Posts Tagged ‘Integration’

It is no secret that Big Data is involved daily with social engagement, advertising, mobile applications, and business intelligence in today’s enterprise. As much data that an enterprise would like to receive from customers, even more data needs to be ingested from the cloud, commerce sites, transactions, social feeds, geo-locations and on. In between the […]

There are many benefits to cloud-based applications versus on-premise, including simplified and fast implementations, flexible application access to align with an agile business, scalable solutions without additional hardware requirements, and lower IT costs and resources.  In the case of Salesforce, a leading sales automation and CRM provider, companies are able to quickly access critical sales […]

Perficient was a Gold Sponsor of this year’s conference, which brought together experts in asset maintenance related processes, training, tools and machinery. The keynote speaker at the conference was Perficient’s David Reiber. As former owner of General Motors Global Maximo Deployment, David knows a thing or thousand about asset maintenance and reliability. What I found […]

I had the pleasure of sitting through Vishal Chawla’s session Monday morning at IBM’s Digital Experience conference in Atlanta, where he talked about Lincoln Lab’s process of upgrading Portal and Connections. Vishal is the Senior Manager of Technology Innovation and Integration with Lincoln Lab and was the team lead for their upgrade project. Lincoln was […]

Pankaj Bose spoke at the IBM Digital Experience 2015 conference about how IBM Cognos, Digital Experience and SPSS can be integrated together for a great Business Intelligence Experience. Typical business challenges include: How to build, run and manage a mobile, cloud and social solution Complexity of great experiences Lack of centralized storage and poor, incompatible […]

Shannon Ahern from Varsity Spirit Fashion and Greg Schaller from Perficient spoke at IBM Amplify 2015 about how Varsity Spirit Fashion achieved a 100% adoption rate internally and transformed their business.   Varsity Spirit Fashion outfits more than 1 million athletes.  Previously Varsity Spirit’s 300 person sales team faced several challenges including a huge catalog […]

  In our last “cloud fact or fiction” post, we discussed the ability to migrate clinical and pharmacovigilance data to the cloud. Let’s jump right in and talk about system integrations in the cloud. Claim #7: Clinical trial software in the cloud cannot be integrated with other systems. 

Introduction: In general for message modeling COBOL  copybook layouts we use the DFDL parser within IBM Integration Bus Toolkit  to model and generate the DFDL schema . In some cases we find COBOL layout errors in generating the message model. We might think that once a COBOL  copybook is defined in the mainframe environment and is working why would it error out ? One of […]

Introduction: This article will outline the necessary steps to be taken with respect to calling existing CICS programs from IBM Integration Bus ( IIB ) using COMMAREA  data structures. The COMMAREA  specifies the name of a data area ( known as Communication Area in CICS Region) in which data is passed to a program or transaction. The maximum length of the COMMAREA  cannot be larger […]

Implementing Scatter/Gather – Data Aggregation pattern (Fan-out/Fan-in) in Datapower This article covers one of the very important patterns in SOA – Data aggregation. The data aggregation can be implemented in Datapower in many different ways. Data aggregation in Datapower can be categorized mainly in three segments: Scatter n Gather Pattern Fan-out/Fan-in Pattern Data/Content Aggregation Fundamental principle of […]

Throughout my career there have been a couple of quips that I have followed when presenting certain ideas; “Eat Your Own Dog Food” along with its close cousin Practicing What You Preach. In the first article of this series I promoted the idea that architecture is about collaboration and communication. I then laid out a […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOa9Eg9HeB8 System interoperability and integration is critical to healthcare organizations. Their ability to coordinate care across the continuum with integrated data solutions and streamlined data sharing supports population health management initiatives and makes accountable care a reality. Using Informatica Powercenter/ Powerexchange for Mainframes as an ETL tool, Perficient has helped healthcare organizations achieve enterprise-wide ODS’ […]