i/OS Shops to Wait Another Quarter for Power7 Compilers
by Alex Woodie

The excitement over the new Power7 servers announced by IBM last week was palpable. Big Blue managed, once again, to deliver huge increases in the AS/400 line's price/performance, providing compelling evidence of the platform's decades-old capability to protect investment in RPG development. But i/OS shops that are eager to take advantage of the four-fold increase in the number of processor threads available to them with the new Power7 chips will have to wait until next quarter--and likely the announcement of i 7.1--for IBM to make its statement regarding the availability of new i/OS compilers. READ MORE >

Technology Mashup Yields an iPhone App for BPCS Data
by Alex Woodie

When application development specialist Alan Batchelor learned that management at his company, glass machine manufacturer Emhart Glass, would be adopting the iPhone for the sales force, he jumped into action. But instead of creating an iPhone app from scratch, Batchelor--who is not a Web programmer, but a fiddler of sorts--combined various bits pulled off the Web within mrc's mPower development framework, and in the end demonstrated the power of modern day mashups for mobile computing. READ MORE >

SharePoint Gets Its Own iBOLT for ERP Integration
by Alex Woodie

An explosion in Microsoft SharePoint installations across the land has IT administrators scrambling for solutions to get the suddenly popular Web-based collaboration tool under corporate control. One of the vendors offering solutions is Magic Software, which says the new special edition of its iBOLT integration suite, due next month, will drastically cut the amount of manual coding needed to feed data from ERP systems, such as JD Edwards, into SharePoint. READ MORE >

Datawatch Adds Goodies to Data Warehousing Software
by Alex Woodie

Datawatch--the business intelligence software vendor that uses existing reports to get at data--last week launched a new release of Monarch BI Enterprise Server, its top-of-the-line product for creating data warehouses. With version 5, the vendor has sweetened the deal by incorporating several options that previously were priced as add-ons to the base product. READ MORE >