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In part 1 of this series I provided a ten thousand foot view of the project relative to the TOGAF ADM. In this post I’ll start with the proverbial peeling back of the onion. Using an integration project FYI Bank has made a strategic decision to address the challenge of their silos of IT systems […]

I am an IBM WebSphere Infrastructure Architect by trade. When I first read about Pure it was almost to good to be true. After 10 months of working with Pure I can say with confidence that its all true. I was able to deploy an entire IBM BPM and WODM infrastructure in 4 hours. The […]

Recently I was at a customer site that had the requirement that all products that live on Linux had to be installed using scripts. No GUI installs were allowed in their IT shop. Many Linux(Unix) customers will not allow Xwindows to be run in their IT shop. In these cases the WebSphere Infrastructure Team will […]

It is clear IBM is investing in the Cloud with over 11,000 people attending Pulse this year.  The conference has been a great venue for clients and business partners sharing their stories and plans for the future in the Cloud.  The week kicked off with another announcement of another smart acquisition of Cloudent.   IBM Buys […]

In a recent blog posting, we provided a guide for standing up and XI52 as an integral component to an enterprise like laboratory environment. This was the beginning several activities, which spawned an idea for a continuing series of articles around IBM SOA appliances, and the use of the The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) […]

Introduction IBM Worklight is a mobile application platform that enables the development of cross-platform hybrid applications, offering mechanisms to navigate between the web view and the native view, and providing a development and run time environment that moves hybrid apps much closer to the write-once-run-anywhere goal. Problem Statement The HTML5 video content would not play […]

I’m a BIG believer in two things: a) work smarter, not harder; 2) keep things simple — avoid complexity. Complex leads to complicated, complicated leads to misunderstanding, misunderstanding leads to chaos. Nonetheless, my guidelines seem easy enough, right? Well, good news then, they are simple and easy to apply in just about anything we face day […]

In The Beginning… FileNet created Visual WorkFlo. In the years since, the software improved steadily, but the architecture mostly remained. With the release of version 5.0, IBM had rewritten the entire Process code base in Java; yet it remained wrapped in COM and the macro architecture remained mainly unchanged. Then came P8 5.2, and our […]

When you go to a restaurant and you come to know that you have to wait for a while to get your table, will you wait or will you go to another restaurant where you are aware that there is no wait time and have the same quality of food. You would prefer the second […]

Just for curiosity’s sake and this blog, I looked up the definition of ‘cache’ [as used in computer science]. Most sources define it as “…a component that transparently stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster “.  The part about served faster reminded me of an old adage. It goes like this. […]

Perficient’s Michael Porter and Mark Polly have been feverishly posting updates from the ground at IBM Connect in Orlando. There is a lot of information, so let’s jump into it: Successfully Piloting Social Business Software Tufts Health Plan – Creating a World Class Experience Digital Experiences Critical to Healthcare Industry Success Healthcare Portals: 5 Core […]

If you are fortunate to be attending IBM Connect right now, you know just how exciting some of sessions are. Mark Polly and Michael Porter have been the eyes and ears of Perficient at IBM Connect and have posted several articles about the buzz around social, cloud and data security. Follow these links to get […]