ACHIEVING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION WITH .NET

Anant Desai
5 min readOct 31, 2019

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Digital transformation has radically changed the way business is done — from digital manufacturing to digital healthcare and from digital learning to digital entertainment, technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), Blockchain, and Big Data have literally disrupted every industry.

When it comes to implementing digital transformation technologies, .NET is one of the best software development platforms that can help you achieve that.

With .NET, you can develop next-gen enterprise solutions that work on platforms like Windows, Linux, and macOS. Furthermore, it supports cloud infrastructure and programming languages like C#, Visual Basic, and F# which means that it is easy for you to integrate IoT, AI & ML, Blockchain, and Big Data in your apps.

Today, most of the organizations prefer .NET development platform for building customized applications. This is because of the following reasons:

Now, let’s explore how .NET can help you accomplish your digital transformation objectives by integrating IoT, AI & ML, Blockchain, and Big Data into your apps:

BUILDING IOT-BASED APPS WITH .NET

IoT-powered smart solutions resemble a whole new set of technical possibilities that can assist enterprises to accomplish their digital transformation goals — as a matter of fact, these solutions are already helping enterprises streamline processes, increase efficiency, improve workplace security, and much more.

.NET is one of the few development platforms that help you build IoT-based apps; tech hulks such as, Dell, Amazon, eBay, Accenture, and others utilize .NET because of its performance and adaptability.

Besides this, .NET helps you build apps that run on Raspberry Pi, MinnowBoard MAX, DragonBoard 410c, and more.

So, why .NET is appropriate for IoT application development? Here are the key reasons:

For more information about IoT and .NET, check out this interesting blog about leveraging .NET for IoT development.

UTILIZING .NET TO IMPLEMENT AI AND ML

Intelligent robots, chatbots, virtual assistants, automated vehicles, and what not; the science fiction of yesterday has become the reality of today because of the touch of AI, ML, and Natural Language Processing (NLP).

With AI and ML implementation, the success rate of your digital transformation initiative increases as it promises a new age of disruption and productivity, where human ingenuity is enhanced by speed and precision.

According to Statista, 84% of global business organizations believe that AI will give them a competitive advantage over their rivals.

With .NET’s open-source and cross-platform machine learning framework, you can easily integrate AI and ML into your apps and that too without any prior AI or ML experience.

Furthermore, .NET provides productive tools to assist you to easily develop, train, and deploy high-quality custom AI and ML prototypes.

Here are the key reasons to harness the power of .NET for building AI solutions:

USING .NET FOR BLOCKCHAIN IMPLEMENTATION

Over the past couple of years, blockchain has grown to become one of the most dominant technologies that have digitally transformed almost every domain. In fact, it is said to be the “next big thing” after the Internet.

According to a report from Research and Markets, the world’s leading market research store, the global blockchain market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 42.8% (2018–2023) leading to global revenue of USD 19.9 Billion by 2023.

Blockchain technology is language agnostic. This means that you can use any popular software development platform to build a blockchain application. Some of the popular blockchain solutions are developed using Java, .NET, Python, Ruby, Solidity, and PHP.

If you utilize .NET for your Blockchain application development, your task becomes easy and less expensive. Moreover, it also solves the issue of database configuration — you can implement blockchain with corporate databases, such as MS SQL and Oracle.

If you are looking to integrate Ethereum blockchain into your apps, Nethereum is your answer — it is an open-source .NET integration library for writing smart contracts, cryptographic wallets, decentralized apps, and managing blockchain data.

In simple words, Nethereum makes it easy for .NET applications to use Ethereum, and for Ethereum applications to leverage .NET.

BIG DATA ANALYTICS AND .NET

The high-volume nature of Big Data often means that there is a requirement to crunch data files using long-running batch jobs to filter, aggregate, and otherwise prepare the data for analysis.

If you perform a search regarding the top languages for crunching Big Data, you will find that most of the sources will talk about Java, Python, R, and Scala.

Unfortunately, there are hardly any sources that will talk about .NET.

So, is .NET suitable to facilitate Big Data?

There is no reason why .NET can’t be used to facilitate Big Data. This is because anything that is written in Python or Java can be written in .NET too.

Also, the fact that Power BI, Microsoft’s well-known data analytics solution, can be connected to Hadoop makes Big Data crunching more appealing.

Another reason to choose .NET is that one can get the best out of highly flexible & scalable solutions that involve huge amounts of data with the combination of IIS Web Server and .NET.

For more information about .NET and Big Data Analytics, check out this informative blog on integrating Big Data Analytics with .NET.

.NET: THE FUEL TO START YOUR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION ENGINE

With digital transformation, organizations are able to connect more closely with customers, improve the productivity of their employees, boost the pace of innovation and, ultimately, claim a greater share of profit. However, facilitating digital transformation is a complex project!

.NET development platform helps you embark on your digital transformation journey through applications integrated with IoT, AI, Blockchain, and Big Data, thereby offering you new opportunities to rise.

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Anant Desai

A passionate and innovative inbound marketing professional whose life revolves around content, technology and sports.