Decision management is increasingly becoming an important facet of Business Process Automation. This means that building decision models as a way to specify the requirements is more critical in business rules projects. The Object Management Group Board of Directors voted to publish the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) as a specification earlier this year. It provides […]
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Exposing a BPD as a WebService in IBM BPM Process Designer
There are two common scenarios in IBM BPM Process designer while integrating with Web Services. It can be either inbound or outbound integration. Outbound Integration involves the Business Process Definitions (BPD) invoking external Web Services as part of the process. It is a straight forward configuration – Giving WSDL url in web service integration activity […]
Upcoming Webinar: Transform Unstructured Data into Relevant Data
Recent studies indicate more than 90% of the world’s data was created in the last 2 years, and the cost of maintaining that data is increasingly becoming a liability for IT, Legal and Business groups. As the amount of structured and unstructured data dramatically expands, the expense of maintaining data stores is outpacing the reduction […]
The Power of IBM Cognos Framework Manager
Jim Miller, Senior Solutions Architect at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post about sessions, calculations and filters in Framework Manager: In Framework Manager, an expression is any combination of operators, constants, functions, and other components that evaluates to a single value. You can build expressions to create calculation and filter definitions. Acalculation is an expression that you […]
Digital Disruption….Are you moving fast enough?
We have just signed our silver sponsorship agreement to this year’s IBM Digital Experience conference coming up in July and I found this great blog from Brendon Jones with an IBM video on digital disruption and the importance of building digital into your business model. The video explains the 4 transforming principles for new digital […]
IBM announces Cloud Business Solutions: A new packaged offering
IBM announced yesterday a new all-in-one packaged offering to enhance their current cloud based solutions for the enterprise. This is in addition to their existing cloud-based solutions such as IBM SmartCloud for Social Business. Here is a snippet from the announcement Called IBM Cloud Business Solutions, the portfolio includes multiple components packaged into a single client agreement and delivered […]
BI or BPM – what’s a CIO to do?
I came across this blog post from Andrew White, a Research analyst at Gartner controversially titled BI’s days are numbered – Here comes BPM again. The core message of the post is this that BI and data analytics are a means to an end – and it is the change in processes (effected through BPM) that will result in impact […]
The Right Steps to a Simpler Digital Experience!
It has been almost a month since IBM announced the release of Digital Experience 8.5 and I just read a blog post from one of our Senior Solution Architects, Shyam Sunter who gives a great tutorial and highlights as he installs the new WebSphere Portal V8.5 Extended Addition. Downloading the Installables IBM made it easy […]
WebSphere Message Broker integration with Netezza using ODBC/JDBC
What is Netezza: At an extremely high level Netezza is a massively Parallel Process Database Appliance designed to process and analyze large amounts of data. Netezza’s core value is to keep the things simple and accelerating high performance analysis of data to help clients uncover insights into their business. One of the reasons of it’s performance […]
Perficient at IBM Vision 2014
Perficient and the Chickasaw Nation will co-present at the IBM Vision 2014 conference, the premier conference for financial and operational performance management, sales performance management, disclosure management and risk analytics professionals, which is being held May 18-21 in Orlando, FL. DMF-1269: Transforming the Management, Analysis and Delivery of Critical Data at Chickasaw Nation with IBM […]
IBM Information Lifecycle Governance: solution driven model
Enterprise Content Management solutions usually follow a standard lifecycle: A client identifies a need. They send out an RFP. A solution (more often than not, a software platform) is selected. The platform is installed, customized, and configured to solve the original problem. For Information Lifecycle Governance (ILG) solutions, the “selection of solution” stage is not […]
Perficient Acquires IBM Smarter Commerce Division of Trifecta
Exciting news! Today, we announced the acquisition of the IBM Smarter Commerce team from Trifecta Technologies, a business and technology consulting firm focused on IBM WebSphere Commerce solutions. Like Perficient, the Trifecta team is an IBM Premier Business Partner. They’re an excellent addition to our team, enhancing Perficient’s IBM Commerce practice by bringing exemplary IBM […]