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According to a 2020 Forrester study, 1.4 days are lost per week due to information workers creating, reading, or searching for information related to their job. The speed at which data is being created and received is simply outpacing the ability to access, process and act on it. And even if your organization has digitized […]

We are excited to announce that one of our clients, Sally Beauty Holdings, credited us for our work to implement commerce solutions to build an omnichannel experience for their customers. How We Made a Difference With the pandemic sending in-store shopping to a grinding halt, Sally Beauty was faced with a surge in demand, with […]

Red Hat’s OpenShift Container Platform is now supported on IBM Power Systems Virtual Server, expanding the cloud capabilities of your Power Systems infrastructure to deliver a resilient and secure hybrid cloud platform. OpenShift leverages the enterprise scale and security of Power Systems Virtual Server and quickly creates clusters with automation. With this offering, you can […]

A year and a half ago I published an updated view of Digital Responsibility as part of our Digital Essentials series. It challenged the notion that digital responsibility starts and ends with data privacy, and introduced the idea of incorporating accessibility, diversity, and inclusion into digital responsibility mandates. While some organizations had started considering these […]

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses have had to transform how they interact and assist their consumers completely. Many retail or consumer goods businesses have had to switch from traditional, in-person shopping experiences to digital buying. This transition is never the easiest for either party, but businesses must adapt and step up their game when accommodating […]

IBM Planning Analytics Workspace Release 2.0.58 news What’s new IBM has released Planning Analytics AI forecasting. This has been a long-awaited feature, as Cognos Analytics has including several aspects of Artificial Intelligence for some time. The new feature can take a time-related set of data and choose from a number of forecasting methods to find […]

As our clients continue their digital transformation journeys, challenges with traditional document capture solutions are coming to the forefront. Managing and configuring classification sample sets and extraction rules in layout-driven, legacy solutions, is time consuming and expensive. Modern digital businesses require systems that can continue to provide accurate results as forms and businesses evolve. Existing […]

Need to setup Simple and Protected GSSAPI Negotiation Mechanism (SPNEGO) in IBM WebSphere on Windows? Here are the steps, along with a video. Enjoy!   BACKUP YOUR WEBSPHERE CONFIGURATION!!! Add a Service Principle Name (SPN) User ID (AD_User) in Active Directory. It is recommended to not use the WebSphere Admin ID. Assign the SPN to […]

In order to meet customer demands, organizations are looking to expand their digital process automation (DPA) services. As a result of these increased demands, the focus of DPA has moved from concerns about cost reduction to an emphasis on digital transformation. Traditional methodologies are being refined to focus on the customer journey and to ensure […]

Planning and Analytics on the Cloud All organizations must perform financial planning and analysis (FP&A), and many want to shift from a complex web of spreadsheets to a cloud-based integrated solution.  This article will introduce financial planning and analysis and survey four cloud-based solutions. An FP&A solution consolidates and integrates all data, rules, and calculations […]

Resource constraints require Enterprise software customers to pick appropriate upgrade candidates from the stream of new versions that software vendors generate.  We advise our clients to select upgrade candidates carefully, and only when a version contains either significant new features with business impact or a substantial body of fixes that improves user productivity and rationalizes […]

What is IBM Planning Analytics with Cloud Pak for Data? IBM offers Planning Analytics for on-premise and on the IBM Cloud; why have they added IBM Planning Analytics on Cloud Pak for Data?  We will cover this question with the following explanations: Why IBM Planning Analytics? What is IBM Cloud Pak for Data? How does […]