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| IBM Intelligent Operations Center demo
IBM Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities demo
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Demos | 17 May 2012 |
| Smarter commerce warranty case management
Learn about a smarter commerce warranty management solution pattern that provides a viable approach for integrating
the information, people, and processes needed for a more comprehensive
warranty management solution. See how the pattern exploits the capabilities
of enterprise marketing management and case management to provide an
end-to-end solution. Companies pursuing the benefits of analytic-driven
data can realize meaningful actions from both a business and customer perspective.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 01 May 2012 |
| Design service interfaces with industry models
Read how industry models can help architects overcome the difficult
task of defining enterprise service interfaces. Understand the need to strike
a balance between competing design principles, in particular, reuse and
loose coupling, and how the type of SOA governance model embraced by an
organization is in itself an important element to take into account for an
effective service design.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 01 May 2012 |
| 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. We highlight the value of semantic models as a core
component in solution design and show how IBM Integrated Information Core
enables creation of model-integrated solutions.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 30 Mar 2012 |
| 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. In this article, explore IBM Smarter
City Solutions on Cloud, including deployment architecture, customer experience, and
customer support. Also learn about the customization, integration, operation,
and management aspects of the delivery model.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 22 Mar 2012 |
| Cloud and industry, Part 3: Telecommunications solutions
Part 3 examines a novel process-centric PaaS.
Service Storm, a cloud enabled self-service telecommunication prototyping
platform, is a PaaS model.
Learn how this rapid integration model lets non-technical users create applications by
assembling registered services, mashups, built-in rules, events, and database
services. Examine how cloud technologies and Service Storm enhance PaaS
capabilities in telecommunication solutions and enterprise environments.
Also available in:
Japanese
Portuguese
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Articles | 13 Mar 2012 |
| IBM Intelligent Operations Center
In many areas these days, it seems we have to work smarter and do more with less.
Smarter cities must leverage information, anticipate problems, and coordinate
resources. Luckily, IBM Intelligent Operations Center provides a unified
view of all city agencies so you can predict events and respond quickly. Learn
about its features and benefits.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 06 Mar 2012 |
| Use industry templates for advanced case management, Part
2: Introducing the Auto Claims Management sample solution template for IBM
Case Manager
IBM Case Manager provides the platform and tools for the business
analyst to define and implement a new generation of case management solutions.
To accelerate the development of solutions in particular industries, IBM Case
Manager supports the notion of a solution template--a collection of case
management assets that can be customized and extended to build a complete
solution. To help illustrate the value of solution templates and the abilities
of IBM Case Manager, IBM has provided two sample solution templates that can
be used as learning tools for new users of the platform. This tutorial
introduces one of those templates--Auto Claims Management--from the insurance
services industry. Gain an understanding of what a template is, and learn
about the assets delivered in this sample template and how they were built.
(This tutorial includes the code for this sample template as well as
instructions on how to deploy it.)
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Tutorial | 01 Mar 2012 |
| Data.gov for government agencies
Because people are more aware of the value of open data,
entire new economies have sprung up around its use and management. In
2009, the U.S. Federal Government launched Data.gov, a site to aggregate
feeds of government data. Pressure on agencies to publish information at
Data.gov has been steady. The Open Government Directive of 2009 requires
all Federal agencies to post at least three high-value data sets online
and register them on Data.gov. Learn about Data.gov, the basic information
your agency needs to know to participate in this revolution in government,
and ideas for doing so efficiently.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 28 Feb 2012 |
| 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.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 21 Feb 2012 |
| Cloud-based education, Part 3: Cloud-based robotics for education
Explore robotics and how the cloud
makes it more economical and available, with a broad range
of sensors, actuators, computational resources, and applications. Remote access to a wider
range of physical systems that can be time-shared and location-shifted, plus simulation
and building instances on site, will vastly expand access to robotics. Today, thanks to the cloud,
hands-on interaction with remote robotics is more feasible. This article provides a
starting point for cloud-based robotics educational strategy.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 14 Feb 2012 |
| 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.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 07 Feb 2012 |
| Cloud-based education, Part 2: High-performance computing for education
Part 1 of this series focused on the tools, methods,
and strategies for using the cloud. This article explores
high-performance computing (HPC) from supercomputers to warehouse-scale
computers and how the cloud makes supercomputing for educators and students
more economical and available, with a broader range of architectures and
scaling elasticity. In the past, students were often only able to read about
supercomputers. Today, with the cloud, hands-on in HPC is much more feasible.
This article provides a starting point for cloud-based HPC educational
strategy.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 31 Jan 2012 |
| Build integrated solutions for XML transformations with
WebSphere Transformation Extender, Part 1: Transform legacy data into XML
The XML format is a common
standard for document and message exchange. 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.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 31 Jan 2012 |
| Explore QTI in depth
The IMS Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) specification is a widely used standard for marking up questions and other learning material. Look at the response and result processing for a QTI item and learn what happens when a user answers a question.
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Articles | 17 Jan 2012 |
| Smarter city data model standards landscape, Part
2: Transportation
In this series, learn about data model standards for smarter cities.
