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The best advice I ever got…
My Story In 1989 I was a junior business analyst at a big retail Bank, working on a project which eventually implemented the largest online DB2 database in the World (at the time – suffice to say my...
View Article60 Seconds With Izzy Libid
What’s your main area of focus at Icon? One of the services we provide is around managing new IBM software licenses and renewals. Because we’re an IBM Premier Business Partner, we’re very experienced...
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Preparing for a Marathon – why the same principles apply for an IT project
This year I found out as I ran my first marathon. And I loved it. Well, most of it. It may seem like an odd thing to enjoy doing. After all, the legend of Marathon is based on a Greek runner,...
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Where do requirements go when the project is over?
If they’re created just for the project then they probably take the form of a list of things the project has to do. E.g., change A to B, remove C, make D go 10% faster, G now happens before F, add ‘X’...
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A case for PureApplication – Just Do It!
We set up the forum because we really believe in the value of sharing product experiences (both good and bad) and using that knowledge to support other customers starting their journey on...
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PureApplication – JIT (Just in Time) for IT Operations?
One thing we’ve often been asked is who can justify investing in this converged, automated and extremely intelligent solution? But the reality is, no matter who the customer is, the driving factor...
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PureApplication and its benefits for testing
By the way, all the images I’ve used below are actual snapshots from PureApplication patterns we’ve created. This shows just how nice the pattern modelling environment is! Aside from the normal...
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Getting the best from the ODS – Part One
The Siren Song These large-scale repositories of data span a number of business lines or functions, and slurp up data from many sources with the promise that it can be mined, analysed and monitored...
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60 seconds with Adam Hintz, Principal Consultant, Architecture
Adam, tell me a little bit about your career background I started out as an analyst and predictably ran into issues regarding how to organise and access all the data I needed. Once you start merging...
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Why is making software so difficult??
“Large-system programming has over the past decade been such a tar pit, and many great and powerful beasts have thrashed violently in it. Most have emerged with running systems—few have met goals,...
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Dear Chairman: Time to invest in IT resilience
Ignoring the wake up call The major RBS computer failure in 2012 should have been a wake-up call to senior bank executives. For many years the competing pressures on IT budgets had led to insufficient...
View ArticleMr Osborne, is this really going to make a difference?
It was only fourteen months ago that the Banking industry launched the Current Account Switching Service (CASS) – a service which promises customers wanting to move account from one bank to another...
View ArticleUsing the power of PureApplication, without the box
More choice, more flexibility The PureApplication pattern engine enables you to create PureApplication patterns – which revolutionise the way that you model, deploy and manage complete solution...
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Technology that delivers….. straight from the horse’s mouth
I could spend all of my allocated ‘suggested word count for a blog’ waxing lyrical about the amazing food and sights we saw whilst in Paris but let’s focus on three things that I heard from...
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Give your data scientists a platform for success
New data tools are introduced almost daily, existing tools have shot to the top, fallen back, then resurrected themselves as established players. Conferences and articles on big data, data analytics,...
View ArticleThree PureApplication announcements you should know
Good things come in threes There were three main announcements: PureApplication Software Chef Support Docker Support I’m going to cover these in the order of importance from my perspective (and I hope...
View ArticleAccess to Faster Payments – Mission Accomplished?
Obstacles to access There are several types of obstacles to be overcome, including: Costs of connecting and operating Technical complexity of connecting Settlement and liability arrangements Qualifying...
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The relationship between PureApplication, UrbanCode and DevOps
Here I try to define the DevOps problem and discuss how IBM tools like PureApplication and UrbanCode could help. Defining DevOps Ask three people what they think DevOps is and chances are they’ll give...
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Immediate Payments and Humpty Dumpty
One egg for all? The European Central Bank (ECB) and the ERPB (Euro Retail Payments Board) see instant payments as the next deliverable after SEPA migration, and have a vision for a pan-European euro...
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Access to Payment Clearings – Behind the Green Door
European and domestic regulators are on the case, and PSD2’s Access to Account provisions are largely driven by this. Although the argument around access to clearings is important, I think it is...
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