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About 2 years ago
Answered a question: Which product do you prefer: Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager or IBM API Connect?
Of those three: MuleSoft Anypoint. But, cost-friendly is another term, I would choose a different solution. We are happy with Gravitee.
Over 2 years ago
Answered a question: What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect?
Pricing is affordable, even for a private user. Of course, the more features you need, the higher the price.
We use 4 floating "ultimate" licenses in our company; each license is about 300 Euro per year (the last price I know)
Other solutions are higher in price, with some…
Over 2 years ago
Contributed a review of IBM API Connect: stable with a developer portal based on Drupal but has upgrade issues
Over 2 years ago
Answered a question: What do you like most about IBM API Connect?
Catalogs - they are very useful for managing our tenants.
Over 2 years ago
Answered a question: Which would you choose for a microgateway: IBM API Connect or Apigee?
We are using API Connect for approx. 10 months. It has been (and still is) a very stony road. We are now considering another solution
My findings w.r.t to API Connect:
Pros:
- Concept of catalogs is useful (for us) w.r.t. dealing with several tenants.
- When it is running,…
About 3 years ago
Answered a question: Why would you choose purchasing Camunda Platform over Bizagi?
I have been using Camunda and BizAgi, amongst some others, during an evaluation
Both are easy to use. My business peers tended towards Camunda because we would get a native language speaking support (in German). (However, for very other reasons we did choose something very…
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: What is your favorite tool for Business Process Design?
It depends on my use case
When doing it for myself, I prefer Sparx Enterprise Architect, as I can develop more elements jointly with the BPM design. However, disadvantage is the usability.
For an approach with normal users (business analysts with low IT level), we analysed…
About 5 years ago
Contributed a review of JetBrains IDEs: Good support for refactoring, intuitive usage, easy debugging, and has many shortcuts
Over 4 years ago
Answered a question: What advice do you have for others considering JetBrains IDEs?
JetBrains IDEs have regular updates which, to my experience, always give additional value. Moreover, I do not have those crashes that I experience with Eclipse from time to time when updating something or adding a new component. Also the UX is, to my personal point of view…
Over 4 years ago
Contributed a review of IBM MQ: Improved and influenced communication between different applications, then standardized that communication
Almost 5 years ago
Answered a question: What questions should I ask before buying an ESB?
1. What kind of integration do you need? Does the supplier understand your problem domain? Do you focus on flexibility, on speed of integrating, etc
2. Are the so called adaptors there which you need? Also the protocols supported you need?
3. How is security enabled?
4.…
Almost 5 years ago
Answered a question: Does anybody have experience using a Matrix Template Library for high-performance applications in finance?
Not sure whether I got your problem. Based on my background, I used some matrix libraries many years ago, however at that time no real template libaries
I guess you are using C++? Could you interface to Fortran, have you researched on the various libraries available,…
Almost 6 years ago
As you mentioned "•WebSphere MQ: This needs a web-based remote monitoring " - we use Infrared360 for this part.
Over 6 years ago
Contributed a review of Avada Software Infrared360: Role-based access to queues, giving us more insights into problems
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Over 6 years ago
Managed the setup of an integration platform basedManaged the setup of an integration platform based on IBM MQ within a complex multi-tenant environment
About 5 years ago
MQ infrastructure for more than 20 tenants workingMQ infrastructure for more than 20 tenants working in 4 operation Centers. We developed a complete infrastructure with (today) more than 80 Services; mostly standardised for 20 tenants in Windows 2016 Servers. Parts of our application (around 10) that needed integration run…
Over 2 years ago
Set up strategy, architecture and tools for API management (sub project)While in a large project, it was necessary to gap UI and backend implementation for several reasons. To manage that better, I developed the architectural blueprint for API connect and Gravitee; did the setup of the systems on OpenShift, defined and set up the toolset around…
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Over 2 years ago
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About 5 years ago
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Over 6 years ago
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About 2 years ago
API Management
Over 2 years ago
Enterprise Architecture Management
About 3 years ago
Business Process Design
Almost 5 years ago
Data Integration
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Almost 6 years ago
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
About me
I prefer going new ways in IT by introducing ideas w.r.t. software engineering, digitalisation, and creative IT management and see how they are working to generate some value.
Personal interests in
- Big Data
- Mobility
- Internet of Things
- integration of systems based on topics such as BPM, EAI, Webservices, mobile applications
Specialties: Wide range of IT-Architecture experiences, starting with hardware and ITIL processes, up to processes in certain vertical areas (life insurance, logistics, e-gov). However, major spot is on software architecture, development and methodological topics.
Experiences:
- IT Architect for a multi tenant multi vendor integration project with IBM MQ at IGS
- Head of Center for Business Engineering (HWZ)
- Senior IT Architect and Senior Project Manager for Siemens BIC (Zurich)
- Lead IT Architect for Swiss Life, Head of Department "architecture and development support"
- IT Architect for CSC, head of team "architecture"
- Computer Scientist for Novarits Services - Electronic Libraries
- Teaching assistent at University Basel (parallel systems and technical computer science)
- Helpdesk for CIBA Geigy
Interesting Projects and Accomplishments
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