Open-Logix are a leader in enterprise mobility and integration, delivering solutions for customers as diverse as American Airlines, General Motors and the Mayo Clinic.  More recently, they are building up a following for their Worklight Wednesdays in which each month they address a hot topic in enterprise mobility. We recently caught up with the team who were eager to demonstrate some of the power Worklight can bring to the development of mobile applications. Here Harry Ho presents an app utilizing the camera and location-awareness... [More]

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  The IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit Nashville, TN May 21-23 Highlight: Business Partner Forum Monday May 20 This is the #1 event for IBM and for IBM Partners focused on the Smarter Commerce market opportunities. This is an executive leadership event for ISVs and for IBM, with participation that will include: IBM sales, IBM executive leadership, heads of business development, heads of marketing, heads of sales.... and line of business decision makers from a range of businesses aligned with Smarter Commerce Solutions. Here, the purpose... [More]

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Faizulla Shaik from Softpath Technologies explains how their solutions work on the challenges organizations face as they grow. For instance whilst ad-hoc business processes may work with a small team, this becomes an increasing problem as team sizes grow. The same can be said for scattered IT infrastructure which becomes more problematic as the size of the organization increases. More on SoftPath Technologies More on IBM business process management

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In this video, Aviarc’s CEO Shane Mercer explains how their solutions improve time-to-market for applications by providing a platform for the codification of business user requirements. For instance, user requirements for an app can be output directly as HTML5 which in turn can be used to develop Worklight applications. Aviarc are partnering with IBM Puresystems to deliver their user experience solutions on this robust cloud technology. More on Aviarc More on PureSystems More on Worklight

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Exigen delivers the core mission-critical systems insurance companies need to do business. In this interview, Exigen’s Lee Fogle explains why he is so excited about IBM PureSystems offerings. He points out that speed to product deployment is extremely important and that in his thirty years he has seen many custom-build projects fail.  Pre-configuring the components for an insurance product and bundling this on the PureSystems Applications platform represents the opportunity to provide rapid deployment without the risk of... [More]

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Etienne Castiaux is the CTO of Clear2Pay, a payment software company working in the banking industry. They make extensive use of IBM BPM in order to process over 0.5 trillion payments a year for clients such as MasterCard and Santander.  In this video Etienne explains why they are excited about PureApplication solutions and what they will offer banks in terms of performance and pricing. More on Clear2Pay More on IBM PureSystems

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In this interview John Schlesinger, the Chief Enterprise Architect from Temenos points out that they were one of the first partners to be certified on PureSystems with their banking software running as a System pattern (and shortly an Application pattern) within PureSystems. In terms of the latest trends in banking, John points out that banks are moving quickly to the self-assisted model where users complete their transactions on the web or on a phone. Whilst this provides a better experience for the customer, it also represents cost savings... [More]

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In this interview, Steve Trammell explains ESRI’s deep expertise in mapping and location. In terms of the latest trends in the mobile space, Steve points out that everyone now is a “mobile sensor”. This means we can develop applications where users can pass information back to businesses or governments with their location encoded. For instance a citizen could use an app to capture a photo of a broken pipe or graffiti and send this on to the authorities who could issue a work order and let the citizen know that the problem is... [More]

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PointSource is an IT consulting firm that helps companies develop their enterprise mobility strategy. In this interview PointSource's Stephanie Trunzo explains the importance of design, which she suggests is just as important as an app's functionality. When it comes to IBM's MobileFirst strategy, Stephanie states that a key selling point is that it spans the entire development lifecycle. This is a move away from the discussion around 'I need an app for X' towards thinking about application development, maintenance,... [More]

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AT&T in partnership with IBM offers developers the opportunity to rapidly build and deploy enterprise mobile applications. We recently caught up with a number of AT&T experts who explained what the partnership means for developers. Kevin Griffen points out that AT&T see Worklight as a strong platform for the development of B-to-E applications, and for this reason have been producing adapters that enable Worklight developers to quickly adopt some of AT&T’s services. Kevin highlights the new in-app advertising API that gives... [More]

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In this interview, Pierre Paul Samson, Co-founder and CTO at freedomone explains how they help businesses reach customers across different channels. Concentrating on banking, retail and transportation, freedomone captures rich information across channels to build a picture of customer trends and behaviors. They provide solutions that tie in with existing back-end systems as well as the development of new processes. freedomone supports a number of IBM technologies including the IBM Operational Decision Management (ODM) suite and IBM Worklight .

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BMC Software helps businesses derive insights from the technologies they use. As an example April Hickel from BMC explains how major US retailers use BMC solutions to monitor applications across the supply chain, whether that be communicating between a distribution center and head office, or getting information to a store and back. BMC can monitor the SLAs for those applications and ensure the applications are optimized and running efficiently. April points out that they are particularly interested in the latest IBM MobileFirst announcements as... [More]

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In this presentation, Paul Giorano of Silanis explains how their electronic signature solution simplifies the signing of mortgages and other financial documents, improving customer satisfaction and reducing completion time. More on Silanis More on IBM ECM solutions

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As Thomas Brill from BlueCat explains, with the growth of mobile and cloud, networks have become more complex and the risk of outages has increased. In this presentation learn how BlueCat solutions can help address network intelligence issues. More on BlueCat More on IBM Cloud solutions

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In this presentation, the Vision Solutions team explain the value of their cloud availability offerings. They also discuss the migration challenges of moving to IBM PureFlex and how these can be overcome. More on Vision Solutions More on IBM PureSystems

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In this interview, Curtis Page explains how Aphinat’s software editor allows developers to rapidly develop web and mobile applications. As an example, new applications can be developed from scratch in under 3 months. Alphinat are a validated partner on IBM PureSystems and Curtis suggests that this technology is a differentiator as it allows both speed to market and true enterprise-grade deployment.  More on Alphinat More on IBM PureSystems

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Mustafa Qutbuddin from Royal Cyber explains how their solutions help businesses with legacy backend systems create the mobile experiences demanded by customers today. For instance, they can enable large banks using System Z to produce hybrid or native mobile apps using the IBM Worklight development platform. More on Royal Cyber More on IBM Worklight

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