Dan Burger
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Remain Software Confirms Latin American Partner
February 18, 2014 Dan Burger
… Read moreRemain Software, a Dutch company specializing in application lifecycle management (ALM) products for IBM midrange shops, is introducing its product line to Latin America through a business partner arrangement with Green Light Technology. Green Light has business partners in several South and Central American countries, and is based in Orlando, Florida.
The partnership includes promotion, distribution, consultancy, and technical support for Remain Software products: TD/OMS, a software change management tool; TD/OMS Compact, software change management tailored for small teams; and Gravity, an ALM workflow management product.
Jaime Penagos, a project manager at Green Light, says the Latin American
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Midrange Dynamics’ Change Management Enhancements a Matter of Perspective
February 18, 2014 Dan Burger
… Read moreA sequel to Escape from Alcatraz, that great old Clint Eastwood movie, is taking shape in IBM midrange shops. It’s called Escape from Green Screens. The plot is still being written and it won’t be done any time soon, but there are more shops using RDi with Remote System Explorer for editing source code. And the new free-form RPG coding is allowing RPG developers to escape green-screen development. A change management system (CMS) that works well in a modern development environment is a big advantage over CMSes that don’t–or no CMS at all.
Midrange Dynamics, for example, is
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Remain Software Confirms Latin American Partner
February 18, 2014 Dan Burger
… Read moreRemain Software, a Dutch company specializing in application lifecycle management (ALM) products for IBM midrange shops, is introducing its product line to Latin America through a business partner arrangement with Green Light Technology. Green Light has business partners in several South and Central American countries, and is based in Orlando, Florida.
The partnership includes promotion, distribution, consultancy, and technical support for Remain Software products: TD/OMS, a software change management tool; TD/OMS Compact, software change management tailored for small teams; and Gravity, an ALM workflow management product.
Jaime Penagos, a project manager at Green Light, says the Latin American
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Latest IBM FlashSystem Software Doubles Performance
February 17, 2014 Dan Burger
… Read moreAlthough the FlashSystem 840 from IBM is primarily a storage array for X86 and AIX systems, its application for IBM i shops is significant regardless of its somewhat subordinate conspicuousness. The first thing to think about is that the 840 is software that provides data management services in integrated environments. It optimizes database workloads and it becomes the tier one storage layer.
The second thing to think about is that this latest version (introduced in January and touted at PartnerWorld last week) has doubled the performance while reducing the price–about 10 percent–from the previous model, the 820. Flash technology for
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IBM Power Development Platform Emphasizes Linux ISVs
February 17, 2014 Dan Burger
… Read moreIBM‘s continued effort and investment in nurturing Linux on Power Systems was on display last week at the annual gathering of IBM business partners known as PartnerWorld.
Access to Power Systems servers for business partners, primarily independent software providers (ISVs), has been revamped with improved tooling for Linux-oriented ISVs bringing that development arena up to par with what has existed for IBM i and AIX developers for some time. This particular partner program, which is now called the IBM Power Development Platform (PDP), was formerly known as the Virtual Loaner Program. It was established in 2003 to encourage ISV
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Manhattan Associates Closes 2013 Strong
February 17, 2014 Dan Burger
… Read moreWith a timely gain in fourth quarter software license revenue driven by new customers and a growing consulting services business, the financial scorecard for Manhattan Associates for its fourth quarter and total revenue for its fiscal year looked good with double-digit gains.
In the final quarter of 2013, revenue increased 13 percent to $107.6 million, while for the year revenue increased 10 percent to $414.5 million. Both figures set new records for the supply chain management company.
Manhattan Associates recorded software license revenue of $17.3 million in the fourth quarter, which topped the prior year’s period by 20 percent. New
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Tech Salaries And Confidence Advance, Says Dice
February 17, 2014 Dan Burger
… Read moreSalary surveys are like train wrecks, you know from experience this could very well be ugly, but you can’t help but look anyway. This opportunity to survey the scene comes from the career trackers at Dice. If indicators of rising salaries and mounting confidence only make you feel miserable because of your employment situation, let this be your warning to look the other way.
Compensation is up, but salary satisfaction is not. And, with two-thirds of the survey respondents also confident they could grab a better job at a different company, it leads to the unanswered question: What will
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Expanding The IBM i Advocate’s Tool Box
February 10, 2014 Dan Burger
… Read moreFighting for the IBM i platform is a skill. And like any skill it requires forethought, training, and repetition. The platform has plenty of advocates, but most are not trained in effective ways to communicate with those who have little understanding of the system and those who focus on short-term technology changes without adequately considering the long-term business investments. Choosing to be an advocate doesn’t automatically bring the knowledge of how to effectively support and defend.
To begin, let’s make a distinction between popular computing and smart computing. Smart computing is about facilitating change while doing what’s right for a
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Emerging Markets Chill IT Spending Forecast
February 10, 2014 Dan Burger
… Read moreJust as the sizzling economic growth of emerging markets was a red hot poker for the IT industry, the cooling of those economies has caused IDC to scale back its worldwide IT spending growth projection for 2014. The Asia/Pacific (including China), Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa regions are all witnessing devaluated currency, rising inflation, and bulging trade deficits, none of which bodes well for IT spending.
Add to that what IDC calls “the inevitable deceleration in the growth of smartphones and tablets,” and we have the basis for a corrected IT spending forecast that is lowered
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COMMON Conference Could Benefit From Modernization Strategy
February 10, 2014 Dan Burger
… Read moreWorkforce modernization should be on the minds of a lot more IT managers and executive level long-term strategists. We hear companies putting out the message that they need IT professionals with skills that match the newly blossoming job requirements. There are unfilled jobs waiting for the right applicant to come along.
I’m not an IT director or a human resources manager, but as an IT industry observer it seems to me existing IT staff in many of the IBM midrange shops is underused. Overworked, but underused. This is an opportune time to consider a job training program that is job