Information exchange is challenging among city agencies, regardless of city
size. The proliferation of different vendor solutions deployed across agency
and departmental boundaries is the root of the problem. The solution is
defining a common, standards-based smarter city data model that determines how
information is structured and what it represents on a semantic level. This
article focuses on the core concepts and standards that are common in the
smarter city transportation domain.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 17 Jan 2012 |
| Using social media in education, Part 2: Tools, support, and technical issues
Social media offers the potential for educators and
institutions to engage with students and other stakeholders in new ways.
Explore the typical functions of tools such as blogs, instant messaging, and
status broadcasting platforms, and examine their use.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 10 Jan 2012 |
| Using social media in education, Part 1: Opportunity, risk, and policy
This article considers the opportunities and risks
social media entails, and offers advice on developing policy. It outlines the types of
opportunities for using social networks, blogs, and wikis in student support
and engagement. You'll also find good practice examples.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 20 Dec 2011 |
| Create a telecommunication subscriber life history
Establishing a "learning relationship" with customers allows a business to better connect,
determine appropriate retention and customer growth strategies, report on corporate value,
increase company reputation, and improve brand-awareness. A learning relationship builds on
customer intelligence and a detailed history of consumer behaviors and actions.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 13 Dec 2011 |
| Cloud-based education, Part 1: E-learning strategy for instructors
Whether students choose to learn over distance or in person at a traditional
campus, the power of e-learning and virtual collaboration is growing fast in education
and the global economy. That power is best realized with a well planned cloud
computing and e-learning strategy. This article, the first in a series on cloud-based
education, focuses on what instructors can do to encourage best practices at their
institution and adopt them in their classroom.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 05 Dec 2011 |
| Predictive analytics in healthcare
As digital records and information become the norm in
healthcare, it enables the building of predictive analytic solutions. These
predictive models, when interspersed with the day to day operations of
healthcare providers and insurance companies, have the potential to lower cost and
improve the overall health of the population. As predictive models become more
pervasive, the need for a standard, which can be used by all the parties
involved in the modeling process: from model building to operational
deployment, is paramount. The Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML), is such
a standard. It allows for predictive solutions to be easily shared between
applications and systems. This article describes the latest release of
PMML, Version 4.1, and several ways it can be used to expedite the
adoption and use of predictive solutions in the healthcare
industry.
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Articles | 29 Nov 2011 |
| Develop a custom third-party call web service using WebSphere Telecom Web
Services Server
Telecom products' interaction with particular network equipment, such as softswitches from a
manufacturer, may require customizing the solution or service that interacts
with it. Find out how to develop a custom web service implementation using IBM
WebSphere Telecom Web Services Server as the development platform to cater to
functioning of the solution with the specific softswitch.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 28 Nov 2011 |
| Architect chemical and petroleum solutions with the IBM Chemical and
Petroleum Integrated Information Framework
Learn how to architect successful chemical and petroleum
industry solutions using the key products and industry components of the IBM
Chemical and Petroleum Integrated Information Framework. Explore concrete examples of how you can use essential
capabilities across the large portfolio of IBM products and technologies in
the framework for delivering successful chemical and petroleum
solutions.
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Knowledge paths | 15 Nov 2011 |
| Migrate OpenMRS to DB2 and WebSphere Application Server
Learn how to migrate OpenMRS
into IBM DB2 and IBM WebSphere Application Server. This article shows you how
to prepare the database, import the source code, and modify the project for WebSphere
Application Server.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 15 Nov 2011 |
| Architect electronic, automotive, and aerospace and defense solutions with the
IBM Product and Service Framework
Learn how to architect successful electronic, automotive, and
aerospace and defense industry solutions using the key products and industry
components of the IBM Product and Service Framework. By understanding how IT
can enable solutions that address the key business drivers and imperatives for
these industries, you can use the framework to provide a model for solution development.
The IBM Product and Service Framework defines specific business-focused
domains that address vital industry scenarios.
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Knowledge paths | 01 Nov 2011 |
| Smarter Planet Industry Solutions technical podcast
series: Season 1
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.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 21 Oct 2011 |
| Anatomy of the ACORD TXLife XML standard
The ACORD Transactional/Business Wrapper (TXLife) XML specification is the
preferred data format for internal and external data integration within the life,
annuities, and health insurance industry. The standard is broad and flexible. Learn
the structure of ACORD TXLife messages, the challenges implementers face, and the
tools and techniques that you can use to successfully implement the standard.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 18 Oct 2011 |
| Introduction to Universal Business Language
Get an introduction to the Universal Business Language (UBL), an XML-based
vocabulary used to represent common business data. UBL is based upon a set of open
standards and is adaptable to many business situations. This knowledge path tells
you what UBL is, where it came from, and why you might want to use it.
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Knowledge paths | 07 Oct 2011 |
| Architect retail solutions with the IBM Retail Industry Framework
Learn how to architect successful Retail industry solutions
using the products and industry components of the IBM Retail Industry
Framework. By understanding how IT can enable solutions that address the key
business drivers and imperatives for the Retail industry, the IBM Retail
Industry Framework provides a model for solution development.
