What Is Silverlytics?

Silverlytics is a Microsoft Azure-based endpoint for the Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework (MSAF). This uses the Service Oriented Analytics Behavior in the analytics framework to send data to the Azure-based endpoint. The framework provides analytics capabilities to the latest web technologies (think Silverlight) that might not work with pixel or javascript-based tracking tags commonly used in traditional HTML web applications.

Based on the scalability and availability requirements of any good analytics platform, Microsoft Azure provides the perfect cloud-based solution. Silverlytics takes advantage of several Azure technologies to capture and store the vast amounts of collected data.

Surfacing the analytics data is done with Microsoft Pivot. Pivot is an experimental application from Microsoft Labs that provides a low-friction way to visualize the analytics data in real-time. To see it in action: