Microsoft Big Data angle: Office as UI

Re/code, the US science and technology blogger, wrote today that Microsoft has ambitious plans for big data and a new vision for the use of large data. The company wants to be a new innovator in this very important business area. It wants to use Office to plunge into large data as a friendly front-end.

At a conference held in San Francisco in Tuesday, http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/10438.html "> CEO Satia Nadra (Satya Nadella) and several other executives outlined the latest improvements to the company's big data strategy. Nadra points out that those improvements will result in mass data analysis, allowing non-data scientists to understand the current stream of data generated by machines.

"The core evolution of silicon, software and hardware is to push computing to the corners of people," says Barnard, "with a lot of data generated by server logs, sensors, and unstructured social interactions." We can use those data to create environment-aware intelligence for our users. ”

In simple terms, the internet of things generates a huge amount of raw information, and Microsoft wants to tap and analyze that information to serve the customer's business purpose. It holds a favorable position in this area, given that the company also dominates the back-end of SQL's popular Big Data backend, Azure, Hadoop and office.

"We want our users to be able to understand their data anywhere." "On the one hand, we do that through office," Nadra said. Consider office as a grandstand that allows users to get all their data. ”

In other words, seeing office as the UI for data, you can get a big data analysis with just one question--provided you run the Microsoft database in the background. Microsoft, for example, uses Excel to manage its own heating costs by analyzing the power consumption of various facilities to identify wasteful buildings at Microsoft's Redmond Park. Another use scenario is: by indexing regional sales with specific Twitter tags, companies can attribute the decline in product sales to consumer sentiment--just a few simple searches in Excel.

Can you draw insights from structured data just to ask a familiar application? That's really an attractive idea for corporate users. It is Microsoft's smart move to expand access to data analysis for SQL Server 2014 and analysis platform systems with the popular Office application suite.

Translator: Lebang

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