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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Monday, January 14, 2013
Portal at the Speed of Light: Techniques for Worklight integration at IBM Connect
IBM Connect 2013 is now less than two weeks away! This is my eighth visit to the conference, but the first time as a full session speaker. Along with my colleague and fellow IBM Champion, Laks Sundararajan, I will be presenting on Wednesday morning about techniques for using IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Worklight together to build mobile applications.
Here is our agenda:
You can visit the IBM Connect conference site to connect with us and add the session to your schedule: http://www.socialbizonline.com
Session Details:
Title: BP407: Portal at the Speed of Light: Techniques for IBM Worklight Integration
Date & Time: Jan 30, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: Dolphin S. Hem III
Abstract: In this session, you'll learn techniques for extending your IBM Websphere Portal to mobile applications across iOS and Android devices. Experts from our User Experience team will demonstrate how to easily build IBM Worklight applications that integrate with personalization and web content features provided by Portal. You'll see how to use tools such as IBM Web Experience Factory and IBM Web Content Manager and how to leverage capabilities such as Portlet Services and mobile themes to develop a mobile application running on IBM Worklight in both online and offline modes. At the end of this session, you will be ready to take advantage of the IBM Worklight entitlement provided by IBM to take your Portal to the mobile world!
Prolifics is a Bronze Sponsor at IBM Connect 2013 and will be showcasing our solutions and offerings at Booth #C18-19. To see what else Prolifics has planned for the conference, please visit: www.prolifics.com/connect-2013.htm.
If you would like to meet me at Connect or set up a one-on-one workshop session with a Prolifics subject matter expert, please reach out in one of the following ways:
Tweet @Handly
Tweet @Prolifics
Email solutions@prolifics.com
Handly Cameron is an IBM Champion and a Technology Manager leading Mobile and Social solutions at Prolifics. He has 20 years of experience in enterprise collaboration and application development and loves to help companies leverage social and collaboration technologies to drive business value. Handly is the leader of the Atlanta WebSphere Users Group, recently finished 5 years as the president of Agile Atlanta, and holds 25+ industry technical certifications. He blogs at http://handly.org and is on Twitter as @Handly.
Here is our agenda:
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| IBM Worklight Portal Servers Diagram |
- The need for multi-channel applications
- A quick overview of Worklight
- When to use just use Portal or Worklight by themselves
- How to build hybrid apps using Portal and Worklight together
- Use WCM to let your business authors drive application content
- Leveraging Cast Iron and WebSphere MQ
- Best Practices Speed Round
You can visit the IBM Connect conference site to connect with us and add the session to your schedule: http://www.socialbizonline.com
Session Details:
Title: BP407: Portal at the Speed of Light: Techniques for IBM Worklight Integration
Date & Time: Jan 30, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: Dolphin S. Hem III
Abstract: In this session, you'll learn techniques for extending your IBM Websphere Portal to mobile applications across iOS and Android devices. Experts from our User Experience team will demonstrate how to easily build IBM Worklight applications that integrate with personalization and web content features provided by Portal. You'll see how to use tools such as IBM Web Experience Factory and IBM Web Content Manager and how to leverage capabilities such as Portlet Services and mobile themes to develop a mobile application running on IBM Worklight in both online and offline modes. At the end of this session, you will be ready to take advantage of the IBM Worklight entitlement provided by IBM to take your Portal to the mobile world!
Prolifics is a Bronze Sponsor at IBM Connect 2013 and will be showcasing our solutions and offerings at Booth #C18-19. To see what else Prolifics has planned for the conference, please visit: www.prolifics.com/connect-2013.htm.
If you would like to meet me at Connect or set up a one-on-one workshop session with a Prolifics subject matter expert, please reach out in one of the following ways:
Tweet @Handly
Tweet @Prolifics
Email solutions@prolifics.com
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Reinventing the Intranet with WebSphere Portal 8 & WCM 8
IBM Connect is less than 1 month away and Prolifics is sharing a sneak peek into our presence at the conference! Our experts will be showcasing a number of recent success stories, implemented across a variety of industry with a range of IBM software. One of these projects involved IBM WebSphere Portal 8 and Web Content Manager 8, leveraged to enhance our customer's intranet.
