IBM Kills Secure Perspectives Tool
by Alex Woodie

IBM last week announced the withdrawal from marketing and discontinuance of support for Secure Perspectives, an i OS security tool introduced two years ago with the goal of allowing nontechnical people to define and implement an object-level security policy using nontechnical words and phrases. However, the product will continue to be available as a custom offering, as will updates that allow it to work with future releases of IBM i OS. READ MORE >

Bicycle Seller Rolls with Electronic Vaulting Backup and DR from UCG
by Robert Gast

Dealing with daily tape backups is an IT department ritual. Despite the labor-intensive, processes, the risk of media and drive breakdowns, and the archiving and retrieval jumbles, most companies persist with this tradition. Jenson USA, an IBM iSeries user, wanted an option and got it with electronic vaulting. Disaster recovery, security, and concerns about transferred data clogging the network pipeline were each resolved. And, switching the company database to the vault was made in one day. READ MORE >

JDA Shares Plans for E3 Fulfillment Products
by Alex Woodie

The Merchandise Management System is the i OS application that gets the bulk of attention at JDA Software Group. But with 400 loyal customers and a 20-year development history, the E3 collection of inventory management products has become a reliable part of JDA's business, too. And as a recent briefing by JDA for IT Jungle shows, JDA has plans for the continued development of these products. READ MORE >

Quadrant Adds a Slew of Updates to Forms Software
by Alex Woodie

Quadrant Software added a number of new capabilities with Formtastic version 5.4.3, which was recently unveiled. The new release brings close integration with Infor XA (MAPICS) and the capability to automatically e-mail XA-generated spool files as PDF files. This release brings a number of other useful enhancements, including support for the 4-State barcode, new auto-merge functions, better duplex printing, new e-mail APIs, and improvements to the signature capture module. READ MORE >