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Knowledge paths | 07 Oct 2011 |
| Speed up deployment of your industry solutions
Industry solutions usually involve complex, distributed
deployment with a manual approach that is often time-consuming and
unreliable. 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.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 04 Oct 2011 |
| Smarter city data model standards landscape, Part
1: Core
Cities face many challenges on their path to
becoming smarter. Information exchange is particularly
challenging among city agencies. The range of
different vendor solutions deployed across agency and
departmental boundaries can cause a problem. The
solution is defining a common, standards-based
smarter city data model that determines how information is
structured and what it represents on a semantic level.
Read about the core concepts and standards that are common
across multiple smarter city domains, such as public
safety, transportation, and water.
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Articles | 20 Sep 2011 |
| Implement a client-side healthcare application using Saxon-CE and HL7 CDA
At the 2011 XML Prague conference, Dr. Michael Kay, the principal developer of the
Saxon XSL/XQuery parser, unveiled Saxon-CE, a client-side XSLT 2.0 parser that runs
using JavaScript in the web browser. Learn how you can use XSLT 2.0 and Saxon-CE to
build an application view for a simple healthcare application that works from a clinical
document written using Health Level 7 Clinical Document Architecture (HL7 CDA).
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Articles | 20 Sep 2011 |
| Managing the Protein Data Bank with DB2 pureXML
The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is a unique world-wide repository of
structural data about proteins. The PDB data is available in XML format in
order to provide flexibility, extensibility, and ease of data exchange in the
biological research community. Analyzing data in the PDB can help explain
diseases, develop new drugs, or understand the interactions between different
proteins. However, one of the key challenges is to efficiently store and query
this information to find and extract information and correlations of interest.
This article describes how to use the hybrid capabilities of DB2 – relational
and pureXML features – to manage and analyze PDB data.
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Articles | 08 Sep 2011 |
| IBM Intelligent Operations Center key performance indicators
(KPIs), Part 2: Defining a parent KPI
IBM Intelligent Operations Center provides a key performance indicator (KPI) subsystem that
allows cities to monitor and assess performance of city services, programs, and other resources. This article discusses how
parent KPIs and parent-child KPI relationships are modeled and how
asynchronous notifications of KPI updates are triggered.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 24 Aug 2011 |
| Develop decision services, Part 3: Deployment and beyond
In this article, the final in this series, we detail the process for the
technical developer to deploy the initial rule artifacts and enable
non-technical business users to continue rule development and testing.
Also available in:
Korean
Portuguese
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Articles | 02 Aug 2011 |
| Develop decision services, Part 2: Rules development process
Part 1 introduced you to the smarter city scenario
and the use case requirements. We described the role of the decision subsystem
and the rationale for selecting IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules as a business rule management system
(BRMS) to implement the decision subsystem. Part 2 walks you through the
how-to of the rules development process.
Also available in:
Korean
Portuguese
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Articles | 26 Jul 2011 |
| Data logging with open source hardware and software in the energy
sector
As power generation moves towards cleaner, smarter
sources, small-scale photovoltaic panel arrays are becoming more
popular. It helps to have a good, inexpensive source of basic
operating data. Monitor climatic conditions with the Arduino, an open
source microprocessor that can read data input in the form of voltage
at its analog pins.
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Articles | 19 Jul 2011 |
| Integrate traffic data with IBM Intelligent Transportation using a traffic
data gateway
The transportation industry must modernize its information technology
resources to meet current business and regulatory standards and to gain better
visibility and control across the transportation roadways. See how an
implementation team can develop a traffic data gateway to meet the challenges
of today's traffic raw data collection from various detectors embedded in
roadway infrastructures.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 15 Jul 2011 |
| Build intelligent transportation systems with the Traffic Management
Data Dictionary standard
IBM's Intelligent Transportation product, building on
the IBM Intelligent Operations Center, is a valuable tool to help cities
manage traffic with visibility and transparency of the transportation network.
A critical integration point of IBM Intelligent Transportation is the gathering of traffic and event data
from other traffic center systems and field devices based on the increasingly
popular Traffic Management Data Dictionary (TMDD) standard. This article gives
an overview of the TMDD standard and explains how these standards are used in
IBM's new IBM Intelligent Transportation product. For traffic centers that have not implemented TMDD,
this article introduces a publicly available asset to help cities and IBM
business partners implement it. In this article, learn about the TMDD
standard and how the new Traffic Management Owner Center Simulator helps with implementation,
including how to integrate with IBM's IBM Intelligent Transportation.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 15 Jul 2011 |
| IBM Intelligent Operations Center key performance indicators
(KPIs), Part 1: Defining a low-level KPI
IBM Intelligent Operations Center provides a key performance indicator (KPI) subsystem that
allows cities to monitor and assess performance of city services, programs, and other resources. This
is the first in a series of articles that shows how KPIs are modeled, implemented, and tested.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 12 Jul 2011 |
| Develop decision services, Part 1: A smarter city case study
In today's ever-changing business environment, there is a need
for systems to be smarter to reduce the overall cost and complexity, and to
help businesses react quickly to changing environments. To do this, a smarter system needs an effective decision
subsystem. In this three-part article series, we use a smarter city use case
to guide architects and developers in selecting and implementing a decision subsystem.
