Mark Polly, Director of Portals and Social Business at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post about Content Targeting in WebSphere Portal 8. Content targeting is a hot topic in marketing circles these days. Actually content targeting has always been a hot topic, but many content management systems didn’t support it or made it too difficult […]
Digital Experience
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals 2013
On September 12, 2013 Gartner released their latest Magic Quadrant report for horizontal portals. Overall, the Magic Quadrant hasn’t changed much from last year with the vendors staying in the same quadrant as they were in 2012 (yawn…). You can see my blog post from 2012: Gartner Magic Quadrant: Horizontal Portals 2012. In the leader quadrant, […]
Mobile-Big Data-Predictive Analytics-Social Media & the US Open
So what do all of these technology solutions have to do with the US Open? Behind the scenes, IBM has helped run the show since 1990. A recent online article shows how IBM is using these tools to flow information far beyond match scores. Handheld devices used courtside feed multiple data points such as ball […]
Automated Build and Deploy in WebSphere Message Broker Using Ant
Summary: This article shows a step-by-step approach for setting up an automated build and deploy framework in IBM® WebSphere® Message Broker (also known as IBM® Integration Bus) using Ant, Hudson and SubVersion. This also includes the set of frameworks components for setting up the auto build and deploy for a sample WMB project . Broker ARchive(BAR) file: Broker […]
Attention Shoppers, Blue Light Specials, and Big Data
Remember the days when you’d hear that on the in-stores announcement? “Attention Shoppers! For the next hour K-Mart is now offering a blue light special – half off all summer beach wear.” Those announcement where a form of on-site marketing offers made only to the stores patrons shopping at the time. The offers were made […]
Innovation Born of Uncertain Times
Great innovations often are molded and born in times of uncertainty. As economies the world over adjust to new realities, there are opportunities for companies to lead and change the game. A recent article in Forbes details some ways to take the lead. At the core of enabling this change are social capabilities and the […]
Connect Mobile Apps Using WebSphere Cast Iron and IBM Worklight
In this 7-minute demo, you will learn how to easily create a mobile app through using an orchestration created in WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration and then calling it in IBM Worklight using the cast iron adapter type. WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration and IBM Worklight can empower you to build and […]
Social Media, The Commerce of Being Nice, and Delta
We live in a world where we communicate and interact with each other through various mediums such as wireless voice, text, email, IM, and social media. The most personal of those mediums is voice-to-voice but increasingly its also the one used less-and-less. As the volume of our interactions increase in non-personal forms, our capacity for […]
salesforce.com integration using websphere cast iron
Most salesforce.com customers need to rapidly synchronize sales data – such as leads, accounts, opportunities and forecasts – with a variety of internal systems, including ERP, CRM and custom applications. Just as the “No Software” experience of salesforce.com has simplified sales automation, WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration provides full functionality as well as flexible deployment […]
WebSphere Cast Iron Deployment Options
Hi ALL, I am Raj, working as Lead Technical Consultant for Cast Iron. I would like to present with various CI deployment options for a customer to choose from, based on their integration needs. CI Deployment Options WebSphere Cast Iron Express Is cloud-based software that helps to integrate information from Software as a Service (SaaS) […]
Opening Session Recap from IBM Exceptional Web Experience 2013
Glenn Kline, Director here at Perficient, is attending IBM Exceptional Web Experience 2013 and listened in on the opening general session lead by Larry Bowden, Vice President of Portals and Digital Experience Software. Glenn said, “The session focused on IBM’s digital experience direction and how various technologies and concepts are converging today. Mobile, content and rich media, analytics, […]
IBM advances in mobile and DevOps with UrbanCode acquisition
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 […]