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News Briefs and Product Shorts
J.D. Edwards last week announced the next generation of its enterprise software, called J.D. Edwards 5. The new suite consists of seven different modules, called Enterprise Resource Planning, Supply Chain Management, Customer Relationship Management, Supplier Relationship Management, Business Intelligence, Collaboration and Integration, and Tools and Technology. With this release, J.D. Edwards used Web services technologies, such as XML and UDDI, with the aim of increasing collaboration among its clients and their business partners and customers. None of the materials that J.D. Edwards issued with the release indicated what operating systems J.D. Edwards 5 would run on, but it's a solid bet that OS/400 is one of them.
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BCC Technologies last week announced an interesting "Double Your Capacity" swap for IBM iSeries disks. With this deal, BCC is offering to give users one of its BCC Extender 10K RPM, 35 GB disk in exchange for either one IBM 10K RPM, 17 GB drive or two 10K RPM, 8 GB drives. The users only pay sales tax, shipping, installation, and maintenance. The offer is good only for IBM's 10K RPM disks, and orders must be received by this Friday, May 31.
Leading IT analyst firms last week released mixed reports about the state of the tech industry in the near future. The IT Spending Confidence Survey, conducted by Gartner and Goldman Sachs Group, indicated that IT budgets for U.S. IT departments will remain flat for the remainder of 2002, with only a 1.5 percent increase from 2001. However, 89 percent of the 369 people queried for the survey, conducted at the recent Gartner Symposium, said they foresaw an end to the slow global economy by the beginning of the fourth quarter. IDC also forecast a slowdown in growth through the rest of 2002 but predicted of a full recovery of the worldwide global IT services market in 2003. This market will continue growing at a 12 percent clip through 2006, when the worldwide IT services market will reach a mere $626 billion, IDC says.
OS/400 imaging software vendor SolCom won its second straight award from the Medical Records Institute two weeks ago. It was the second year in a row that the Sioux Falls, South Dakota, software and services vendor took home the top award in the document imaging category of the Toward an Electronic Patient Record awards at the TEPR conference. SolCom was also a finalist in two other categories, the Acute Care EMR Component and the Ambulatory Care Component.
New Generation Software has issued a new release of a Windows-based reporting module that ties its OS/400-based Concert Series Financial Management System to Excel worksheets. ConcertPro 2.1 features new capabilities for taking general ledger journal entries from Excel worksheets and uploading them to the Concert Series General Ledger component. It also allows users to automatically transfer new budget amounts from Excel to Concert Series G/L accounts on the iSeries and AS/400. There is also a new "freeze and thaw" function in ConcertPro 2.1 that allows users to freeze formulas before they disconnect from their OS/400 system. When they resume, ConcertPro "thaws" the formulas, which ensures their most recent calculations are ready to use, New Generation Software says.
ACOM Solutions last week announced EZeDocs 5.1, the latest release of its document output management system for AS/400 and iSeries systems. New functionality in this release includes a data merge feature that captures and inserts additional data dynamically into documents being created from spool files. This new feature allows users to designate database fields and to instruct EZeDocs to reach into the database and retrieve the information on the fly, as the spool file is being merged to create a document.
Lakeview Technology will OEM NSI Software's Double-Take replication technology under Lakeview's MIMIX for Windows solution for iSeries. Incorporating NSI Software's replication technology into MIMIX will allow Lakeview to more readily develop a product that supports heterogeneous environments on iSeries. Powered by Double-Take, MIMIX for Windows will replicate data from the file system of a production iSeries server to the file system of a backup iSeries server through the xSeries cards attached to each server. In the case of an unplanned event taking down the front-end production, operations are automatically switched to the backup server and business continues uninterrupted. Lakeview says its new product is in line with IBM's iSeries strategy that pursues server consolidation and simplifying server management.
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