Power BI in Banking Location: USA Industry: Banking & Finance Problems The bank sought Allied Consultants help to address specific challenges such as: Lack of data centralization within different ERP systems including DCI (Data Center Inc., a core banking software and Q2, a cloud-based digital baking software. Each ERP had its separate database making it difficult […]
Retail | Aptos & Dynamics GP Integration Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA Industry: Retail & Wholesale Problems The customer was using multiple systems such as Aptos (Merch, EOM, CRM), Dynamics GP, Salesforce, SharePoint, and Tableau. Each of the systems was critical to the business needs, however, having multiple systems gave birth to some vexing problems such […]
This post defines the persona that can be used by Information Technology firms who are planning inbound marketing initiatives. It is part of a series of articles on marketing personas used by IT firms. The persona deals with the focus on marketing being on a technology consulting firm that is looking to partner with us to diversify […]
Having worked in the integration space for quite a while, I ended up working on projects for the retail and wholesale industries. Invariably, one of the key systems involves in warehouse management systems or WMS. While each customer was usually a segment or a subset of a broader reference integration roadmap, I thought it might […]
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I have been involved in consulting for about 20 years now, and I think one of the biggest challenges (in the long term) for consulting firms is building a sense of ownership and fairness within the company. One of the biggest problems with people, in general, is that they overvalue what they do and undervalue […]
Resource Management in Information Technology There is a whole host of technology available nowadays to ensure that your IT hardware resources manages efficiently. You may have a data center in-house, and a few cloud nodes/services/apps which together may constitute your investment in hardware. That would translate to resource capacity: memory, disk, and processor. In the […]
Synchronous vs Async pipelines Synchronous big data pipelines are a series of data processing components that get triggered when a user invokes an action on a screen. e.g. clicking a button. The user typically waits till a response receives to intimate the user of the results. In contrast in asynchronous implementation, the user initiates the […]
There’s a lot of interest nowadays in microservices-based integration patterns. This appears to be nothing more than an evolution of SOA – “SOA done right” as some call it. The services are lighter (usually REST/JSON based), smaller/more atomic (hence the “micro”), and built on managed, scalable architecture. Here are a few things to think about […]