Demonstration to show a conversation between ProIV and Alexa (Amazon Echo) PROIV is the low-code platform that gets you from idea to reality faster than you ever imagined.

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Lets Talk ProIV and Alexa
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About ProIV
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PROIV is the low-code platform that gets you from idea to reality faster than you ever
imagined. From accelerating Digital Transformation in the enterprise to slashing time to
market for software developers – ProIV unleashes the potential of your business and
removes the IT development bottleneck.
Applications built with the PROIV low code Platform give the freedom to make best of breed
technology choices, reuse legacy applications and deploy to a wide range of platforms
including Cloud.
As your application grows you get the benefits of hyper-scalability and sophisticated
performance tools to help you achieve amazing levels of performance.
All of this plus the added benefits of a modern low-code development environment.

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Overview
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This session presented the methods used to create an Alexa Skill that would utilise
ProIV services to manage responses based on data held within the application.
The example skill will deliver a conversion which will request details about specific
orders, which are being managed by a ProIV application.
Reference Links:
ProIV - http://www.proiv.com
Presentation Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hanXYm9Ouhs

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Architecture view
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ec2 lambda Alex Skill Echo

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Presentation Details
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Alexa Skill Conversation
• [user] – “Alexa get order status”
• [Alexa] – “please tell me the order number you would like me to check “
• [user] – “1234”
• [Alexa] – “the order 12345 cannot be located, please re-try”
• [user] – 12345
• [Alexa] – “your order 12345 has been dispatched on 21/02/17 . I am ready to
check another order
• [user] - “24680”
• [Alexa] – your order 24680 is awaiting dispatch
• [user] – “There are no more orders”
• [Alexa] – thank you for using this service to check your orders.
• [Alexa Companion] – Will also be updated.

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Service Configuration
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• Launch an EC2 instance running PROIV
• This can be run locally providing the ports
assigned for REST services are made
available to the internet
• Create script to be executed through lambda
• This can be hosted locally.
• For ease lambda has been used
• Create zip file from source example

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Service Configuration
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• Create lambda function
For this exercise select configure triggers as you will be uploading the existing source

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Service Configuration
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• Create lambda function

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Service Configuration
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• Create lambda function
The next page will show a summary – then select

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Service Configuration
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• Test lambda function
The next page will show a summary – then select
Select code tab then ‘Actions + Configure test event’

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Service Configuration
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• Test lambda function
Select code tab then ‘Actions + Configure test event’
Select the ‘Alexa Start Template’

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Service Configuration
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• Test lambda function
Having saved the test event you will be returned to the code view’
From here select
You have now successfully configured the lambda function
This will be called from the Alexa Skill

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Service Configuration
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• Create Alexa Skill
This is done via the developer console

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Service Configuration
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Service Configuration
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Service Configuration
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You can test from here – preference is the on-line echo emulator

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Thankyou
Contact Details:
Andrew Turner
Professional Services Software Engineer
Andrew.turner@ngahr.com
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