Alex Woodie
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HCS Moves IBM i Health Care App to Connectria’s Cloud
November 12, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreSince 1969, Health Care Software (HCS) has been developing a suite of enterprise healthcare management applications that run on IBM‘s midrange platform, starting out with the System/3. Last year, HCS launched a software as a service (SaaS) version of its flagship offering. Instead of running the new business from its office building, the New Jersey company looked west to Connectria and its established private cloud environment for IBM i.
In mid-2012, HCS launched LTCH CARE Data Set solution, a SaaS offering designed to meet the needs of long-term healthcare providers, such as nursing homes and rehabilitation clinics. A key
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Deconstructing IBM i Cloud Migration Myths
November 12, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreIf you’re an IBM i professional, there’s a good chance you’ve considered what a private cloud means to your organization. After all, if you could save $250,000 per year in support costs without giving up anything that’s critical to your organization, it would behoove you to explore the options and do the math. Unfortunately, separating the myths from the reality of cloud hosting isn’t always easy, as one IBM i private cloud provider, Abacus, recently showed.
In a recent blog post titled “6 Myths about Migrating the IBM i to the Cloud,”, Patrick Schutz, director of managed services
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MyEclipse Secure Gets the Web Goodness
November 12, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreIBM i shops that are looking for an alternative to IBM‘s RAD development tool for Java programming may want to check out Genuitec, the Eclipse member that supports IBM i with its MyEclipse Blue line of products. This month the company upgraded its MyEclipse Secure line of development tools with goodies like support for HTML5, jQuery, PhoneGap, and Maven technologies.
Based in Flower Mound, Texas, Genuitec develops programming tools based on the Eclipse standard that offer low-cost alternatives to IBM’s Rational Application Developer (RAD) line of products. MyEclipse Blue is targeted at enabling users to write Java and
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CGC Announces More Customer Wins for Construction ERP
November 12, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreComputer Guidance Corp. has been on a winning streak lately with eCMS, its IBM i-based construction management system that consistently ranks as the nation’s number one costing/accounting/payroll system for large contractors ($250 million and up). The account wins have been adding up since October for the Scottsdale, Arizona-based company.
The company started the month by announcing an expansion of its partnership with Parsons Electric, a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based electric contractor that’s been a CGC customer since 1999. With the upgrade to eCMS version 4, the company will standardize on a single enterprise package that delivers everything from document imaging and workflow
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Zend Hits the Throttle with PHP Dev Tool
November 12, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreCertain development-related processes will run up to twice as fast in the latest release of Zend Technologies‘ development tool for PHP. Zend Studio version 10.5 also brings enhancements in the area of documentation, testing, and validation.
Developers don’t have to use Zend Studio to write PHP-based Web and mobile applications that run on IBM i, Windows, or Linux platforms. But considering the integration that exists between Studio and Zend’s various runtimes, including Zend Server 6 for IBM i, developers who use them together can expect things like debugging, application monitoring, and performance tuning to go a little smoother.
That’s
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Manufacturing ERP Costs Remain High, Panorama Says
November 12, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreManufacturers spend about $1.6 million more on their ERP installations than companies in other industries spend, largely due to high levels of complexity and customizations, according to a recent report by Panorama Consulting.
According to Panorama’s 2014 Manufacturing ERP Report, manufacturers spend an average of $11.4 million to implement their ERP systems, compared to $9.8 million for the average ERP implementation across all industries. Most ERP installations go over budget in every industry, but manufacturers spend about $3 million more than planned, or $1.3 million more than the average for all industries, the report found.
Manufacturers also tend to
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JD Edwards Security Found In the ‘Q’
November 12, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreQ Software yesterday announced Security Manager Pro, a new utility that automates the process of rolling out and managing role-based security and segregation of duties (SoD) in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne environments.
The UK-based company’s new offering is designed to work closely with the security controls built into EnterpriseOne version 9. Specifically, Security Manager Pro takes over the management and implementation of task views, roles, and access control in the ERP environments. Many EnterpriseOne administrators try to use spreadsheets to manage these aspects of EnterpriseOne security, Q Software says, but soon run into difficulties with this approach.
With Security Manager Pro,
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Rimini Gets Tired Of Waiting, Files For IPO
November 11, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreWhen it comes to going public, it is apparently now or never for Rimini Street, the biggest provider of third-party maintenance and support services for Oracle and SAP customers and their ERP, CRM, and BI applications. The Las Vegas company announced last week it has filed the necessary paperwork to make an initial public offering (IPO) of stock.
Rimini has talked about going public for several years. But company representatives have said repeatedly that they wanted to wrap up some pesky legal matters with Oracle before moving forward with the IPO plans. Oracle filed suit against Rimini in early
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Profound UI’s Rich New Language Options
November 5, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreMultinational companies that need their IBM i applications to support users in multiple languages may fine the latest Web enablement software from Profound Logic to their liking. With Profound UI version 4.7, which debuted last week, Profound is including a new translation database that makes it easier to support multiple languages in the same application. A new code editor and the capability to persist grid changes from session to session round out the release.
With around 200 paying Profound UI customers and about 500 installations around the world, Profound Logic’s developers are keeping busy with fixes, updates, and change requests
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Presto Change-O: BCD Unveils New Modernization Tricks
November 5, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreIt’s an IT truism that the easier and more intuitive one makes a user interface, then the more likely users will be to actually use them. This was the big problem with the first generation of screen scrapers, which created awful looking screens that didn’t work much better than the green screens they replaced. The new generation of 5250 screen converters, such as the Presto offering from Business Computer Design Int’l., are heads above what was possible a decade ago.
Presto is an on-the-fly GUI generator for green-screen interfaces that BCD debuted in 2008. It works by intercepting the