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OctoPDF Saves Manufacturer from Avalanche of Paper
by Alex Woodie
Return on investment is seldom as palpable. A subsidiary of a well-known electronics manufacturer is using a $500 piece of software to make a serious dent in the 75,000 to 100,000 pages of paper reports its AS/400 generates each month. The subsidiary used to employ two people for three days every month to rip and sort stacks of green-bar paper. The company installed OctoPDF from JBM Systems, and now those reports are distributed electronically in PDF format. READ MORE >
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SEAGULL Shifts Product Strategy with New LegaSuite
by Alex Woodie
When you have multiple software products that address the same basic problem, how do you differentiate them for maximum market effectiveness? If you're SEAGULL, you don't. At least not anymore. The Dutch provider of software for extending OS/400 and mainframe systems last week announced it is combining its emulation, Web-to-host, and application integration products into a single suite of tools, called the LegaSuite, that will allow users to do "almost anything they want" with their legacy systems. READ MORE >
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Tango/04 Upgrades its Systems Management Tool
by Dan Burger
Sometimes you'd swear the odd couple is really IT infrastructure and business goals. The misalignment of these enterprise requisites must be the work of the devil. Bringing them into alignment is why there are systems management strategies and tools such as Tango/04 Computing Group's VISUAL Message Center, which was designed to cope with the increasingly complex workloads that result from the union of business and IT. READ MORE >
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Infinium Partners with Cognos for Corporate Performance Management
by Alex Woodie
Infinium Software recently entered into an OEM arrangement with Cognos to deliver Cognos' business intelligence software, which Infinium will private label and sell to its OS/400 installed base. As part of the agreement, Infinium will gain access to Cognos' online analytical processing (OLAP) technology, as well as a variety of reporting modules, and build the necessary integration to allow them to work with its OS/400-based ERP software. READ MORE >
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Vendors Reissue Business Intelligence App for J.D. Edwards ERP
by Alex Woodie
GSS Marketing and Coglin Mill announced the immediate availability of their joint OS/400 business intelligence solution for J.D. Edwards' enterprise applications last week at the ERP giant's annual user group conference. The two software vendors each contributed portions of software to create the GSS Vigilance Financial Reporting and Analysis application, which works equally well in WorldSoftware and OneWorld environments. READ MORE >
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News Briefs and Product Shorts
Electronic Storage Corp. Announces Full-Text Indexing for iSeries documents . . . Aberdeen Study Spells Trouble for High-Priced CRM Implementations . . . PentaSafe Announces New VigilEnt Intrusion Manager . . . DoJ Requests Documents Relating to Planned Fair, Issac, HNC Software Merger . . . Inter-American Data to OEM Infinium's ERP Applications . . . IBM Announces $162 Million Outsourcing Deal with Canadian Insurance Company . . . Vision Solutions Appoints New Director for Emerging Markets and Middle East . . . California Software Says IBM's RPG Leadership Lacking . . . READ MORE >
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Reader Feedback and Insights
We value your feedback and your insights into the OS/400 market. Feel free to drop us a letter to the editor and we will post them in a reader feedback column associated with this newsletter. READ MORE >
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