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

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

Microsoft Cloud Building Blocks

Field Enablement

What is Field Enablement?

The modernization of field force applications.

Delivering and collecting rich content within complex data and processing environments.

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

The Vision

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

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

Modern Application Architecture

Existing App Infrastructure

Modern Application Architecture

Today

Application Services

Existing App Infrastructure

Persistence

Cloud Capabilities

Modern Application Architecture

Today

Cloud Enablement

Security AnalyticsManagement

Search Elasticity Productivity

Monitoring

Networking

Media

And more…

Application Services

Existing App Infrastructure

Persistence

Cloud Capabilities

Modern Application Architecture

Today

Cloud Enablement

Security AnalyticsManagement

Search Elasticity Productivity

Monitoring

Networking

Media

And more…

Native Mobile App

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Modern Application Architecture

Mobile Device Capabilities

Cloud Capabilities

Today

Existing App Infrastructure

Modern Application Architecture

Native Mobile App

Mobile Device Capabilities

Cloud Capabilities

Today

VPN or Express Route

Active DirectorySynchronization

Existing App Infrastructure

Cloud Capabilities

Modern Application Architecture

Today

Native Mobile App

Mobile Device Capabilities

VM

REST API

SQL SQL

Existing App Infrastructure

Cloud Capabilities

Modern Application Architecture

Today

Native Mobile App

Mobile Device Capabilities

Mobile ServicesWeb Site

REST API

Hybrid Connection

SQL SQL

Data Sync Service

Modern Application Architecture

Native Mobile App

Mobile Device Capabilities

Cloud Capabilities

Today

SQL Database

SQL Lite

Existing App Infrastructure

SQL SQL

Web ServiceWeb Service

Managed REST API

Existing App Infrastructure

Modern Application Architecture

Web Service

Db

Native Mobile App

Mobile Device Capabilities

Cloud Capabilities

Today

SQL DatabaseTable & Blob

Storage

Application Services

Existing App Infrastructure

Persistence

Modern Application Architecture

Cloud Enablement

Security AnalyticsManagement

Search Elasticity Productivity

Monitoring

Networking

Media

And more…

Today

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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

Thank you!

David Cohn

Regional Sales Manager