IBM has released a new version of IBM Cognos Insight(V10.2), its personal analytics solution that empowers business users and analysts to explore, analyze, visualize and share insights from their own desktops without IT assistance. The brand new Personal Edition is designed for organizations that are concerned they cannot provide the analytic capabilities (or resources) that […]
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Top 10 Trends Shaping Big Data in Financial Services
One of our Business Intelligence colleagues wrote a great post recently on the top ten trends that are shaping the financial services industry’s use of big data. 1. Larger market data sets containing historical data over longer time periods and increased granularity are required to feed predictive models, forecasts and trading impacts throughout the day. […]
Banks Use Customer Big Data to Compete
In this competitive banking landscape, organizations face increased pressure to forecast business conditions that allow employees to react and drive value from data. As common sense would dictate, companies should evaluate performance based on increases to firm value. To generate these cash flows, many companies focus on the development of new products and services. However, […]
Performance Tuning in Integration Projects: Power of XML Queries
It is a common scenario in integration projects to retrieve messages from the database for message enhancements, grouping and transmission. We encountered recently a performance issue in a big healthcare integration project. The technologies employed were IBM DB2, IBM Message Broker (MB), and IBM Transformation Extender (WTX). The process of retrieving messages from the database […]
Introducing .NET Integration in WMB v8
The Websphere Message Broker (WMB) v8 provides patterns based development that helps create easy to build solutions like Webservice facades, file to queue etc. In addition, it also includes ability to create and share user patterns. The WMB v8 provides a new .NET pattern for service facades to quickly create web service from assembly, create […]
MQ vs. HTTP
I was going through my old files and came across my notes on MQ and thought I’d share some reasons to use MQ vs. HTTP: If your consumer processes at a fixed rate (i.e. can’t handle floods to the HTTP server [bursts]) then using MQ provides the flexibility for the service to buffer the other […]
Cloud Computing Part 3 of 3 : Cloud Integration – Cast Iron
In the previous parts we discussed about Cloud Computing definition and Cloud Applications. Having so many applications on Cloud and enterprise, there is demand for integration of these applications to exchange data and complete the business process. In this section I am going to discuss about IBM Cast Iron, the Cloud integration tool, to integrate […]
Cloud Computing Applications Part 2 of 3
In the previous part we discussed about Cloud Computing definition. In this part let us discuss various applications in Cloud Computing. I am going to discuss these applications under three major categories: Infrastructure as a Service Platform as a Service Software as a Service (SAAS) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) IT Managers employing IaaS need […]
Delivering IBM Exceptional Web Experiences
Don’t Miss Perficient at IBM’s Exceptional Web Experience Conference. Booth #106 Perficient is ideally positioned to make web experiences exceptional! Hundreds of Fortune 2000 and large enterprise clients choose Perficient to create web experiences for their customers, partners, and internal constituents. The Perficient experience includes: Healthcare, Financial Services, Telecom, Retail and Manufacturing expertise Nationally recognized […]
We’re Hiring: Sterling, Cognos TM1 and BPM Lombardi Experts
We have many consulting and business development roles open. As you would expect, our IBM team looks for the best and the brightest talent to work directly with our clients. Currently, we are very interested in speaking with experts in Lombardi and Sterling who are located anywhere in the U.S. but open to travel. We […]
IBM BPM 7.5 – Features and FS Use Case
IBM recently announced IBM BPM 7.5 (Business Process Manager) which combines Lombardi and WebSphere Process Server. IBM maintains the core principals of BPM deployments to improve speed to market, better user experience and possessing an intuitive workflow. This new version provides a stronger focus on a company’s business side as well as IT to give […]
Using WPS style Resource Environment Providers with Spring
Generally a problem most projects face is how to handle configuration information that varies between environments. Many times you can handle this by using one of WAS built in resources such as a SMTP server or a JDBC connection pool. However many times the configuration data won’t fit one of these existing WAS resource types, […]