Azure Business Intelligence – The Icon Game!

As Azure becomes the new normal for many organisations our architecture diagrams become ever more complicated. Articulating our designs/data flows to management or technical audiences therefore requires a new group of cloud service icons in our pretty pictures. Especially for hybrid solutions. Sadly those icons aren’t yet that familiar for most. So, here’s a very simple blog post to help you recognise what’s in the Azure stack from a Purple Frog business intelligence perspective, in no particular order.

All of the following having been snipped from the Azure portal dashboard so there shouldn’t be any surprises once you start working with these services.

			Azure
	Data Catalogue		Data Factory
	Batch Service		Data Lake Storage
	Data Lake Analytics		Power BI
	Cosmos DB		IoT Hub
	Event Hub		Stream Analytics
	Machine Learning		SQL DB
	SQL DW		Logical SQL Server
	Data Management Gateway		Analysis Services
	Resources		Virtual Machine
	Azure Active Directory		Blob Storage

Happy drawing!