Integration + IT Modernization

Dan Swango, Director, IBM Collaboration Solutions, and Baan Slavens, Sr Product Manager, IBM Connections presented a session at IBM ConnectED 2015 on IBM’s Mobile Strategy in the collaboration space, which includes IBM Verse, Connections, Sametime and Traveler applications. Baan presented some market statistics: “The average person unlocks his or her smartphone 110 times each day.” “25% […]

The Situation: IBM BPM has been successfully installed and is up and running! Also you have successfully added your active directory(s) to your federated repositories and are able to find users and groups in the WAS console. Continuing with the good news you have also successfully found users in IBM BPM ProcessAdmin and ProcessCenter consoles, […]

DCM (DataPower Configuration Manager) is an open source tool published by IBM for automating and simplifying the configuration and management of IBM DataPower appliances (with the exception of the XC10).  It can be used standalone OR within IBM UrbanCode Deploy platform.  Business partners, clients or anyone else for that matter can contribute enhancement or fixes […]

A not so uncommon problem is that either during load test or production deployment performance problems come up that do not replicate in the development environment.  The possible reasons for this are many, resource contention, lock contention, slow services, larger data sets among others.  The first problem is that you need to identify what the […]

Introduction In this article we will discuss about how you can achieve the integration between IBM Integration Bus (IIB) and WebSphere DataPower XC10 (XC10) using the REST APIs functionality of XC10 devices. Since the release of the V9, IIB can now connect to an external data grid cache to improve SOA’s services performance by the […]

Describing a rich EA framework and process using a standard object oriented development approach. Recently I had had an interesting conversation with a solution architect around the TOGAF framework and the ADM. I was asked the following question: “Can you provide a short but reasonable description for tailoring the framework while instantiating the ADM as […]

Introduction: Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is a XML-based language used to define enterprise business processes within Web services. BPEL extends the Web services interaction model and enables it to support business transactions. BPEL can be developed to perform multiple activities such as invoking a web service, publishing a message to topic, subscribe for messages […]

BPM Methodology and Principles: The BPM Methodology is an iterative framework used to effectively analyze and re-design a business process with the goal of constant process improvement. The methodology’s key objective is to foster communication between business and IT in order to establish an optimal business process. Here are 5 tips to ensure that your […]

Building ESB Capability Java EE -vs- Configuring a Datapower SOA Appliance Implementing a Java network infrastructure solution versus network appliance configuration It’s not unusual for a seasoned Java implementer, when exposed to an IBM Datapower appliance for the first time to question the technological advantage of a configurable network device. I feel this question is […]

1. The Performance Cost The performance cost for a Decision Service may look something like:                     2. The eXecutable Object Model and the RuleFlow XOM type choices: JAVA XOM better performance XML XOM Dynamicity Useful in case of XML model Ruleflow: Limit the size and the complexity […]

I. The Agile Business Rule Development Practices (ABRD) The Agile Business Rule Development (ABRD) Methodology provides a framework that project teams may adapt to meet the needs of their specific business rules application project. The methodology supports the full rule lifecycle, from discovery to governance by using an ‘agile’, iterative approach. ABRD activities fall into […]

Four years after the signing of Dodd-Frank, financial services firms have a better understanding of both the challenges and potential benefits for their organization. While financial institutions are starting to get a better grip on Dodd-Frank reforms, one area where regulators are still coming to grips with and finalizing guidelines is incentive compensation. In fact, Section 956 was […]