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Why the Way You Power AI and What You Feed It Determine the Outcomes You Get
April 20, 2026
As organizations have begun to adopt AI across search, copilots, assistants and internal tools, expectations have run high. With access to years and shared drives full of documents, files, emails and knowledge repositories, it felt logical to assume that AI would instantly deliver smarter answers and better decisions right away.
Static Pages vs. Content Modules in Progress Sitefinity CMS: Scaling Content with Structure and GenAI
April 14, 2026
As content volume grows, the way it is structured begins to directly affect speed, cost and operational efficiency. This is where content modules move from being a technical option to becoming a strategic advantage.
Your Association Has Answers, So Why Can’t Members Find Them?
April 02, 2026
This is the first blog in a three-part series on how associations can unlock more value from their content, especially from conferences, using agentic RAG technology and by using Progress Agentic RAG, specifically.
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Wait-and-see won't protect you
Moving your IT organization to service oriented architecture is hard, no doubt about it. But, at the same time, avoiding SOA isn't going to protect you. Whether you like it or not, you'll end up with many of the same problems in your IT environment whether or not you choose to wholeheartedly adopt...
Converting your Applications to Connect for ADO.NET
Join us for another in our series of webinars for ADO.NET. Next up, we are discuss how to go about 'Converting your applications to Connect for ADO.NET'. Our abstract:
Did you start developing your application using the ADO.NET providers supplied by your database vendor? Are you...
JDBC "How to" series part 1: How to use WLM with the DataDirect Connect for JDBC DB2 driver
Welcome to the new DataDirect JDBC Blog! This is my first post; however, rather than spending the first post exchanging pleasantries I would instead like to dive right into something with some real substance: a “How to” series highlighting answers to some of the questions I encounter on a regular...
9-Reasons to Use Sonic for Your Next IBM Websphere MQ Project
You have to simply stand back and admire a crisp and clear expression of a product's differentiators in a complex and competitive market. Working with some of our recently-delighted customers, erstwhile subscribers to IBM blah-blah-blah, our Sonic...
Heaven can wait
Too often organisations consider acquiring IT with an ambitious program of IT infrastructure change and the belief that a radical, multi-year re-architecting of the organisation’s systems will lead to a more capable and modern IT architecture that is better able to respond to the requirements of...
Data security: don't be blind to the big picture
I've been told that I should start this first post with a comment indicating that this is my first post. OK, that was fun - I'm glad that is over with.
I read an interesting editorial this morning on the issue of...
I read an interesting editorial this morning on the issue of...
Moving to dotNET Connections
From today onways, JonathanBruceConnects.com is now hosted by dotNET-Connection.com. Entries are now part of the Data Connection blog family where a host of DataDirect Technologies technologies leaders, innovators and thought leaders will be talking about all things...
Sock Puppetry
According to a New York Times article, The Hand That Controls the Sock Puppet Could Get Slapped, sock puppeting is "the act of creating a fake online identity to praise, defend or create the illusion of...
The Approach to a Successful SOA
As an ESB practitioner for the past 4-5 years I am often asked what is the best way to make a SOA project successful, my response 'An initial win, followed up by small successful iterations,' the main thing that people are taken back about in this statement is the lack of technology and standards in...
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