Arcad Positions for Growth in Change Management
by Alex Woodie

For many European software companies, the United States can be a difficult market to crack. In addition to differences in customs and language, the whole buying process in the U.S. is different than it is in Europe. For years, the French developer Arcad Software has tried to break into the lucrative U.S. market. Now, with the latest launch of the Arcad suite and an expansion of its office in New Hampshire, Arcad is gearing up for a sustained push into the U.S. READ MORE >

Profound Releases Genie, Lauded for Disney Work
by Alex Woodie

This had to be one of the best COMMON conferences for Alex Roytman, chief executive of Profound Logic Software. Not only did Profound's customer, Walt Disney World, win a System i Innovation Award for the work they did modernizing an i5/OS lodging management application, but Profound also unveiled a new product, called Genie, that has the potential to bring in many more System i shops looking to get started with modernization. READ MORE >

iMessaging Adopts SIP for Call Center Software
by Alex Woodie

iMessaging Systems, a developer of software that connects i5/OS applications with telephones, unveiled a new release of its iNspire Call Center Suite last week at the COMMON conference in Anaheim, California. With the new version, iMS has adopted the session initiation protocol (SIP) standard, which will enable its iNspire solution to integrate more easily with voice over IP (VoIP) systems, including the System i IP Telephony solution that IBM and 3Com have put together.READ MORE >

ABL Unveils Strategi SOA
by Alex Woodie

ADAVNCED BusinessLink officially launched a new product called Strategi SOA last week at the COMMON conference in Anaheim, California. While the majority of development and runtime tools aimed at helping users create service oriented architectures (SOAs) involve a heavy dose of non-System i technology, ABL promises Strategi SOA will be a groundbreaking product that helps midrange customers develop an SOA of native System i assets, by System i programmers, and for the benefit of System i shops.READ MORE >