We discuss the BRMS architecture, rules discovery process, developing the rule application, and rule maintenance.
The smarter city use case involves implementing a decision subsystem for intelligent coordination among multiple
city departments during severe weather emergencies. The decision subsystem is based on IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules to automate the decision-making process.
Also available in:
Korean
Portuguese
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Articles | 28 Jun 2011 |
| Data growth and standards
Examine the challenges presented by the explosion of data, the analytics
thereof, and an introduction to some standards relevant to these challenges. A sample
scenario depicts a system where large amounts of data are ingested, understood, and manipulated, and where some specific standards promote integration and interoperability.
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Articles | 21 Jun 2011 |
| Move toward the paperless office with images ready for accounting audits
Managers regularly provide auditors with supporting documentation. In a paper-based office, this can become an inconvenient and difficult task. Explore how XML, together with PHP and image functions, assists in the auditing process and also provides efficient and comprehensive indexing support to multiple managers.
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Articles | 14 Jun 2011 |
| Enterprise event management framework, Part 2: A prototype implementation
Business events represent a vast untapped resource for many
organizations. Capture of events generated by a diverse set of internal
systems allows for creation of customer-individual profiles, business
intelligence to guide decision making, and a mechanism for detection of fraud
and security intrusions. Moreover, timely knowledge of particular business
events allows an organization to respond quickly to customer actions, such as
an online purchase of a product or a request to cancel service. In this
article, we implement an enterprise event management framework demonstration
application with open source services and a messaging framework.
Also available in:
Korean
Portuguese
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Articles | 23 May 2011 |
| Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA
See how you can achieve faster problem resolution in your SOA environment with Tivoli
software.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Demos | 06 May 2011 |
| Green energy efficiency in data center using Tivoli architecture
See how you can tackle energy efficiency in your
enterprise.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Demos | 06 May 2011 |
| Managing value through Tivoli service delivery and support
See how a global financial corporation implements an IBM service
management strategy using Tivoli software.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Demos | 06 May 2011 |
| Tivoli Remote Control
See key features of Tivoli Remote Control in action.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Demos | 06 May 2011 |
| Enterprise event management framework, Part 1: Introducing the event framework for telecommunications
Business events are central to all operations within an
organization, from handling service requests to managing accounting
operations. Timely knowledge of business events allows you to respond quickly
to customer actions. Understanding complex business event patterns permits the
early detection of fraud, security intrusions, system failure conditions, and
other situations detrimental to business operations. This two-part series
presents and uses an enterprise event management framework for the
telecommunications industry as a formal example.
Also available in:
Korean
Portuguese
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Articles | 26 Apr 2011 |
| Watson and healthcare
Examine how IBM Watson takes on the healthcare industry and addresses issues that previous generations of tools have not been able to address. Learn what sets Watson apart from other systems, and get a sneak peek of the technology behind Watson.
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Articles | 12 Apr 2011 |
| Technical Standards in Education, Part 7: Web 2.0, sharing, and the open agenda
The last article in the series addresses new approaches to educational standards development, new requirements brought about by the use of Web 2.0 tools, and the impact of Open Educational Resource (OER) initiatives.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 05 Apr 2011 |
| Using core telecom network features to develop web applications: Part 2: Using REST style APIs
Traditionally, building telecom applications implied dealing with telecom network complexities and having technical skills on telecom protocols such as SMPP, MLP, and Parlay. This two-part article describes how a third-party application developer can build value-added services that leverage core telecom features that are available in the service provider’s network, without having those programming skills. This article, Part 2, discusses different ways of developing telecom applications with ease by using REST style APIs that are exposed by IBM WebSphere Telecom Web Services Server (TWSS).
Also available in:
Russian
Portuguese
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Articles | 29 Mar 2011 |
| Technical standards in education, Part 6: Standards for assessment and item banks
This sixth article looks at the role of standards
and specifications for supporting the creation, storage, management, sharing
and delivery of assessment within the education sector. Review e-assessment techniques, and the types of assessment in common
use, and some real world examples.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 25 Mar 2011 |
| Using core telecom network features to develop web applications: Part 1. Web services method
Traditionally, building telecommunications applications implied dealing with telecom network complexities and having technical skills on telecom protocols, such as SMPP, MLP, and Parlay. This article describes how a third-party application developer can build web applications by using core telecom features that are available in the service provider's network. It also explains other approaches, including how to use the REST and web services capabilities included in the IBM WebSphere Telecom Web Services Server (TWSS) to build telecom applications with ease.
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Articles | 22 Mar 2011 |
| Schools Interoperability Framework and SOA
Data movement from school districts to state departments of education is a key consideration for K-12 schools today. Using examples, this article describes an interoperability bridge allowing state education agencies that are SOA based to interconnect and get data from districts that may be Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) based.
