An updated security information and event management (SIEM) product from Q1 Labs promises to help businesses crack down on the leakage of sensitive information to social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. With qRadar 7.0, the SIEM gains new capabilities for correlating the social media activity of users with their access to company records–including DB2/400 access–thereby putting the kibosh on data leaks before they cause damage.

Businesses are caught between a rock and a hard spot when it comes to social media and social networking websites. On the one hand, businesses don’t want to isolate themselves

Social networking is taking the world and the Internet by storm. But teens and tech lovers aren’t the only ones using sites like Facebook and Twitter to express themselves and communicate with friends. In the business world, IBM i software vendors are also adopting social networking technologies to develop sales leads, to communicate with customers, and perhaps most importantly, to be part of a new global conversation taking place on the Web.

The capability of the Internet to spawn new business models and create wealth continues to amaze. Since the first dot-com boom and crash of the late 1990s, we’ve

When inventory gets low and demand stays high, what do you do? You could just fill orders as they come in until you run out of product, but that would upset your best customers and potentially violate service level agreements. With the new JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Fulfillment module unveiled last week at Oracle‘s user conference, companies can rely on software to automatically allocate constrained products in the most efficient and profitable manner.

In this hyper competitive supply chain age, having a constrained supply of a particular product is both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, high

Shipping is about to get easier for companies that rely on ERP software from SAP running on IBM i servers. As part of a new partnership involving SAP, UPS, and IBM i shipping software developer Varsity Logistics, SAP on i customers will be able to drive the Varsity shipping applications directly from their SAP ERP screens.

There are several elements to the new partnership involving UPS, Varsity, and SAP, which Varsity announced on the last day of August.

For starters, Varsity developed a pre-built interface for exchanging data between SAP’s R/3 and All in One ERP suites and ShipSoft,

ASG Software Solutions recently launched a new version of ASG-Zena, its cross-platform job scheduler, which supports IBM i and other business computing platforms. Zena 3.0 brings better support for virtualized environments, deeper integration with popular ERP systems, and improved compatibility with Zeke, ASG’s mainframe job scheduler.

ASG-Zena is a Java-based workload automation tool designed to help enterprises coordinate the execution of batch jobs running on IBM i, Windows, Unix, z/OS, and Linux (on X64, Power, and mainframe processors) servers from a central control point. The software supports both time- and event-based processing, uses GUIs for defining and managing workflows, offers

IBM last week unveiled the version 7.3 release of its Optim suite of tools, which helps organizations to archive data and prepare data for testing. The new version adds support for the latest server operating systems and database. IBM also launched Optim Application Retirement, for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and Siebel applications that are getting a little long in the tooth.

Just because an organization is no longer actively using an enterprise application, it does not mean the application can be completely disregarded. For one thing, the organization may need to access the data contained within the application and its database.

Safestone Technologies, which historically has focused on IBM i security, made its first foray into the AIX world last week with the launch of Compliance Center for AIX. The software is designed to help organizations manage logs and compliance requirements for AIX servers, and follows a similar compliance product unveiled for IBM i earlier this year.

Compliance Center for AIX is a Windows-based tool designed to streamline the task of collecting security-related information for customers’ System p- and AIX-based Power Systems environments, and then presenting that data in the form of reports for compliance purposes.

The software looks for

Ansell Healthcare, a $1 billion manufacturer of industrial and medical gloves, is outsourcing the hosting and management of critical IBM i, AIX, and VMware servers to Connectria as part of a multi-year contract, Connectria announced yesterday.

According to Connectria, Ansell Healthcare has tasked the outsourcer with the day-to-day management of its production systems, which includes iSeries and AIX systems and a private cloud based on VMware . In addition to management of production systems, Connectria will provide disaster recovery support.

Previously, the New Jersey-based manufacturer relied on the British firm Telstar Solutions for management of its Infor PRMS ERP environment.

Infor last week announced its SoftBrands subsidiary has acquired the property management systems (PMS) division of Amadeus IT Group, a large European provider of travel technology and services.

The Amadeus buy nets Infor/SoftBrands a collection of Unix- and Windows-based hotel management systems used at nearly 10,000 properties around the world, and turns it into the second largest provider of hospitality software in the world, the vendor claims.

Infor and its equity partner, Golden Gate Capital, got into the PMS business a year ago when it bought SoftBrands for $80 million. The Minneapolis-based outfit had previously acquired the IBM i-based

Q Software, a developer of security products for JD Edwards shops, has partnered with CaoSys to widen the reach of its security tools from JD Edwards to include Oracle E Business Suite, the British vendors announced last week.

Q Software develops and sells a range of tools for bolstering the security of EnterpriseOne, World, and PeopleSoft Enterprise environments. Its SEC-Qure line of products provides build management, segregation of duty (SOD), auditing, and compliance capabilities for more than 250 JD Edwards customers around the world.

As part of the alliance with fellow British vendor CaoSys, Q Software is now offering