IBM Systems Magazine recently ran a worldwide survey of hundreds of customer locations to understand the Top 10 Concerns of IBM i Users. The number one concern was modernization, an area addressed well by CM First products, solutions and services. Here are the results:   58% listed modernization as their top concern, which included dealing

BI Intelligence recently produced a report based on a survey of mobile app users. The results indicate the catalysts for downloading a given app and how the users found that app. Key factors are to complete a specific task and that they are already using a non-mobile version of the application and prefer to use

In this post, I want to outline two concepts that may help you to create a better service architecture for CA Plex WCF services. First, we should make sure the interfaces are decoupled from the business logic in order to make sure that a change to business functions will not affect the interface used by

Web Services are an essential part of modernizing many legacy systems. CA 2E developers are able to build their own Web Services inside the CA 2E model. Recently, I worked with a customer on exposing some important parts of their CA 2E application through Web Services. There are several lessons we learned while implementing Web

When your applications hold you back from corporate goals, such as Cloud, mobile-enablement, Big Data, etc. one of the first thoughts that comes to mind is that you might need to replace/rewrite your applications. The second thought is that this approach is very risky, costly and time-consuming. In fact, you might even feel you don’t

If you missed SenchaCon 2015, attend a one day roadshow in Boston on September 15, 2015 or in Chicago on September 17, 2015. At both, you will learn how Sencha is merging EXT JS and Touch into a single framework, making it easier to build web applications. Another big announcement is the addition of touch