Our customer is a group of 450 companies conducting business-to-business wholesale distribution of plumbing and heating supplies; industrial pipes, valves and fittings; heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration equipment; electrical equipment; industrial and commercial fastening hardware; waterworks and utility supplies; and domestic, commercial and industrial pumps. With over 4,000 employees, it was important to update their intranet to get a “face lift” and be more user-friendly, remove the dependency on IT, and encourage collaboration across divisions. Prolifics, known for our deep Portal skills, was brought in to implement the intranet using IBM WebSphere Portal 8 and Web Content Manager 8. By leveraging these two products, the customer is able to empower its business users from HR to Marketing to Sales to add and edit their own content without relying on IT. This keeps content such as news, announcement and reports up to date and accurate. Portal 8 also provides a personalized experience based on roles and department, with dynamic page rendering. Web Content Manager is assisting with content creation and management, offering a complete repository of newly created content with its metadata Ultimately, the customer has provided its users greater ease of use, has improved the overall user experience, and has empowered their intranet audience with the latest tools and access to knowledge and applications – all with cutting edge technology.
To learn more about this story, email solutions@prolifics.com or stop by booth #C18-19 at IBM Connect, where we will be showcasing this story as well as other recent implementations. Want a more in-depth look into this project? One of our experts would be happy to take you through a deeper dive during a one-on-one session!
Monday, January 7, 2013
BPM on the Go with IBM Worklight - Part 3
In the previous entry, we discussed how IBM Worklight addresses each of the 3 capabilities needed to achieve efficiencies for business process, namely:
BPM on the Go with IBM Worklight: Part 1
BPM on the Go with IBM Worklight: Part 2
Claim Process:
An Insurance company initiates a claim process and one of its specialists receives notifications on the phone regarding pending claims. Once the claims are downloaded to the mobile device, a claims specialist could be work on them in an offline (disconnected) mode. All changes are saved locally in an encrypted cache and downloaded claims could be worked on seamlessly. Once connection is re-established, claims processed locally are synced back to the server.
The process flow for the Claims Process is illustrated below:
A Worklight Mobile Application that demonstrates the Claim process is shown below:
This concludes the 3-part blog series on BPM On the Go with IBM Worklight. We started with capabilities that are needed to achieve efficiencies in business processes, looked at an in-depth detail on how IBM Worklight provides these capabilities and demonstrated the same with a real world example.
Have a question? Interested in a more in-depth look? Feel free to reach out to me:
Email: Laks Sundararajan
Tweet: @LaksSundar
Connect on LinkedIn: Laks Sundararajan
Also, I will be attending IBM Connect 2013 in Orlando at the end of January. If you are attending and would like to meet, I will be happy to schedule a meeting. Or stop by Prolifics' booth #C18-19 in the Solution Showcase to meet me and the rest of the Prolifics team.
For more information about Prolifics, please visit www.prolifics.com.
- Send prompt notifications as a process waits for decision
- Connect to processes on the move
- Access the decision data in a secure disconnected mode for review and approval
BPM on the Go with IBM Worklight: Part 1
BPM on the Go with IBM Worklight: Part 2
Claim Process:
An Insurance company initiates a claim process and one of its specialists receives notifications on the phone regarding pending claims. Once the claims are downloaded to the mobile device, a claims specialist could be work on them in an offline (disconnected) mode. All changes are saved locally in an encrypted cache and downloaded claims could be worked on seamlessly. Once connection is re-established, claims processed locally are synced back to the server.
The process flow for the Claims Process is illustrated below:
A Worklight Mobile Application that demonstrates the Claim process is shown below:
Have a question? Interested in a more in-depth look? Feel free to reach out to me:
Email: Laks Sundararajan
Tweet: @LaksSundar
Connect on LinkedIn: Laks Sundararajan
Also, I will be attending IBM Connect 2013 in Orlando at the end of January. If you are attending and would like to meet, I will be happy to schedule a meeting. Or stop by Prolifics' booth #C18-19 in the Solution Showcase to meet me and the rest of the Prolifics team.
