Several months ago I wrote here that IBM and Box had partnered and what it could mean for customers. At almost every customer I visit, the discussion turns to cloud file sharing, even if it wasn’t on the agenda. At one hospital chain earlier in the year, the team was presenting our recommendations, and the topic came up. […]
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FinnAir drives Digital Transformation with IBM Industry Expertise
Last week it was announced that IBM and Finland’s largest airline, Finnair, have established a five year partnership to deliver new digital services to execute a better and more superior customer experience. They will continue to utilize Finnair’s IT department to transform the airline’s current IT infrastructure into a more flexible, hybrid cloud platform. Nowadays […]
Perficient Acquires Market Street to Expand Analytics Expertise
We’re excited to announce the acquisition of Market Street Solutions, a firm specializing in the development, implementation, integration and support of big data, analytics and financial performance management solutions. Market Street is a fantastic addition to the Perficient team, with a great reputation, customer-centric mentality, and solid client roster, positioning Perficient for continued growth in […]
IBM Commerce Enhances Personalized Healthcare
Personalization has been top of mind this year in every industry. As patients, we want to feel comfortable visiting our doctors and pharmacies knowing that they have are best interests at heart and personally know what we need. Tienda Diabetes, a leading healthcare provider in Mexico, is partnering with IBM to bring these types of personalized […]
Big Data Meets Fantasy Football!
Summer is almost behind us and fall is starting to turn the leaves brown and the air crisp and if you are anything like me, this means one thing – Fantasy Football time is here!! With the season starting this week, all fantasy players have their rosters set and leagues ready to go. Can you […]
Creating A Cluster Using WAS ND v7.0
How to create a cluster using Websphere Application Server ND v7.0: Prerequisites: Install the WAS ND v7.0 along with the required components and test for its successful installation. Steps: First step is to create a profile. Profiles can be created either by using the Profile management Tool (PMT) or command prompt based on the OS […]
The Concept Of Clustering
This blog is intended for the beginners of Websphere application server. Before starting with what a cluster is, let’s brush up from the basics as follows: Application Server: An application server acts as a middle-tier component between the front-end application serving business logic and back-end persistent database. Node: It is a logical group of Application […]
A Big Data Play for Sports Fans
Data visualization and prediction tools are becoming more and more consumable, so that we’re seeing use cases that reach beyond complex business scenarios into the arena of sports. As fans gear up for fantasy football season, there’s a new array of data analysis and visualization tools to help optimize draft picks or lineups. Tools were […]
IBM Commerce Solutions & the Customer Journey
The age of the connected consumer has rapidly changed many industries (especially retail) as their demands and expectations evolve and rise to the highest of standards. Retail organizations know that connected consumers use the power of information to drive prices down, demand a high level of service and expect personalized experiences. In order to obtain […]
Writeprint Analysis Using IBM SPSS Statistics and Modeler
Writeprint or forensic linguistics analytics as it is often termed is used to analyze unstructured text data to determine authorship. Different variations of writeprint analysis has been used for hundreds of years analyzing the different books of the Bible to determine their authorship. The works of Shakespeare have also been extensively studied to determine if […]
Digital Transformation with IBM Bluemix
Every day at Perficient, we help clients develop new ways of interacting with customers, build contextual understanding in their decision making, and create new ways of business operations as a Smarter Process Practice. In this article, I am going to describe a couple of data-related challenges businesses are facing as they embark on their digital transformation […]
Interaction with MQ is advanced through MQ service
MQ Service is the interaction between the IBM Integration Bus and WebSphere MQ applications. This MQ Service editor helps to discover queues that existing Queue Managers define, and then use these queues to define a WSDL file to use with the IBM MQ Service definition specification. The following steps demonstrate the creation of MQ service. […]