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A ‘Social Business’ real life scenario ● Business challenge: ─ A transnational company has different business lines and functional groups working around the world with different work hours, languages and operating model. The company has one common goal and vision, but has to allow for quick and efficient collaboration of their employees to meet that […]

This webinar is now available for on-demand download here. Perficient will teamed up with Romano’s Macaroni Grill to present a retail analytics case study webinar on Leveraging Analytics for Decision Support and Improved Performance. The Macaroni Grill, a leader in upscale, casual dining with more than 220 locations, is going beyond basic financial reporting and using Perficient’s […]

Our firm does a considerable amount of work with IBM technologies for our clients. Cognos TM1 software produces “planning, analysis and reporting to help Finance drive timely decision-making” and experts in TM1 are in particularly high demand at the moment, and for good reason. And here’s why: “It ties Finance to operations to help uncover new business […]

Late last month, IDC declared IBM as the worldwide market share leader in social software for the third consecutive year.  IBM boasted an impressive 2011 according to analysis conducted by IDC. Growing fasting than their competitors and growing nearly two times faster than the overall market—which grew about 40 percent—IBM is staking a claim in […]

Recent studies have shown that a high correlation exists between an organization’s ability to create timely and accurate financial reporting and analysis and the increased performance of that company. But why? If you think about it, it makes sense. Companies that embrace automating finance processes can redirect their finance resources to perform more value-add analysis, […]

The IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender (WTX) is a universal transformation engine that can validate and transform any data, work directly in any architecture, and can be used for transformations across the enterprise. WTX supports specific industry packs such as healthcare services, which provide capabilities to perform following: Transform, validate, and enrich any data Deliver trustworthy […]

IBM’s CMO-CIO Leadership Exchange recently came to a close. Over 300 IBM customers were invited. IBM says the purpose of the leadership exchange was “to explore how a new computing era is transforming the future of the enterprise.” I recently read a recap of the event on the IDC technology marketing blog that stated the […]

It is a common scenario in integration projects to retrieve messages from the database for message enhancements, grouping and transmission. We encountered recently a performance issue in a big healthcare integration project. The technologies employed were IBM DB2, IBM Message Broker (MB), and IBM Transformation Extender (WTX). The process of retrieving messages from the database […]

The Websphere Message Broker (WMB) v8 provides patterns based development that helps create easy to build solutions like Webservice facades, file to queue etc. In addition, it also includes ability to create and share user patterns.  The WMB v8 provides a new .NET pattern for service facades to quickly create web service from assembly, create […]

With all the benefits and buzz around the cloud, is cloud HIPAA-ready? Can the healthcare industry use the benefits of Cloud without sacrificing privacy on protected Health Information (PHI)? According to the HIPAA rule: It provides federal protections for personal health information held by covered entities and gives patients an array of rights with respect […]

I was going through my old files and came across my notes on MQ and thought I’d share some reasons to use MQ vs. HTTP: If your consumer processes at a fixed rate (i.e. can’t handle floods to the HTTP server [bursts]) then using MQ provides the flexibility for the service to buffer the other […]

Big data is a term being used currently to describe the global and industry challenges with data capture, integrity, quality, analytics, usage, value, etc. IBM has taken the lead in the market with a platform and solutions that help companies manage Big Data and bring value to the organization while managing costs and streamlining operations. […]