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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 […]

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 […]