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News Briefs and Product Shorts
DataMirror last week signed a
reseller agreement with Nissay Information Technology, a Japanese systems integrator that serves
clients in the insurance and financial services and healthcare and medical services industries. DataMirror
also announced that Nissay's parent company, Nippon Life Insurance, has implemented DataMirror's
Transformation Server software as part of an e-business project to integrate customer data between an
iSeries-based CRM system and a pSeries-based Web server.
Silvon Software has inked its new
technology alliance with Business Forecast
Systems to integrate BFS's demand planning software with Silvon's sales performance
management application. Silvon--whose business intelligence applications run under OS/400, Unix, and
Windows--plans to offer BFS's 32-bit Windows NT-based Forecast Pro software as an integrated add-on to
the Silvon Stratum suite.
Kronos has released a new wireless
application that allows frontline supervisors to enter employee data into a host server from a
PalmPilot. Workforce MobileTime works with all Palm OS-compatible PDAs, including the
popular Symbol devices. It is designed to be used with Workforce Central, Kronos' Web- or Windows-
based frontline labor-management suite. Last year Kronos released a similar wireless application called
iSeries MobileTime, which is designed to work with Kronos' iSeries Central labor management suite.
Pfastship has announced that Harley-
Davidson's MIS manager will sit at the head of Pfastship's End User Advisory Board for 2002. Chris Parise,
who has been with Harley-Davidson since 1997, helped to integrate the company's Exeter/WMS
(warehouse management system) with Pfastship's shipping software and has experience with other
enterprise systems, including MAPICS and PrMS.
Striva last week announced it has acquired a line of data propagation solutions from IT
infrastructure provider BMC Software for an undisclosed amount. The Enterprise Data
Propagation suite of software allows for the propagation of complex enterprise data between heterogeneous
platforms, including mainframe, OS/400, Unix, and Windows platforms. With this acquisition, Striva now
holds claim to being the only vendor with both batch and real-time data-propagation solutions. Striva also
sells the DETAIL line of data propagation solutions for batch transactions.
Despite the recession and the September 11 terrorist attacks, Jack Henry & Associates, the Monett, Missouri, provider of
OS/400-based applications for the banking and financial services sectors, announced revenues of $91.5
million for its fiscal second quarter, a 13 percent increase from the same quarter a year ago. A strong
December and 30 percent growth in Jack Henry's service bureau managed to offset a 7 percent drop in
software license revenues for the second quarter.
IT spending at American banks is expected to grow 4 percent in 2002 to $34 billion, according to a new
report issued by Celent, a research firm in
Boston, Massachusetts, that tracks technology and business trends in financial institutions. Large
commercial banks will spend upward of 25 percent of their total expenditures on IT, reaching $2 billion a
year for many banks and topping $5 billion this year at the largest bank, which the company did not
name.
Gores Technology Group, the Los
Angeles-based holding company that acquired SSA following its bankruptcy in 2000, has added another
down-and-out technology company to its roster: Elcotel, one of the country's largest providers of
refurbished payphones, which lost $43.6 million on net revenues of $28.3 million for fiscal year 2001.
Elcotel will be merged with another GTG company, QuorTech Solutions, to develop the next
generation of smart payphones and Web-based payphones.
One-time presidential hopeful Ralph Nader has a new gig: trying to get Microsoft to close
what he calls a tax loophole for shareholders and to start paying stock dividends, something the software
giant has never done. Microsoft is reportedly holding on to $36 billion in cash, which it uses for
acquisitions, operations, and other official business. Nader maintains that by not paying dividends,
Microsoft is helping shareholders to avoid paying the top income tax rate of more than 39 percent. Instead,
shareholders take advantage of the cash pile by selling company stock, which is subject only to a capital
gains tax of 20 percent.
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