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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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Earlier this summer we looked at how retail organizations were leveraging vast quantities of customer data and advanced analytics to personalize customer experiences, meeting the increasing demands of the marketplace, and ultimately preventing churn. The story of an ever-expanding landscape of customer data is well known, but extracting value from that data continues to be […]

It has been 15 years since the introduction of eCommerce and mobile shopping is well underway with mainstream consumers. With fast changing behaviors and high demands of consumers, retailers are utilizing technology to help satisfy their customers, however, they are still trying to figure out how to best use technology while providing a superior customer […]

Digital Transformation is changing how B2B companies conduct business causing them to rethink what their customers value most and reorganize business models to take advantage of what could give them a competitive edge. Successful leaders in the industry have been using technology for a long time to help improve efficiency and productivity, optimize supply chains, […]

While setting up the Websphere Cast Iron virtual appliance, it’s a common issue that password for “admin” is unknown (or the provided password would not work). And there is no information anywhere on how to reset the password before logging into the virtual appliance. I have gone through this issue and figured out a way to reset […]

The decades-old conflict between PCs and Apple’s Macs softened a little more this week when IBM unveiled new services that further simplify integration of Macs into cloud-based enterprise environments. IBM and Apple have had a working relationship for years, but thanks to an expansion of IBM’s MobileFirst Managed Mobility Services portfolio, designed specifically to support […]

Hopefully many of you have enjoyed my many Cognos TM1 blog posts. Now some of you may be new to TM1 or a novice or an expert at the product. Regardless of your skill level, training is always important to stay up to date with new product changes. With that said, Perficient’s IBM Business Analytics group will be […]