We are doing a greenfield of an SAP S/4HANA implementation and were wondering if users how could one determine how much of an FUE is being used.
Looking at SAP documentation and it is vague at best. Also asked in forums and networking events with clear answers.
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i have been looking in to different IOT esb and platforms but its hard to check them all and test them all, and for a company in the startup process its even harder.
I have a hardware device which will send very little data but important data once in a while, there will however be some devices out there.
What i want to accomplish is this
My device react to a condition and send a message to my choice of iot platform
the iot platform will have a user management so the event can be stored for this user, the user will get a email and/or sms about the event.
I would like a dashboard for myself to view whats going on and be able to see what device belong to what user and status of it.
I want to be able to have an app that will show data / eventview for the specific user that owns the device.
Everything will be read only, i dont have need to send data to the device, only collect.
My need is rather simple, but i will charge a one time fee for the hardware and have no subscription, all the "cloud" platforms are rather expensive as i can see and they scale bad with their pricing. if i could get one that charge a few cent per device a year i could live with that and include it to the hardware price but the one i find is really above this or charge a high yearly fee from the start.
I have been looking around and trying to understand the program, platform and services out there.
Cloud:
Xively - Expensive and dont have a model that scales per device
Azure - Expensive, their price model is hard to understand
AWS - Cheap to begin with but then Expensive, their price model is
hard to understand
Mulesoft - Expensive for my needs.
Local installation: Free software, dont have everything included and/or pay for training.
WSO2 - This one is hard, it might be able to solve my issues, but they have an IOT server that will open for BETA soon so i dont know
much about it.
Mule community edition - Might solve my issues but seems to lack the usermanagement and dashboard i need?
FuseESB Might solve my issues but seems to lack the usermanagement and dashboard i need?
Kaa - i have a hard time to see where kaa fits in, im not a programmer by trade so i think this platform is to hard for me and i dont know
if it supports my needs, so far little information about it.
Can anyone sheed a light where i should look and put my effort in, i just dont have the time to give them all a shoot, and i might have misunderstood some of the platforms.
i would also appreciate an explanation what module,carbon, connects i would need to check in to, to solve my needs for the different platforms.
Might also be so that i have missed some superb platforms?
BR
Dimi
For WSO2, sign up for the beta here: http://wso2.com/landing/wso2-iot-server-beta-program/
This page has lots of info on how you can use already released components of WSO2 stack for your scenario: http://wso2.com/landing/wso2-iot-server-beta-program/ - see the reference architecture and webinars on the Resources tab.
Use reekoh.com(data collection capabiliteis) and mule(if you don't want to pay then use MULE CE)
You may have a customisation work.
The Watson IoT Plaform is available in IBM's Bluemix cloud and allows up to 20 registered devices, and 100 MB of data exchanged free.
More detailed pricing info is available.
Real-time insights alerting can be configured to help provide the device specific data for users.
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Should I use google charts in production environment?
Google charts are very easy to use.
https://google-developers.appspot.com/chart/interactive/docs/quick_start
But is it recommended to be used in a production environment?
The API's are not hosted in house but called form google servers.
There is a risk of google changing them or discontinuing them.
I couldn't find any license agreement to use.
Is the data secure as the data is being sent to google servers.
Are the above real risks or am I over thinking.
I was wondering if anyone has any experience with using google API's in production. Or if anyone can give some recommendations.
The Terms of Service cover some of your questions. Basically, Google's deprecation policy says that the API will be available for 3 years following deprecation (and most of the API - namely, the Interactive Charts API - is not deprecated; the old Image Chart API is, however).
For data security, most charts in the Interactive Charts API do not send any data to Google's servers, though there are exceptions. Each chart's documentation has a Data Policy section which explains what, if any, data is sent to Google (examples: AreaCharts, which do not send any data; and GeoCharts, which may send data if you use the geocoding features). Charts in the Image Chart API do send data to Google's servers, as they generate the images server-side rather than client-side, but this API is deprecated anyway, so you probably shouldn't be using it.
The main risk with using the Visualization API in my experience is that you have (practically) no control over versioning. When the development team releases an update, everyone everywhere gets the update. Usually this is a good thing, as it brings new features, bug fixes, and performance enhancements to everyone. Occasionally, however, a new release may introduce a bug, or change the behavior or appearance of a chart in some way that is undesirable for your application. When this happens, you generally cannot roll back to the previous version. For projects that are under active development for long periods of time, this is generally an acceptable trade-off for the free (as in beer) chart API. For projects that do not have a long-term maintenance budget, this can be problematic.
If your user-base is in an area that has poor connectivity to Google's servers, having the API hosted remotely could be problematic, but in general this is not the case.
I have used it in a production environment. All the questions you have posed are very real possibilities. For use it came down to budget, the money was there to purchase a system so we went with what we could afford at the time. The direction you go really depends on budget and existing systems that might be able to achieve the same thing.
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Are there any cloud based private Twitter-like services out there?
I am working for a client who needs a service like this implemented, but we don't have the time or budget to create one from scratch.
I am looking for something with a REST api where I can create an account on it from the master server, set an account to follow another account, post updates for accounts, and then get a feed of posts (sorted by date) from accounts that another account is following (like a facebook wall, or twitter feed). It would be great if it could automatically scale out to hundreds of thousands of users, with perhaps 50 000 daily posts being made.
I had thought about implementing this myself, but it seems like there are some tricky areas when it comes to having an account following a few thousand other accounts, or being followed by 10s of thousands of accounts, and generating the feed in somewhat realtime as posts come in.
