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2 | 2 | title: Azure Internet of Things (IoT) solution options
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| -description: Guidance on choosing between a platform services or managed app platform approach to building an IoT solution. The platform service approach uses services such as IoT Hub and Digital Twins as building blocks. The managed app platform approach uses IoT Central to quickly get started. |
| 3 | +description: Guidance on using platform services and a managed app platform when you're evaluating and building an IoT solution. Platform services, such as IoT Hub and Digital Twins, are building blocks for your IoT solutions. A managed app platform, such as IoT Central, lets you quickly get started evaluating an IoT solution. |
4 | 4 | author: dominicbetts
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5 | 5 | ms.service: iot-fundamentals
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6 | 6 | services: iot-fundamentals
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7 | 7 | ms.topic: overview
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| -ms.date: 08/23/2022 |
| 8 | +ms.date: 11/29/2022 |
9 | 9 | ms.author: dobett
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12 | 12 | # What is the right IoT solution for your business?
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| -To build an IoT solution for your business, you typically choose to use either the *platform services* or the *managed app platform* approach. |
| 14 | +To build an IoT solution for your business, you typically evaluate your solution by using the *managed app platform* approach and build your enterprise solution by using the *platform services*. |
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| -Platform services provide the building blocks for customized and flexible IoT applications. You have more options to choose and code when you connect devices, and ingest, store, and analyze your data. Azure IoT platform services include the products Azure IoT Hub and Azure Digital Twins. |
| 16 | +Platform services provide all the building blocks for customized and flexible IoT applications. You have more options to choose and code when you connect devices, and ingest, store, and analyze your data. Azure IoT platform services include the products Azure IoT Hub and Azure Digital Twins. |
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| -A managed app platform lets you get started building apps more quickly than platform services by reducing the number of decisions needed to achieve results. The managed app platform takes care of most elements of your solution, so you can focus on adding industry knowledge, and scaling and connecting devices. Azure IoT Central is a managed app platform. |
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| -To choose between these two approaches, you should consider: |
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| -- How you want to manage your solution. |
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| -- What level of customization and control you want over your solution. |
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| -- What pricing structure you want. |
| 18 | +A managed app platform lets you quickly evaluate your IoT solution by reducing the number of decisions needed to achieve results. The managed app platform takes care of most infrastructure elements in your solution, so you can focus on adding industry knowledge, and evaluating the solution. Azure IoT Central is a managed app platform. |
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26 | 20 | ## Management
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| -Where do you want to spend your system management time and resources? |
| 22 | +The platform services give you full control over the underlying services in your solution. For example: |
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| -- Choose the platform services approach to have full control over the underlying services in your solution. For example, you want to: |
| 24 | +- Scaling and securing services to meet your needs. |
| 25 | +- Using in-house or partner expertise to onboard devices and provision services. |
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| - - Manage scaling and securing services to meet your needs. |
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| - - Make use of in-house or partner expertise to onboard devices and provision services. |
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| -- Choose the managed app platform approach to take advantage of a platform that handles scale, security, and management of your IoT applications and devices. |
| 27 | +A managed app platform lets you take advantage of a platform that handles the security and management of your IoT applications and devices. |
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37 | 29 | ## Control
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| -What elements of your solution do you want to customize? |
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| -- Choose the platform services approach for total customization and control over the solution architecture. |
| 31 | +Platform services let you fully customize and control the solution architecture. |
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| -- Choose the managed app platform approach to customize branding, dashboards, user roles, devices, and telemetry. However, you don't want to handle the underlying IoT system management overhead. |
| 33 | +A managed app platform lets you customize branding, dashboards, user roles, devices, and telemetry. However, you don't handle the underlying IoT system management. |
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45 | 35 | ## Pricing
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| -What pricing structure best fits your needs? |
| 37 | +Platform services let you fine-tune services and control overall costs. |
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| -- Choose the platform services approach to fine-tune services and control my overall costs. |
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| -- Choose the managed app platform approach for a simple, predictable pricing structure. |
| 39 | +A managed app platform gives you a simple, predictable pricing structure. |
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53 | 41 | ## Summary
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| -The platform services approach is appropriate for a business with cloud solution and device expertise that wants to: |
| 43 | +Platform services approach let you: |
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57 | 45 | - Fine-tune the services in the solution.
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58 | 46 | - Have a high degree of control over the services in the solution.
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59 | 47 | - Fully customize the solution.
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| -The managed app platform approach is appropriate for a business that: |
| 49 | +A managed app platform is useful when you're evaluating an IoT solution and: |
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| -- Doesn't want to dedicate extensive resources to system design, development, and management. |
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| -- Does want a predictable pricing structure. |
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| -- Does want some customization capabilities. |
| 51 | +- Don't want to dedicate extensive resources to system design, development, and management. |
| 52 | +- Do want a predictable pricing structure. |
| 53 | +- Do want some customization capabilities. |
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67 | 55 | ## Next steps
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69 | 57 | For a more comprehensive explanation of the different services and platforms, and how they're used, see [Azure IoT services and technologies](iot-services-and-technologies.md).
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71 | 59 | To learn more about the key attributes of successful IoT solutions, see the [8 attributes of successful IoT solutions](https://aka.ms/8attributes) white paper.
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74 | 61 | For an in-depth discussion of IoT architecture, see the [Microsoft Azure IoT Reference Architecture](/azure/architecture/reference-architectures/iot).
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76 | 63 | To learn about the device migration tool, see [Migrate devices from Azure IoT Central to Azure IoT Hub](../iot-central/core/howto-migrate-to-iot-hub.md).
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