(Robert Catterall) I can say, with a high degree of confidence, that your organization has at least one analytics application. You have one or more data stores that support this analytics workload: perhaps a data warehouse, some data marts, maybe an operational data store (ODS).

(Jay Yothers) Increasingly, customers must keep their applications online and available all hours of every day, 24X7. Fortunately, the DB2 migration process has been designed specifically to allow the business application set to continue to run while you migrate. This article provides hints and tips

(Nestor E. Arellano) A recent upgrade to IBM Corp’s SmartCloud enables the cloud computing product to run copies of SAP AG’s in-memory database platform HANA and provides the Big Blue product with new data analytics features.

(Bob Balfe) In this video I show how you can edit web activities directly from site preview in WebSphere Commerce. I created a new customer segment that only has shoppers who have purchased something in the past 30 days.

(Cynthia M. Saracco, Gary Robinson and Vijay Bommireddipalli) Analyzing social media data often requires processing text-based messages to categorize their content, eliminate false positives, assess the sentiments expressed, and perform related functions. Such efforts require extracting context from

(Curt Monash) I had a good chat with IBM about IBM BLU, aka BLU Accelerator or Accleration. BLU basics start:

(Craig S. Mullins) When a row is read or modified in a table containing LOB columns, the application will obtain a normal transaction lock on the base table. The actual values for (most) LOBs are stored in a separate table space from the rest of the table data.

(Rick Gunderson) This introduction to the REST features embedded in IBM WebSphere Application Server V8 and later illustrates how you can create a simple REST service and leverage the RESTful capabilities that are built into WebSphere Application Server, such as object deserialization, custom serial

(Hendry Chairulsyah) The existence of Web services creates the potential to unite the data from remote sources with the data that is stored locally in a relational database. For customers who have not yet upgraded to the latest technology updates of DB2 for i 7.1, integrating a Web service with DB2

(Jack Vamvas) How can you find the uptime of DB2 LUW ?