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How to use Blueworks Live in Risk and Compliance Management A number of my clients are using Blueworks Live to help them with Governance, Risk management and Compliance or GRC. In regulated industries Blueworks Live can provide significant benefits in this area. This post describes some of the...
Blueworks Live at Scale – Hints and Tips As your organisation’s use of Blueworks Live grows you will need to put some processes and procedures in place to manage scaling. The following are some guidelines that will help you to establish an effective system that can manage a large portfolio of...
Determining the appropriate Governance processes for an API initiative is not easy. There are camps inside the company that tend to pull in conflicting directions. Some focusing on the desire for speed will drive toward very little governance, while other parts of the company who are currently...
Earlier I published part 1 of the ESB and API Management positioning in a blog titled, “ Why an ESB is not API Management ”. But what if you took all of the API Management functionality that is not in a traditional ESB and added it to the ESB as a single product? Would that be a good idea? ...
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Several years into the era of APIs and still one of the most common points of confusion is the positioning of APIs and Services (and Microservices) and the positioning of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and API Management solution. Many see the similarities between an ESB and API Management –...
Many start-ups have made fortunes claiming to deliver “business intelligence.” Don’t mistake these for business intelligence solutions. Business intelligence is not data discovery and it’s not trivial. Not unlike your general ledger, you deliver one version so executives can stake their...
The upgrade path for IBM Cognos Analytics has been made virtually seamless. Regardless of the previous version of Cognos Business Intelligence that you have been using—8.4, 10.2, 10.22, etc.—we are strongly encouraging an upgrade to IBM Cognos Analytics. All existing data sources, content,...
IBM Cognos Analytics provides unsurpassed security and governance at every level, including data and reports, the dashboards, as well as the information that is distributed to the community on a daily or weekly basis. Even though IBM Cognos Analytics opens doors to a depth and breadth of company...
I’m going to take a quick break from my industry tour of APIs to cover two questions I’ve been asked about quite often recently: “What is the recommended organization and governance structure for an API initiative?” “Is this analogous to what we did for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)...