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 […]
Posts Tagged ‘Integration’
Varsity Spirit Achieved 100% Adoption and Transformed Themselves
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 […]
Can We Integrate Clinical And Safety Systems In The Cloud?
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.
Fixing COBOL layout issues using DFDL LPEX Editor
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 […]
How to handle CICS requests from IBM Integration Bus(IIB)
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 […]
Datapower Scatter/Gather-Data Aggregation pattern(Fan-out/Fan-in)
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 […]
Supporting the TOGAF-ADM using a SharePoint EA Portal Part 2
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 […]
Informatica improving Healthcare Challenges at #HIMSS15
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’ […]
Making Beautiful Music with APIs
I love jazz. As a young boy moving from rural South Carolina to New Orleans in the early 80s, I had not really appreciated the genre, but in New Orleans it’s easy to fall in love with it since it has made itself part of our DNA (as an early style of the genre was […]
Integration is a Business Differentiator
In this age of Digital Transformation, when we talk about Mobile, Social, Cloud, Internet of Things, Big Data, Machine Learning, and so on, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) sounds a little quaint, but neglecting it can be more dangerous to your business than ever. Today, SaaS means that any business person with a credit card can […]
Analytical Talent Gap
As new companies embark on the Digital Transformation leveraging Big Data, key concerns and challenges get amplified especially for the near term before the technology and talent pool supply adjusts to the demand. Looking at the earlier post Big Data Challenges, the top 3 concerns were: Identifying the Business value/Monetizing the Big Data Setting up the […]
Performance Testing Framework for Websphere Message Broker
With this post, I will cover performance testing framework for Websphere Message Broker. Tools Used: Tools used to do the performance testing of ESB interfaces: Jmeter SupportPac IS03 The following section will brief the tools that are used in the ESB Performance test plans. Jmeter: Jmeter is an open source Apache Software used for load […]