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• The role of semantic models in smarter industrial operations

  Solution architects and developers have many architectural options at their disposal. In this article, we discuss semantic model architectures and describe the semantic model approach and how it fits in context of other architectural patterns.

• Integrate information across city operations to improve delivery of services

  City planners, managers, and departments can improve their infrastructure and deployment services with the coordinated products. Explore IBM Smarter City Solutions on Cloud, including deployment architecture, customer experience, and customer support.

• Get started with IBM ILOG CPLEX Enterprise Server

  The IBM ILOG CPLEX Enterprise Server, a new feature of IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio 12.4, allows remote, concurrent, queued, multi-user solving for OPL applications. Learn about the architecture of CPLEX Enterprise Server and implement its CPLEX optimization solution as a client application in Java™.

• Explore IBM Integrated Information Core model aware adapters

  Integrated Information Core is an IBM Industry Solutions product offering designed to help customers improve their operations. Learn about the data adapters provided with the product and how you can extend them to support customer-specific data sources. Through examples, explore how the model-aware adapters are constructed. Create new adapters to integrate sources of measurement data into a system so it can be referenced from the semantic model.

• Build integrated solutions for XML transformations with WebSphere Transformation Extender, Part 1

  Learn how to use WebSphere Transformation Extender to easily migrate legacy data to XML. WebSphere Transformation Extender separates data transformation logic and business flow logic, which can save on maintenance costs. Walk through a scenario that includes examples and source code. Create a WebSphere Transformation Extender map to retrieve legacy data from a database and transform it to an XML file.

• Accelerate deployment of your industry solutions

  Learn how to reduce the complexity and cost of industry solution deployment through reuse and automation. The accelerated approach can benefit development and test teams, and can increase the customer's use of the solution. Best practices and an example scenario are included.

• Smarter Planet Industry Solutions technical podcast series

  Tune in to hear industry experts, as they provide their perspective regarding industry challenges and technical insights. IBM Business Partners share technical detail about industry solutions and the results driven by the implementation of IBM solutions.

• Smarter Planet solutions with sensor monitoring series

  Smarter Planet initiatives are playing a major role in how technology is shaping our interactions with the world around us. Common to many of these smarter planet initiatives is the observation and processing of sensor data to extract insights from the physical world. This series of articles that shows how IBM WebSphere Sensor Events, IBM WebSphere Business Events, and other enterprise products can be used to develop Smarter Planet solutions that leverage sensor event processing.

• Introduction to Universal Business Language (UBL)

  UBL allows you to represent industry data in XML using an open standard format and is adaptable to many business situations. This focused learning guide tells you more about UBL and why you might want to use it.

• Balance workload in a cloud environment

  Many businesses and government agencies demand cloud services to provide continuous operational availability and security. To make this a reality, they will require a threshold policy on resource management for application testing and production. Learn what a threshold policy is and how it can help to balance workload demands dynamically in a cloud environment.