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Plug in Aldon’s ALM and
Control Your World
While WebSphere is revolutionizing
the development world, Aldon's ALM
helps you keep your processes under control, without having to change your IDE.
Find out how in our white paper,
Unleash the Power of WebSphere with
Application Lifecycle Management.
www.aldon.com
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MKS Takes Risk Out of
Change Management for
Puget Sound Blood Center
At Puget Sound Blood Center (PSBC)
we need our systems to run 24/7 x 365 days a year - lives depend on it.
Software change can be risky business. MKS gives us one change management solution across all of our platforms.
With MKS for System i and distributed change control, our systems run risk free.
With MKS, we are one.
Read our story
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InfoManager Provides Another Option for System i OLAP
by Alex Woodie
InfoManager is quite possibly the biggest System i business intelligence software vendor that you've never heard of. With about 300 customers around the world, the company has been quietly building a collection of business intelligence tools around its core online analytical processing (OLAP) engine, which runs on i5/OS, and a customer base to go along with it. Over the next few months, InfoManager plans updates to its Web-based dashboard, and is eyeing a Java rewrite for its OLAP engine. READ MORE >
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Robot/LPAR Streamlines Tape Backups of Partitioned i5/OS Servers
by Alex Woodie
Stymied at getting your tape drive to back up your i5/OS logical partitions in an automated fashion? For some System i shops with modest investments in tape drive technology, backing up multiple partitions with a single drive requires an operator to vary the connection on and off. With Help/Systems' software for managing i5/OS logical partitioning, called Robot/LPAR, tape drive connections can be moved logically among partitions, in the same manner as processor resources and memory.READ MORE >
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COMMON Focus 2007 will be our first
annual workshop conference event,
featuring three days of intense, focused education. It will be held October 14 -
October 17, 2007 in Columbus, Ohio.
This smaller, more intimate event will
feature 15 in-depth, all-day workshops
in both lab and lecture-style formats,
offering a wide range of topics, and will
also include a tabletop-style exhibition area.
Learn more at www.common.org/focus
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New this month at the Midrange Alliance:
· Free Gartner Whitepaper on 99,000
CPW modernization project
· Free Whitepaper on modernizing your
JD Edwards system
· Free Training on integrating System i
with Windows
To download these papers and much more visit the Midrange Alliance at:
www.MidrangeAlliance.org
Integration Enhancement Transformation
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ROBObak Delivers Online Backups for Remote Offices
by Alex Woodie
So headquarters has a screaming new LTO 4 tape library that backs up all your System i boxes, Windows servers, and Unix machines? That's wonderful, but what about the remote offices, warehouses, and factories? What are you doing to protect critical data at those locations? Probably not much says Ron Roberts, chief executive of remote office/branch office (ROBO) software specialists ROBOdrs. The company hopes to change that with ROBObak, a relatively new multiplatform backup and recovery product that works across the wire. READ MORE >
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Lotus Quickr Now Available from IBM
by Alex Woodie
As expected, Lotus Quickr, the new content sharing program that links blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, and other Web 2.0 sources of information to desktop applications such as Lotus Notes and Microsoft Office, became available at the end of June. With Quickr 8.0 now available, IBM hopes to gain traction in its quest to bring the benefits of Web 2.0-style collaboration to teams of business users.READ MORE >
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Let Your Software Do all the Work!
With report delivery tools from RJS Software,
you can sit back and let your software do all the work.
Use our tools to natively create e-forms, and automatically
split, convert and create sophisticated reports that can be
distributed in almost any format. Increase productivity, make
better decisions and save money.
Visit us at www.rjssoftware.com for FREE product demos.
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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 >
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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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IT Jungle Store Top Book Picks
The System i Pocket RPG & RPG IV Guide: List Price, $69.95
The iSeries Pocket Database Guide: List Price, $59.00
The iSeries Pocket Developers' Guide: List Price, $59.00
The iSeries Pocket SQL Guide: List Price, $59.00
The iSeries Pocket Query Guide: List Price, $49.00
The iSeries Pocket WebFacing Primer: List Price, $39.00
Migrating to WebSphere Express for iSeries: List Price, $49.00
iSeries Express Web Implementer's Guide: List Price, $59.00
Getting Started with WebSphere Development Studio for iSeries: List Price, $79.95
Getting Started With WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries: List Price, $89.00
Getting Started with WebSphere Express for iSeries: List Price, $49.00
WebFacing Application Design and Development Guide: List Price, $55.00
Can the AS/400 Survive IBM?: List Price, $49.00
The All-Everything Machine: List Price, $29.95
Chip Wars: List Price, $29.95
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June 30, 2007: Volume 9, Number 26
June 23, 2007: Volume 9, Number 25
June 16, 2007: Volume 9, Number 24
June 9, 2007: Volume 9, Number 23
June 2, 2007: Volume 9, Number 22
May 26, 2007: Volume 9, Number 21
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