For more information about Prolifics, please visit www.prolifics.com.
Laks Sundararajan is a Solution Architect at Prolifics, an IBM Champion for Collaboration Solutions and a key member of highly specialized team working on IBM WebSphere Portal, Content Management and Collaboration technologies. He has led implementations of many global projects using IBM WebSphere Portal and has extensive background in design and development of enterprise portals. He specializes in providing Enterprise SOA solutions leveraging WebSphere Portal, Content Management and Tivoli. He holds a Masters in Information Technology from Carnegie Mellon University and a Graduate Degree in Engineering from BITS, Pilani.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
BPM on the Go with IBM Worklight - Part 2
In this part, we will look into how IBM Worklight addresses each of the 3 capabilities needed to achieve efficiencies for business process namely:
1. Send prompt notifications as a process waits for decision:
Today’s Businesses require prompt notifications for processes and IBM Worklight accomplishes the same through Unified Push Notifications API. The key here is that Worklight acts as a cross platform push notification service and allows developers on the back to just be concerned with the messaging and polling of your enterprise systems. Currently Worklight’s Unified Push Notification API supports iOS and Android with support for Blackberry and Windows Mobile coming soon.
2. Connect to processes on the move:
Connecting to processes on the move refers to providing multi-channel access to existing applications. IBM Worklight accomplishes the same by extending existing applications to Mobile World. It follows well-known phenomenon ‘Write once run everywhere’ and the ‘80/20 principal’ by providing a Hybrid approach to building Mobile applications. Worklight can help develop device independent HTML5 code that could be wrapped on top of Apache Cordova framework and deployed across Mobile platforms providing connectivity on the go to existing business processes and accelerating go-to market times by increasing productivity.
3. Access the decision data in a secure disconnected mode for review and approval:
Executives are on the move and they would like to have uninterrupted access to information. While it is theoretically impossible to have access to all information on the go, providing access to critical information in a disconnected mode will go a long way in improving process efficiencies. Worklight addresses Offline access by providing access to secure encrypted cache for storing information locally.
The latest version of Worklight went a step further and added embedded mobile database for offline data with robust encryption and data management abilities that include synchronization.
To learn more about IBM Worklight, please visit: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mobile/worklight/getting-started/
To conclude, we now have a fair idea of how IBM Worklight handles each of the capabilities required for achieving efficiencies in business processes. In the next part, we will take a real world example developed using IBM Worklight and walk-through each of the capabilities in detail.
Prolifics will be a sponsor at the upcoming IBM Connect conference, held January 27-31 in Orlando, FL. During this conference, we will be showcasing our end-to-end mobile development solutions and sharing some recent success stories. Want to meet our team? Stop by booth C18-19 in the Solution Showcase or reach out to solutions@prolifics.com. For more information, please visit www.prolifics.com.
- Send prompt notifications as a process waits for decision
- Connect to processes on the move
- Access the decision data in a secure disconnected mode for review and approval
1. Send prompt notifications as a process waits for decision:
Today’s Businesses require prompt notifications for processes and IBM Worklight accomplishes the same through Unified Push Notifications API. The key here is that Worklight acts as a cross platform push notification service and allows developers on the back to just be concerned with the messaging and polling of your enterprise systems. Currently Worklight’s Unified Push Notification API supports iOS and Android with support for Blackberry and Windows Mobile coming soon.
2. Connect to processes on the move:
Connecting to processes on the move refers to providing multi-channel access to existing applications. IBM Worklight accomplishes the same by extending existing applications to Mobile World. It follows well-known phenomenon ‘Write once run everywhere’ and the ‘80/20 principal’ by providing a Hybrid approach to building Mobile applications. Worklight can help develop device independent HTML5 code that could be wrapped on top of Apache Cordova framework and deployed across Mobile platforms providing connectivity on the go to existing business processes and accelerating go-to market times by increasing productivity.
