Posts Tagged ‘ILOG’

I. The Agile Business Rule Development Practices (ABRD) The Agile Business Rule Development (ABRD) Methodology provides a framework that project teams may adapt to meet the needs of their specific business rules application project. The methodology supports the full rule lifecycle, from discovery to governance by using an ‘agile’, iterative approach. ABRD activities fall into […]

I was recently asked by a client, “What is a litmus test when identifying components for Decision Management?” This was a great question that unfortunately is all too often not considered during Decision Management projects. Using criteria to determine suitable decisions is needed in order to effectively implement Decision Management. This post will provide the […]

Decision management is increasingly becoming an important facet of Business Process Automation. This means that building decision models as a way to specify the requirements is more critical in business rules projects. The Object Management Group Board of Directors voted to publish the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) as a specification earlier this year. It provides […]

I came across this blog post from Andrew White, a Research analyst at Gartner controversially titled BI’s days are numbered – Here comes BPM again. The core message of the post is this that BI and data analytics are a means to an end – and it is the change in processes (effected through BPM) that will result in impact […]

Exciting News! Today, we announced the acquisition of TriTek Solutions, an enterprise content management and business process management consulting firm with significant IBM expertise, based in the northeastern United States. Like Perficient, TriTek is an IBM Premier Business Partner. They’re an excellent addition to our team,  bringing meaningful services expertise, important intellectual property assets and […]

IBM has acquired software deployment automation software firm, UrbanCode. Any company that requires frequent software updates, such as those in social, mobile, cloud and business analytics, will benefit. CRN covered this story in an article this week, for which they interviewed Vishal Rajpal, general manager of IBM BPMS at  Perficient. Vishal weighed in: “Consumers are rapidly becoming 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 […]

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 […]

Just returning from IBM’s Information On-Demand 2012 conference in Vegas last week, where there were just as many new questions created as ones that were answered. Among the usual Vegas question like; What happened to my money and Where am I, were some new ones. Most common was; What is Big Data? So it appears […]

IBM’s IOD conference has become one of those annual traditions that marks a milestone in the year for our IBM partnership. Maybe it’s because of the time of year or just the amount of effort that goes into the conference by both Perficient and IBM, but each year we’re reminded introspectively of just how much […]

Our firm does a considerable amount of work with IBM technologies for our clients. Cognos TM1 software produces “planning, analysis and reporting to help Finance drive timely decision-making” and experts in TM1 are in particularly high demand at the moment, and for good reason. And here’s why: “It ties Finance to operations to help uncover new business […]

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 […]