Alex Woodie
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Ditch the Check Writing, Says VAI
December 2, 2014 Alex Woodie
… Read moreOrganizations that use VAI‘s IBM i-based ERP software will be able to submit and accept payments electronically rather than write or cash checks as a result of a new partnership with Comdata.
The partnership that VAI (Vormittag Associates) formed with Comdata earlier this year will see the companies integrate Comdata’s payment processing software and network with S2K Enterprise, the name of VAI’s IBM i-based ERP software.
Comdata is a 45-year-old company that provides payment processing services, which got its start in the trucking industry. Today the company issues a variety of card types, including fleet fuel cards, corporate
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IBM i Shops Climb Into the VAULT
December 2, 2014 Alex Woodie
… Read moreUnited Computer Group has landed two new customers for VAULT400, its hosted offering for IBM i backups and disaster recovery as a service. The new customers include R.W. Sidley of Ohio and Mid-America Door of Oklahoma.
R.W. Sidley has been a UCG customer for more than 20 years and recently included backup as a service (BaaS) using VAULT400. The company, which supplies ready-mix concrete among other construction materials, decided to bolster the security of its IBM i-resident data by utilizing the VAULT400 service to house backups.
Instead of handling the backups manually, the company uses VAULT400 to automatically process the
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Web Dev Tool from mrc Goes ‘Responsive’
December 2, 2014 Alex Woodie
… Read moreIn response to a “fundamental shift” in Web application development, mrc is modifying its development tools with “responsive design” elements to ensure that the user interfaces it generates will display correctly, no matter what device they’re viewed on.
When it comes to enterprise application development, the Web has won the war, and developers today have a plethora of tools at their disposal to build compelling Web-based applications. Even IBM i developers are getting in on the act and developing cutting-edge Web apps, thanks to technologies like PHP, JavaScript, and Node.JS, which IBM is adding to the platform.
Independent software
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TMW Adds Dynamic Route Mapping to Trucking Suites
November 19, 2014 Alex Woodie
… Read moreTrucking companies that rely on TMW Systems software to manage their logistics operations will now able to plan their truck routes with mapping software that’s directly integrated into the dispatching software. The mapping software comes from ALK Technologies, which, like TMW, is owned by geo-services giant Trimble.
Earlier this month, ALK announced the integration of its flagship ALK Maps offering with several TMW products, notably Innovative IES, an IBM i-based dispatching system, as well as TMWSuite, its flagship Windows-based dispatching system.
The integration gives users of these TMW products access to interactive street-level maps with satellite imagery and
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TMW Adds Dynamic Route Mapping to Trucking Suites
November 19, 2014 Alex Woodie
… Read moreTrucking companies that rely on TMW Systems software to manage their logistics operations will now able to plan their truck routes with mapping software that’s directly integrated into the dispatching software. The mapping software comes from ALK Technologies, which, like TMW, is owned by geo-services giant Trimble.
Earlier this month, ALK announced the integration of its flagship ALK Maps offering with several TMW products, notably Innovative IES, an IBM i-based dispatching system, as well as TMWSuite, its flagship Windows-based dispatching system.
The integration gives users of these TMW products access to interactive street-level maps with satellite imagery and
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Maxava Gooses IFS Replication Performance for HA
November 18, 2014 Alex Woodie
… Read moreMaxava is gearing up to give its high availability customers a significant boost in how quickly they can replicate and apply changes to data stored in the IFS. The move from a single-threaded apply process to a multi-threaded apply process should give customers sufficient performance overhead to ensure that IFS replication doesn’t become a bottleneck as IFS data volumes continue to grow.
IBM i shops are being swept up into the big data explosion that’s currently rippling across our world and our data centers. Today they’re generating, processing, storing, and reporting on much larger volumes than they did just a
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Profound Reveals Flexible Code Generator for RPG and PHP
November 18, 2014 Alex Woodie
… Read moreOne of the toughest parts of beginning an application modernization initiative is just knowing where to start. To give IBM i developers a head start, Profound Logic last week officially unveiled JumpStart, a new code generator that outputs basic RPG and PHP programs, complete with a modern Web or mobile interface. But unlike other code generators, the company says JumpStart gives you full control over how the resulting code looks.
JumpStart is the latest addition to ProfoundUI, the company’s tool for creating modern user interfaces using RPG Open Access technology. The company decided to build JumpStart after several clients asked
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Boost Your IBM i Security by Tracking Config Changes
November 18, 2014 Alex Woodie
… Read moreOne of the most important aspects of IBM i security is having the right configuration. But configurations rarely stay static, and as they change, so does your level of security protection. Kisco Information Systems last week launched a new tool called iSecMap that helps IBM i shops map how configurations change over time and how they might have opened up security problems along the way.
The IBM i server has a great reputation as a very secure platform on which to run your business. However, the server does not ship from the factory with a strong security turned on by
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ShowCase 10 Gets a Little Help from Friends
November 18, 2014 Alex Woodie
… Read moreHelpSystems last week issued a new release of ShowCase, the suite of business intelligence tools that it acquired last year from IBM. With ShowCase 10, HelpSystems borrowed the user interfaces from its SEQUEL product line, which gives ShowCase customers spiffier features like drill downs and pivot tables. ShowCase also got a little help from another sister company for report distribution and scheduling.
HelpSystems’ April 2013 transaction with IBM, you will recall, netted three major products, all of which run on Windows but are almost exclusively used by IBM i customers. These included Query, which allows users to generate
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HiT Hooks HANA to Other Databases with DBMoto
November 18, 2014 Alex Woodie
… Read moreYou can do a lot with SAP HANA sitting all by itself, including running transactional and analytical applications on the same set of data, which is a pretty neat trick. But in the real world, most SAP HANA customers need a way to move data in and out of HANA as quickly as possible. That’s where the latest release of HiT Software‘s DBMoto software comes in.
Last week HiT Software, which is a subsidiary of BackOffice Associates, announced that the latest release of its DBMoto ETL tool has been certified to integrate with SAP HANA. That means HANA