Active reports are highly interactive and make business intelligence easier for the casual user. Any report generated within Cognos can be saved as an Active report and consumed remotely with no connection to the BI Server. The report is created in the MHT format and the report and its data are saved in a single […]
Innovation + Product Development
UX and Business Analysis: How to Combine Them Effectively
How to use role-based project scopes and clearly defined responsibilities to prevent conflict during app development. User Experience (UX) designers and Business Analysts (BAs) have roles that are much more similar than they may appear at first glance. Both are responsible for delivering apps that meet business goals and user expectations. Still, UX designers and BAs […]
Liferay Portal 7.0 OSGi Overview
Starting with Liferay 7.0 the whole portal will be modularized as OSGi Modules. OSGi (stands for Open Service Gateway Initiative) is a Java framework for developing and deploying modular software programs and libraries. Each bundle is a tightly coupled, dynamically loadable collection of classes, jars, and configuration files that explicitly declare their external dependencies. It […]
From #AdobeSymp: On-Demand Economy Leads to Consumer Revolution
This week’s 2017 Adobe Symposium in NYC was one of the most well-attended events I’ve been to in a long time. Adobe did an excellent job articulating the consumer shift. People are no longer making purchases based solely on the quality/functionality/capabilities of specific goods and services, but are instead buying based on the overall brand experience. […]
Graph Model with Gremlin
Graph Theory: A graph is a pictorial representation of a set of objects where some pairs of objects are connected by links. The interconnected objects are represented by points termed as vertices, and the links that connect the vertices are called edges. Formally, a graph is a pair of sets (V, E), where V is […]
How to Integrate Custom Zookeeper with Kafka Cluster
The zookeeper is a popular configuration management and coordination centralized service supported by Apache. It manages the metadata based on a tree-like, hierarchical structure which make it respond quickly and integrally even in a huge distributed system like Kafka. It is required for Kafka by default, but most enterprises will have their own Zookeeper system. […]
Setting Workflow on All Templates Using Sitecore PowerShell Extensions
The other day I had a requirement where I had to implement a new workflow on a Sitecore implementation. All of the existing templates needed to begin using this new workflow. As I’m a developer, every time I need to perform an action that is repetitive, I think about ways to automate it. In this case, since there were a few templates that needed to be updated, I thought about creating a simple Sitecore PowerShell script to update all of them.
SharePoint Online Managed Property Shows Empty Value in Search
Our team recently encountered a managed properties issue on a SharePoint Online environment. The issue: one managed property didn’t work in the search result source after migrating the site from a farm environment. And, the issue could not be fixed by re-indexing the source list/library. After some investigation, I found the managed property created in […]
How To Get Your Fitness Data From Google Fit?
About Google Fit “Google Fit is an open ecosystem that allows developers to upload fitness data to a central repository where users can access their data from different devices and apps in one location “. That means you can use your apps (not only Google Fit) or devices such as Apple Watch to upload your […]
How to Produce and Customize a Kafka Message
The Kafka became more and more popular as a famous real-time message delivering and communication system for a period of years. It was born in LinkedIn and contributed to Apache in 2011. Then it grew to be one of the top Apache projects. For now, it has been accepted by thousands of enterprises as the […]
DevOps Not What You Expected? How to Get It Right This Time
This article originally appeared on the Oracle Technology Network blog. If you want to implement a DevOps culture, don’t start with technologies. DevOps is an effective, collaborative, and comprehensive approach to managing software development and deployment. Consequently, it has become the most popular way of approaching software development and automation for large and small enterprises […]
Artificial Intelligence in Testing – Intelligent or Artificial?
Technology is advancing daily. Every industry makes an effort to keep up with the advancement and so does the Software Testing industry. This industry did see growth in terms of Automated testing, Exploratory testing, Testing in Digital, Testing with Algorithms, and many more with one of the latest buzz word – Artificial Intelligence (AI) in […]