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Deep learning is riding high on the next wave of technologies disrupting industries from banking and finance, to healthcare and customer service.

To find out more about how developers are beginning to use deep learning, I reached out to a few experts who are among the instructors of a new openSAP MOOC entitled Enterprise Deep Learning with TensorFlow.

Machine Intelligence with a Human Twist

A subset of artificial intelligence and advanced machine learning, deep learning is being partly fueled by the big-data explosion. Deep learning capabilities allow people to slice and dice the mountains of structured and unstructured data they’re collecting for exceptional results that impact the business. Similar to how the human brain thinks, deep learning can power autonomous cars that “know” a pedestrian has stepped into a crosswalk, banking systems that readily detect money laundering, or help physicians devise more effective treatment plans. Deep learning can also be incredibly effective at making customers smile.

“At SAP, we’ve embedded deep learning capabilities into our IT support process to classify tickets and suggest solutions based on the text in the tickets,” said Karthik Muthuswamy, Machine Learning Researcher at SAP. “This has reduced turnaround time and resolved customer problems faster.”

#DeepLearning can be incredibly effective at making customers smile

What’s Different Now

Huge advances in natural language, speech recognition, object detection and image recognition are solving problems once thought impossible through deep learning.

“Deep learning is the engine of more than AI. It represents this biologically-motivated approach of simulating the human brain on a machine,” said Dr. Damian Borth, director of the Deep Learning Competence Center at DFKI.

Borth predicted deep learning will have a tremendous impact on many industries, especially automotive, retail and finance.

“Autonomous vehicles will change how societies think about mobility in the future,” he said. “Last year, we had a run on the retail industry when the Amazon Echo device recognized the consumer’s voice which was translated to orders. This year the financial industry is looking for advice on deep learning, and my intuition tells me next year will bring MIFID II regulatory changes, sparking transparency updates that will bring more innovations.”

A Boon to Healthcare

Josh Gordon, developer advocate on the TensorFlow team at Google, said his favorite deep learning applications were in healthcare, specifically medical imaging. “There are three applications I can think of, all of which are designed to assist physicians, and I’m sure there are many more. The first used TensorFlow to detect eye disease, the second to detect cancerous cells in tissue samples, and the third was a mobile app to detect skin cancer.”

Gordon is particularly jazzed by the emergence of deep learning as a productivity booster.

“One of the most remarkable things about deep learning is how accessible it has become to developers,” said Gordon. “In the past few years, we’ve seen this great combination of researchers and developers sharing their ideas and tools, leading to increased productivity for everyone.”

Building Deep Learning Skills

The openSAP MOOC  on deep learning that all three gentleman are instructing, is designed as how-to introductory course for developers and data scientists, which will explain when and when not to use deep learning to solve organizational problems, as well as how to build and deploy deep learning models in enterprise systems. The curriculum is heavy on examples of industry applications and hands-on coding lessons, along with an online forum to exchange ideas with other developers worldwide. Participants will receive a certificate of completion after passing a final exam.

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In this part of the blog, you will see how you can integrate your SAPUI5 application as Task UI in workflow.

Before we start the learning, there are few things you must know about the user task of SAP Cloud Platform Workflow.

The task associated with user-task activity in the workflow are available under the Tasks list in My Inbox application. The user interface configured for the user task is rendered as task UI when an end user opens the task in My Inbox. Application developer is, thus, given the flexibility to integrate any custom UI with the user task of workflow

This means that your existing custom application needs to be modified so that it can (a) access the task-data, (b) bind the task data with the UI elements of the application and © implement code for the task actions like complete, cancel etc.

Let us now learn how can you do that.

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* Open the SAP Web IDE Full-StackRefer section Part 1A to ensure the you open with correct URL parameter
Note: Ensure that you have Workflow Editor feature enabled in the Web IDE.

Follow the guide to do so:
https://help.sap.com/viewer/f63bbdc234ce4211ab2cdb44564a0acd/Cloud/en-US/5e058cf1333b4e18bfa6431a52e991d3.html

* Create a new Workflow Project if you do not have one.Follow the guide to do so:
https://help.sap.com/viewer/f63bbdc234ce4211ab2cdb44564a0acd/Cloud/en-US/2b6375d9a80945ff852142b9543ff1e1.htmlIf you already have a workflow project, then you can create a new workflow in /workflows folder

* Click on the start event and from the speed buttons, select User Task

* Select the User Task and configure the task from the User Properties sectionIn General section, provide the name of the taskIn Details section, fill in the following details of the user interface that would be seen when the task is opened in My Inbox

Subject
This is the name of the task that would be seen in list of tasks when this task is available in the My Inbox.

Receivers
You can give comma-separated users or a group of users who will be able to see these tasks in their My Inbox. This is a way to control the access of confidential information and enables the access of information to the right set of people.

User Interface
Enter the details of the SAPUI5 application that you want to show when this task is opened in My Inbox.

HTML5 App: Name of the HTML5 application
Component URL: Location of  in the HTML5 project
SAPUI5 Component: SAPUI5 component name without  suffix

If you have doubts, then refer Step9 in the official documentation:
https://help.sap.com/viewer/f63bbdc234ce4211ab2cdb44564a0acd/Cloud/en-US/5e058cf1333b4e18bfa6431a52e991d3.html

Note: Carefully enter the required details as this is most crucial part of the configuration.

With this, you are done with the User Task configuration.
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* Click on the empty space in the editor and change the Workflow Properties as shown.This means that the subject of the workflow, when seen from Workflow Monitoring application, would pick up the FirstName and LastName fields from the workflow context

* Finally, deploy the workflowNow let us see how the user task looks in the My Inbox application.
* Open the Workflow Monitor App from Fiori Launchpad.If you do not know the URL, then open the Fiori Launchpad URL from the Workflow service – Overview page in the cockpit
* Click on Workflow Definitions tile, and you will see your workflow

* Click on Start New Instance and enter the following initial payload to start the workflow { “user”:{ “FirstName”:“Kate”, “LastName”:“Beckett”, “city”:“London”, “country”:“United Kingdom” } }​

 
* Click on Show Instances button to see all the running instances of the workflow.Observe the name of the workflow. The first-name (i.e. Kate) and last-name (i.e. Beckett) is picked from the initial payload that is being sent while starting the workflow.Also notice the EXECUTION LOG, you see that a new task is created in MyInbox of list of recipients

* Logon to the My Inbox with the recipient username and password.You can find the tile of MyInbox app in the Fiori Launchpad URL seen in the workflow overview page (-in SAP Cloud Platform cockpit-)
* Open MyInbox and click on the task

But why did the context data did not get loaded?

Let us now see how to update the user interface to show the task data and workflow context in Part 1C

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We are on the cusp of the API economy: APIs are everywhere, boosting digital transformation and disrupting the way we think, so a shift is also required in the way we develop.

APIs are expected to enable automation, in turn driving efficiency, consistency, and cost savings. API quality matters, both for API consumers and implementers. For these reasons, building an API infrastructure from scratch may not be a good idea. It is much easier and more productive to use a good framework or library, often more than one. https://goo.gl/YsE8vP #DataIntegration #ML