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Welcome to my digital passion blog to get inspired in «The Art of Possible» and the «Digital Infinity» using Microsoft Cloud services.

Since 2000 I was leading and delivering more than 25 Customer Engagement, 12 Custom Development and 8 Infrastructure projects and now back at Microsoft to inspire and drive our Customer’s Digital Transformation Journey.

Use AI Vision to check if visitors are wearing the required personal protective equipment (PPE) before they are entering the factory.

Use Azure Custom Vision for Factory Visitor PPE check

«Use AI Vision to check if visitors are wearing the required personal protective equipment (PPE) before they are entering the factory»
This tutorial will guide you through the steps of setting up a visitor management system that uses Azure Custom Vision service to check if visitors are wearing the required personal protective equipment (PPE) in a factory environment. [...]

Recently we have had five different customer engaged at our Microsoft Technology Center targeting similar challenges with a common pattern to enable smart Email intake to analyze, route and response. During a sequence workshops staring with envisioning to identify and validate the business value, a architecture design workshop to design the solution and establish a sandbox environment for the follow-up Hackathon to implement the solution within the customer environment.

Smart Email intake using AI models to analyze and route

Recently we have had five different customer engaged at our Microsoft Technology Center targeting similar challenges with a common pattern to enable smart Email intake to analyze, route and response. During a sequence workshops staring with envisioning to identify and validate the business value, a architecture design workshop to design the solution and establish a sandbox environment for the follow-up Hackathon to implement the solution within the customer environment. [...]

Hosting Static HTML Website with Azure Static Web Apps

I started creating Websites with pure HTML in mid-nineties. Moved to content management systems like Umbraco or Microsoft Power Pages. But for static website, I would use GitHub pages in the past. But now, since the GA of Azure Static Web Apps (SWA), I now have another free of charge option. In this post, I'll share how I create and deployed my own static website using SWA. [...]

Hackathon - Visitor Management app

The Visitor Management is a collection of four Power Apps to manage smart factory visitors.

  • Visitor Welcome Desk app located at the entry point of the factory floor
  • Visitor Self Registration app on a tablet device
  • Visitor Management app to manage visits
  • Visitor Mixed Reality app to confirm mixed reality competency
  • We build this apps during a three day Hackathon with the Swiss Smart Factory team. [...]

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    How to become an Intelligence Driven Organization

    Intelligence Driven Organizations make strategic decisions because they reorganize the way they think and work around data. By turning this data into insight and understanding, they give employees a base to build from, and free up their time for creative thinking – to reimagine an idea, redesign a solution and take those leaps of imagination that define real innovation. [...]

    On-Premises versus Cloud Computing – Pizza as a Service

    As technology freaks, we tend to live in a world of acronyms and terms that are very common to those of us in the industry. But this abbreviated language can seem like a foreign language to outsiders. We recently had a conversation about cloud computing and its impact on application development and operations. In addition to SOA, REST and JSON, the trend from IaaS to PaaS to SaaS was also discussed, which supports or simplifies the paradigm shift to DevOps. [...]