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Volume 5, Number 13 -- March 29, 2005


 
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Q4bis Streamlines BPCS Reporting for U-Bix Konica Minolta
by Alex Woodie

Tony Day knows a thing or two about effective use of IT. The general manager of technical services at U-Bix Konica Minolta of New Zealand recently accepted an iSeries Innovation Award at the COMMON conference in Chicago for his company's capability to hook its back-end BPCS system up to its customers' copiers in the field, and to its own Palm Pilot-wielding field techs. Day sat down with IT Jungle at the show to discuss another successful IT project: his company's use of the Q4bis reporting software. READ MORE >

 

eStorage Joins the VTL Party with the Maxback 4576
by Alex Woodie

eStorage, the only provider of internal disk for the iSeries line besides IBM, is now in external iSeries disk business, too. The company is now shipping its first virtual tape library (VTL) offering, the Maxback 4576, a disk appliance that, with up to 2TB of storage, will provide a good amount of RAID-protected headroom for small and midsized OS/400 shops looking to augment their current tape backups with faster disk-to-disk technologies. READ MORE >


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BOS Adds Security Features to Emulation Products
by Dan Burger

Security for iSeries 5250 emulation is getting a closer examination as companies are becoming wise to the fact that a majority of security breaches are internal rather than external. To address this issue, Better On-line Solutions (BOS) has enhanced its 5250 Client software, BOSaNOVA TCP/IP, with the added security of 128-bit SSL Encryption, a centralized manager module, and single sign on. The new product is named BOSaNOVA Secure, however, existing BOSaNOVA TCP/IP users can also add the security features to their existing systems. READ MORE >

 

SPSS Boosts OLAP Performance with ShowCase Suite 7.0
by Alex Woodie

SPSS in April will start shipping ShowCase Suite 7.0, a new version of its collection of business intelligence software for the iSeries server. Based on an OS/400 port of the Essbase 7 multidimensional database that SPSS partner Hyperion first delivered over a year ago, the new ShowCase release is expected to deliver scalability and performance improvements, as well as new data viewing and analysis components to help companies get more usable information out of their data. READ MORE >

 

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  News Briefs and Product Shorts

IBM Showcases Hurricane-Resistant Server Technology . . . ASC Delivers New IFS Cross-Referencing Capability in ABSTRACT . . . IBM Announces New Identity-based Spam Filter, While Spam Counts Drop . . . Skyway Software to Help OS/400 Shop with SOA Development . . . Address Correction Technology from Group 1 and Pitney Bowes Now United . . . Two J.D. Edwards Shops License Global's Spreadsheet Server . . . READ MORE >




Reader Feedback and Insights

We value your feedback and insights. Feel free to send a letter to the editor. Letters may be printed, unless otherwise specified, and edited for clarity or length. READ MORE >


Editor: Alex Woodie
Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Joe Hertvik,
Shannon O'Donnell, Timothy Prickett Morgan
Publisher and Advertising Director: Jenny Thomas
Advertising Sales Representative: Kim Reed
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THIS ISSUE
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CONTENTS
Q4bis Streamlines BPCS Reporting for U-Bix Konica Minolta

eStorage Joins the VTL Party with the Maxback 4576

BOS Adds Security Features to Emulation Products

SPSS Boosts OLAP Performance with ShowCase Suite 7.0

News Briefs and Product Shorts




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