Posts Tagged ‘IBM’

Saren Sakurai (@saren) and I will be speaking on Social CMO: Engaging the Consumer at the IBM Connect 2013 Conference.  For those of you attending, you can preview the session by going to the session preview tool and searching for CMO. We are BP402.  Here’s a quick agenda on what we’ll discuss: Awareness: Defining a […]

Join Perficient at IBM Connect this year. You can download the eBook “Get Bold”, and learn how the enterprise is responding to consumer expectations for engagement via social channels. Whether you are planning on attending IBM Connect or not, Perficient would like to offer you this valuable eBook. “Get Bold” explores innovative ways businesses are using social […]

Every Center of Excellence team must develop the ability to measure and report on the performance of all areas and efforts of the CoE as well as related specific efforts of the organization or practice it supports. Measuring performance allows the CoE to set expectations for current and new work- providing answers to certain key […]

TM1 Models will all consist of 4 functional components. These will be Absorb, Configure, Calculate/Consolidate and Consume. Remember: Each component must be kept distinct! Components are purpose based not technology based! Focus on which components add value to the business not ones that are generic to any business!  Now let’s have a look at each […]

Social Commentator, Will Rogers famously stated, “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” The once predictable & stable world of business has transformed into an unpredictable jungle that’s no place for the complacent finance organization. Our new normal environment requires finance to maneuver obstacles on an […]

IBM recently released the 2012 edition of their annual Tech Trends Report. The 2012 Tech Trends Report is based on a survey of more than 1,200 professionals who make technology decisions for their organizations (22 percent IT managers, 53 percent IT practitioners and 25 percent business professionals). The respondents come from 16 different industries and […]

The most effective approach to establishing a center of excellence within an organization is to start on a smaller scale, with very specific and very realistic goals defined. A famous saying can be applied here “it is not a destination, but rather a journey…” This will be true of every successful CoE imitative. Mistakes and […]

    An organizations center of excellence may begin as an “informal body” comprised of experienced and knowledgeable personnel from the practice, but over time, the COE should get additional powers on the basis of noted contributions to successful projects and receive additional funding to expand the scope of its operations. The following are the […]

Hadoop for Dummies is now available! This free eBook is packed with everything you need to know about Hadoop analytics, this handy guide provides you with a solid understanding of the critical big data concepts and trends, and suggests ways for you to revolutionize your business operations through the implementation of cost-effective, high performance Hadoop […]

IBM recently published a paper called “The business of social business: What works and how it’s done.”  It driven by a survey of 1,160 business and IT professionals to understand how organizations leverage social technologies for business objectives.  It provides a great look into the current state of social business.  Some of the highlights are: […]

      For a long time relational models have supported the ability to create virtual tables known as “views” to provide a mechanism that allows developers to customize how their users can logically view data stored in base tables. There is a similar concept in Cognos TM1 known as “virtual cubes”. A virtual cube […]

What is IBM’s Infosphere DataStage?  Well to some it up, it’s a ETL tool, which extracts data, transforms it and applies business rules and then loads it to any target.