Integration + IT Modernization

Introduction When considering testing a Datapower implementation the first tool that is generally mentioned SoapUI. While this is a good tool for a particular aspect of testing, you may need to expand your testing capabilities to include a broader set of concerns. In this blog I’d like to consider an architectural scenario in which I […]

Why User Defined Node? At one of our Large healthcare client, there were multiple SIEMENS Invision Interfaces which use SNA (Systems Network Architecture) for inbound and outbound communication. SNA is a set of protocols and services enabling communication between host computers (Mainframes) and other servers such as Windows/AIX/Linux. Websphere Message Broker does not have predefined […]

Using the WMB toolkit we can produce a sequence diagram with the following steps. Open Modeling Perspective 2. Within this Perspective Click on File->New->Other   3. Select Sequence Diagram within Modeling profile 4. Click Next and Select the location where the File needs to be created and Click Finish. A work area with the palette […]

In this article I address some of the the final elements and models in this iteration of the Preliminary phase. At this point I would like to comment about the ADM as an iterative process. In regards to Architectural Definition which includes an ideation / inception iteration. At this point in the role of Business […]

That is what Robinhood is promising. Will this turn traditional online stockbroking on it’s head? Time will tell, but it’s worth a look. TechCruch has this covered in a recent article. Some fun facts from the article and personal experience are: It doesn’t actually cost a brokerage much money to place a trade. Yet customers […]

I have been several calls with customers that are interested in the IBM PureApplication Systems. Once the customer is taken through the standard canned sales presentations and then a Demo there doesn’t seem to be much more guidance available. The next step is always a Business Value Assessment(BVA) but they usually take a long time […]

In part 1 of this series I provided a ten thousand foot view of the project relative to the TOGAF ADM. In this post I’ll start with the proverbial peeling back of the onion. Using an integration project FYI Bank has made a strategic decision to address the challenge of their silos of IT systems […]

I am an IBM WebSphere Infrastructure Architect by trade. When I first read about Pure it was almost to good to be true. After 10 months of working with Pure I can say with confidence that its all true. I was able to deploy an entire IBM BPM and WODM infrastructure in 4 hours. The […]

Recently I was at a customer site that had the requirement that all products that live on Linux had to be installed using scripts. No GUI installs were allowed in their IT shop. Many Linux(Unix) customers will not allow Xwindows to be run in their IT shop. In these cases the WebSphere Infrastructure Team will […]

In a recent blog posting, we provided a guide for standing up and XI52 as an integral component to an enterprise like laboratory environment. This was the beginning several activities, which spawned an idea for a continuing series of articles around IBM SOA appliances, and the use of the The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) […]

Introduction IBM Worklight is a mobile application platform that enables the development of cross-platform hybrid applications, offering mechanisms to navigate between the web view and the native view, and providing a development and run time environment that moves hybrid apps much closer to the write-once-run-anywhere goal. Problem Statement The HTML5 video content would not play […]

I’m a BIG believer in two things: a) work smarter, not harder; 2) keep things simple — avoid complexity. Complex leads to complicated, complicated leads to misunderstanding, misunderstanding leads to chaos. Nonetheless, my guidelines seem easy enough, right? Well, good news then, they are simple and easy to apply in just about anything we face day […]