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DevOps is a methodology, a movement and the practice of integrating development with operations. Traditionally, development teams kept their focus on speed, agility, value and responsiveness to market while operations focused on stability, quality assurance, safety and risk mitigation. This has changed by merging both areas while optimizing the processes. 

This approach has been widely used while managing and deploying systems based in cloud to accelerate and automate processes. The application of DevOps has also reached AWS cloud-based SAP systems managing and replacing the traditional models. In order to analyze and explain the benefits of DevOps for SAP, here at Linke we have prepared an upcoming webinar with our CTO and Co-Founder, Ricardo Casanovas. 

2020 is set as the year of digital and technological transformation of worldwide IT companies, emerging ecosystems will change the way organizations take decisions in order to be more competitive and efficient while offering the best experience to their customers. 

As revealed by Gartner, there are five top trends that will be of great help to IT companies, through different technologies that will offer a wide competitive advantage in the next 10 years. The Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies highlighted the Emotional Artificial Intelligence among the 21st new technologies in 2020.

Alexa Skills are increasingly trying to provide more personalized user experience by offering information about your children's school hours, your electricity bill, etc. In order to achieve this, it is necessary to identify yourself in the Skill with a user and password through an external platform. To do so, Alexa offers Account Linking, which allows us to identify ourselves on our platform with Alexa using the OAuth2 authentication protocol. 

This authentication flow is simple on the user´s side, but can be complex for the developer. This is why we have thought it would be interesting to explain how to set up, following some simple steps, an authentication server and configure the Account Linking to be able to login in our platform when activating the Skill.

The commencement of 2020 marks the start of a new year as well as a new decade. According to the IDC, there are ten main trends expected to heat the Internet of Things during this year and beyond. These technology trends will impact the digital transformation of companies all across the globe.

In a recent seminar, the IDC provided IT organizations with tips on how to face the digital-based business transformation with this awaited technological predictions. The IDC aims at helping organizations in the areas of technology, leadership, and value.

Be part of digital future, let's have a look on what is expected on the technology field.

By using one of the Amazon Echo products, the Alexa App installed on your phones or any third party device with Amazon Alexa Voice System on it, you can access to a variety of applications to use either at work or at home.

Great news coming from AWS for SAP customers! As announced on 2018 re: Invent, Amazon Web Services has introduced a new service called “Global Accelerator”. According to the official information "AWS Global Accelerator is a service that improves the availability and performance of applications with users". Basically, provides static IP addresses that act as a fixed entry point to an application endpoint (such as SAP Router or Web Dispatcher*) in an AWS Region.

Let's have a look into their functionalities and how this new service can improve and optimize SAP system applications. 

_{*In AWS world, ALB, NLB or EC2 Instance, all of them entry points for SAP applications running on AWS.}