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Articles | 15 Mar 2011 |
| Technical standards in education, Part 5: Take advantage of metadata
Educational metadata is a specific type of metadata for describing the
educational use of a resource. This article provides a general overview of metadata,
illustrates its basic concepts, and discusses educational metadata. Learn
about vocabularies, tools, and the current use of educational description.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 08 Mar 2011 |
| Build native mobile applications with Jo and PhoneGap
The mobile application development space is progressing rapidly; this is
partly due to new frameworks that have emerged with promises to make mobile
development easier and more approachable to a traditional web developer. This
article focuses on developing native mobile applications by applying the HTML,
CSS, and JavaScript language skills you already have to two frameworks: a new
framework called Jo, and an open source framework called PhoneGap that lets
you access native features on some of the most popular mobile
platforms.
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Articles | 01 Mar 2011 |
| Smarter collaboration for the education industry using Lotus
Connections, Part 4: Use IBM Content Analytics to crawl, analyze, and display unstructured
data
Continue building an example application that
augments IBM Lotus Connections Profiles pages with information about
research grant awards and academic research interests. Unstructured source
data is gathered and persisted to a text analytics collection point. Learn
about the server-side implementation of the custom widgets, and how they
employ Content Analytics analysis. You'll also build a custom crawler.
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Articles | 01 Mar 2011 |
| Extending HL7 v3 schemas using OASIS CAM and CAMProcessor
Traditionally, healthcare implementation projects use W3C XML Schema Definitions (XSDs) to define the Health Level Seven (HL7) messaging standard. By extending these schemas using the OASIS Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM), generating conformance messages becomes quicker and more reliable. The CAMProcessor, which is part of the jCAM open source project, makes this process of extension easy, so you can focus more business effort on the business rules underlying the HL7 schemas.
Also available in:
Chinese
Portuguese
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Articles | 22 Feb 2011 |
| LDAP and the iPhone
A multitude of libraries have been written for UNIX systems. Many of those libraries have been released using open source licenses that allow a library's source code to be reused in new projects. By porting an existing library to a new platform, a developer may be able to save the time it would take to duplicate the development work to achieve the same functionality on the new platform. This is the first of a two-part article series on porting the OpenLDAP client libraries to the iOS. Part 1 walks the reader through the steps of importing the OpenLDAP source code into Xcode and building two static libraries for the iOS. Using the Xcode project created in Part 1, Part 2 will guide the reader through the creation a simple iOS application that executes basic queries to an LDAP server using the OpenLDAP libraries.
Also available in:
Chinese
Portuguese
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Articles | 22 Feb 2011 |
| Smarter collaboration for the education industry using Lotus
Connections, Part 3: Use Profiles to share research interests and grant awards
Learn to augment IBM Lotus Connections Profiles pages
with information about research grant awards and academic research interests.
An example application, including code samples, shows how to gather source
data on grants and publications and persist it to a text analytics collection
point. The content is ranked and shaped into a research interest cloud tag for
the Profile user. Implement the UI using two custom widgets composed of XML
and JavaScript files.
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Articles | 22 Feb 2011 |
| Build mobile web applications with Sencha Touch
Sencha Touch is a mobile web application framework that was built using
HTML5, CSS3, and the JavaScript language. In this article, learn to apply your
current web development skills to mobile web development. Download and set up
Sencha Touch, and explore the basics using a sample application. Learn
everything you need to know to start working with the Sencha Touch
framework.
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Articles | 22 Feb 2011 |
| Accessing a JAX-WS web service from Android
Web services provide function specific services and are especially
suited for mobile devices. KSoap2-android project is a SOAP library for the
Android platform. In this article we will access a JAX-WS web service for which a
WSDL is provided from an Android client. The web service returns a Hello
message in response to a request containing a name. We shall create a web service client for Android using the Eclipse ADT plugin and the KSoap2-android library. We will test the web service client in an AVD (Android Virtual Device). The response from sending a request to a Hello web service with name as the request argument is output on an Android virtual device emulator.
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Articles | 15 Feb 2011 |
| Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise with WebSphere Message Broker
V7.0
IBM WebSphere Message Broker V7.0 includes a set of healthcare assets that enable healthcare system
integrators to work more effectively with HL7 messaging. Learn how to use them with the patient identity management profiles defined by the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) framework.
Also available in:
Korean
Portuguese
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Tutorial | 15 Feb 2011 |
| Developing Drupal publications to support standards-based XML
Academic and corporate clients seeking digital journals or other types of web publications regularly require platforms that support standards-based XML. This tutorial explains how to customize a Drupal implementation to develop publications that enable editors, authors, and users to submit and edit content in standards-based XML, where the standard can be enforced using server-side validation settings. For illustrative purposes, the discussion references TEI XML, the markup standard in widespread use in academia.
Also available in:
Korean
Portuguese
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Tutorial | 08 Feb 2011 |
| Smarter collaboration for the education industry using Lotus
Connections, Part 2: Optimize assignment of students to research projects
Build a web application to optimize assignment of students to research project positions using data from a remote DB2 database, ILOG CPLEX for the optimization, and iWidgets in the browser-based client.
