(James Gill) We were lucky enough to get an opportunity to spend a week in the IBM Boeblingen Labs in Germany, to get some hands on experience with DB2 9.8 – pureScale – or Data Sharing on mid-range.

(Rebecca Bond) I was searching for a new book for my Kindle recently and found one that made me think about the whole topic of “knowing”. From a security standpoint, “knowing” is important. If you don’t know something, then how can you be expected to support or secure it? Without “knowing”, you are

(Eugene Kharlamov, Brian M. Petrini, Janette Wong and Shu Tan) This article describes the Claim Check pattern and shows you how to use this pattern in the context of Service Component Architecture. A sample application shows you how to implement the pattern using WebSphere Integration Developer V6.2

Dave Beulke, data management consultant, discusses how the IOD community along with the IDUG community can really help the DB2 data professional.

(Marc Fasbinder) On December 12th, 2009, IBM announced the acquisition of Lombardi, a leading provider of business process management (BPM) solutions. This article will show you how to integrate Lombardi BPM with your existing WebSphere BPM solutions. You will learn how to model and implement a proc

(Chuck Ballard, Nicole Harris, Andrew Lawrence, Meridee Lowry, Andy Perkins and Sundari Voruganti) In this IBM Redbooks publication we describe and demonstrate Version 9.7 of IBM InfoSphere Warehouse. InfoSphere Warehouse is a comprehensive platform with all the functionality required for developing

(Stefanie Scherzinger, Dr. Thomas Schwarz and Dr. Michael J. Wurst) Predictive analytics software helps you to find non-obvious, hidden patterns in large data sets. Current tools for predictive analytics, such as SPSS (an IBM company) and IBM InfoSphere Warehouse, expect data to be represented in an

(Willie Favero) Back on November 11, 2009, I published a blog entry that discussed a little something we are working on that we previewed at IOD 2009 in Las Vegas. It was Smart Analytics Optimizer. If you missed that blog entry or need a refresher on what Smart Analytics Optimizer is, check out that

See how one fictional company uses DB2 Workload Management and Optim Performance Manager Extended Edition to allocate database system resources to help a high priority application achieve its business objectives in a data warehousing environment. These capabilities are conveniently packaged together

Interviewed at the IOD Conference, Vladimir Bacvanski, Vice President of Infodata, talks about learning best practices and applying them to your application area.