Basic steps that one would follow to have python ibm_db driver installed are: 1. Install and configure required python version 2. Install the python ibm_db driver.   When you try ibm_db installation as a non-root user, it might make use of the in-built(root installation) python and hence installation can fail with error " [Errno 30] Read-only file system". To overcome the problem, you could either get write permissions for the site-packages directory or can have your own copy of python installed. If you are going to have your own... [More]

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Automotive industry is striving for design anywhere, build anywhere & sell anywhere theme. Digital technologies are disrupting every industry, making executives question their strategy. The only way to sustain competitive advantage in the age of the customer is to make their experiences more personal. To get the data to make this happen, you need a next-gen analytics platform that can harness big data and predictive analytics along with traditional analytics. In this paper, we have tried to portray Analytics Re-Imagination journey for Auto... [More]

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Long gone are the days, in which organizations across the world analyzed only the data that they had in their transactional systems or relying on human experts only for detecting Insurance Fraud. With the rise of social media and people willing to share everything about their life in open in those social networks knowingly or unknowingly, Insurance organizations across the world suddenly have got access to a big treasure trove of data to better understand their customers and their associations. This paper talks about leveraging this new glut of... [More]

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Note: This is not for IBM employees   To know more about the event, visit:  http://watson.acehacker.com/  

Gone are those days when my mother used to go to grocery shop to buy groceries, I used to go to tailor to get my clothes stitched, to look for a carpenter who will make furniture for you, may things like this.   Since last 5 years, things have drastically changed for Retail Sale for any commodity, there has been lot of retail outlets available in market (with all sorts of retail shops mushrooming) such as D-Mart, Big Bazaar, Star Bazaar, etc.  Retail Business is changing. And it’s changing fast.  It’s all about the... [More]

Single sign-on to SaaS applications is the most common use case for banking using federation approach. This blog covers a solution path for banking organizations with a road map to implement SSO to cloud applications to delight users and increase security.   Nowadays, almost every website requires some form of authentication to access its features and content. With the number of websites and services rising, a centralized login system has become a necessity. Single-sign-on (SSO) is now required more than ever. Online banking, digital... [More]

Learning the ropes - IBM Bluemix PaaS   Agenda: What is a Cloud ? How does it relate to Bluemix ? What can it do for you ? Thinking Architecture & Design, the first steps, the Bluemix way Building applications with Bluemix. How to build IoT applications? Where to go from here ?   Join Meetup by Register ing for the event on  http://www.meetup.com/Cloud-Mumbai-Meetup/events/226905546/   What is Bluemix? You are looking at IBM’s next generation open-standards cloud based platform for building, managing, and running... [More]

This blog talks about Pros and Cons about moving to Cloud. As Cloud Service Models are getting evolved based on business needs, and cloud demands modernization in .current IT asset base or to prepare for future needs, enterprises are moving applications to cloud. First let’s see the advantages of moving enterprise class applications to Cloud PaaS model(IBM Bluemix). Bluemix is an implementation of IBM's Platform as a Service, leveraging Cloud Foundry to enable developers to rapidly build, deploy, and manage applications and services.... [More]

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The biggest B2B startup challenge of the year comes to Delhi. Are you ready?   India is big. India is diverse. India is clustered, and this clustering is happening in the software product industry, too. A large number of B2B SaaS-product companies have emerged successfully in gaining solid customer momentum. However, Enterprise startups are not the kind that you hear about every day. This is primarily because they’re not the shiny apps built by college dropouts. Enterprise startups are the ones that build products help companies... [More]