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Articles | 08 Feb 2011 |
| Technical standards in education, Part 4: Interoperable resource deposit using SWORD
Open repositories allow cutting edge research to reach
wider audiences. The Simple
Web-service Offering Repository Deposit (SWORD) protocol is the
standard by which most open repositories allow remote deposit. This
article describes the SWORD protocol, why it was developed, possible use
cases, and how it works.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 25 Jan 2011 |
| Cloud and industry, Part 2: The chemical, petroleum industry and IIF
See how cloud computing technologies and architecture patterns using the IBM Chemical and Petroleum Integrated Information Framework (IIF) significantly enhance the capabilities and agility of not only the chemical and petroleum industry, but also enterprises with similar requirements, business models, and IT architectures in other industries.
At the infrastructure level, this article presents the capabilities and implementation
mechanism of cloud-based IIF solution lifecycle management. Based on such a management
foundation, a business process environment delivered in the Platform as a Service (PaaS)
business model is provided for rapid development of business agility. This article is Part 2 of a series on enabling cloud computing in industry solutions. See Part 1 for an overview of PaaS best practices and patterns.
Also available in:
Japanese
Portuguese
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Articles | 21 Jan 2011 |
| Technical standards in education, Part 3: Open repositories for scholarly communication
Universities and research institutions use open repositories to make
research output available to a worldwide audience. This article introduces some of the standards and describes the technical challenges relating to collecting, storing, preserving, transferring, and providing access to open repositories.
Also available in:
Vietnamese
Portuguese
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Articles | 19 Jan 2011 |
| Integrating IBM WebSphere Telecom Web Services Server with media
server
This article introduces IBM WebSphere Telecom Web Services Server,
discusses integrating its call handling features with media server, and
demonstrates how IBM products serve the end-to-end requirements for next
generation network’s (NGN) telecommunications infrastructure in handling calls
on the IP based-network.
Also available in:
Korean
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Articles | 13 Jan 2011 |
| Technical standards in education, Part 2: Learning technology standards, specifications, and protocols
This is the second in a series of articles discussing technical
standards used in education. This article looks at standards used today and
their impact on the learning and teaching processes in schools and businesses.
The most commonly used standards in education are content packaging standards
such as SCORM, IMS CP, and Common Cartridge, which are all covered in this
article.
Also available in:
Vietnamese
Portuguese
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Articles | 11 Jan 2011 |
| 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. In this article, the author explains what a threshold policy is and how it can help to balance workload demands dynamically in a cloud environment.
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Articles | 11 Jan 2011 |
| Building an iPhone chat app from the ground up
In this article, work through the entire process of building an iPhone chat application from the server all the way to the user interface on the front end.
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Articles | 05 Jan 2011 |
| Technical standards in education, Part 1: Introducing the educational standards
The first in a series of articles on technical standards used in
education. This article explores use of the standards, controversies around
their development, and the impact of Web 2.0.
Also available in:
Vietnamese
Portuguese
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Articles | 21 Dec 2010 |
| Introduction to Facebook APIs
You can incorporate Facebook functionality into your own applications. From the mobile perspective, the Facebook Platform supports APIs for mobile web applications, and mobile SDKs for native mobile applications for the iPhone, iPad, and Android platforms. In this article, explore the Facebook Platform APIs and the Facebook SDK for Android, the SDK released by the Facebook mobile team.
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Articles | 16 Dec 2010 |
| Develop lightweight ancillary tools connected to electronic health records
systems
The 2009 HITECH Act offers money to physicians and hospitals if they become "meaningful users" of certified electronic health records (EHR) systems. Shahid Shah tells you how to add meaningful use and other business requirements as lightweight ancillary tools connected to your EHR system without adding risk to your existing environment.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 14 Dec 2010 |
| Transform a branch bank into an efficient and effective banking service
provider
Although web 2.0-based internet banking is an important strategic
direction, the retail business is another important source of banking revenue.
This article explores how the IBM rich client-based desktop platform may help
transform local branch banks into efficient and effective banking service
providers.
Also available in:
Korean
Portuguese
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Articles | 07 Dec 2010 |
| Cloud and industry, Part 1: PaaS best practices and patterns
This article is the first part of a series on enabling cloud computing in industry solutions. This introduction covers basic cloud computing philosophy and industry solution knowledge. You will learn about the requirements and functions of three models to deliver industry solutions, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS), and how you can use best practices and patterns with the PaaS framework in particular to deploy and manage cloud computing solutions. The next articles in the series will discuss how cloud computing capabilities can be applied specifically to the chemical and petroleum and telecommunications domains.
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Articles | 07 Dec 2010 |
| Introduction to code lists in XML business documents
Read about code lists in XML business documents including the
implementation details of UBL code lists and the creation and customization of
both internationally and locally controlled code lists.
Also available in:
Korean
Portuguese
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Articles | 07 Dec 2010 |
| Taking medical records into the digital age
Traditional medical record systems are failing to keep up with the
increasing demands in healthcare. In this article, we explore the current
challenges with traditional, paper-based medical record systems. Using OpenEMR
as an example, you will see how modern Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems
fix the problems.
