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An Introduction to webMethods.io Integration
Introduction SoftwareAG is a Digital Transformation leader, under its cloud initiative there are products like webMethods.io Integration, webMethods.io B2B, webMethods.io API, and Cumulocity IoT. In this blog, I will be exploring the capabilities of the webMethods.io...
B2B Pivot Series 2: Pivoting Disruption Through Strategy
Disruption shakes up the status quo, sometimes painfully, to catapult necessary growth. Strategy is the tool that can pivot disruption into new opportunities. First, let's define strategy. Strategy identifies and then becomes the optimal implementation path between...
When Should You Optimize Your IBM Licensing?
In today's competitive market, it is vital to make the most of every resource, including your IBM licensing. It's easy to overlook licensing as a way to reduce expenses because it becomes part of the everyday fabric of your operations; yet, it is exactly because of...
Comparing MuleSoft Deployment Options: On-premise vs. CloudHub vs. Anypoint Runtime Fabric
Although there are various deployment options to deploy applications on Mule Anypoint runtime, there are several factors to consider when choosing your deployment options. Mulesoft provides four deployment options to deploy an application on Anypoint runtime — i.e.,...
An Effective Strategy for Salesforce Migration
There are various approaches and practices organizations follow when migrating to Salesforce. However, moving all the data without analyzing what will add value to your organization is not recommended. The key to a successful migration is to understand what is needed,...
B2B Pivot Series 1: How Disruption Can Naturally Surface New Opportunities
When disruption strikes, especially due to something outside your control, it's destabilizing, chaotic, and scary. But it can also be the invitation to something much greater: a fresh perspective and new growth opportunities. The keys to surviving disruption are...
A Beginner’s Guide to Informatica Axon
Data Governance is a practice involving people, processes, and technology to effectively manage various risks involved in the data lifecycle (i.e., security, privacy, regulatory compliance, quality, reliability, etc.). The main objective is to establish the...
API Design & Implementation Best Practices
Digital transformation is happening everywhere with the involvement of mobile and cloud technologies. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), once seen as developers' tools, are now being exposed to the market. However, digital transformation is not an easy task....
Businesses Need Businesses: Two Ideas to Reboot Post-COVID-19
If the disruption caused by COVID-19 has taught us anything, it's that businesses need businesses. We are all interconnected and need each other to deliver value to customers and remain viable for our own longevity. As the CEO of an IT integration firm, connections...
Solving Concurrency in Epicor-Salesforce Bi-directional Integrations
Concurrency issues in a bi-directional Epicor-Salesforce integration can hinder your teams' productivity, and mediating them isn't always an easy barrier to hurdle. The main reason is that, although Epicor is an acceptable ERP system for many businesses, the...
Frictionless Enterprise Is the Key to the New Normal in Business
COVID-19 is changing the way we do business. While we are in a digital economy, people and process take precedence over technology — until the people and processes are affected. When that happens, morale, productivity, and results are vulnerable... that's where the...
Sockets, Cores, and Threads, oh my!
What do you mean, exactly, by "CPU"? Once upon a time, computers sat on our desks; we knew exactly how many processors they had; and back then our biggest uncertainty was whether they could handle Y2K. Fast forward to today: our computers have 4, 8 or 16 processors —...
ETL Audit-Balance-Control Recommendations
It's important to collect and leverage metadata to control the data pipelines (data ingestion, integration, ETL/ELT) in terms of audibility, data reconcilability, exception handling, and restartability. This article explores what we need to know for an optimal ETL...
Common Causes of Software License Noncompliance
One of the biggest threats to a business is the repercussions of noncompliance. Whether you're out of compliance with your security system and privacy protocol, your financial documentation, or your software licensing, noncompliance is a difficult barrier to hurdle....
API and Platform Integration Tools
The right integration tool is key to unlocking unified API management and successful digital transformation. Today's technology-focused environment is flooded with API and platform integrator tools, making the right choice hard to find. Over the past 20 years,...
Salesforce and Epicor: Why You Should Go for a Custom Integration
As the link between company resources and customer information becomes more vital, the need for CRM and ERP integrations is quickly growing. Having succinct connections between inventory and sales, purchasing and customer reporting, and other resource-sales...
What is CRM and Why is it Critical to My Business’s Success?
What is a CRM? CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management. In terms of Software, CRM is a system, either cloud-based or on-premise, that improves customer relationships by assisting in customer acquisition and retention, providing significant sales growth. A CRM...
Top Three IBM Licensing Metrics: PVU, RVU, and User-Based
IBM software licensing can get complicated. With thousands and thousands of products and licensing possibilities, figuring out the right metrics structure isn't always the most straightforward process. To help clear up some confusion around a few popular IBM licensing...
Making the Business Case for Growth
In every organization, resources are carefully allotted toward reaching business targets. Growth initiatives have to be seen to either yield a return that is at least break-even or, ideally, greater than where the resources have already been allocated. Projected...
How to Deploy the Modern Desktop with Microsoft Windows 10
With Windows 7 end of support in January, a major increase in the mobile workforce (especially recently with everything COVID-19) and an increase in security risks — like hacking and phishing, traditionally, activities only for outdoorsman not mean scammers — business...
CRM Trends to Watch in 2020
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has become the premier technology for business and the fastest growing software industry. While their popularity continues to grow — roughly 91% of companies with 11 or more employees now use CRM technology — so do the features...