Integration + IT Modernization

System interoperability and integration is critical to healthcare organizations. Their ability to coordinate care across the continuum with integrated data solutions and streamlined data sharing supports population health management initiatives and makes accountable care a reality. Using Informatica Powercenter/ Powerexchange for Mainframes as an ETL tool, Perficient has helped healthcare organizations achieve enterprise-wide ODS’ for […]

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Application Programming Interface (API) Management relate to each other in both complementary and contrasting ways. The fact that API is a much older term than SOA, but SOA came before API Management can make this relationship even more confusing, especially if focus is on the “API” part of API Management, […]

I got curious about the acronym FTL in TIBCO FTL product. Digging a bit, I found that it stands for “Faster than Light”. This product name is so appropriate as we live in an age of Digital Transformation and IT Modernization where information must be readily available. It is the relatively newer messaging TIBCO platform […]

Today every business is taking more and more data from various and untrusted sources system and using it in more ways than ever before. Whether it may be a small organization or an enterprise environment, data quality management is both challenging and significantly important to every business. Despite the importance, Data Quality initiatives sometimes remain […]

I love jazz. As a young boy moving from rural South Carolina to New Orleans in the early 80s, I had not really appreciated the genre, but in New Orleans it’s easy to fall in love with it since it has made itself part of our DNA (as an early style of the genre was […]

In this age of Digital Transformation, when we talk about Mobile, Social, Cloud, Internet of Things, Big Data, Machine Learning, and so on, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) sounds a little quaint, but neglecting it can be more dangerous to your business than ever. Today, SaaS means that any business person with a credit card can […]

I recently had a chance to give a presentation about OSGi on Liferay 7 at the Chicago Liferay User Group as OSGi is proven to help build, package and maintain robust API’s for Java based Enterprise software components running in the Cloud or On Premise. Attenders included architects, BAs and developers from different companies across […]

While TIBCO API Exchange is a relative new comer to TIBCO’s offerings, TIBCO has made great strides in embedding it into their Fast Data architecture (and message). This approach seems reasonable, since, according to Gartner, API Management and SOA Governance are converging into a consolidated space called “Application Services Governance.” It is even more reasonable […]

Proper security setup and configuration is extremely important. If you pick the wrong tools, wrong configuration or wrong integration, you could be setting yourself up for failure. One of my favorite sayings as a football coach is, “The game is talking to you. Are you listening?” With football, the way the opponent lines up will […]

The way people shop is different than the way it used to be. A shift towards an integrated shopping experience requires execution and fluidity across store and digital channels.  To support an omni-channel customer experience, business must work through disconnected systems to quickly serve customer demands. In the face of IT Modernization, organizations must consider […]

APIs are Application Program Interfaces. They are channels to new customers and markets. Used externally, APIs unlock the power of partners to use business assets to extend the reach of your products or services to customers and markets you may not otherwise easily reach. I think of these as windows… doorways… a passageway to something. […]

Systems Used: DataPower – XML Gateway Appliance to Authenticate and Validate the requests. MQ – Queuing Mechanism used for Guaranteed Delivery. Cast Iron – To develop integration’s using the In-built connectors available for Salesforce and SAP. 1.   Salesforce places transaction on Outbound Message Queue.  This transaction contains only the following: The ID of the […]