3. Access the decision data in a secure disconnected mode for review and approval:
Executives are on the move and they would like to have uninterrupted access to information. While it is theoretically impossible to have access to all information on the go, providing access to critical information in a disconnected mode will go a long way in improving process efficiencies. Worklight addresses Offline access by providing access to secure encrypted cache for storing information locally.
The latest version of Worklight went a step further and added embedded mobile database for offline data with robust encryption and data management abilities that include synchronization.
To learn more about IBM Worklight, please visit: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mobile/worklight/getting-started/
To conclude, we now have a fair idea of how IBM Worklight handles each of the capabilities required for achieving efficiencies in business processes. In the next part, we will take a real world example developed using IBM Worklight and walk-through each of the capabilities in detail.
Prolifics will be a sponsor at the upcoming IBM Connect conference, held January 27-31 in Orlando, FL. During this conference, we will be showcasing our end-to-end mobile development solutions and sharing some recent success stories. Want to meet our team? Stop by booth C18-19 in the Solution Showcase or reach out to solutions@prolifics.com. For more information, please visit www.prolifics.com.
Laks Sundararajan is a Solution Architect at Prolifics, an IBM Champion for Collaboration Solutions and a key member of highly specialized team working on IBM WebSphere Portal, Content Management and Collaboration technologies. He has led implementations of many global projects using IBM WebSphere Portal and has extensive background in design and development of enterprise portals. He specializes in providing Enterprise SOA solutions leveraging WebSphere Portal, Content Management and Tivoli. He holds a Masters in Information Technology from Carnegie Mellon University and a Graduate Degree in Engineering from BITS, Pilani.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
TCO Analysis: IBM WebSphere® Application Server V8.5 vs. JBoss® Enterprise Application Platform V6
With an array of products in the JEE Application Server markets, Prolifics set out to compare IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment (WAS ND) version 8.5 and the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) version 6. During this extensive analysis, Prolifics compared features and total cost of ownership (TCO), including tests that covered a wide variety of conditions and factors and using the same hardware, OS and patch levels and vendor agnostic applications to ensure that no vendor had an unfair advantage.
In this study, Prolifics found that in most environments, while acquisition costs for JBoss EAP are lower, IBM WAS ND provides lower overall TCO due to its advantages in stability, high availability, manageability, documentation and performance. In fact, over the period of 5 years, “free” JBoss is 35% more expensive than WAS ND.
The cost of web application server ownership doesn't end with the initial purchase. When choosing the best server for your organization, it's important to be aware of the additional costs that come with open source software. Read this in-depth analysis for more on the study.
Prolifics has over 12 years of experience in the Java sphere and is the leading specialist in migrating applications between application server environments and upgrading existing applications to newer standards. For more information, visit www.prolifics.com or email solutions@prolifics.com.
In this study, Prolifics found that in most environments, while acquisition costs for JBoss EAP are lower, IBM WAS ND provides lower overall TCO due to its advantages in stability, high availability, manageability, documentation and performance. In fact, over the period of 5 years, “free” JBoss is 35% more expensive than WAS ND.
The cost of web application server ownership doesn't end with the initial purchase. When choosing the best server for your organization, it's important to be aware of the additional costs that come with open source software. Read this in-depth analysis for more on the study.
Prolifics has over 12 years of experience in the Java sphere and is the leading specialist in migrating applications between application server environments and upgrading existing applications to newer standards. For more information, visit www.prolifics.com or email solutions@prolifics.com.
Monday, December 17, 2012
BPM on the Go with IBM Worklight - Part 1
Many enterprises have been making tremendous investments in the area of business process management. With human tasks forming a critical element of these business processes, providing required information in a timely and efficient manner is key to improving the overall process and making informed decisions.
However, in an increasingly mobile and geographically dispersed business world, people are constantly on the go. Extending your business processes to support mobile use helps to bridge this gap, providing seamless and efficient human interactions.
