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Volume 11, Number 33 -- October 11, 2011
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GXS Shares Development Plans for IBM i Customers
by Alex Woodie

It's been nearly two years since GXS acquired Inovis, which had inherited the Harbinger and Peregrine brands that were so familiar to AS/400 shops of old. GXS still has about 2,000 EDI customers running on today's IBM i platform, and while they represent just a small part of GXS' $420 million business, the company has big plans for helping its IBM i customers take advantage of GXS' cloud services, as well as its managed file transfer (MFT) capabilities. READ MORE >

QlikTech Boosts Collaboration with New BI Release
by Alex Woodie

Multiple users in different locations will be able to interact with the same business intelligence (BI) dashboard screen using new software unveiled today by QlikTech. The new capability--along with a new threaded comments function--is aimed at improving the way that people collaborate and make decisions. Other new features in QlikView 11, which becomes available later this quarter, include better comparative analytics and broadened support for mobile phones and tablets. READ MORE >


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IBM Updates RDP and RDi for SOA Tooling
by Alex Woodie

IBM last week unveiled new releases of two of its Rational development tools used by IBM i shops, including IBM Rational Developer for Power Systems Software version 8.0.3 and IBM Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction version 8.0.3. The minor refresh of RDP brings several enhancements for AIX and Linux on Power Systems and a security update for IBM i development. The SOA suite, meanwhile, includes the latest releases of the underlying tools that make up the suite. READ MORE >


Apple iPad Now Runs JDE E1
by Alex Woodie

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne users take note: the ERP suite's screens are now accessible from the Apple iPad, according to Oracle's announcement last week. Oracle says that it has achieved a first in the industry by making the entire ERP suite available on the popular tablet computer, as opposed to publishing just a handful of specialty mobile apps. READ MORE >




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LANSA Updates Product Data Synchronization Software
by Alex Woodie

LANSA last week unveiled a new release of Data Sync Direct, a product data synchronization solution that allows companies to participate in the Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN). DSD version 6.7 brings new features aimed at helping companies manage their data more efficiently, as well as support for additional protocols. READ MORE >


News Briefs and Product Shorts:

• Innovative CIO Keynotes at RPG & DB2 Summit

• Maxava Now Selling IBM i Monitor Through Apples iTunes Store

• ACOM Partners with EasyAccess for Web-Based Accounts Payable

• Quadrant Expands Reseller Program

• TMW Unveils New Trucking Solutions at User Confab


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 >


 
Editor: Alex Woodie
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The Four Hundred
IBM Readies October Power Systems Announcements

Speaking of IBM i Innovation . . .

Oracle Drives Java Technology Forward at Annual Conference

As I See It: The Other Final Frontier

Oracle Has Built A Modern, Cloudy AS/400

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Another Way to Pass Parms to SBMJOB

Admin Alert: How to Retrieve Password Parameters for Auditors

Four Hundred Monitor
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System i PTF Guide
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TPM at The Register
Job creation better than expected in the US

Oracle settles with Feds over price gouging

Oracle floats Fusion apps, puffs up public cloud

Oracle previews RHEL-ish 2 Linux kernel

Teradata adds hardware compression to data warehouses

HP uncloaks 10GbE top-of-racker, IPv6 guidance

Dell building its own Exadata killer

Oracle previews Solaris 11, due in November

Red Hat snatches storage Gluster file system for $136m

EMC Project Lightning flash cards promised 'this year'

EMC goes virtual with in-house Oracle apps

Oracle rolls its own NoSQL and Hadoop

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
GXS Shares Development Plans for IBM i Customers

QlikTech Boosts Collaboration with New BI Release

IBM Updates RDP and RDi for SOA Tooling

Apple iPad Now Runs JDE E1

LANSA Updates Product Data Synchronization Software

News Briefs and Product Shorts:

Innovative CIO Keynotes at RPG & DB2 Summit . . . Maxava Now Selling IBM i Monitor Through Apples iTunes Store . . . ACOM Partners with EasyAccess for Web-Based Accounts Payable . . . Quadrant Expands Reseller Program . . . TMW Unveils New Trucking Solutions at User Confab . . .


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