Posts Tagged ‘IBM’

IBM’s web content management system has long had a feature called syndication.  Syndication is used to move content from one server to another.  In the typical environment, content is authored in one server, goes through a workflow process and finally gets approved.  Once approved, that content then needs to be delivered to the production servers […]

Andrew Nusca over at ZD Net has a short but interesting article about Apple’s Siri vs IBM’s Watson.  I’ve been a fan for voice recognition for a while and have even managed to train my Android phone to mostly understand me when I use voice recognition to call a friend or search for a term. […]

IBM SPSS has been getting a lot of attention lately due to increasing interest in buzz words such as big data, predictive analytics, data mining and statistical analysis. Additionally, the latest version of SPSS Statistics (version 21.0) was also released this month. But what is SPSS and how does it fit within the current solutions […]

Summer, as defined by school schedules, has generally come to an end and that means we kick start our IBM Connection Bootcamp series.  This fall we will be continuing on our trusty format of delivering business-focused bootcamps to help business and IT leaders build use cases, define ROI scenarios and have a little fun while […]

 Vision To build a CoE, it is absolutely essential to have a clearly defined vision. History proves that this grand, overall vision (or    plan) is critical to developing dominance in a specialty area. Once you establish a plan, specific strategies can then be developed based upon this plan. If strategies are not utilized in connection […]

Another advanced (and handy) feature to be aware of is the TurboIntegrator ExecuteProcess function. This is a very useful function. It allows you to execute a TI process from within a TI process. (Obviously, you cannot have a process call itself). The format is as follows:

        Living on the east coast while working on the west coast presents the problem of what do to on the bi-weekly 6 hour plane rides. Fortunately, I was offered the opportunity to be a technical reviewer of Ankit Garg’s IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1 Dashboarding Cookbook (PACKT Publishing, 2012, July). Garg […]

– It’s kinda fun to do the impossible – Walt Disney Doing the Impossible  Everyone’s been involved in a seemingly impossible situation. Sooner or later as a professional consultant, we find ourselves there. Impossible deadlines, endlessly changing requirements, lack of skilled resources, technical limitations – whatever.  In these circumstances, what makes the difference between success […]

Center of Excellence (CoE)   A Forrester survey (“The EA View: BPM Has Become Mainstream”, Forrester Research, Inc.) indicated:   “Of companies experiencing clear measurable improvement in FPM, 49% have a CoE in place”   With that in mind, I attended a presentation by Sandy Kemsley, (an accomplished FPM Analyst and Consultant) entitled, “Maximizing FPM […]

I recently ran into a puzzling issue with WebSphere Portal 7.0.2 while I was trying to export a portal page using xmlaccess from one portal and import it into another.  This page had some basic Web Content Management (WCM) rendering portlets on it.  The problem was that when I imported the xml into my target […]

I recently ran into a puzzling issue with WebSphere Portal 7.0.2 while I was trying to export a portal page using xmlaccess from one portal and import it into another.  This page had some basic Web Content Management (WCM) rendering portlets on it.  The problem was that when I imported the xml into my target […]

Late last month, IDC declared IBM as the worldwide market share leader in social software for the third consecutive year.  IBM boasted an impressive 2011 according to analysis conducted by IDC. Growing fasting than their competitors and growing nearly two times faster than the overall market—which grew about 40 percent—IBM is staking a claim in […]