In a blog post earlier this year, I discussed the precipitous drop in energy prices. From roughly mid 2014 through early 2015, the price of crude oil was cut in half, and the related dominoes started to fall. Companies were affected directly or indirectly by the new price level of oil. Public and private entities […]
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IBM Aims High at Investor Day Meeting
Last week, during IBM’s Investor Day, CEO Ginni Rometty announced that IBM’s investment strategy would mirror and support its evolving go-to-market strategy, by funneling $4 billion into cloud, analytics/big data, mobile, social and security (CAMSS). Through this investment, IBM is looking to expand the footprint of its CAMSS offerings from $25 billion in revenue to […]
Wooing the Connected consumer ….@IBMInterConnect 2015
It was a great week at IBM Interconnect with so many great sessions to choose from, activities to participate in, and networking to be had. I want to share my thoughts on one session in particular that was of interest – Carter’s “Creating a Smarter Shopping Experience”. During the session I was reflecting on all […]
Coming soon to a BPM Near You
On Wednesday at IBM InterConnect, Paul Pacholski and Dennis Parrott from IBM, spoke to us about some of the features and functionality that will be part of Business Process Manager v8.5.6 & Business Monitor being released on March 13, 2015. Increasingly towards a unified desktop and mobile experience, BPM 8.5.6 will further lessen the gap […]
Hearing from the UrbanCode Deploy adopters @IBMInterconnect
This was a Q&A with a panel of customer experts who deliver continuously, one of which was Perficient’s own JP Morgenthal! There were over a hundred folks in this session grilling the panel about implementation details including use cases, skill development, process improvements, reporting and governance, business benefits and more. JP explained among a lot of other […]
How-To: Using AD groups to manage Rational ClearCase VOB access
At the client I’m currently with, we use a very simple and straightforward mechanism to manage access to the various ClearCase VOB repositories. It only takes a minimal amount of work to implement for a particular VOB. I haven’t seen it documented anywhere, and I’m sure it would be useful at other shops that have the same setup. […]
IBM Offers 3 Flavors of PaaS
In the session “Hybrid Cloud: Getting Started with a Dedicated, Private BlueMix of Your Very Own”. Turns out that in addition to offering local BlueMix they now offer a dedicated single-tenant BlueMix option. PaaS is such a great way for businesses to start delivering new applications. It manages scale, availability and performance without having to […]
InterConnect – 3 Steps to Reinvent Your Business Process
We live in a world today of instant gratification. The now is too late and those who can’t adapt quickly to these changes in their markets suffer. Businesses need to adopt methodologies and technology that can help get their product to market effectively and is flexible enough to withstand the changes within the industry. Reinventing […]
IBM Adds Private Cloud CloudFoundry Implementation
At IBM InterConnect Dev@ keynotes, IBM announced it would be providing a local version of IBM BlueMix. This is a very interesting development. To date, there have only been two providers of private cloud CloudFoundry vendor supported products. With the addition of local BlueMix, customers now have a third option for private cloud CloudFoundry, but […]
IBM Interviews Perficient at PartnerWorld Leadership Conference
David Barnes, Program Director of IBM Strategy, chats with Perficient’s Rick Klein at the IBM PartnerWorld Leadership Conference. David and Rick discuss Perficient’s recent IBM Beacon Award win, our Health Analytics Gateway product and the importance of partners in creating comprehensive IBM software solutions for the marketplace.
Performance Testing Framework for Websphere Message Broker
With this post, I will cover performance testing framework for Websphere Message Broker. Tools Used: Tools used to do the performance testing of ESB interfaces: Jmeter SupportPac IS03 The following section will brief the tools that are used in the ESB Performance test plans. Jmeter: Jmeter is an open source Apache Software used for load […]
IBM Interconnect Preview
Next week is IBM’s InterConnect event in Las Vegas. With so many recent developments surrounding IBM’s efforts in cloud and DevOps, I’m looking forward to getting some clarity and the opportunity to get hands on with some of the technology. As a business partner I have the added opportunity to attend their Tech Academy prior […]