based data and BI platform, including services such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Microsoft Power BI.
	Data Lake on Azure: 2-Hour Briefing: Learn how to design, implement, and maintain a Microsoft Azure-based data platform solution tailored to your organization’s needs in The unbelievable Machine Company’s free briefing. Facilitate data-driven decision-making and generate more value across your organization.
	Data Protections Engine: 5-Day Proof of Concept: Built in Apache Spark and deployed to Microsoft Azure Databricks, Elastacloud’s Data Protection Engine (DPE) helps ensure your business is compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and other data privacy regulations. This proof of concept includes deployment of DPE to your environment.
	Disaster Recovery as a Service: 6-Week Assessment: In this assessment, Performance Technologies will review your on-premises VMs and physically hosted application pool, then provide you with a plan for delivering an advanced backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategy on Microsoft Azure.
	Facial Recognition Service: 4-Week Implementation: Reduce business fraud with the implementation of Logic Studio’s facial recognition service, available only in Spanish. Automatically verify the identity of your customers, suppliers, and collaborators with a solution powered by Azure Cognitive Services.
	HPC on Azure: 1-Hour Briefing: Learn how high-performance computing (HPC) on Microsoft Azure can help boost performance across your organization in Cloud Direct’s free one-hour briefing.
	Insight Connected Platform: 5-Week Implementation: This Microsoft Azure-based solution includes IoT sensors to help organizations safely reopen, stay open, and comply with organizational and governmental guidelines for preventing the spread of infectious diseases.
	Intelligent Data Lakehouse: 10-Week implementation: Based on Microsoft Azure big data and analytics technologies, OpenSistemas’ Intelligent Data Lakehouse implementation is designed to help you eliminate data silos, gain actionable insights, optimize costs, and more. This service is available in Spanish.
	Kinetics Azure Lighthouse Managed Service: Kinetics’ managed services for Microsoft Azure will help you transition from an on-premises infrastructure and learn about the benefits of a cloud-first business. Managed service offerings include Azure subscription monitoring and management, VM management, backup management, and more.
	Lift & Shift to the Cloud – 10-Week Implementation: In this 10-week engagement, 3fifty will migrate your existing development, test, or production environments from VMWare or Hyper-V to Microsoft Azure infrastructure as a service.
	Managed Azure Sentinel: 4-Week Proof of Concept: Learn about a comprehensive approach to event collection and collation, threat detection, risk analysis, and reporting for your organization in Interactive’s free Managed Azure Sentinel proof of concept.
	Managed Cloud Platform Protection (Zero Trust): Based on the zero-trust approach, ASAPCLOUD’s Managed Hybrid Cloud Platform Protection is a managed service that protects hybrid Microsoft Azure infrastructures. Protect your infrastructure with server hardening, encryption, vulnerability management, and more.
	Managed Detection and Response: ASAPCLOUD’s Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to deliver threat intelligence, threat hunting, security monitoring, incident analysis, and incident response.
	Managed Identity and Access (Zero Trust): Based on the zero-trust approach, ASAPCLOUDs Managed Identity and Access service manages Microsoft Azure security controls for your organization, including Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory multi-factor authentication, and Microsoft Intune.
	Managed Windows Virtual Desktop: ASAPCLOUD provides end-to-end Windows Virtual Desktop implementation and fully managed cloud desktop service on Microsoft Azure, including monitoring, automation, and incident management with a 24×7 service desk.
	Microsoft Azure Assessment: 1-Day Assessment: Are you looking to explore all the benefits of Microsoft Azure but aren’t sure where to start? Let ZiAAS advise you on how to bring cost transparency, governance, and operational excellence to the cloud.
	Migrate to the Cloud: 1-Hour Workshop: Claranet’s public cloud experts will help you optimize, manage, and monitor your systems on Microsoft Azure. In this one-hour workshop, Claranet will gain an understanding of your Azure migration challenges and needs. This offer is available only in French.
	PM Data Platform Build: 8-Week Implementation: Providing analytics as a service and implementing a custom Microsoft Azure data analytics platform, Intrava helps property management companies consolidate their data and derive actionable insights from disparate data systems.
	Solution Assessment App Modernization: 4 Weeks: Billennium can help you understand your current environment and recommend next steps toward the cloud. This assessment will identify and prioritize applications for migration to Microsoft Azure.
	Strategic Digital Roadmap (TMC): 1-Day Workshop: The All for One Group will provide you with a thorough overview of your digitalization approaches as well as a strategic digitalization roadmap. This service is available only in German.
	SyncLect AI: 10-Week Proof of Concept: Available only in Japanese, Headwaters’ platform can be linked to AI, IoT, robots, web pages, apps, and chatbots to help accelerate AI development and improve operational and scalability across your organization.
	We OPTIMISE Your Infrastructure: ASAPCLOUD can manage advanced Microsoft Azure solutions for you, including Azure Monitor, Azure Security Center, Azure Automation, and Azure Arc. This offering is based on four pillars: availability, configuration, performance, and security.
	Windows Virtual Desktop: 1-Day Workshop: Offering a custom evaluation of the benefits of Windows Virtual Desktop, Synapsys will cover how to best address Windows Virtual Desktop on Microsoft Azure along with the value you can obtain.
	Windows Virtual Desktop: 1-Day Workshop: Insight will help you get familiar with Windows Virtual Desktop, provide a demo, and determine your next steps. The workshop will cover use cases, pricing, adoption models, best practices, and reference architecture.
	Windows Virtual Desktop: 2-Day Proof of Concept: Insight will help you test your design, document feedback about performance, and analyze your experiences with Windows Virtual Desktop. You will create a small-scale demonstration in your environment.
	Windows Virtual Desktop: 3-Week Implementation: Windows Virtual Desktop is a comprehensive desktop and app virtualization service running in the cloud. Softlanding will develop a proof of concept and deploy and support your Windows Virtual Desktop environment.
	Windows Virtual Desktop: 10-Day implementation: Asurgent will install your applications in Windows Virtual Desktop on Microsoft Azure. The service includes a workshop, setup, deploying virtual machines, and configuring Windows Virtual Desktop access to Azure Active Directory.
	Windows Virtual Desktop: 10-Day Implementation: Access Windows 10 desktops and apps securely from anywhere on any device. Insight will create a specially provisioned Windows Virtual Desktop landing zone tailored to your needs.
	Windows Virtual Desktop: 10-Day Proof of Concept: With a deep level of cloud expertise, Codec can help Irish companies drive digital transformation. This proof of concept will deploy a minimum of 25 virtual desktops, allowing you to validate the benefits of Windows Virtual Desktop.