(Bo Li, Wei Wang and LaiFeng Zhang) This article is the second in a series of three articles that guide you in learning how to build your own custom Business Process Management Web application. You’ll start from scratch, using the IBM FileNet P8 platform and the Business Process Framework (BPF), wit
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(Jeff Levinson) Team Foundation Server (TFS) and the Visual Studio 2005 Team System client components are nothing more than tools. They are not silver-bullet solutions for organizations that lack physical processes to back up their software development. However, companies can avoid typical implement
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(Rick Jelliffe) When you see a data field with text like 2007-07-05 you are probably looking at a date in ISO 8601 date format. Year, month, day: YYYY-MM-DD
Use IBM WebSphere AuditStage in a federated database environment
(Harald Smith and Ian Schmidt) IBM WebSphere Information Analyzer includes the IBM WebSphere AuditStage product, providing users with the capability to create, deploy, and monitor data validation rules over time. The reach of WebSphere AuditStage can be extended by leveraging the IBM WebSphere Feder
Working with Windows Service Using Visual Studio 2005
(Abhishek Kumar Singh) A windows service is a program which runs continuously in the background of an Operating System. It was formerly known as NT services. Window service internally uses the Service Control Manager (SCM) of the operating system. A service must be installed in a SCM database before