Evolving Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture to Transform Data into Intuitive Insights
As AGRITECHNICA 2023 — the world’s leading trade fair for agricultural machinery — makes a triumphant return after nearly four years, over 450,000 attendees from 130 countries will come together to witness the latest and greatest agriculture innovations firsthand, according to Microsoft Azure. However, not all of these breakthrough innovations take up large exhibition spaces. Some are quietly revolutionizing the industry through data and analytics, equipping farmers with tools for smarter, data-driven decision-making.
These data-driven tools — including transformative AI that is reshaping industries — depend on clean, unified data. That’s why we announced Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture in March 2023, a data platform that leverages industry-specific data connectors and capabilities to connect and unify farm data from disparate sources. With Azure Data Manager for Agriculture, organizations can leverage high-quality datasets for digital agriculture solutions, allowing customers and partners to focus on product innovation rather than data management.
Today, alongside Bayer at the AGRITECHNICA 2023 conference, we’re thrilled to announce the latest updates to Azure Data Manager for Agriculture that are ushering in an era of AI in agriculture.
To start, Azure Data Manager for Agriculture is evolving to include new integrations with Microsoft Fabric. This begins with the inclusion of Microsoft Fabric Data Factory, bringing cloud-scale data movement and transformation to agriculture-specific scenarios. Now, third-party data partners can build connectors to ingest data from more sources into a unified database. Leveraging these Fabric integrations, Microsoft and our partners are expanding Azure Data Manager for Agriculture with more agriculture-specific connectors and capabilities so that insights are no longer limited by specific data types and sources.
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We’ve also built connector patterns that others can use as references and expanded the common data model to incorporate geospatial data, making more data integrations seamless and efficient. Given the importance of the ability to search through time and space when looking at observation data, geospatial ground truth data has been elevated to a first-class component.
We are also excited to expand support for Bayer’s Climate FieldView as a built-in data source. Once initiated by a farmer, Azure Data Manager for Agriculture provides a straightforward path to retrieving both historic and up-to-date activity files, from which further aggregated insights can be derived. Users can leverage auto-sync planting, application, and harvest activity files from Climate FieldView accounts directly into Azure Data Manager for Agriculture.
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