Posts Tagged ‘websphere’

Websphere commerce have Out of the box functionality of handling refunds on cancellation of an order and also returns. Here i am discussing technical details of handling returns and refunds of partial order, Like if you want to cancel only 2 items out of 50 items you ordered. Let’s say you have external Order management […]

A huge number of my projects are platform upgrades, and every time I ask my customers why they haven’t applied a single published fix for any of the products involved since the system was built (sometimes upwards of 7 years ago). They usually reply with a variation on the old trope, “If it ain’t broke, […]

I’m a BIG believer in two things: a) work smarter, not harder; 2) keep things simple — avoid complexity. Complex leads to complicated, complicated leads to misunderstanding, misunderstanding leads to chaos. Nonetheless, my guidelines seem easy enough, right? Well, good news then, they are simple and easy to apply in just about anything we face day […]

Just for curiosity’s sake and this blog, I looked up the definition of ‘cache’ [as used in computer science]. Most sources define it as “…a component that transparently stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster “.  The part about served faster reminded me of an old adage. It goes like this. […]

The healthcare industry continues to undergo dramatic change due to regulatory reform including Meaningful Use Stage 2, which stipulates requirements and feedback on what a patient portal should be. As a result, we see a challenging dynamic between patients, providers and payers. An exceptional digital experience is one way to help each stakeholder get through […]

If you are fortunate to be attending IBM Connect right now, you know just how exciting some of sessions are. Mark Polly and Michael Porter have been the eyes and ears of Perficient at IBM Connect and have posted several articles about the buzz around social, cloud and data security. Follow these links to get […]

One of the most asked questions in a project from the client was how feasible is it to use Database as the intermediary transport layer for Websphere Message Broker. No doubt there is a long term benefit in using WMQ but the question is more short sighted as per the immediate benefits of leveraging the […]

Mark Polly, Director at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post on IBM’s announcement of their new EMM Portlets. Today, though, IBM announced a much better integration between WebSphere Portal and IBM’s Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) products.  Through EMM products, marketers can create and manage campaigns, segments, etc.  Now these new EMM Portlets will allow marketers […]

Mark Polly, Director of Portals and Social Business at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post about Content Targeting in WebSphere Portal 8. Content targeting is a hot topic in marketing circles these days.  Actually content targeting has always been a hot topic, but many content management systems didn’t support it or made it too difficult […]

Summary:  This article shows a step-by-step approach for setting up an automated build and deploy framework in IBM® WebSphere® Message Broker (also known as IBM® Integration Bus) using Ant, Hudson and SubVersion. This also includes the set of frameworks components for setting up the auto build and deploy for a sample WMB project . Broker ARchive(BAR) file: Broker […]

      In this 7-minute demo, you will learn how to easily create a mobile app through using an orchestration created in WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration and then calling it in IBM Worklight using the cast iron adapter type. WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration and IBM Worklight can empower you to build and […]

We live in a world where we communicate and interact with each other through various mediums such as wireless voice, text, email, IM, and social media. The most personal of those mediums is voice-to-voice but increasingly its also the one used less-and-less. As the volume of our interactions increase in non-personal forms, our capacity for […]