Very soon, Perficient’s team of IBM experts will be in Las Vegas for IBM Impact 2012, an event that promises to be exciting and packed with insightful education, announcements, predictions and networking. We will be holding an Ipad Giveaway, for which you can register online at Perficient.com/Impact, and starting this Sunday, you can visit with […]
Integration + IT Modernization
Securing REST services with DataPower
In a recent post we introduced the REST service as an integration option growing in popularity. Use cases for this type of integration typically include exposing REST services for mobile app consumption and for cloud based/3rd party integrations. The question quickly arises – how can I secure these services? SOAP services have multiple well-defined standards […]
Tips for Integration / Enterprise Service Bus Projects
Integration Projects / Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) are by its nature complex involving many Partners, Systems, technologies, and message structures. Since there are many moving parts in the ESB system, if there are any problem occurs, diagnosing and fixing the issue is challenging. Also Support personal / Developers need to be knowledgeable in many skills […]
Going Behind The Buzzword: RESTful APIs
From Twitter to WordPress.com, many of the biggest and most popular web applications have developed RESTful application programming interfaces (APIs). While REST is enjoying a recent surge in popularity, it is not a new technology or approach. In fact, the term was originally coined in Roy Fielding’s 2000 dissertation. And though that is the first […]
Message Broker – ESQL – Autonomous Transaction
Sometimes while writing transactional code in ESQL, we encounter need for committing certain database operations irrespective of success or failure of parent transaction. For example, writing information to a log; updating a sequence number in a table based on some business logic etc. Recently we encountered such a situation in a healthcare project I was […]
How do you want to learn your IBM stack?
When it comes to learning new IBM technologies, what is your preferred learning style? I’ve been teaching now for over 30 years and I’ve seen many things come and go. Classroom based instruction with an Instructor still is the dominant mode of learning, but with the advent of new broadcast and communication technologies we have […]
The IBM SPSS Pivot Table Editor
There are various types of windows in IBM SPSS Statistics: The Data Editor Window – used to manage your data pond. The Viewer Window – where all results of your data analysis are displayed. The Chart Editor Window – here you can change the colors, select different type fonts or sizes, switch the horizontal and vertical […]