Alex Woodie
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Linoma Gets GSA Schedule 70 Contract
May 21, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreLinoma Software just increased the potential marketplace for its GoAnywhere software as the result of being awarded a General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule 70 contract, which streamlines the purchase of the managed file transfer (MFT) software by federal, state, and local governments.
The folks at Linoma had been working on the GSA Schedule 70 contract for some time. Attaining such a contract involves a fairly comprehensive investigation of the vendor and its products, and can take up to a year. Just the same, the process went through quickly for Linoma, says Dirk Zwart, director of technology alliances for Linoma.
“The
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Tableau Has a Big Day with IPO
May 21, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreIt didn’t take any fancy big-data analysis to show that Tableau Software had a very good day Friday, when its stock price soared 63 percent from its opening price. The company, which makes data visualization tools, enjoyed another 11 percent gain in early trading yesterday, giving it a market capitalization of around $365 million.
Tableau is a small player in the overall market for business intelligence software, but it’s garnering lots of attention–especially after the successful IPO. The Seattle, Washington, company says its software, which is based on its VizQL (visual query language) technology, enables even non-technical people to explore
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Infor Hooks Ming.le Social Platform to S&OP App
May 21, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreInfor Hooks Ming.le Social Platform to S&OP App
Infor yesterday announced that users of its Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) application can now utilize Infor’s Ming.le social platform to foster collaboration among various stakeholders in an organization.
Infor unveiled a brand new S&OP application more than two years ago to replace the old Mercia S&OP tool that Agilisys (the precursor to Infor) bought nearly a decade ago. The Windows-based software features an OLAP core, and is designed to boost the efficiency of supply chains by providing a framework that ties together people, processes, and software products.
The software pulls data
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Corus360 Launches Data Vaulting Solution Called Vault360
May 21, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreCorus360 last week announced a data vaulting offering for servers running IBM i, Windows, Linux, and AIX operating systems. With Vault360, customers back up their servers over the network to Corus360’s data center, which can also provide recovery services if needed.
Corus360 is no stranger to disaster recovery (DR) offerings. The Atlanta, Georgia, VAR to IBM, HP, EMC, Dell, and Hitachi runs its own division called RES-Q that is devoted to providing all types and sizes of DR and business resiliency offerings for customers running a variety of business systems.
Data vaulting has been on the
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Rimini Adds BusinessObjects to Third-Party Support Offerings
May 21, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreRimini Street has been providing third-party support and maintenance services to users of SAP Business Suite ERP software for four years. Now, the company is offering support for SAP’s BusinessObjects business intelligence software, too.
Rimini Street says BusinessObjects customers who sign support contracts can save up to 90 percent compared to what they were paying SAP. That includes the 50 percent savings that Rimini Street says it provides for all ERP customers who sign support contracts. SAP customers who use Rimini for their ERP and business intelligence support and maintenance will save the most, the company says.
Rimini will provide
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The 10-Year Security Itch Needs Scratching
May 20, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreIn 2004, PowerTech unveiled its first report on the state of security for the iSeries server, as the IBM i platform was then called. The report uncovered major problems at iSeries shops involving passwords, remote access, and user profiles. Fast forward to April 2013 and PowerTech’s 10th annual report, which uncovered systemic problems with–you guessed it–passwords, remote access, and powerful user profiles.
If you think back to 2004, computer security issues were just beginning to grab headlines. Microsoft was under daily threat from hackers seeking to expose vulnerabilities in its products, which it would patch every month on “Patch Tuesday.”
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Vision Unveils New Entry-Level DR Solution for IBM i
May 14, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreVision Solutions last week unveiled MIMIX DR, a new disaster recovery (DR) product designed to help eliminate data loss and speed the recovery of systems and applications following a disaster at smaller IBM i sites. MIMIX DR uses the same data and object replication capabilities that are found in the full MIMIX high availability (HA) offering. But MIMIX DR lacks the automated failover capabilities of MIMIX HA, and instead uses a manual failover process.
Just like the full MIMIX HA product, MIMIX DR uses IBM remote journaling (RJ) technology to replicate all changes made to DB2/400 data and IBM i
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Worknet Tapped to Provide IBM i Processing for Credit Unions
May 14, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreIn the world of corporate credit unions, excitement is not necessarily a good thing. While regular banks take big exciting risks in search of big exciting profits, the not-for-profit credit unions seek the repeatable and the predictable. So when Core Network Processing (CNP) tapped Worknet to take over hosting and management of its core, IBM i-based application, it made its decision carefully, since it would effect nearly a fourth of the country’s 8,000 credit unions.
CNP is a limited liability corporation (LLC) that was set up years ago by US Central to provide core, back-office data processing for a group
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SEQUEL Streamlines Reporting with New Script Views
May 14, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreBusiness intelligence software vendor SEQUEL Software has made fairly extensive changes to how its ViewPoint client handles data with the introduction of a new objects, called script views. The new script views objects will not only simplify the steps required to complete common reporting functions–including displaying data on a dashboard, and emailing and printing–but provide a performance boost to complex data processing tasks as well.
The enhancements were added to ViewPoint version 10.13.087, the latest release of the Windows-based client that is one of the main ways that users interact with SEQUEL, the flagship business intelligence and reporting system of
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Computer Keyes Takes IFS Files Mobile
May 14, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreComputer Keyes last week unveiled a new IBM i software product that will allow users to access IFS files from any Web browser, including those running on mobile devices. The product, called kLink, includes two separate mobile application servers, including one for the employees of an organization, and another one for its customers.
The Internet is increasingly looking mobile. According to On Device Research, one in four Americans use mobile devices as their sole source of Internet access, and by 2015, more users will access the Internet from mobile devices than from PCs or other wireline channels, IDC says.
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