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This week, IBM announced a new AI and data platform, Watsonx, at its annual Think conference. Watsonx is designed to help enterprises scale and accelerate the impact of the most advanced AI with trusted data. Watsonx will offer a studio, a data store, and a governance toolkit for building, tuning, and deploying foundation models and […]

DataStage has several in-built macros and do not require any arguments. DataStage macros can be used to get information about current job, job control routines, filename and table names, and before/after subroutines and stages belonging to the current job. DataStage ETL Tool: – DataStage is a commonly used ETL tool in the current market. It […]

IBM has named its IBM Champions for 2023 and for the second year in a row, Eric Walk was named as an IBM Champion.   What is an IBM Champion  IBM Champions are individuals who possess in-depth knowledge and expertise around IBM products, services, and technology. They are committed to sharing their expertise with others to […]

I had a bug in a TM1 application recently that was very difficult to track down, and it was because I didn’t understand the different ways that TM1 might respond to vague or incorrect MDX expressions.  MDX makes some unexpected assumptions. Take the following simplified example cube: Let’s say that I have an active form […]

The Find Command I come from a systems background in Windows and Linux, maintaining operations and writing programs in C.  Since I bring that perspective to my TM1 work, I’m more comfortable with command line tools than some of my other teammates, so I thought I would share some tips. As an example, let’s look […]

A significant driver for needing to change platforms is when your business undergoes a significant digital transformation effort. Typically, a company chooses to undertake a digital transformation because they need to change the experiences their customers have with their brand. Usually, that means some amount of change in systems in order. Reason #5: Your Business […]

IBM Cloud Pak for Data- Multicloud Data Integration and Data Governance: As we all know, IBM Cloud Pak for Data is a cloud-native solution that enables you to put your data to work quickly and efficiently. Let’s understand below features of IBM Cloud Pak for Data. I’ll also be discussing what practical experience I have […]

IBM Cloud Pak for Data- Data Science MLOPS: I have been Learning, exploring and working on IBM MLOPS for Data Science and wanted to share my learning and experience here about IBM’s Cloud services and how they are integrated under one umbrella named IBM Cloud Pak for Data. First, let’s understand what IBM Cloud Pak […]

Setup: This article is for those of you who like me, have lamented and long suffered the downturn that Cognos endured beginning with the introduction of Cognos 11.0.2 in May 2016. To set the stage, I led the first global implementation of Cognos 10 in 2010.  I was a Cognos evangelist.  I appeared with then […]

Perficient and IBM recently partnered with BWG Connect to conduct a survey of 100+ healthcare professionals exploring technology adoption in the post-pandemic environment. Experts from these organizations joined a roundtable discussion to review what is top of mind for healthcare organizations in 2022 based on the responses to this study. The panel was moderated by […]

IBM introduced its IBM Champion program back in 2008 and has continued to recognize innovative thought leaders in the technical community that are helping others derive greater value from IBM software, solutions and services. This year, one of the professionals being honored is Perficient’s Eric Walk a director of knowledge, data and content. What Makes […]

Digital process automation (DPA), also called process orchestration, leverages digital technology to perform a task in order to accomplish a workflow or function, such as the loan process at a bank. With DPA, you can define event-driven business rules that provide a streamlined next step for all processes within your enterprise. As enterprises continue to […]