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One of the most asked questions in a project from the client was how feasible is it to use Database as the intermediary transport layer for Websphere Message Broker. No doubt there is a long term benefit in using WMQ but the question is more short sighted as per the immediate benefits of leveraging the […]

Michael Porter, Principal at Perficient, is currently blogging his way through IBM Connect over on our Portals blog. Follow the links to learn about all of the sessions he’s attending: The Future of Enterprise Computing and trends in social Helping CMO’s Improve a Customer Digital Experience where he delves into a day in the life of a […]

One of the interesting IBM offerings in the suite of middle-ware products are the Datapower XI52 and XC10 virtual appliance. Combining these technologies with a few Openware products and you have the foundation for a nice small scale enterprise environment in which you can experiment and test a variety of configuration solutions. With this idea […]

Brendon Jones, Senior Solutions Architect at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post on some recent improvements to SmartCloud for Social Business: On Monday (13th December 2014) IBM released an update to SmartCloud for Social Business with a focus on improving the Meetings and Chat User Interface. The new capabilities are available to SmartCloud Engage and […]

Mark Polly, Director at Perficient, recently wrote a blog about the exciting new product from Kudos. Kudos is best known for providing add-ons to IBM Connections that help with and encourage adoption of the social media platform. Kudos Badges is a gamification system that includes missions, rewards, ranking and leaderboards. Just ahead of IBM Connect 2014, […]

Mark Polly, Director at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post on IBM’s announcement of their new EMM Portlets. Today, though, IBM announced a much better integration between WebSphere Portal and IBM’s Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) products.  Through EMM products, marketers can create and manage campaigns, segments, etc.  Now these new EMM Portlets will allow marketers […]

The Big Picture: IBM has released Content Manager 8.5, CM8, (formerly DB2 Content Manager). This update brings a number of long awaited features and modifications to IBM’s home-grown ECM platform. It also brings some feature and component deprecations. I’m going to highlight three major improvements and then discuss the impact of some major feature deprecations. […]

Jim Miller, Senior Solutions Architect at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post outlining an example of how to use IBM SPSS to leverage predictive analytics to improve performance in every day business solutions. A technology company has literally participated in thousands of projects over the years. At some point the group decided it wants to […]

Jim Miller, Senior Solutions Architect at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post explaining the many options when using IBM SPSS Modeler. Coming from a TM1 background (more business than statistics), it is easy to get started with modeling once you determine your modeling objective, and Modeler can help with that. IBM SPSS Modeler offers an intuitive […]

Jim Miller, Senior Solutions Architect at Perficient, recently wrote a blog on the importance of discovering relationships within data and how this can be achieved using SPSS Modeler. The discovering of relationships within data (between fields) is an important part of any data mining project (in the Crisp-DM methodology, this is described as part of the […]

Peers, it is time to embrace IBM’s Integration Bus v9 aka IIBv9. Many of us are comfortable developing solutions using WebSphere Message Broker [WMB] version 6, 7 and 8. To date, all the projects I’ve worked on at Perficient, clients still used WMB 6/7. However, IBM recently re-branded WMB as Integration Bus. Much of the […]

When Gartner recently asked chief exectuives to identify their five-year technology investment priorities. They rated their top three as the following: Business analytics E-commerce Customer experience  I was a bit surprised to see e-commerce ranked second, but not at all surprised to see it show up in the top ten answers. The New, More Empowered Consumer We […]