Digital Experience

Introduction: High availability is always an important topic, which is often thought at end of the project or even sometimes at the time of downtime/disaster. While it is challenging to set up high availability environment, as you have to spare time and money to complete; here is my attempt to provide you with a prototype […]

  A recent article that I read alluded to the fact that regulatory bodies are struggling to keep their websites updated, which could lead to misinformation or a lack of information for consumers and companies interested in a country’s regulations and policies. The story specifically pointed to the English and Korean versions of South Korea’s […]

When I wake up in the morning I have a couple of choices for what to do first.  I could brush my teeth.  I could take a shower.  Or I could fix that broken shelf in the garage. Come again?  Two of those sound very typical and easy.  But the last one is less obvious, much harder, […]

It’s not every day you hear the word “trillion” unless you are in the B2B Online Retail business. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Future of B2B Online Retailing, reveals that B2B online sales will account for close to 27 per cent of total manufacturing trade, which is likely to hit 25 trillion $ by […]

Customer centricity is no longer just a loaded buzzword used by marketers preaching tactics such as personalization and customer experience. Customer centricity is now a mind-set that companies need to adopt throughout the entire organization—not just marketing—to thrive in the digital world. This quote from CMO.com’s article The ‘Age of The Customer’ Is Here. What […]

Adobe introduced a new managed service – Adobe Experience Manager Sites – for medium sized businesses and smaller departments in large corporations.  This service has been available to large customers, but Adobe now feels confident that they can service many more customers.  With this new managed service, Adobe will host the AEM system, the customer’s site […]

Google has released version 7.4 of the Google Search Appliance Software.  The upgrade includes the following new features: Seamless Integration with Microsoft: we’re releasing our SharePoint and Active Directory 4.0 connectors out of beta. These connectors provide improved scalability, easier configuration and tighter integration with SharePoint. Additionally, the GSA now supports ADFS, which improves our ability […]

Earlier this week, I read a news article about the use of Twitter, or more accurately, the use of data collected from Twitter to prohibit a passenger from boarding a United Airlines flight. Strangely enough, the person banned from the flight was probably among the people who should know the most about cyber-security and perceived […]

Introduction: In general for message modeling COBOL  copybook layouts we use the DFDL parser within IBM Integration Bus Toolkit  to model and generate the DFDL schema . In some cases we find COBOL layout errors in generating the message model. We might think that once a COBOL  copybook is defined in the mainframe environment and is working why would it error out ? One of […]

I.  Create Safe and Secure Passwords – By far the easiest way to access your mail account for nefarious activity is by using a stolen password. Google Apps User Make sure you create safe and unique passwords for all your important accounts Make sure you store your passwords in a secure way Try using a password generator […]

Recently, I came across an AIIM study that focused on enterprise search and discovery trends. As a Google Search partner, we have in-depth knowledge of search and the challenges of the “knowledge worker.”  We hear from clients every day that their implementation of enterprise search helps to increase productivity and this report validated that assumption; however, […]

Throughout my career there have been a couple of quips that I have followed when presenting certain ideas; “Eat Your Own Dog Food” along with its close cousin Practicing What You Preach. In the first article of this series I promoted the idea that architecture is about collaboration and communication. I then laid out a […]