Building Intelligent Solutions with Azure Functions, Office 365, and Cognitive Services
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As organizations continue their digital transformation to the cloud they are faced with the challenge of having accurate and timely information for their ever increasing number of digital assets being uploaded to the cloud and Office 365 . Join this session to learn how we can use Azure and Microsoft's Cognitive Services to build truly intelligent business solutions in Office 365. In this developer session you we will be introducing you to SharePoint Webhooks, Microsoft Flow, Azure Serverless with Azure Functions, and the Cognitive Services Vision API which when combined can make this a reality. Full project source code will be available on Github.
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Building Intelligent Solutions with Azure Functions, Office 365, and Cognitive Services
- 1. Josh Carlisle @joshcarlisle Building Intelligent Solutions With Azure & Office 365 & Cognitive Services Developer | Level 200 #Office365 #AzureFunctions #Webhooks #CognitiveServices #LogicApps #Flow
- 2. Who Am I • Raleigh North Carolina • Developer x 20 years • Twitter: @joshcarlisle • Web: www.joshcarlisle.io • Github: https://github.com/joshdcar • Email: joshc@viewfusion.com
- 3. “Can you please give me more required fields to fill out on my form?” -- said NO ONE EVER @joshcarlisle
- 4. The problem is everyone LOVES the benefits of all that great information but HATES how much work it takes! @joshcarlisle
- 5. So we have ourselves a conundrum! How do we reliability get the data we need without the user? @joshcarlisle
- 6. Intelligent Solutions Intelligent Solutions are solutions that use Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning to enhance and automate our business process. @joshcarlisle Translated … our users get all the benefits with none of the work!
- 7. Azure Cognitive Services A collection of artificial intelligence and machine learning APIs for vision, speech, language, and knowledge. Computer Vision API Photo Analysis (tags, colors, landmarks), Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Content Moderation, Face API, Emotion API, Video Indexer Language API Language Understanding (LUIS) (Bots), Spell Check, Text Analysis (Sentiment, Topics), Translator, Linguistics @joshcarlisle
- 8. Integrating with Cognitive Services Microsoft Flow & Logic Apps Microsoft Flow and it’s parent Logic Apps are a no-code designer based workflow and orchestration service. Connectors for Cognitive Services. Webhooks Webhooks are http callbacks that can be configuration to respond to events. SharePoint lists & libraries support webhook notifications. Azure Functions An event driven Serverless offering. Code based solution (C#, Node, etc) that can respond to various events ranging from http (webhooks) to queues and blobs. Integrates closely with Microsoft Flow and Logic Apps. @joshcarlisle
- 9. Microsoft Flow & Logic Apps • Consider as your default staring point. • No-Code Designer Based Workflows • Native Connectors for Cognitive Services (Preview) • Microsoft Flow Built on Logic Apps • Microsoft Flow = Business User (Teams) • Logic Apps = Enterprise • Integrate with Azure Functions for complex scenarios @joshcarlisle
- 10. Cognitive Services & Logic Apps
- 11. Azure Functions @joshcarlisle Consider for more complex scenarios OR Supplement existing Logic Apps & Flows Serverless • No Server Management • Automatic Scaling • Micro-Transaction Only pay what you use Code Based Solution • C#, Javascript • Develop Locally or Azure
- 12. SharePoint Webhooks • Often comparted to Event Receivers • Requires registration of REST endpoint • REST Endpoint is notified upon changes • Dependent on SharePoint Change Log • Advantage Repeatability Provisioning • Often paired with Azure Functions @joshcarlisle
- 13. Cognitive Services + Azure Functions & Webhooks Simple Tagging and Categorizing
- 14. Coming Soon – Azure Function Extensions for Cognitive Services
- 15. Additional Resources • Project Source - https://github.com/joshdcar/azure-solutions-o365 • Project Source Contains Azure Resource Manager Templates for deployment • Webhook Administration Webpart (SPFX) - https://github.com/joshdcar/spwebhookadmin • Deploying Azure Functions with VSTS CICD - https://www.joshcarlisle.io/blog/2017/5/17/visual- studio-2017-tools-for-azure-functions-and-continuous-integration-with-vsts
Editor's Notes
- We Beg\Plead for users to fill out data We add many required fields to force users to fill out data We dedicate administrators to review and approve the filled out data We create buckets to drop documents in for someone else to fill out data
- Many have given up on metadata Build your applications without the expectation of data Some argue the new SharePoint Modern Experience seems to de-emphasize The problem is It’s still important for search and other apps
- Nothing new – we’ve been trying to do this for years with workflows What’s new are the services available for us to do the heavy lifting What’s new is the infrastructure to coordinate and integrate are easier then ever!
- Most common API is the Computer Vision and Language
- For Simplistic \ Fast Scenarios Suggested Starting Point
- Something that requires more complex logic Working with Term Store Fields Resizing Image to work within Cognitive Services Size Restrictions
- Comparison to Event Receivers only skin deep – under the covers VERY different 100% Code