Alex Woodie
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Infor Partners with NCS for Direct Store Delivery
December 4, 2012 Alex Woodie
… Read moreInfor last month announced a partnership with Numeric Computer Systems that will result in new integration between Infor ERP systems and the suite of Direct Store Delivery applications from NCS. One Infor LX (BPCS) customer, the beverage bottler Polar Corporation, has already adopted the integration.
Direct Store Delivery (DSD) is a business model whereby manufacturers act as their own distributors and ship their products directly to stores or the place of consumption. The business model is commonly used in the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry, where delivery times are critical. After all, fresh milk and eggs can’t sit in
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Deploy Cognos in Minutes with New BI Pattern, IBM Says
December 4, 2012 Alex Woodie
… Read moreCritics have long derided the long deployment times typically required by big business intelligence offerings such as IBM‘s Cognos. However, with last week’s launch of Business Intelligence Pattern version 1.0, IBM says it has cut the deployment of a full, fault-tolerant Cognos environment to a matter of minutes.
Business Intelligence Pattern version 1.0 is a new piece of software designed to speed up the deployment of Cognos business intelligence applications on IBM’s new PureApplication server platform. PureApplication servers, you will remember, are all-in-one systems that don’t run applications so much as they run “patterns of expertise.”
That concept-bending scheme
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Island Pacific Turns iPhone Into POS Device
December 4, 2012 Alex Woodie
… Read moreImagine being able to check out of a store this Christmas shopping season by completing a transaction with an iPhone app, as opposed to lining up at the check-out counter. That future is becoming a reality at retail chains that are customers of Island Pacific, a developer of merchandising and point of sale solutions.
Island Pacific recently announced that it has received accreditation from a payment network provider for use of its Island Pacific Mobile offering, which utilizes software running on an iPhone or iPod Touch and the Ingenico iSMP mobile payment cradle.
Ingenico’s iSMP device turns an iPhone
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EVault Taps Cequel Data Centers for Cloud Partnership
December 4, 2012 Alex Woodie
… Read moreEVault last week announced that it has formed a partnership with Cequel Data Centers, owner of a series of data centers in Texas, Oklahoma, and Washington state, to offer EVault’s online backup and recovery software and services from each of its locations.
Cequel Data Centers was created in 2010 by a group of private equity and investment firms, led by Cequel III of St. Louis, Missouri. The group owns and operates more than 100,000 square feet of data center space through three subsidiaries, including Colo4 of Dallas Texas, which was acquired in 2010; Perimeter Technology of Oklahoma City and Tulsa,
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Profound Logic Opts for RPG OA in NiSUG Mobile Challenge
December 4, 2012 Alex Woodie
… Read moreProfound Logic showcased its RPG Open Access (RPG OA) technology during the recent mobile application development challenge held during National iSystems User Group‘s 2012 International Power event in London.
NiSUG challenged IBM i tool vendors to use their wares to quickly develop the most full-featured mobile application they could as part of the “App-i-Days Mobile Application Showcase” that was held on the expo floor during the recent 2012 International Power event. The vendors, presented with a DB2 for i database and a set of minimum requirement, unleashed their developers and their creativity.
Profound Logic, which was represented by its
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IBM Fights Fraud with New Software
December 4, 2012 Alex Woodie
… Read moreIBM last week launched a new release of i2 Fraud Intelligence Analysis, its Windows-based software application that’s designed to help organizations discover, fight, and prevent fraud. The new release brings a new architecture that should improve scalability and data integration.
It can be very difficult to detect fraud, especially when it’s being perpetrated by small groups of highly skilled and motivated people against large organizations that have rigid processes and are slow to react. With i2 Fraud Intelligence Analysis, IBM hopes to give these large organizations a leg up on the game by giving them powerful tools designed to peer
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IBM Adds IBM i Support To Traveler And Kills Lotus Name
December 3, 2012 Alex Woodie
… Read moreGreat news for IBM i shops: IBM will enable Traveler, the email and messaging server for mobile devices, to run on the IBM i operating system as part of the forthcoming Notes/Domino version 9.0 platform, the company has announced. Big Blue also said that, with the launch of Notes/Domino 9.0 Social Edition in the first quarter of 2013, it will no longer use the Lotus name, marking the end of the 20-year-old, sunny yellow brand.
IBM takes a tremendous amount of flack for its seemingly endless re-branding exercises, and at least some of it is well deserved. IBM’s marketers did
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BVS Unveils Jabber-Based Messaging Tool for IBM i
November 27, 2012 Alex Woodie
… Read moreBVS Tools is rolling out GreenJab, a new utility that enables two-way communication between the IBM i server and any client device that supports the Jabber (XMPP) instant messaging (IM) protocol. The product, which is entering beta, will give administrators another way to get critical alerts from the IBM i server, and even to submit commands or execute other tasks on the IBM i server.
Jabber, officially known as Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), is an open source, XML-based IM protocol that’s also an official IETF Internet standard. There are more than 100 XMPP/Jabber clients available on the market,
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CNX Ships IBM i Administrator App for Smart Phones
November 27, 2012 Alex Woodie
… Read moreCNX this week introduced a new mobile application called Nitro iAdmin that lets administrators monitor and manage their IBM i servers from the comfort of their iOS, Android OS, and Blackberry smartphones. The modern looking Web app lets administrators deal with common IBM i tasks, such as responding to jobs in MSGW status, re-enabling user profiles, and moving spool files to different printer queues. There’s even a red button that will IPL the server.
Ever since pagers started to become popular in the 1970s, system administrators have looked for ways to stay hooked into their servers while outside of the
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VAI Promises New User Experience with S2K 5.4
November 27, 2012 Alex Woodie
… Read moreVAI is nearing completion of S2K Enterprise 5.4, its IBM i-based ERP offering for small and midsize companies in the manufacturing, distribution, and retail industries. With version 5.4, VAI will be delivering a new Web client that, for the first time, will offer function parity with VAI’s Windows client, and look and feel exactly like other VAI products. Integration with IBM Smart Cloud for Social Business is another feature in this release.
For many years, VAI has offered a Web client for its S2K software to go along with Windows and 5250 interfaces. However, the old HTML interface didn’t offer