Companies Slow to Kick Paper Habit, But E-Docs Making the ROI Case
by Dan Burger

During the past five to 10 years, the talk about offices going paperless has exceeded the reality. I guess you could say that about a lot of things. We live in hype-infested times. Still, we would like to think digital technology would have all but eliminated paper shufflers, paper cuts, and forests of file cabinets. Why haven't digital documents taken over? In the IBM System i ecosystem the document management software business is very competitive, keeping prices low and providing plenty of options. READ MORE >

ACL Brings Real-Time Audit to Bear at Siemens
by Alex Woodie

Siemens, the world's largest SAP shop, is adopting audit software from ACL Services to analyze its purchase transactions and look for waste and fraud. The implementation, which will span 1,300 subsidiaries and other entities of the German technology giant--including 800 that use SAP and 500 that use some other ERP system--will be the world's largest purchase-to-pay monitoring project ever undertaken, according to ACL. READ MORE >

IBM Ends WebFacing in Host Integration Suite, Adds EGL
by Alex Woodie

Developers will no longer be able to use the IBM WebFacing Tool to modernize their 5250 applications, if they obtained WebFacing through the Host Integration Solution (HIS) suite. As part of the delivery of Rational HIS for 5250 Applications version 7.1, IBM announced that HIS customers will be restricted to modernizing their applications using the Host Access Transformation Services (HATS), which converts legacy green-screen traffic to HTML at runtime. They will, however, gain access to Enterprise Generation Language (EGL), IBM's new high-level language. READ MORE >

BlueZone Updates Terminal Emulation for i OS
by Alex Woodie

BlueZone Software, which is now operating as a subsidiary of Rocket Software following Rocket's acquisition of Seagull Software, last week launched BlueZone version 5, a new release of its terminal emulation suite for IBM's i operating system. The product update brings new features such as support for Windows Vista, new single sign-on features, and enhanced FTP functions. READ MORE >