IBM Shows Off Web 2.0 Stuff with Lotus Quickr
by Alex Woodie

When you think of IBM, it's safe to say that software isn't the first thing that comes to mind. The company's very name, International Business Machines, conjures images of big honking servers toiling away in a darkened room, processing billions of transactions for the world's largest companies. But with every successive quarter, IBM becomes more of a software vendor than a hardware maker. As a demonstration of its new business content collaboration software, Lotus Quickr, shows, the company is surprisingly hip to the latest Web 2.0 thing. READ MORE >

Varonis Prevents Unauthorized Access to Unstructured Data
by Alex Woodie

You have probably witnessed the problem: terabytes of unstructured data, in the form of Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, PDFs, and image files, piling up on Windows servers, IFS servers, and file shares. Microsoft made it easy to store and share these files, but it failed to create an automated method for controlling access to these files. That's not good when the files contain sensitive data like social security numbers. So Varonis developed a product that gives employees access only to the data they need to do their jobs. READ MORE >

CA Updates System i Development Tools, Renames Them Again
by Alex Woodie

CA this week will officially unveil a new version of CA Plex (formerly AllFusion Plex), its model-based application development environment for System i, Windows, and Unix environments, that supports the generation of Microsoft C# server code. The company is also shipping a new service pack for CA 2E (formerly AllFusion 2E), the fourth-generation language popular among midrange System i (formerly iSeries and AS/400) customers and, which, like CA Plex, traces its roots back to the Synon days. READ MORE >

Infor Gives Hitachi Auto's Partners a Leg Up on EDI
by Alex Woodie

The recent implementation of Infor's SupplyWEB supplier relationship management (SRM) software at Hitachi Automotive Products should have a big impact on how Hitachi communicates with its suppliers, particularly when it comes to its smaller vendors that can't justify the expense of installing and running their own EDI system. With a hosted solution based on SupplyWEB, suppliers now need only a Web browser to link to Hitachi. READ MORE >