News Briefs and Product Shorts

• Electronic documents provider Create!form has a new release of Create!form Version 3.0 specifically for users of PeopleSoft's EnterpriseOne (formerly J.D. Edwards' One World) ERP suite. The new software, which is dubbed the PSE1 Edition, has been certified by PeopleSoft to work with the EnterpriseOne suite and is an updated version of the document software that Create!form made for the prior JDE OneWorld release. Create!form says it has sold that software to 1,200 customers, which is a large percentage of the OneWorld base. Create!form 3.0 PSE1 Edition is available now; pricing begins at $12,235.
  
  

• Hutchinson Technology, a designer and manufacturer of suspension assemblies for disk drives, has chosen to deploy Intentia's Movex ERP suite on OS/400 servers. The Hutchinson, Minnesota, manufacturer recently completed a proof-of-concept with Movex and decided to move into full production, says Hutchinson's ERP program manager, Barbara Tessmer. "Our people worked closely with the Intentia team, using their Implex methodology to map our high-level business processes to the software's best-business-practice repository," Tessmer says. Hutchinson plans to deploy several modules of Movex Version 12.4--including, Procurement, Product Data Management, Advanced Production Planner, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Planning, Supply Chain Execution, Maintenance, and Movex Project Management--on iSeries hardware. The Java-based Movex system will ultimately serve about 350 concurrent users.
  
  
• It's mid-December, and that special time of the year is just around the corner. That's right, tax year 2003 is coming to a close, and your accounting department will soon be asked to submit employee tax information to the IRS. Fear not: Acclaim Software has announced that the 2003 versions of OS/400 tax software are now shipping. W-2 Magnetic Media and 1099 Magnetic Media both integrate directly with your OS/400 data through a self-generating RPG import program (no programming required) and support a number of features, such as help screens and verification reports. Both packages also support state tax reporting and provide several output options, including generation of paper forms or output to diskettes, tapes, and electronic filing. A license fee for either of these packages costs $695, which also gets you a manual and technical support over the phone and the Web. For more information, go to www.acclaim-software.com.
  
  
• Bicycle maker Cannondale hopes to improve its forecasting capability by deploying Logility supply chain planning software on an iSeries server, the vendor announced last week. "Our business is very seasonal," says John Doerr, Cannondale's president of operations, "and Logility will help improve our planning accuracy tremendously by enabling corporate sales, operations, finance, and marketing to generate a one-number forecast." The Bethel, Connecticut, manufacturer will use Logility's Voyager Solutions suite to reconcile demand history, orders, trends, and other information, which should give the company a thorough understanding of demand by SKU (stock keeping unit), by customer, and by region.
  
  
• LANSA's professional services division has helped to set up Web sites for five OS/400 local user groups running on an OS/400 server, LANSA announced last week. Several years ago, some user group members spoke with LANSA about setting up a Web site that would let them communicate more effectively with their members. As a result, LANSA created a single design that helped five groups--including the Association of Midrange Computer Users/Atlanta Midrange Users Exchange, in Atlanta; the Association of iSeries Corporate Computing Professionals, in the San Francisco Bay area; the First Coast IBM Midrange Users Group, in Jacksonville, Florida; the Application Systems User Group of Greater Cleveland; and the *Base AS/400 iSeries User Group, in Evansville, Indiana--to design, monitor, and enhance their Web sites. Each of these sites is served from an AS/400 owned by CompuDesigns of Atlanta. "As long as the sites run on the iSeries, the user groups are happy,” says Jeff Silberberg, AMCU/AIM's Webmaster. "We wanted a nice look and an easy-to-use site, and we wanted our sites to be hosted on an iSeries. We proved it can be done."
  
  
• iSeries disk and tape provider eStorage has hired industry veteran David Contreras as its director of business continuity, the company announced last week. In this newly created position, Contreras will oversee sales and other aspects of eStorage's CopyFlash product line, which unites an OS/400 high availability replication solution from eStorage business partner Maximum Availability with eStorage's native OS/400 disk offerings. Contreras, who has worked in the S/36-AS/400-iSeries high availability market for 17 years, says he sees a very good opportunity for high availability products at eStorage. "CopyFlash is a very competitive product, and eStorage is unique in its ability to supply a complete turnkey solution with all of the necessary hardware, software, and services," Contreras says.
  
  

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