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Articles | 30 Nov 2010 |
| Understanding Android local data store APIs
The ability to store data locally on the mobile device is a critical function for mobile applications that are required to maintain essential information across application-executions or the lifetime of the application. As a developer, you constantly need to store information such as user preferences or application configurations. You must also decide if you need to tap internal or external storage, depending on characteristics, such as access visibility, or if you need to handle more complex, structured types of data. Follow along in this article to learn about Android data storage APIs, specifically the preferences, SQLite, and the internal and external memory APIs.
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Articles | 30 Nov 2010 |
| Efficient multidimensional data modeling with InfoSphere Data
Architect
Learn how InfoSphere Data Architect is efficiently used in
multidimensional data modeling.
|
Demos | 19 Nov 2010 |
| Understanding security on Android
When you develop Android applications, you must deal with a number of security-related aspects, including application processes and sandboxes, code and data sharing, system protection through application signing, and permissions use. Highlight these aspects of security in Android application development as you work with sample code.
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Articles | 16 Nov 2010 |
| Introduction to Android development Using Eclipse and Android widgets
This tutorial is intended for anyone interested in beginning Android development on
Eclipse using the Android development tools plug-in.
It offers insight into the salient features of an Android app, along with a
brief explanation of its basic components. The
Android process is introduced for developing rich UIs for the apps, as widgets.
Finally, it showcases how easy it is to test the developed app by deploying it on an Android device
simulator included in the SDK.
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Tutorial | 16 Nov 2010 |
| UBL and Disruptive Innovation
The OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) is an XML-based technology
used for messages and transactions between businesses. In this article, we
will examine UBL to illustrate its usefulness, and explore how emerging UBL
services can be a disruptive innovation.
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Articles | 16 Nov 2010 |
| Integrate IBM FileNet P8 BPM with IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules using Web
services
The competitive nature of today's business demands that an
organization's business processes be highly dynamic. A business must
accommodate and manage fast-changing business rules associated with business
processes. A business rules management system (BRMS) enables you to extract
business rules and decisions from business processes and manage them
independently, thereby allowing the processes to be streamlined. This article
describes how to integrate IBM(R) WebSphere(R) ILOG(R) JRules, an
industry-leading BRMS, with IBM FileNet(R) P8 BPM, a comprehensive business
process management system (BPMS). [The November 2010 update includes the following
changes: the term expert system was changed to decision service; business
rules conditional checking 1 equals 1 was removed; the PI prefix to
verbalization was removed; the rules are better organized in in the rule
packages; and the rule flow was updated based on the new package design. --Ed]
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Articles | 11 Nov 2010 |
| Understanding electronic health records and third-party application
databases
Proper healthcare IT data modeling is difficult because the healthcare
domain is both broad and deep. This article explains why data models in
healthcare matter, and how you can ensure that new electronic health records
application purchases you make have extensible databases to meet future
business and clinical needs.
Also available in:
Portuguese
Spanish
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Articles | 02 Nov 2010 |
| Find databases with protected health information
Identity theft and medical fraud are growing problems. They are so big
the U.S. government is spending billions of dollars securing its own computer
systems and has written thousands of pages of new regulations that you must
follow to help protect your customer and employee data. To comply with new
regulations and properly secure data, you will need to find personally
identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) in your
databases and documents. Both PHI and PII are conceptually easy to understand
but very difficult to track in the thousands of relational data stores, files,
and spreadsheets that make up a typical organization's IT environment. This
article describes some methods to automatically identify and inventory PII,
PHI, and other sensitive data with databases and spreadsheets using Java
technology and the Apache Ant build tool.
Also available in:
Spanish
|
Articles | 19 Oct 2010 |
| Representing predictive solutions in PMML
PMML, the Predictive Model Markup Language, is the de facto standard used to represent a myriad of predictive modeling techniques, such as Association Rules, Cluster Models, Neural Networks, and Decision Trees. These techniques empower companies around the globe to extract hidden patterns from data and use them to forecast behavior. In this article, start with a look at the predictive modeling techniques that are directly supported by the standard. However, given that a predictive solution is more than the statistical techniques it harbors, then dive even deeper into the language and explore the transformations and functions that are used for data processing by illustrating the use of data pre-processing and modeling in PMML as it is used to represent a complete predictive solution.
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Articles | 28 Sep 2010 |
| What is PMML?
The Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) is the de facto standard
language used to represent predictive analytic models. It allows for predictive
solutions to be easily shared between PMML compliant applications. With predictive
analytics, the Petroleum and Chemical industries create solutions to predict machinery
break-down and ensure safety. PMML is supported by many of the top statistical tools. As a result, the process of putting a predictive
analytics model to work is straightforward since you can build it in one tool and
instantly deploy it in another. In a world in which sensors and data gathering are
becoming more and more pervasive, predictive analytics and standards such as PMML make
it possible for people to benefit from smart solutions that will truly revolutionize
their lives.
