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The audience for this blog entry is the skilled WebSphere Application Server(WAS) admin who needs to setup IBM BPM. The preferred way to setup IBM BPM is the BPMconfig command and the property files that are delivered with the IBM BPM product. But with little experience with IBM BPM the property files can be challenging. The […]

Over the years of working with DataStage I have come across some tips that I find can be huge time savers when working with the DataStage Transformer stage.  Here are two that I find really useful in real world projects – Propagate Values and Derivation Substitution.

Imagine sitting in a conference room discussing potential targets for a merger or acquisition. You say to the staff, “Let’s find the top 10 companies in the robotics space that have annual revenue between 20 and 50 million dollars.” This is where our M&A search will start. The staff goes off and researches data and […]

Barry Pellas from PointSource spoke about several options for delivering content to mobile devices. Imagine you want to display a coupon to a user has they navigate your mobile app. But you also want to deliver that same coupon to someone browsing on a desktop browser. You don’t want to create two different coupons and […]

Chris Miller, a man who knows how to run the room, presented at IBM ConnectED on cloud considerations when preparing to move to the cloud. Chris took a cloud agnostic approach to deployment. In reality, Chris outlined what you should be asking and thinking as you plan a deployment.  Most of the issues come less […]

Tyler Tribe, IBM’s Product/Offering Manager, IBM Digital Experience Software, presented a great session at ConnectED 2015 titled “Optimizing Mobile Applications with IBM Digital Experience, IBM MobileFirst, and IBM ExperienceOne.”  The session focused on keys to delivering successful mobile experiences.  Some of the key points and messages from the session were:  Mobile Statistics People check their phones […]

Dan Swango, Director, IBM Collaboration Solutions, and Baan Slavens, Sr Product Manager, IBM Connections presented a session at IBM ConnectED 2015 on IBM’s Mobile Strategy in the collaboration space, which includes IBM Verse, Connections, Sametime and Traveler applications. Baan presented some market statistics: “The average person unlocks his or her smartphone 110 times each day.” “25% […]

The Digital Experience has many components. IBM makes the case that they can create an empowering and relevant experience based on all the tools in the Digital Experience Suite. Commerce Integration Marketing Management Analytics Optimize Cloud Portal Personalized targeting Social and UCC Mobile Content Rich Media e.g. lots of products Example: Jyske Bank. They used […]

IBM’s ConnectED 2015 conference is off to a great start with many great speakers and sessions lined up. Today I attended David Brooks’ session “What’s New in IBM Connections and IBM Connections Mobile.” What I find most impressive is how much effort and has gone into the user experience making the tools much richer, easier […]

At IBM Connected today, Rebecca Buissan and her team presented on where SmartCloud for Social is going. Jacob Anders, corporate systems manager for Verisure, Dave Durazzano and Alan Marshal of the technical team also presented. The cloud has come a long way: 2011: cloud was designated as one of 4 growth plays 2013: invested $2B 2014: […]

It’s time again for Rob Will’s semi-annual presentation on What’s New in IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager. Rob is IBM’s Chief Architect for Portal and WCM and always has lots of slides showing off what the latest version of the product does and what has been implemented in the last year. IBM’s […]

Jeff Schick opened this year’s IBM ConnectED conference talking about “A New Way to Engage,” which is IBM’s theme for this conference. He talked about how IBM has developed new ways to engage over the past year.  He talked about Watson, IBM’s cloud businesses, their new agreement with Apple and more initiatives. This year is […]