What is Smart Cloud Extensibility? - Intergraph Smart Cloud - March 2025 - Administration & Configuration - Hexagon

Intergraph Smart Cloud Extensibility for SDx On-Premise
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Extensibility is a mechanism that allows methods to have custom views to display applications in an iframe in the Web Client interface, as well as allow communication and reaction with external applications or systems using server system events.

The SDx Extensibility mechanism has been introduced by Hexagon to help improve scalability for systems and reduce software customizations, as well as provide you with the freedom to choose to implement Extensibility in a Smart Cloud implementation.

Why use Extensibility with Smart Cloud?

Extensibility has been introduced to reduce software customizations that impact maintenance and upgrades, and:

  • Provide a modern development experience.

  • Provide flexibility for work processes to use client, server, or API extensibility.

  • Allow third-party servers to communicate and react to system events.

  • Leverage the latest web technologies.

  • Integrate with existing and external project systems. For example:

    • Project reporting systems.

    • Custom viewer applications, both for data and documentation.

    • In-house web applications.

  • Allow federated searching across multiple hosted sites and third-party systems.

  • Provide functionality not currently available in the Web Client.

Also, Extensibility is better to use than customization because:

  • Customization means additional complexity to update and maintain.

  • Multi-tenancy demands a uniform code base for all customers.

  • Different tenants may not want customized code in-process.

  • Tenant’s data or third-party code could have security access and resource issues.

  • Customization requires custom code to run in-process.

Extensibility in Intergraph Smart® Cloud provides:

  • The capability to integrate external web applications into the Web Client experience

  • The capability for a third-party server to communicate with SDx and react to system events

  • API Extensibility - A web API that listens to event messages from a sender, such as Autodesk® BIM 360, and sends them to an Azure Service Bus (message broker)

  • An emphasis on the user and customer experience

  • Compatibility with SDx Web Client, SDx Server/API, and Smart Cloud Server

SHARED Tip For more information on SDx Server Extensibility application system events and the technologies that are used, see Server Extensibility. For more information on SDx Web Client Extensibility external application data display and the technologies involved, see Web Client Extensibility.

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