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Articles | 28 Sep 2010 |
| Building mobile applications for WebSphere Commerce using the hybrid
application programming model
Learn how to build mobile applications for WebSphere Commerce using the
hybrid application programming model. This article describes the hybrid model,
how it compares to the other mobile application programming models, and how it
can be used to build iPhone and Android applications for WebSphere Commerce in
two case studies.
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Articles | 22 Sep 2010 |
| Smarter collaboration for the education industry using Lotus Connections, Part 1: Integrate Lotus Connections with a RESTful web application
Extend IBM Lotus Connections capabilities with a RESTful web application that supports XML and JSON APIs. The Connections Profiles user interface is a custom widget based on the Dojo Toolkit. The web app enables a university professor to share his publications on a social network profile page. Further customize the application to share other information from the professor's profile such as research grant awards or courses taught.
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Articles | 21 Sep 2010 |
| Build dynamic user interfaces with Android and XML
A number of websites cater to non-profits that provide easily set-up and used forms for taking polls and collecting data. This tutorial introduces a simple architecture for designing similar applications for Android -- dynamic user interfaces that allow non-programmers to collect data from mobile users. You will create an example forms engine in this tutorial with both server and mobile sides.
|
Tutorial | 07 Sep 2010 |
| Service virtualization and validation practices for the utility industry
The utilities industry must modernize IT resources and existing, antiquated technologies to meet current business and regulatory requirements and gain better visibility and control of power across the grid. A particular challenge is Advanced Metering Systems. In this article the authors demonstrate how service virtualization can help development and QA teams to meet the challenges of today's smart meter and smart grid implementations.
|
Articles | 02 Sep 2010 |
| Comment lines: Core banking transformation worst practices and other scary stories
As many architects can attest, there are a lot of scary stories that exist in the pursuit of target solution architectures. Sometimes, these situations occur due to lack of experience, but they also occur as a result of not applying a sound architectural perspective to a given situation. This article looks at a number of actual scenarios and their associated resolutions in the hope of preventing similar misadventures.
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Articles | 25 Aug 2010 |
| Cloud computing by government agencies
The United States federal government has the largest annual IT budget of any
organization, almost $80 billion in 2010 alone. To save money and improve services,
the government is beginning to adopt a cloud first approach towards procuring new and
replacement systems. The business cases and technical benefits for moving into the
cloud are the same for the government as they are for other firms, only the savings
and challenges are much bigger. Government agencies have two special challenges: procurement and security. This article briefly describes the procurement challenges and then jumps into advising government cloud service purchasers on the positives and negatives of security in the cloud, and how to manage their potential vendors' security risks. The security threats are covered from the government's point of view, but smart cloud vendors will take it as a preview of what questions the government might ask them and prepare accordingly.
|
Articles | 17 Aug 2010 |
| IBM technology in the financial markets front office, Part
2: Invoke conditional business rules based on analyzing data streams
This second article in the series focuses on the integration of
InfoSphere(TM) Streams and WebSphere(R) ILOG(R) JRules. InfoSphere Streams is
a high-performance stream processing engine that is capable of performing
calculations and analysis of data streams in real time. ILOG JRules is a
business rules management system that enables the creation of rule-based
applications. This article presents a simple, algorithmic trading scenario in
which InfoSphere Streams operate on a stream of market data and, under certain
circumstances, a business rule is invoked using ILOG JRules. In order to
perform this task, you will learn how to integrate the two products together
in an efficient manner.
|
Articles | 05 Aug 2010 |
| An overview of NHIN and NHIN Direct for software developers
If you're doing any work in the healthcare IT industry, you
need to be familiar with the National Health Information Network (NHIN). This
article provides a technical overview of NHIN and related sub projects called
NHIN CONNECT and NHIN Direct. You can use CONNECT right now to create your own
health information exchange (HIE) or connect to an existing HIE. NHIN Direct
is new and doesn't have immediately usable code, but when it's ready you can
use it to push or pull data from your medical systems to other healthcare
systems directly (without necessarily going through an
HIE).
Also available in:
Japanese
Portuguese
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Articles | 27 Jul 2010 |
| Integrating healthcare services, Part 2: Using Apache ServiceMix as a Healthcare Service Bus
A Healthcare Service Bus (HSB) enables diverse healthcare applications to interconnect and interoperate for efficient service delivery. Part 1 of this two-part article discusses the aggregation of healthcare services using Java Business Integration (JBI) architecture. This concluding installment shows how you can use an open source JBI implementation -- Apache ServiceMix -- as an HSB. You'll configure an application as a ServiceMix-hosted internal service, learn how to interconnect multiple JBI environments, and find out how you can integrate an industry standard for healthcare interoperability into ServiceMix.
|
Articles | 08 Jun 2010 |
| Creating a NIEM IEPD, Part 2: Map and subset NIEM
Part 1 of this series described the process of creating a UML model of an XML information
exchange to be implemented in the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM). In this
article, take the next step -- map the model to NIEM to determine what parts of NIEM the
exchange can reuse. Also learn how to create a subset of the NIEM model to include in an
IEPD.
|
Articles | 18 May 2010 |
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