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“When it comes to cloud, it’s not do or die; it’s do it right. And today’s organizations seek guidance on how best to tie their cloud strategy to their overall business goals in order to drive improved efficiency,” said Vishal Rajpal, General Manager Perficient’s IBM WebSphere practice. “Similar to other disruptive technologies impacting the market […]

Datacap Taskmaster Capture is a tool that is used for capturing data from scanned documents. This tool provides classification, recognition, validation and verification of data. It captures data using common recognition engines (OCR, ICR, OMR, barcodes) and exports the captured data to an XML file or to a database. It can capture any kind of […]

The need for cache is inevitable in the world of enterprise-level applications. There are boundless use cases with different combinations ranging from the data type specific cache to application specific cache. We have seen a wide variety of caching technology realizations from emerging technologies like Redis (in reality, it is more than a cache) to […]

Michael Porter, Principal at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post discussing how Silverpop, IBM’s latest acquisition, fits into IBM’s strategy of reaching the digital marketer. The enterprise marketing management space has been heating up for the past couple years.  IBM, Salesforce, Oracle, Adobe, and Microsoft have all made one or more acquisitions here and it […]

Websphere commerce have Out of the box functionality of handling refunds on cancellation of an order and also returns. Here i am discussing technical details of handling returns and refunds of partial order, Like if you want to cancel only 2 items out of 50 items you ordered. Let’s say you have external Order management […]

Managing large quantities of data and processes can quickly become overwhelming. In a recent blog post, Mark Polly, Director at Perficient, discussed five key strategies for omni-channel marketing. IBM recently conducted a webinar titled “5 Key Strategies for Omni-Channel Marketing” in which they discussed the following strategies: Collect data that helps create customer profiles Analyze that customer data […]

A huge number of my projects are platform upgrades, and every time I ask my customers why they haven’t applied a single published fix for any of the products involved since the system was built (sometimes upwards of 7 years ago). They usually reply with a variation on the old trope, “If it ain’t broke, […]

Introduction When considering testing a Datapower implementation the first tool that is generally mentioned SoapUI. While this is a good tool for a particular aspect of testing, you may need to expand your testing capabilities to include a broader set of concerns. In this blog I’d like to consider an architectural scenario in which I […]

Why User Defined Node? At one of our Large healthcare client, there were multiple SIEMENS Invision Interfaces which use SNA (Systems Network Architecture) for inbound and outbound communication. SNA is a set of protocols and services enabling communication between host computers (Mainframes) and other servers such as Windows/AIX/Linux. Websphere Message Broker does not have predefined […]

Using the WMB toolkit we can produce a sequence diagram with the following steps. Open Modeling Perspective 2. Within this Perspective Click on File->New->Other   3. Select Sequence Diagram within Modeling profile 4. Click Next and Select the location where the File needs to be created and Click Finish. A work area with the palette […]

In this article I address some of the the final elements and models in this iteration of the Preliminary phase. At this point I would like to comment about the ADM as an iterative process. In regards to Architectural Definition which includes an ideation / inception iteration. At this point in the role of Business […]

I have been several calls with customers that are interested in the IBM PureApplication Systems. Once the customer is taken through the standard canned sales presentations and then a Demo there doesn’t seem to be much more guidance available. The next step is always a Business Value Assessment(BVA) but they usually take a long time […]