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  • InsightSoftware.com Delivers JD Edwards Upgrade Tool

    September 25, 2012 Alex Woodie

    JD Edwards users who are pondering the jump to a recent release from their codemaster Oracle may be able to make the move a little less painful using the new Insight Upgrader tool from InsigthSoftware.com.

    ERP upgrades, just like ERP installations, are notorious consumers of time and money, and sometimes even take their share of blood and tears. Just as an ERP rollout takes careful foresight and planning to go smoothly and avoid excessive downtime, so, too, do ERP upgrades.

    “Industry studies have shown that up to 90 percent of ERP implementations and upgrades result in budget and schedule

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  • Friedman Nabs CORESense as Constellation’s Umbrella Grows

    September 25, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Friedman, the IBM i-ERP software vendor owned by Constellation Software, has acquired CORESense, a developer of retail management and ecommerce software. Also, another Constellation subsidiary recently acquired IBM i software developer Wynne Systems.

    CORESense is a Saratoga Springs, New York, company that develops a cloud-based ERP system called the Integrated Retail Management System that’s used by customers throughout North America, primarily among companies in the fashion and apparel, aftermarket automotive parts, and sporting goods businesses. The company’s software is written in PHP and runs on an open source stack, including Linux, Apache Web server, and MySQL

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  • Infor Delivers New Marketing App Based on Salesforce

    September 25, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Infor last week announced the availability of Inforce Marketing, the latest software as a service (SaaS) application to come out of the ERP software company’s partnership with online CRM provider Salesforce.com. The new offering is designed to help organizations manage their marketing activities, such as setting budgets and executing multi-channel campaigns, and integrates directly with Infor ERP systems via Infor’s ION middleware.

    Inforce Marketing is a native Force.com application, which is to say that it was built on the Salesforce.com platform, and is accessed by users through their Salesforce application. The software has four main areas of focus, including

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  • SAS to Run IBM i Servers for North Carolina Schools

    September 25, 2012 Alex Woodie

    SAS is best known for its business analytic software. But the company is showing off its range with a recent customer engagement in its home state, where it is helping the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) consolidate more than 100 iSeries servers down to four servers, which will run in SAS’ “cloud” data centers.

    SAS last week announced that the NCDPI picked it for a large server consolidation project that will eventually involve 115 iSeries servers used by local education agencies (LEAs), or school districts, in North Carolina. Instead of each LEA running its own iSeries server, which

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  • Xperia Overhauls GUI in ERP System with looksoftware Tools

    September 25, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Xperia Solutions has updated its IBM i-based ERP application for small and medium sized businesses. Earlier this year, the company delivered Xpressiv, a new version of its Comprehensiv software that features a new GUI designed to streamline user interaction. The new GUI was developed using re:new, a looksoftware screen modernization product for IBM i applications.

    Allentown, Pennsylvania-based Xperia develops software used by SMBs in the apparel and soft goods industries. The company, which formerly went by the name Online Data Systems, counts some well-known companies as customers of its COBOL-based suite of supply chain planning, production management, and customer relationship

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  • Free Tool from Nastel Identifies MQ Performance Problems

    September 25, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Nastel Technologies recently announced MQSonar, a free tool designed to detect possible performance problems in IBM MQ environments. Nastel is giving away MQSonar with the hopes that it will entice users to step up to its full IBM MQ monitoring and management product, Autopilot, which is used by some of the biggest financial services and healthcare firms with MQ running across mainframe, IBM i, and distributed platforms.

    MQSonar works by sending “pings” out across a WebSphere MQ environment and measuring how long it takes to come back. Just as real SONAR in the open ocean can help determine the size,

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  • State Tax Collector Modernizes iSeries System, Wins Award

    September 25, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Instead of ripping out its customized iSeries systems and installing a brand new pre-packaged system to the tune of about $40 million, the New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration (DRA) elected to modernize its existing iSeries infrastructure, using integration and business intelligence tools from Information Builders. In addition to saving tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money, the implementation won an award.

    The DRA is a critical component of government operations in the state of New Hampshire. The agency collects about $1.4 billion annually from 253 state municipalities, and is responsible for overseeing the statewide property tax system

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  • Orati Systems Debuts With a Lineup of IBM i Tools

    September 25, 2012 Alex Woodie

    There’s a new player in the market for IBM i utilities. Orati Systems, a British software consultancy and developer, is rolling out a series of tools for the midrange server, including a spool file converter called SpoolMagic and a file transfer tool called iSFTPpro. The company has also written a bunch of open source products that it will distribute free of charge, including a PDF generator called iPDF that promises to be popular.

    SpoolMagic is an IBM i utility that converts *SCS spool files into other formats, including HTML, TXT, CSV, XLS, XML, physical files, standard and enhanced PDF,

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  • IBM Offers Freebie SmartCloud Slices–Again

    September 24, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Big Blue really, really, really wants you to try out its SmartCloud public cloud, and to try to get you hooked on the idea of IBM managing your infrastructure for you, the company is giving away freebie slices on the SmartCloud in various geographies.

    The promotion is running on IBM’s website, and has been spotted in recent weeks in various announcement letters in smaller geographies. And it is the SmartCloud Enterprise variant with 64-bit and 32-bit X86 processors, which have been virtualized and can be set up to run Microsoft‘s Windows Server 2003 or 2008, Red Hat Enterprise

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  • Gartner Says Public Clouds Puffing Faster Than Expected

    September 24, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    The public cloud is huffing and puffing itself up and is trying to blow the IT distribution business down. According to a new projection from Gartner, the myriad kinds of public cloudy services available on the market today will account for $109 billion worldwide. That is up 19.6 percent from 2011’s global public cloud revenues, and higher than the 12 percent growth Gartner was forecasting in prior prognostications.

    “The cloud services market is clearly a high-growth sector within the overall IT marketplace,” explained Ed Anderson, research director at Gartner. “The key to taking advantage of this growth will be

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