In this 3 part series, we will look at capabilities that are needed to achieve efficiencies in business processes, a mobile framework that addresses the capabilities and a real world example that illustrates the same.
The following capabilities are the key to achieve efficiencies in business processes:
Mobile has been growing exponentially over the past few years with Smartphones and Tablets overpowering Desktops for the first time ever in 2011. Given the projected growth rate , it is imperative that business processes are optimized for mobile devices and provide much needed capabilities like Notifications and Offline access in a seamless manner.
There are various solutions available for developing smartphone applications ranging from Native Development to Hybrid Apps to HTML 5 Sites. IBM’s answer to address the smartphone conundrum is IBM Worklight. Before we get into any details, let us take a quick look at IBM’s Enterprise Mobile Strategy.
IBM’s Enterprise Mobile Strategy to address today’s challenges is plain and simple:
To conclude, we understood the challenges facing current BPM landscape, capabilities needed to achieve efficiencies in business processes and IBM’s Mobile Strategy. In next part of this series, we will take a deep dive into IBM Worklight and understand how it addresses each of the required capabilities in detail.
Prolifics will be a sponsor at the upcoming IBM Connect conference, held January 27-31 in Orlando, FL. During this conference, we will be showcasing our end-to-end mobile development solutions and sharing some recent success stories. Want to meet our team? Stop by booth C18-19 in the Solution Showcase or reach out to solutions@prolifics.com. For more information, please visit www.prolifics.com.
However, in an increasingly mobile and geographically dispersed business world, people are constantly on the go. Extending your business processes to support mobile use helps to bridge this gap, providing seamless and efficient human interactions.
In this 3 part series, we will look at capabilities that are needed to achieve efficiencies in business processes, a mobile framework that addresses the capabilities and a real world example that illustrates the same.
The following capabilities are the key to achieve efficiencies in business processes:
- Send prompt notifications as a process waits for decision
- Connect to processes on the move
- Access the decision data in a secure disconnected mode for review and approval
Figure 1 - Efficient Business Process
Mobile has been growing exponentially over the past few years with Smartphones and Tablets overpowering Desktops for the first time ever in 2011. Given the projected growth rate , it is imperative that business processes are optimized for mobile devices and provide much needed capabilities like Notifications and Offline access in a seamless manner.
There are various solutions available for developing smartphone applications ranging from Native Development to Hybrid Apps to HTML 5 Sites. IBM’s answer to address the smartphone conundrum is IBM Worklight. Before we get into any details, let us take a quick look at IBM’s Enterprise Mobile Strategy.
IBM’s Enterprise Mobile Strategy to address today’s challenges is plain and simple:
IBM Worklight accomplishes each of the above strategies’ by providing a platform that seamlessly integrates with existing suite of products and opens new avenues to businesses.
To conclude, we understood the challenges facing current BPM landscape, capabilities needed to achieve efficiencies in business processes and IBM’s Mobile Strategy. In next part of this series, we will take a deep dive into IBM Worklight and understand how it addresses each of the required capabilities in detail.
Prolifics will be a sponsor at the upcoming IBM Connect conference, held January 27-31 in Orlando, FL. During this conference, we will be showcasing our end-to-end mobile development solutions and sharing some recent success stories. Want to meet our team? Stop by booth C18-19 in the Solution Showcase or reach out to solutions@prolifics.com. For more information, please visit www.prolifics.com.
Laks Sundararajan is a Solution Architect at Prolifics, an IBM Champion for Collaboration Solutions and a key member of highly specialized team working on IBM WebSphere Portal, Content Management and Collaboration technologies. He has led implementations of many global projects using IBM WebSphere Portal and has extensive background in design and development of enterprise portals. He specializes in providing Enterprise SOA solutions leveraging WebSphere Portal, Content Management and Tivoli. He holds a Masters in Information Technology from Carnegie Mellon University and a Graduate Degree in Engineering from BITS, Pilani.
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