Field enablement roadshow keynote - Bob Familiar
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This document discusses field enablement and modern application architecture. It describes how field personnel across various industries often rely on paper-based processes that are inefficient. It presents a vision of replacing paper with digital tools to capture information using mobile devices. Examples are given of field engineers conducting site visits and medical device salespeople accessing product information. The document outlines how Azure provides building blocks to create cloud-enabled solutions following modern application architecture principles. Organizations can benefit by implementing field enablement solutions to improve productivity and customer satisfaction. BlueMetal offers services to help cloud enable businesses.
Field enablement roadshow keynote - Bob Familiar
- 1. Bob Familiar Practice Director, Cloud & Services BlueMetal Blog: TheUndocumentedAPI.com @bobfamiliar Field Enablement & Modern Application Architecture Jesus Aguilar Senior Technology Evangelist Microsoft Blog: GivenToCode.com @giventocode
- 2. Achieving business innovation that was feasible in the past Build on what you have today Provide a set of building blocks that you use to create a solution that fits your business requirements
- 3. Microsoft Cloud Building Blocks
- 4. Field Enablement What is Field Enablement? The modernization of field force applications. Delivering and collecting rich content within complex data and processing environments.
- 5. Field Enablement Field personnel are seen in a wide range of industries: Insurance, Health Care, Manufacturing & Engineering, etc. Organizations often rely on a paper-based process for their field personnel When these folks are in the field, they are unable to read or update customer data, easily upload images, video or capture digital signatures or GPS information Paper based systems are antiquated, cause redundant data entry and lost productivity and are not secure. Organizations may already have a iOS solution but now need to support new devices
- 6. The Vision
- 7. Field Engineer Enablement Enables field engineers to conduct site visits Replaces unwieldy masses of paper Provided ability to capture GPS coordinates and photos Provided ability to annotate PDF drawings Fully integrated with enterprise infrastructure, data, and device management. Modernizing the Site Visit
- 8. Sales Force Enablement – Medical Devices Provides a library of product specifications, videos, pricing and more across tens of thousands of items in the company’s product catalog. Reduces IT costs for application maintenance, deployment, and hardware Improves application security Ported 2-way cloud replication solution from Objective-C to C# Portable Class Library for large surgical equipment manufacturer Modernizing the Site Visit
- 11. Existing App Infrastructure Modern Application Architecture Today
- 12. Application Services Existing App Infrastructure Persistence Cloud Capabilities Modern Application Architecture Today Cloud Enablement Security Analytics Management Search Elasticity Productivity Monitoring Networking Media And more…
- 13. Application Services Existing App Infrastructure Persistence Cloud Capabilities Modern Application Architecture Today Cloud Enablement Security Analytics Management Search Elasticity Productivity Monitoring Networking Media And more… Native Mobile App Mobile Device Capabilities Persistence Location And more… Camera
- 14. Modern Application Architecture Mobile Device Capabilities Cloud Capabilities Today
- 15. Existing App Infrastructure Modern Application Architecture Native Mobile App Mobile Device Capabilities Cloud Capabilities Today VPN or Express Route Active Directory Synchronization
- 16. Existing App Infrastructure Cloud Capabilities Modern Application Architecture Today Native Mobile App Mobile Device Capabilities VM REST API SQL SQL
- 17. Existing App Infrastructure Cloud Capabilities Modern Application Architecture Today Native Mobile App Mobile Device Capabilities Mobile Services Web Site REST API Hybrid Connection SQL SQL
- 18. Data Sync Service Modern Application Architecture Native Mobile App Mobile Device Capabilities Cloud Capabilities Today SQL Database SQL Lite Existing App Infrastructure SQL SQL
- 19. Web Service Web Service Managed REST API Existing App Infrastructure Modern Application Architecture Web Service Db Native Mobile App Mobile Device Capabilities Cloud Capabilities Today SQL Database Table & Blob Storage
- 20. Application Services Existing App Infrastructure Persistence Modern Application Architecture Cloud Enablement Security Analytics Management Search Elasticity Productivity Monitoring Networking Media And more… Today Native Mobile App Persistence Location And more… Camera
- 21. Summary • Cloud Enablement is the path to Field Enablement • Azure provides a complete set of building blocks for creating cloud enabled solutions • Organizations can improve customer satisfaction, productivity, reduce redundancy and errors, and grow their business by providing their folks a modern Field Enablement Solution using the principles and patterns outlined today • BlueMetal is the Modern Application Company – We can help you cloud enable your business
- 22. Thank you!
- 23. David Cohn Regional Sales Manager