Alex Woodie
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Original Software Tackles ERP Installations and Upgrades
August 13, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreOriginal Software, a developer of software test utilities for IBM i and other platforms, last week announced the introduction of a new technology that it says will help reduce the amount of time required for an ERP upgrade by 30 percent.
Original calls the new technology Animation, and it does exactly that. It creates animated recordings of a user performing a task in an ERP system. Recording the execution of business processes is useful in the context of ERP upgrades because it allows anybody with a PC to understand the exact functionality at issue.
This animated approach also streamlines
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IBM To FTC: Make Oracle Stop Running Those Mean Server Ads Please
August 12, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreOracle is back in lukewarm water over a line of ads that say its own Sparc and Exadata servers are between two and 20 times better than IBM‘s Power Systems servers. This time, instead of getting another slap on the wrist from an independent industry board that oversees advertising in the U.S, it could get a slap on the wrist from the Federal Trade Commission itself. It’s time for IBM, which called Oracle “a serial offender,” to take matters into its own hands.
On August 1, the National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau recommended that the FTC
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Judge Throws Out Half Of Maxava’s Lawsuit Against Vision
August 5, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreA federal judge has dismissed two of the four claims that Maxava brought against Vision Solutions and Sirius Computer Solutions. The judge threw out Maxava’s Lanham Act and trade libel claims, and left in place the claims related to violations of California’s unfair competition and false advertising laws. The start of the trial has also been pushed back to late October.
On May 13, Judge George Wu granted the summary motion requests of Vision, Sirius, and Eva Succi to dismiss some or all of Maxava’s claims against them. Judge Wu elected to grant partial summary judgment in favor of
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IBS Bolsters Leadership Team With Four New Hires
August 5, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreInternational Business Systems, the ERP software company that was acquired for $35 million two years ago by Symphony Technology Group, gave its comeback some teeth last week when it announced it has filled four executive positions with extensive experience in the enterprise software business.
The hiring binge includes Mohit Paul as vice president of EMA sales, Laura Fese as general counsel, Tim Conroy as general manager of the Americas, and Susie Andrews as vice president of global human resources.
Paul, who joined IBS in June, will lead IBS’ sales efforts in Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas.
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BlueFountain Delivers a Modern Looking WMS for IBM i
July 30, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreLogistics companies that want to move beyond the green-screen experience with their warehouse management systems (WMS) may want to take a look at BlueFountain Technologies. The Alabama company says its RPG-based BlueFountain Logistics (BFL) package has a native Web interface that will make it easier to train the Facebook and Twitter generation to use and become proficient with the software.
As a programming and business consultant for supply chain technologies, BlueFountain Technologies co-founder Doug Ross has seen a lot of warehouses and a lot of WMS software. Many of these packages, such as the venerable PkMS from his former
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Infor M3 13.1–the Last Big Release for Some Time
July 30, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreInfor is calling the newly released M3 13.1 the biggest new version of the ERP system in more than a decade. And with more than 500 new features across functional areas, as well as the Infor 10x GUI treatment, that certainly appears to be the case. But going forward, Infor plans to move away from the “big bang” approach, and toward a more rapid fire, service-pack approach, much like IBM has done with IBM i 7.1.
Infor M3 13.1 is the first major new version of the Java-based ERP suite since version 10.1 shipped in 2010, which was preceded by
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HiT Software Feeds IBM i Data into Microsoft LightSwitch
July 30, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreOrganizations that are using Microsoft‘s lightweight LightSwitch development environment can feed data from IBM i servers into their LightSwitch applications using the latest version of HiT Software Ritmo/i. Version 6 of the tool also adds support for Microsoft’s Entity Framework (EF) object-relational mapper for .NET using native IBM i protocols, the company says.
Microsoft LightSwitch is a template-based, model-driven development environment that was first released by Microsoft in 2011. The software is intended to be used by non-technical Windows users who need to quickly generate database-powered, three-tier applications that feature modern Web interfaces.
Users get started with LightSwitch by
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Halcyon Bolsters IBM i Process Automation Solution
July 30, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreIBM i shops that are tired of paying IT personnel to manually submit jobs on the system may be interested in the latest product news from Halcyon Software. The UK firm last week unveiled a new version of Record and Playback, a utility that automates routine tasks and processes in IBM i environments. With version 11, Halcyon has added a new screen capture capability that should enable even more automation of tasks, as well as better diagnoses of errors.
IBM i shops are notorious for having slim IT staffs, and for having IT personnel that wear multiple hats. This
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ASNA Touts Customer’s Success with RPG-to-.NET Conversion Tool
July 30, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreASNA is talking up the recent awards won by its customer Retail Assist, the UK-based developer of multi-channel retail management software, as well as one of Retail Assist’s customers, which successfully implemented the browser-based, .NET version of its formerly RPG-only suite.
ASNA says that Retail Assist chose ASNA Monarch several years ago to modernize its RPG-based multi-channel retail management suite, called Merret. The application automates many tasks for the multi-channel retailer, including purchasing, warehousing, replenishment, inward and outward distribution, retail financials, planning, and CRM data capture.
Merret was originally developed to run on the AS/400, but Retail Assist wanted
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UCG Launches VAULT400 Reports
July 30, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreUnited Computer Group this month launched VAULT400 Reports, a new offering that will give VAULT400 customers access to reports that detail the state of their backups and storage utilization on the VAULT400 cloud.
UCG last week mailed out notices to its VAULT400 customers to let them know about the new service and to provide them with security credentials to log onto the VAULT400 Web portal. The reports will be available to VAULT400 customers at any time, and the company will email the reports every quarter.
UCG is making three sets of reports available to its customers. The Backup Status report