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The attach document to this blog posting is on developing IBM Pure App custom virtual system patterns(VSP) using Pattern.next technology. The focus of the document is to assist customers in coming up to speed on Pure App v2(vsys). The document demonstrates how to develop a custom VSP to implement IBM Sterling OMS 9.4. The implementation […]

Implementing Scatter/Gather – Data Aggregation pattern (Fan-out/Fan-in) in Datapower This article covers one of the very important patterns in SOA – Data aggregation. The data aggregation can be implemented in Datapower in many different ways. Data aggregation in Datapower can be categorized mainly in three segments: Scatter n Gather Pattern Fan-out/Fan-in Pattern Data/Content Aggregation Fundamental principle of […]

Throughout my career there have been a couple of quips that I have followed when presenting certain ideas; “Eat Your Own Dog Food” along with its close cousin Practicing What You Preach. In the first article of this series I promoted the idea that architecture is about collaboration and communication. I then laid out a […]

Training delivered by professional instructors can be a huge benefit when implementing software systems.  Employee satisfaction, return on investment, and reduction of calls to help desks can all be significantly affected by appropriate application training. Here are a couple of quotes concerning the value of education: “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” […]

In a blog post earlier this year, I discussed the increasing role data security is playing in the world today.  As mentioned in the article, 2014 was dubbed the “Year of the Data Breach”.  Around the time of the post, Sony had just been hacked.  Subsequently we learned there was credible evidence the cyber-attack was […]

Advanced analytics has a home in banking and financial services, but it transcends the traditional use of Excel and OLAP to run trend-lines on revenue and cost as they affect the classic Profit and Loss statement.  While macro trends are important to the financial services professional, two more important challenges involve: understanding the customer at […]

The field of process control has changed radically over the last 20 years. Back in the day, it was not uncommon to view process control as simply the exercise of reading a time trend line to see if a defect rates were rising or falling based on outlier activity around the classic Shewhart control chart.   […]

Chief Marketing executives who are tasked with growing a book business are faced with many challenges: Acquisition – What offers will increase direct response rates for prospects? Retention – What factors indicate whether a current is at risk for attrition? Activation – Once a new customer is sourced, how can we get them to use […]

Many of our clients are not aware of the fact that SPSS not only provides predictive modeling capabilities but it can also be used to build a highly accurate time trend forecast. These time trend forecasts are useful as an augmentation to TM1 cubed trendlines for revenue and expenses. The key is that SPSS uses […]

Systems Used: DataPower – XML Gateway Appliance to Authenticate and Validate the requests. MQ – Queuing Mechanism used for Guaranteed Delivery. Cast Iron – To develop integration’s using the In-built connectors available for Salesforce and SAP. 1.   Salesforce places transaction on Outbound Message Queue.  This transaction contains only the following: The ID of the […]

After years of architectural engagements and having worked at a variety of companies there are a few things that I have found somewhat consistent when it comes to the practice of architecture. First architecture happens, regardless the maturity level of the organization. Secondly, at some point in the development life-cycle someone will produce some kind […]

Perficient is proud to be a sponsor of IBM Vision 2015, held May 17-20 in Orlando, FL. Vision is the premier business analytics and performance management conference for finance, risk management and sales compensation professionals. The conference is only 2 months away, so if you haven’t already registered, click through the following link: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/analytics/vision/registration.html If […]