IBM® BigInsights® BigIntegrate and BigQuality allow for IBM InfoSphere® Information Server to be deployed on Apache Hadoop, leveraging resources in the Hadoop cluster through the Hadoop resource manager known as Yet Another Resource Negotiator (YARN). This offering introduces data locality, allowing for logic in existing and new IBM InfoSphere DataStage® jobs to run on the Hadoop data nodes where the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) blocks exist. Figure 1 shows where... [More]

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The cloud has fueled the rise of small business. Even though small businesses do not have the diversity and depth of capabilities that exist in the enterprise, they are able to bring a new dimension to users; especially users who rely on mobile devices. That dimension is the ability to move with agility. Because small businesses are able to recognize and react to customer needs quickly they are able to provide new services in less time than their enterprise class competitors. This speed to... [More]

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IBM and Box have forged a global partnership that will combine the best-in-class technologies and resources of both companies to transform work in the cloud. This partnership can help individuals, organizations, and industries easily and securely access, edit, share and apply analytics to business information. This strategic partnership combines the strengths of both companies to deliver new client value so that IBM can address customers' increasing needs for productivity, security, and... [More]

IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V5 is a powerful, mixed-language application server that meets the transaction-processing needs of both large and small enterprises. It builds on z/OS and IBM z Systems facilities to provide high availability and scalability at a low cost per transaction; it supports large transaction volumes with a fast and consistent response time. In my role as performance test lead for CICS, I have presented at many conferences around the world. The most popular sessions... [More]

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Parameswaran Venkatraman is a software engineer in IBM StoredIQ of Enterprise Content Management group at IBM India Software Labs. He has a Bachelor degree in Information Technology with over four years of IT experiences in design and development of front-end, API, and visual effect. As a part of the engineering team, he works extensively across StoredIQ product suite and applications. His primary responsibilities are designing and implementing features for user interface and application layer.... [More]

  IBM® Enterprise Content Management (ECM) portfolio software enables the largest organizations in the world to make better decisions, faster. By gaining control of structured and unstructured information, organizations can access, collaborate, and influence business decisions in new ways, making content a first-class source of insight. With industry-specific IBM ECM solutions, organizations can capture, manage, and share content throughout the information lifecycle, helping to ensure... [More]

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IBM CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS® V5 provides a powerful platform for running Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) applications. CICS customers looking to exploit this technology frequently ask for advice on how best to exploit the connection options available between their JEE applications and their data held by DB2 for z/OS servers. In his recent IBM® Redpaper™ publication, Graham Rawson (a software performance analyst with the IBM CICS development team) uses TradeLite, the... [More]

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Servando Varela is the Program Director for ECM Mobile Applications and has over 15 years of experience working in the Enterprise Content Management industry. Servando first started in 2000, where he worked in the FileNet R&D group for the FileNet P8 platform. In 2008, he started working in the IBM ECM Product Management team. In his current role, Program Director, Marketing and Strategy for ECM Mobile Applications, Servando manages the ECM Mobile offerings, as ECM Mobile became a stronger... [More]

Matthew Roberts designs process improvement solutions for IBM clients across the UK and Ireland. As a member of the UKI technical sales team, Matt leads the adoption of IBM Operational Decision Manager Advanced within systems of insight. In this role, Matt builds proof of concept prototypes and leads the technical specification of new Smarter Process solutions. Matt is a certified developer for IBM Operational Decision Manager and IBM Business Process Manager. He holds a Master of Computer... [More]

Alexander Kelly is a Performance Analyst at the IBM Lab in Hursley, UK. He has worked on IBM Operational Decision Manager Decision Server Insights? since the product was first developed. He specializes in the clustered configuration of the product, and the database persistence of contextual data. This blog post is adapted from an excerpt of the forthcoming IBM Redbooks publication Systems of Insight in the Digital Transformation Era , SG24-8293. In this sample, our aim is to use the capabilities... [More]

Contributed by Anja Jessica Paessler When talking about IT infrastructure nowadays, you will have to think about high availability as well. Especially when you work in a sector where data security and integrity is of very high importance such as banking and insurance. Law restrictions and competitive pressures force every business to think about how to keep their data safe. Therefore, high availability is not just a trendy word, but essential to you and your clients. Think about it, high... [More]

Contributed by Anja Jessica Paessler We all know about MQ as middleware software - and now there is an appliance as well. But why? And what are the benefits? Let's take a look at current business challenges to answer these questions. First of all, businesses become not only more and more complicated, but more and more geographically distributed as well. Messaging infrastructures face increasing demand and seamless connectivity is not only expected, but essential for successful business... [More]

The architecture of IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes is something that many find it hard to conceptualize. Cognos Dynamic Cubes are really just an extension of Dynamic Query Mode (DQM) which in turn is part of the three tiered Cognos BI architecture familiar to authors, modellers and administrators alike. So why is it that as we delve into the Cognos BI stack tracing these extended features it becomes difficult to stay on track? I find that the trick is to separate the concepts of Cognos Dynamic Cubes... [More]

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As a software architect for IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes, I frequently get the question, "I have Cognos Dynamic Cubes but my reports and dashboards aren't fast enough. What can I do?" And, sometimes the question is more of a plea, "Help! I need to improve performance of the reports!" Often, what I've seen with situations like these is that by understanding where the time is being spent and following a few preferred practices to address those bottlenecks, report... [More]

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