I have found some services such as http://www.ning.com/ and http://www.socialengine.com/ but I'm not sure if they can do what I need, and they seem to be very focussed on having a website. This is for a mobile app so that is not required.
There are a few open source projects out there, but they would all require setting up/maintaining hosting (not a huge problem) and I'm not certain how scalable they are (the client requires it scale up to at least 100k users).
I'm sorry for the late reply. I hope it will be useful to others looking at this.
I had pretty much the exact same need as you, and ended up creating a full-featured solution after finding no other resources. The service is called Collabinate (http://www.collabinate.com). It provides a RESTful API that focuses on simplicity and ease of use, and currently leaves the UI completely up to you. It uses a graph database and algorithms in the backend, and scales quite well for your situation.
Maybe private team inbox can fit in your solution too...
https://www.flowdock.com/
there is not a following feature in this but if this is an internal company need...
you can create chat rooms for departments and in general ... maybe the chat rooms can be the following feature for you
Looks like there isn't a good solution here.
I have found jaiku which looks incredibly complex and doesn't seem to run on the latest app engine sdk.
There is also diaspora which could be modified and run on your own server to do what is needed.
In the end, I have decided to just implement this myself on Google App Engine. It seems the best way to do what is needed. Using the fan-out pattern seems to be the best way. The Fantasm library seems to provide an easy to use way to do this, so I am going to try that.
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We need an address finder (premise level) based on postcode. We have a budget of 40k for this. But I have been assigned to find some cheaper alternatives for Royal mail PAF database. Is Google any good to find premise level address when you send full postcode. Any recommendation over Royal Mail PAF file. Any web services out there for this to accomplish? Please share your knowledge.
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We use products from AFD for this, they work well for us.
Edit just saw Best way to geocode UK postcode with Google Maps API? on the front page.
In the UK the government has said that PAF data should be made free[1]. I'm painfully aware of the almost extortionate nature that Royal Mail operate.
Having worked with Royal Mail PAF API, I known a 'friend' (wink wink) that created a class wrapper around the APIs. This 'friend' of mine built a custom Importer that automatically ripped all the PAF data into a MS SQL database. Post the data import, he no longer needs to renew he's licences because he is no longer using PAF data.
This may be something you could do also, buy the data one time an import it.
As for data changes, you can buy perhaps every few years e.g. 2-3 years and do a update of your existing data.
[1] Damn It! guess I was wrong, http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/22/postcode-petition-fails-blocked-number-ten
I work as the integrations specialist for Postcode Anywhere (we are one of the leading Royal Mail PAF resellers). Address capture doesn’t have to be expensive – and you don’t have to sacrifice reliability for an affordable service. Postcode Anywhere can be licensed either on a simple credit pack based system or on an annual basis, and you can be up and running in 10 minutes using our JavaScript client. If you are looking to create a more bespoke integration we also have an array of web services and code samples to help you.
If you want to have a play around with the service to see what you think we will be more than happy to provide you with a free trial. A full run-down of all of our products and services can be found here: http://www.postcodeanywhere.co.uk/products.
I work for CraftyClicks.
There are a few PAF resellers around. The data is all the same, prices can vary significantly. Best to spend a few minutes browsing the various sites.
At CraftyClicks our focus is on uptime/availability and keeping the price of PAF data reasonable - at high volumes the price falls to well below 1 penny a click.
Our address lookup web service can be integrated client side via JavaScript or server side via XML.
Let us know your requirements (adam at craftyclicks.co.uk) - you shouldn't be spending anywhere near 40k for this!
Adam.
The base PAF data is the same but a lot of value is put into adding information that is not included into PAF to help with realtime and batch addressing matching with products based on PAF. We have a lot of locality information that is not included within PAF but people tend to use within their address.
As to updates, there are thousands of changes every month so its vital that you use a source that has regular updates to the PAF data and also associated files such as business and consumer names data that also help in the matching process.
Have a look at our site www.capscan.com for both UK and International data quality with services delivered either installed or as a web service.
You can also contact us on 0207 428 1255
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We're developing a new web service that will be free for low-volume users and subscription-based for higher volume users. Most users will probably invoke it via a plugin for their cms or blog system, and some will use api toolkits for various programming languages. The web service, itself, is straightforward to expose to users, but a full-featured web application needed to configure and manage access to it using a subscription-based business model is more complicated.
We need to build, buy or find a solution that powers a self-service website which lets people:
sign up for free or paid accounts
select and configure service options
enter payment credentials
edit their account and billing profiles
review their service usage and billing history
suspend or cancel their accounts
From an admin perspective, we would also like the system to let us:
monitor and manage service status
log user activity and service consumption
review and manage user accounts
manage recurring billing, flag problem accounts
manage message templates for communicating with users
configure service packages, options and discount codes
perform other, similar administrative activities
This seems like standard stuff that any web-based, self-service subscription system might need. I'm wondering whether anyone out there knows of a package that provides most or all of these features? We're open to considering various programming languages and platforms, although it will be most convenient to deploy and run this on a linux system.
If there's not a solid, open-source solution out there, then we might be interested in sponsoring the creation of one. I'm looking forward to hearing insights form the community. Thanks!
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Subscription management and billing operations are a pain to implement yourself. I would suggest checking out Zuora. Even though there's some cost there, they have a nice API for their cloud service.
Not sure if that would fit with the model you have in mind, but they do take away a headache.
Go with FastSpring , www.fastspring.com
It rocks it addresses all things you mentioned + more.
http://www.fastspring.com/features-subscription.php
METRO sounds like a suitable choice to me considering your preferred server OS:
https://metro.dev.java.net/
Wikipedia has a great comparison table for web service frameworks. This may be a good starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_service_frameworks