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IBM has acquired software deployment automation software firm, UrbanCode. Any company that requires frequent software updates, such as those in social, mobile, cloud and business analytics, will benefit. CRN covered this story in an article this week, for which they interviewed Vishal Rajpal, general manager of IBM BPMS at  Perficient. Vishal weighed in: “Consumers are rapidly becoming a […]

Perficient is Showcasing Our Award-Winning IBM SOA, BPM, and Mobile Solutions & Services at IBM’s Impact 2013 Conference Perficient is a gold sponsor of Impact 2013, and our experts are available in Booth G9 to discuss how customers can implement impactful technology solutions including BPM, service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud, mobile and WebSphere solutions for major […]

I’m always pleased when I see a company living up to its own hype. For the past few years, IBM has really been pushing the “social business” agenda. They have a lot of bloggers writing about techniques and tools for making your business more social. One of my favorite books on social media and social […]

This post discusses the tasks for preparing the operating system before installing WebLogic Server. 1) Validate Operating System The very first thing to do is to validate that the latest critical updates and patches are applied. Everyone talks about it. However, breaches occur regularly because it is not done. I recommend manually running the process […]

With the ever growing need for external and cloud based integration I’ve seen more and more needs for PGP encryption/decryption. Also as DataPower nor Message Broker explicitly supports PGP as part of it’s processing we’ve come up with a ‘workaround’ using GPG – AIX’s open-source PGP tool, http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-gnupg/ The script below combines MQ (for triggering […]

The launch of Blackberry 10 and BlackBerry Z10 has brought the spotlight on enterprise mobility. Whether this crucial step re-thrones the ex-king of mobile enterprise devices or not, remains to be seen, but speculations on some impact in the enterprise mobile app development cannot be ignored. According to the analysts, the battle could be for […]

At times, the “value” of the parent element needs to be referred to, to determine how a calculation applies to a specific element. A simple everyday example would be of Balance Sheet Vs. Income Statement across the time dimension. The QTD for Balance Sheet Accounts is the balance of the last completed month in the quarter […]

Enterprise Content Management Overview Enterprise Content Management (ECM) provides a structured approach for the governance of information management toward the goal of improving compliance, information reuse and sharing, and operational performance. ECM incorporates methods, policies, metrics, management practices and software tools to manage the lifecycle of both structured and unstructured content. With Big Data as […]

IBM Tealeaf – Customer Behavior Analysis Product Suite Problem Statement Company X has developed several client facing websites as part of a new campaign to increase revenue and gain new customers. The team compiled to build and implement the new websites was primarily web developers and little input from the business. Additionally there were only […]

A common point of frustration with business intelligence and analytics reporting users is the inability for one tool to do everything they imagine. This is often referred to as the ‘BI silver bullet’ myth. There is not one specific tool that will do everything you want, but most everything can be accomplished using a series […]

As a seasoned Cognos TM1 architect, it is exciting to see the possibilities delivered with IBM Cognos TM1 Performance Modeler! With this tool, you can perform TM1 model prototyping with little or no programming experience. With performance modeler you can: Create applications – based on the objects contained in your model for use in Cognos […]

Dimensions are the building blocks of OLAP tools like TM1. This underscores the need to have correct dimensions for the specific purpose intended. Dimensions can be classified in the following categories. Based on Functionality: Master / Reporting Dimensions The master dimensions are used to create other dimensions, which are mathematical subsets of the master dimension […]