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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 […]

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 […]