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News Briefs and Product Shorts
ASNA, the San Antonio, Texas, company that specializes in Web and Windows development environments for OS/400 and Windows NT/2000, reports that attendance at its annual ASNApalooza developers' conference, held March 6 through 8, was up slightly over 2001. The technical conference brought together 185 ASNA Visual RPG (AVR) developers, and put the spotlight on ASNA's soon-to-be-released products Visual Studio.NET and AVR for .NET. In her keynote address, ASNA President Anne Furgeson noted her company and its customers are "extremely excited about the opportunities integration with Microsoft will provide." Also presenting at the show was Doug Fulmer, IBM Worldwide Sales Executive for iSeries e-business Infrastructure. In his keynote, Fulmer called ASNA Visual RPG "a great solution for Web and Windows development. Giving customers of any size a way to leverage their existing RPG skills is a good thing, and providing a tool that lets them leverage their AS/400 skills as well as their Windows skills is also a good thing." Additional training and education anyone?
Business intelligence software vendor Sand Technology last week signed a reseller agreement with Business Objects to develop and sell an alternative user interface to Sand's Nucleus analytics engine. Nucleus is a clever program that uses a sophisticated bit vector storage mechanism to index pointers to files in databases. During tests at the IBM Teraplex Center, in Rochester, Minnesota, the software, which was ported to OS/400 in 2000, showed the capability to tremendously speed the processing of ad hoc queries on iSeries hardware. After several Nucleus users integrated their data warehousing system with the BusinessObjects 2000 interface, the companies decided to formalize the relationship and offer the integration out-of-the-box.
JDA Software Group, a provider of enterprise software for retailers and distributors, last week announced a new release of its suite of analytics software. The Arthur Enterprise Suite is a Windows program that features prebuilt hooks into JDA's Unix- and Windows-based enterprise suites. (The company also sells a retailer package called Materials Management System that runs on OS/400 platforms.) With Arthur Planning 4.7, the software has introduced enhanced functionality for creating, maintaining, and reviewing strategic merchandise plans, the Scottsdale, Arizona, company said.
Precise Software Solutions last week announced it has acquired the exclusive rights to sell and support EMC's Luminate Analysis Suite for SAP's R/3 ERP suite. The Westwood, Massachusetts, company plans to integrate the analytics package with Precise i3, the company's application performance management suite. Meanwhile, at the CeBIT conference in Hannover, Germany, last week, SAP announced new solutions programs for small and midsize businesses using the mySAP.com applications. This recent announcement from the enterprise software behemoth, which wouldn't have even considered selling software to a company with less than a billion dollars in revenue a few years ago, demonstrates how the recession is driving SAP to find new revenue streams.
Williams Bio Energy, the nation's second largest producer and marketer of ethanol, will use Bostech's ChainBuilder enterprise application integration suite to connect its enterprise applications, the companies announced last week. Williams Bio Energy, of Pekin, Illinois, will use ChainBuilder, which features an XML-based integration engine and several prebuilt connectors to popular ERP applications, such those from J.D. Edwards, Lawson, and SAP, to integrate dozens of enterprise applications.
MAPICS last week announced enhancements to its Supply Chain Management solution, including national language support for French, German, and Spanish, as well as support for Microsoft's SQL Server database system. MAPICS, which also sells ERP software for OS/400, is giving users the option of deploying SCM on SQL Server or Oracle database systems. MAPICS is also planning to announce a double-byte character set version of its SCM suite, which would allow it to support Japanese and Chinese. Meanwhile, MAPICS President and CEO Dick Cook recently discussed Chinese trade relations on the Silicon Spin television show, on TechTV. Following the filming of the show, which aired March 6, Cook left for a weeklong business trip to China.
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