Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure
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The document discusses side-by-side extensibility with Microsoft Azure in the context of developing intelligent enterprises, focusing on automation that enhances human involvement. It emphasizes the importance of core processes, the use of technology for business value rather than for its own sake, and highlights serverless architectures as beneficial for development and testing. Additionally, it presents practical examples of automation improvements in processes like goods receipt and concludes that intelligent processes often require developing extensions in a cloud environment.
Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure
- 1. info@minnosphere.comwww.minnosphere.com Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure Why … How … Where
- 2. © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure • Consultant @ minnopshere • In the SAP ecosystem since 2005 • Spokesman of the Special Interest Group “Development” @ DSAG, SAP Mentor Alumnus, SAP Press Author • Focus Topics: Extensibility, Cloud Native Development, Serverless • @lechnerc77 About me
- 3. Q: Why Side-by-Side Extensions? A: To implement the Intelligent Enterprise © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure
- 4. Q: What is an Intelligent Enterprise? © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure
- 6. © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure Do you know this place? By Ellen Levy Finch (Elf) - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9370579
- 7. Goal © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure • Achieve better quality and higher productivity • One ingredient: Jidōka aka “autonomation” (“automation with a human touch” or “intelligent automation”) • Anti-Goal: Full automation at any cost
- 8. Side Remark – Do you know which plant is now at NUMMI © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure
- 9. Intelligent Enterprise … but how? © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure
- 10. Approach © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure Core processes are in place Core processes follow best practices Identify core processes with room for improvement with respect to quality, productivity and automation Keep the user and his task in focus = automation with a human touch
- 11. Example Scenario © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure
- 12. © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure Goods Receipt What needs to be done before creating the goods movement ? 1. Transfer of receipt and order number to the system 2. Scan of goods receipt and attachment of scan to goods movement What will be done in a manual process? • Step 1 is necessary, but error prone • Step 2 will hardly be done
- 13. © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure Goods Receipt What can be improved? • Scan and attachment of the document • Text extraction of identification of order number • Automatic search for order number in backend and prefilling of data for creation of goods movement
- 14. Technological Approach © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure
- 15. Approach for Choice of Technology © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure • Focus on the business value Do not use technology for the sake of technology Let others do the undifferentiated heavy lifting • Put the things where they belong to Do not “burden” your backend with workload it is not made for Do not push functionality to cloud because of blindly following the mantra of “Keep the core (c)lean”
- 16. • Scan and attachment of the document • Text extraction of identification of order number • Automatic search for order number in backend and prefilling of data for creation of goods movement • UI5 App and OData service in backend end • OCR-ish service for text extraction, custom code for identification of order number • OData Service in backend for search and good movement creation © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure Breaking down our scenario (Mobile App)
- 17. © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure Cloud Ecosystem is Diverse
- 18. Technical Solution © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure
- 19. Serverless © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure • Optimized responsibility • Scale to zero (no idle) • Micro-billing (pay for what you use) • Easier to focus on core functionality • Fast to develop and test (at least your part) Well suited for experiments
- 20. Serverless – No Silver Bullet © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure
- 21. © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure Solution Overview
- 22. © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure Demo
- 23. Teaser – Azure Functions … locally © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure
- 24. Local Development of Azure Functions © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure • Step 1: Install Node.JS (LTS) - https://nodejs.org/en/ • Step 2: Install Microsoft Visual Studio Code - https://code.visualstudio.com/ • Step 3: Install Azure Core Tools npm install -g azure-functions-core-tools • Step 4: Azure Functions extension - via Visual Studio Code Marketplace https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-azuretools.vscode-azurefunctions
- 25. Demo Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure
- 26. Azure Functions ... What‘s next © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure • More on Azure Functions: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/azure/azure-functions/ • Azure Durable Functions (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/azure/azure-functions/durable/durable-functions-overview) • Integration with a local CosmosDB (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/azure/cosmos-db/local-emulator) • Project Keda – Event-driven extension with Kubernetes (https://github.com/kedacore/keda) • Azure Logic Apps (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/azure/logic-apps/) • …
- 27. Summary © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure
- 28. © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure • Intelligent Enterprise is about delivering value by intelligent automation with the human user in focus not about using fancy technologies • Realizing intelligent processes usually leads to the development of extensions • Most extension cases are combination of InApp and Side-by-Side extension • Cloud means: freedom of choice – with respect the usage model and to the provider • Serverless is often a good choice to begin with • Azure functions ecosystem is worth a closer look Take Aways
- 29. Thank you for your attention! © minnosphere 2019 | SAP Inside Track - Side-by-Side Extensibility with Microsoft Azure
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