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As a follow up to my recent post about Connections 5.5, I thought this report was a good companion piece, Forrester IBM Connections Total Economic Impact (TEI). One of the challenges our customers often face for internal projects is justification. A new e-commerce site can be measured and the ROI driven by hard dollar results. Similarly […]

You may have missed the release of Connections 5.5 earlier this month. This week seems like a good time to contemplate projects that you will tackle in 2016. Connections 5.5 was released on December 18th and IBM did a nice job with two webinars, both available on demand, that cover both IBM Docs 2.0 as well as Connections 5.5. The […]

Over the Christmas holiday I had the opportunity to download and review a special gift from IBM, Operational Decision Manager V8.8 the benchmark product in Business Rule Management Systems which was made available for distribution on November 27th 2015. Here are some highlights of the new capabilities that have been introduced: Decision Center Business Console enhancements for navigation and […]

                                As companies migrate their solutions to the cloud, there is a need to make sure that developers are supported and brought along. For on-premises deployments, software firms such as IBM have provided developer options for both customers and partners. […]

This tutorial series explains how to issue and validate different types of tokens such as JWT(JSON Web Token) , SAML HoK(Holder-of key) using IBM DataPower gateway. In this article, you learn about the issuance and validation of JWT with firmware v 7.2.0.0. In Part-2, you will learn to issue and validate the JWT with firmware […]

Internet of things (IoT) is the latest buzzword that has been dominating tech news. IoT in short is a collection of sensors or devices connected to a network. These sensors are embedded in everyday consumer objects or industrial equipment and send important information that can be used for data mining or service improvements. While IoT […]

Well. OK, it does use Python, but you can use Python and regular expressions within IBM SPSS.  Regular expressions allow you to do complex string searches with a minimal amount of coding.  Both IBM SPSS Statistics and Modeler do a good job with string manipulation.  However, you often are faced with performing complex string searches […]

Most of you have encountered following issue while establishing SSL session with Back-end servers using Data Power. 3:43:38 PM ssl error 23577521   0x8120001a sslproxy (): Server negotiated an unknown SSL protocol version Here is the RCA and Solution to fix this issue. RCA (Root Cause Analysis)  The Crypto profiles object on Data Power starting from Firmware v […]

I have seen at most of the places that while configuring the objects on Data Power, we just configure the standard properties and leave others as is with default values without knowing their significance. But sometimes this ignorance might lead us to face some critical issues that might be very hard to troubleshoot. I suggest trying […]

Anyone being truthful would say change isn’t always fun or desired. In today’s world of constant change and improvements, it’s inevitable that we find a way to adjust. Think of the last time the plant / facility / operations received some new critical assets; did things change? Of course they did, and hopefully to increase […]

With Thanksgiving behind us and Christmas right around the corner, it is once again, the most wonderful time of the year! Especially if you are passionate about bargain hunting and the holiday shopping festival that it is. But for some of us, this time of year can be most stressful, ahem…especially if you are one […]

I’m looking forward to co-presenting a webinar on Thursday, Dec. 3rd on how the cloud can deliver the benefits of predictive maintenance sooner, and I invite you to join. Abstract: Asset-intensive industries are becoming increasingly instrumented and connected, motivated by the immediate need to improve efficiency or via interest in the potential of the Internet […]