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Business Agilty Keeps You A Step Ahead of the Competition.
Dance rings around your rivals. Give your IT systems the flexibility to respond to change faster and more effectively than ever before.
Download this informative White Paper: Achieving Business Agility with Application Lifecycle Management
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750,000 USERS CAN'T BE WRONG!
ASNA DataGate provides fast, secure, and seamless access to both OS/400 DB2 UDB and SQL Server from any .NET application.
Fast, secure database access is the key to creating successful enterprise applications, and DataGate works directly with your database platforms to ease application creation, extension, & integration.
Better application performance & programmer productivity STARTS HERE!
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Infor to Buy SSA Global for $1.36 Billion
by Alex Woodie
Two of the largest vendors of OS/400 ERP software announced plans to merge Monday, creating what will be the third largest ERP vendor in the world. If it clears regulatory hurdles and is approved by shareholders, which looks likely, Infor's $1.36-billion bid for SSA Global will create a company with 37,000 customers, nearly 7,000 employees, and annual revenues of $1.6 billion. It would also create the biggest software vendor dedicated to iSeries development, and the largest enterprise software company outside of SAP and Oracle. READ MORE >
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Beyond Security Checks for Unknown Vulnerabilities
by Alex Woodie
Beyond Security recently launched a new security vulnerability assessment tool designed to scour applications for any sort of security weakness, including commonly known problems and entirely new ones. Because the new tool, called beSTORM, works at the network protocol layer, it can work with any application, including those running on iSeries servers. beSTORM ferrets out security problems during the development cycle, and provides a more cost-effective alternative to hiring a team of "ethical hackers," company executives say. READ MORE >
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Alliance AES/400 Database Field Encryption
· Encrypt credit card, social security, pin numbers and other sensitive data.
· Easy to use with RPG or COBOL - sample code included.
· Get compliant - SOX, Privacy notification, GLBA, Etc.
· Free 30 day trial. Fully functional software - Not a demo.
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Breakthrough Innovations for Your System i5
Evaluating High Availability for Your i5?
Get All the Facts-Before You Buy
Free Webcast
Today's "bargain" HA solution can turn into tomorrow's IT nightmare. Join Steve Finnes of IBM and Lakeview to explore useful, practical innovations in High Availability for smaller organizations. And the newest boundary-breaking technologies for the enterprise direct from Rochester.
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GetItRight Does ETL for Data Warehousing, And More
by Alex Woodie
Companies looking for a extract, transformation, and load (ETL) tool for extracting data from OS/400 applications may want to check out CTH Technologies's utility, called GetItRight. This program is used for pulling data from iSeries and other hosts directly through application screens, including terminal emulators, or through database connections. The software was recently certified to run on United Devices line of Grid MP computers, providing another alternative to traditional host-based ETL tools. READ MORE >
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Aldon Adds Support for WDSc Lite
by Alex Woodie
Aldon last week announced support for WebSphere Development Studio Client Lite, the slimmer, faster version of IBM's integrated development environment (IDE) for OS/400 servers. With the new change management plug-in unveiled last week, programmers can now access the development and deployment control mechanisms of the Aldon Lifecycle Manager from within WDSc Lite, in the same way they did with the full WDSc release. READ MORE >
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Design IT. Control IT. Monitor IT.
Need to design, control and monitor cross-platform processes? Being pressured to implement service-oriented architecture (SOA) but don't have a cost-effective option for your iSeries? Learn how-to implement the iBOLT application-to-application integration suite for IBM System i5.
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