Alex Woodie
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JDA Unveils New Cloud-Based Supply Chain Platform
April 9, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreJDA Software last week unveiled JDA eight, a new cloud-based platform designed to help companies with a range of supply chain activities, including planning, forecasting, optimization, analytics, and logistics.
JDA eight is based on 30 pre-existing products from JDA, including software from its E3, i2, and Manugistics acquisitions. JDA rewrote the products for delivery via the cloud and to give them new “consumer-level” interfaces.
JDA CEO and president Hamish Brewer provided some insight into JDA eight in a video posted to the JDA website. In the video, Hamish says JDA eight is “much more than a typical product release,”
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Quadrant Adds QR Code Support to Formtastic
April 9, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreQuadrant Software recently issued a new release of its forms management software that supports the Quick Response (QR) codes that can be used to communicate Web hyperlinks through a camera on a smart phone.
Quadrant says that QR code support was added to Formtastic version 5.4.5, which shipped more than two years ago. Formtastic can now add QR codes to forms generated from IBM i spooled files, thereby boosting internal and external communications.
Quadrant also announced that it has improved its intelligent mail barcode functionality to comply with a requirement by the United States Postal Service for customer eligibility
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Help/Systems Gets Its Splunk On with ‘InterMapper’ Launch
April 9, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreIBM i systems management software developer Help/Systems last week unveiled InterMapper App for Splunk Enterprise, a network analytics and visualization tool designed to work with the data collection software from Splunk.
Splunk is an up-and-coming company based in San Francisco that develops software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing big data. The company’s main product, also called Splunk, helps organizations to capture, index, and correlate large amounts of data, and use it to develop graphs, reports, alerts, and dashboards, all from a Web-based interface.
Help/Systems’ product builds on the core data collection and manipulation capabilities of Splunk by delivering network
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AURA Equipements Touts its SQLiPlug
April 9, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreOne AURA Equipements product you will be hearing about more in the future is SQLiPlug, a piece of software that allows IBM i applications to access external databases in real time.
SQLiPlug is not a new product, and it hasn’t been enhanced lately. But according to AURA Equipements CEO Sylvain Rubele, AURA will be doing a lot of work with SQLiPlug in the future, as the company looks to enable database access to and from the IBM i server.
SQLiPlug runs the on IBM i server and facilitates a direct connection between DB2 for i and third-party databases, such as
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The 21 IBM Fellows Who Helped Build The IBM i Server
April 8, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreIBM celebrates two major milestones this spring: the 25th anniversary of the launch of the AS/400, as well as the 50th anniversary of the IBM Fellows program. With help from IBM, we filled in the areas where these two programs overlap, and identified a list of the 21 Fellows who applied their brilliant brains to developing some aspect of the AS/400 or its successors and related technologies.
IBM launched its Fellows program in 1963. The idea behind the program, as envisioned by CEO Thomas Watson Jr., was to give accomplished scientists, engineers, programmers, and architects the freedom to explore their
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Maxava Versus Vision Solutions Trial Date Delayed Again
April 8, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreInstead of prepping for trial next month, participants in Maxava‘s false advertising and trade libel lawsuit against Vision Solutions will be waiting–waiting for the judge in the case to issue summary judgment rulings, which will impact how they prepare for the trial, and maybe even lead to an out-of-court settlement.
In a filing made last week, Judge George Wu set a new trial date of August 6, and a new pretrial conference date of July 15. The previous pretrial conference date was May 2, and the previous trial date was May 28.
The delay was jointly requested on March
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CM First Uses Hometown COMMON as Launch Pad for IBM i Tools
April 3, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreOne of the new IBM i software vendors exhibiting at next week’s COMMON conference in Austin, Texas, is CM First. The Swiss company opened its US office in Austin two years ago, and sees a favorable market developing for its products, including change management and Web and mobile development tools for CA 2E and Plex customers.
CM First develops application lifecycle management (ALM) and Web/mobile development tools aimed at helping IBM i and mainframe customers modernize their applications. In 12 years of business, the company has attracted about 400 customers, most of which are located in Europe and have
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Help/Systems Buys ShowCase BI Products from IBM
April 2, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreHelp/Systems yesterday announced that it has acquired several ShowCase business intelligence products from IBM. The transaction gives Help/Systems possession of one of the most storied brands in the history of IBM i analytics. However, it does not include the IBM i port of the Essbase online analytical processing (OLAP) tool, which has died on the IBM vine.
Terms of the deal between Help/Systems and IBM were not disclosed. The transaction is done, and some of IBM’s ShowCase customers are now Help/Systems customers. “I’m pleased to add the ShowCase software products to the Help/Systems family,” stated Help/Systems CEO Janet Dryer
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Braum’s Takes the RPG Path to Mobile Apps with LANSA LongRange
April 2, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreRPG is probably not the first language that pops into most IT people’s minds when they think about mobile application development. But for IBM i shops like Braum’s Ice Cream and Dairy Stores, the capability to code mobile apps in the language they know best–good old Report Program Generator–is a major advantage. In fact, it was the main reason Braum’s chose LANSA‘s LongRange to build a series of mobile apps for its employees.
Braum’s Ice Cream and Dairy Stores is something of a local institution for people who live in the south central portion of the United States. In
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DocPath Chooses Java for Rewrite of Document Management Tool
April 2, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreDocPath last week unveiled a new release of its document management software that has been rewritten in Java. DocPath CEO Julio Olivares says the Java rewrite not only boosts performance, but allows the software to run equally well in IBM i, Windows, Linux, and Unix environments. While the technological core of the new DocPath server runs on Java, the company chose Microsoft .NET for the new document designer.
DocPath sells two lines of product, one for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and another for enterprises. The SMB offerings are traditional document management products that allow companies to generate professional-looking forms