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Archive for June, 2014

Exposing a BPD as a WebService in IBM BPM Process Designer

There are two common scenarios in IBM BPM Process designer while integrating with Web Services. It can be either inbound or outbound integration. Outbound Integration involves the Business Process Definitions (BPD) invoking external Web Services as part of the process. It is a straight forward configuration – Giving WSDL url in web service integration activity […]

Digital Tipping Point: McKinsey Releases Survey

Mckinsey released their digital survey and it’s chock full of information.  They note that this years survey focuses on digital spend and how companies organize themselves.  Not surprisingly, most companies are investing in digital to build a competitive advantage or to grow a business.                       […]

Data.com for Inside Sales

Inside sales seems to be an ever-changing role in companies, and there never seems to be an absolute way of finding new opportunities.  However, one of the most important parts of being an inside sales rep, is always having a full lead queue.  This can be done in a number of different ways, but one […]

How Many Social Network Users Follow Each Network’s Own Account?

Carter Elkin-Paris, our Content Marketing Manager, got to pondering one night recently. He wondered if it was typical for social media network users to follow the official account of the network they had joined. It certainly seemed like it might be a common behavior. If you had enough interest to join a network, wouldn’t it follow […]

Office Graph and Oslo in Office 365 – Finally Here?

If this is the first time you heard about “Oslo” then here is a quick introduction for you: Oslo is a new way to search and discover content across O365 based on personalized insights. These new insights are derived from each users’ behavior, their relationships to content, topics and one another. The idea is to […]

A little stuffed animal called Hadoop

Doug Cutting – Hadoop creator – is reported to have explained how the name for his Big Data technology came about: “The name my kid gave a stuffed yellow elephant. Short, relatively easy to spell and pronounce, meaningless, and not used elsewhere: those are my naming criteria.” The term, of course, evolved over time and […]

The Changing Nature of Search

CMSWire has a thought provoking article about the “Changing Nature of Search” The author Gerry McGovern notes that search changes over time and changes based on our behavior with applications and sites.  Once we find a site to apply to a specific task like cheap airfare, then we stop hitting Google or Bing for example. […]

Are Portals Really Dead?

So lately I’ve been seeing a new class of web site that leans more towards custom development than a horizontal portal.   The factors influencing  a custom development approach mainly fall into the proliferation of Web/RESTful services and better front end tooling in AngularJS, Bootstrap, and similar items.  Both Forrester and Gartner have labeled horizontal […]

Yammer 101 Series – Topics

What do you do when you have a great idea you want to share with your company network? And you want to make sure it is not buried in the company newsfeed that everyone seems to be posting to? And you need to make sure the post is extremely easy to retrieve later on? The […]

Microsoft’s Bet On The Next Big Thing – Quantum Computing

In a world dominated by bigger, faster, stronger; scientists are always looking for ways to improve on current technology. Moore’s law states that processor speeds double every 2 years (often quoted as 18 months based on Intel’s assertions). But how long can that last? Will we reach a physical limit of our technology? Yes, and […]

How Do Oracle Forms work in R12?

How do Oracle Forms work in R12? What components are involved?? Oracle forms server works based on 3 Tier Architecture. A tier is a logical collection of services running on more than one machine. Client Tier: The client browser connects to the form server using the forms client Applet which is running on the local […]

Office 365 Roadmap Communications

Overview: Last week Microsoft hosted a Roadmap Communications discussion forum to align with the new Office 365 for business public roadmap. Panel involved experts from Microsoft and Office 365 MVP’s. I am sharing the summary  here for everyone’s benefit. Specific topics: ·         Roadmap at a glance ·         General Questions & Functionality ·         First Release ·         Yammer ROADMAP […]

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