Super Charged Prototyping
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Michael Stephenson
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Today
Agenda• 2 Speed IT• Example Projects• Thoughts
Outcomes• Make you think about some
Azure features• Show some cool demo’s• Take home some ideas to inspire
the kids
IT’s Customer Satisfaction
Perception• 15% of business users completely satisfied
with IT department• 33% of business users think IT is important to
business innovation• 60% of business users think IT department is
integral to the business
Effect• Stealth IT• IT perceived to be holding the business in the
past• Business doesn’t value IT
(Perception) Source: Information Week IT Perception Survey
“By 2017, 75% of organisations will have a 2 speed IT capability”
The 2 Modes of IT
Marathon Runner – Mode 1• Mission Critical Systems• Conventional Approaches• Stability• Reliability• Low Risk• Slow & Safe
Sprinter – Mode 2• Take Risks / Safe Enough• Agility & embrace change• Remove bureaucracy• Deliver Value Fast• Fail Fast• Aggressive customer focus
Cloud Relationship to 2 Speed ITMode 1 – Traditional Mode 2 - Agile
IT Leadership IT Operations Enterprise Architect
Drivers • Cost Reduction• Risk Mitigation• Keep the operation running• Protect the assets• Protect the customer
• Developer Productivity• Deliver Business Change• Keep the customer happy• Innovate• Beat competitors• Take risks
Cloud Opportunities • Move commodity servers off site• Turn off when not in use• Off Premise Test environments• Cloud Disaster Recovery
• Quick & Cheap IT Provisioning• Delivery Empowerment• Delete resources if project fails• Reduce operations requirements
Super Charging Mode 2 IT
Mode 2 Architects
“As an architect, the cloud offers me new ways to solve problems and opportunities to excite the business and super charge my mode 2 IT teams”
Example 1 – Staff HR Self Service
The Challenge
Business Context• Current State
• SAP is the system of record for Staff• Staff do not use SAP the HR system directly,
only HR• SAP changes are difficult and expensive• SAP is complex to train users
• Desired Outcome• Create a Staff Portal system of engagement• Portal should be within SharePoint based
intranet
Technical Challenge• If we host services in the cloud to increase
our agility can we use hybrid integration to connect to services on premise?
Hybrid Integration Proof of Concept
Microservices Router
Service Bus Relay
API
Microservices
Relay powered Hybrid SAP Integration
SharePoint Provider Hosted AppIn Azure Web App
Microservices Router
Service Bus Relay
API
SAP Microservices
Other Microservices
Linq To SAP
Outcome
Azure Features Used• Application Insights Monitoring• Azure Web App • Azure Service Bus Relay• VS Online Automated Build & Deploy
Info• Key Points
• Light weight API based integration
• Duration• End to end features developed in hours/days• Project focusing on features not plumbing• Architecture from POC suitable for production and
used by real project
• Costs• Cloud cost approx. $10 per month (dev, test & prod)
Example 2 - Organisational Telemetry
The Challenge
Business Context• Find a free PC
• We have 3 locations and 20+ buildings• In these buildings are 5000+ computers• How can a student know where is best to
go to get a PC to use• Drivers
• Positive Student Experience
Business Context 2• How utilised are our Rooms
• We have hundreds of rooms• How do we know how utilised they are• How do we track how energy efficient
they are• Drivers
• Reduce Costs
Proof of Concept
The building has a sensor which detectsWhen you enter the building
Stream Analytics processesEvent Hub Data into Power BI
User views dashboards of usefulInformation via Power BI
Power BI
Stream Analytics
Event Hub
Demo
Telemetry
Agent on PC pushes PC usageAnd application telemetry to cloud
Sensor/Reader telemetry sent to cloud
Stream Analytics processesEvent Hub Data into Power BI
User views dashboards of usefulInformation via Power BI
Power BI
Stream Analytics
Event Hub
Outcome
Azure Features Used• Azure Service Bus Event Hubs• Azure Stream Analytics• Power BI
Info• Key Points
• Cloud back end would support high scale production usage “as is”
• POC is something the sprinters could easily take forwards
• Duration• Demo created in < 3 hours
• Costs• Cloud Approx. < $40 per month
Example 3 – Simulating Business Processes
The Challenge
Business Context• We have an existing business process
which is reliable and has been around for ages
• We need to feedback status to customers quicker or risk losing them to competitors
• We are not 100% sure the business idea will work but we want to try it
Desired Outcome• Minimize risk to existing process• Avoid extensive re-testing or existing
processes (potentially expensive)• Win or fail fast• Use Reference Architecture to evaluate the
impact of the project
Enrolment Process
BizTalk orchestrates across line of businessSystems to process enrolment
Line of Business Systems
Student can enrol for a course via multiplechannels
API in Azure
Service Bus Messaging
API solution has exposed existing processTo new channels
Demo
Notifications
BizTalk Server
Line of Business Systems
Student gets an alert in near-realtime when theirEnrolment is approved
API in Azure
Service Bus Messaging
SQL
Twilio Connector
SQL Connector
Logic App
Demo
Outcome
Azure Features Used• New Channels
• Azure Service Bus Messaging• Azure Web Apps• Application Insights
• Notifications• Azure Logic Apps• Azure API App Connectors
• SQL• Twilio
Info• Key Points
• Notification feature had no impact to existing process
• Notification feature very low cost• Alert drives student to re-engage with us
• Reference Architecture• Used to evaluate solution options• Used to simulate and demo to business
• Costs• Reference Architecture Approx. < $100 per month• Notification Feature = $0
• No additional cost uses existing App Service
Thoughts
Hold on you cant start the next
race yet…..
Challenges of 2 Speed IT• At some point the Marathon Runners need to look after the thing the sprinters built• Sprinters become too externally customer focused and lose sight of IT Strategy or IT Operations• Sprinters make significant stealth architecture changes• Can the organisation really afford 2 IT departments? We need to be able to do sprint projects
within an organisational journey
Disconnected 2 Speed IT
?????
Its ok we will use DevOps and it will all be fine
Embracing the Cloud
I have a platform with loads of
features to help me build awesome
Apps
I’m comfortable we can govern
solutions because Azure is core to our architecture
Many of our solutions use Azure
so I have lots of reusable
troubleshooting skills
Managing Azure is
Business as Usual
We get great visibility of our
actual costs and have enterprise
agreements
Questions