Printer manufacturer Source Technologies recently announced that it has added support for the Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) protocol to the ST9620, one of its newest and most popular magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) multi-function laser printers. The Charlotte, North Carolina, company says that adding IPDS support will make the ST9620, which can print at speeds up to 40 pages per minute, an attractive printer for transactional print jobs at small and remote offices of companies that use the System i.

If you’ve never heard of Source Technologies, you’re probably not alone. For most of its life, the 24-year-old company

In enterprise computing environments, batch jobs and file transfers often go hand in hand. Before a batch job can run, the latest data must be loaded, or jobs are setup to automatically execute when data arrives in a specific folder. Job scheduling software developer Help/Systems realized this affinity with the latest release of its cross-platform job scheduler Robot/SCHEUDLE Enterprise, which gains the capability to automate file transfers among i/OS, Unix, Linux, and Windows servers via FTP or FTPS.

Robot/SCHEDULE Enterprise is a relatively new product that Help/Systems rolled out less than a year ago. The software, which is technically

One of the challenges facing enterprise computing architects is how to manage and coordinate an IT infrastructure that spreads from the organization’s data center to one or more software as a service (SaaS) or cloud computing providers. For job scheduling software developer UC4 Software, which recently announced its UC4 Agent for Web Services, the answer is found through the magic of Web services and service oriented architecture (SOA).

UC4’s job scheduling software helps to manage applications running across a wide range of operating systems, including IBM i/OS, z/OS, Unix, Windows, Linux, MPE, BS2000, OpenVMS, and many other “legacy” platforms.

Imperva, a developer of integrated security tools that monitors users and transactions from the application to the database level, next month is planning on supporting the System i server and its DB2/400 database with its SecureSphere suite of products. The company is tapping the System i security expertise of Raz-Lee Security for the development of SecureSphere Agent for DB2/400, the companies announced yesterday.

Founded in 2002 by former employees of firewall vendor Check Point Software Technologies , Imperva has focused on providing an end-to-end security solution that allows organizations to continuously track and audit user and non-user activity from

Warehouse managers and salesmen will be able to check on inventory levels and other key pieces of information from the mobile comfort of their smartphones with the latest release of dcLINK from Data Systems International (DSI).

dcLINK is a Windows-based product that serves multiple functions in distribution center environments. Workers who wear coveralls on the warehouse floor will use dcLINK anytime they have a connection between their data collection devices (barcode scanners, RFID scanners, voice-prompted picking solutions) to ERP or warehouse management systems. Workers who wear suits on the company’s top floor will use dcLINK to generate reports that track

Information Builders last week announced the general availability of WebFOCUS RStat version 1.2, a new release of its software for building data mining and predictive analytics applications. The software doesn’t run on the System i server, but, like most Information Builder’s products, it can access data residing on that platform.

If you’ve ever watched the hit television show “Numbe3rs,” you’ve seen the powerful effect that mathematics and statistics have on our daily lives. While Charlie Eppes (played by David Krumholtz) uses his way with numbers to fight crime, people involved in all walks of life are finding new and creative

Nobody but Mother Nature knows when the next major hurricane will strike the Gulf Coast. But if one thing is certain, it’s that organizations in the region that prepare for disaster, like St. Martin Bank and Trust Company–a bank with 11 locations in western Louisiana that subscribes to IBM‘s Business Continuity and Resiliency Services (BCRS)–have a much better chance of surviving than those that do not.

According to IBM’s announcement last week, St. Martin Bank and Trust has been using BCRS since 1990. The bank, which relies on IBM’s System i platform, recently acquired another bank in the area,

JD Edwards shop thinking about migrating from World to EnterpriseOne should take a look at the latest white paper from Cetova, a developer of business intelligence and reporting tools for JD Edwards ERP. In the white paper, titled Closing the Gap between JDE World and E1 Reporting, Cetova analyzes some of the common pitfalls companies run into when trying to get started on EnterpriseOne reporting tools following a migration from World.

One would think that JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, as a much newer client-server ERP system with healthier sales and support from current owner Oracle, would have superior

Minnesota Counties Information Systems (MCIS), a joint-powers organization that provides IT services to 13 county governments in Minnesota, has selected disk-to-disk (D2D) backup appliances from Unitrends to back up its System i and Windows servers, Unitrends announced yesterday.

Based in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, MCIS and its 12 staff members provides outsourced IT services and technical support for standard county government applications like property tax records, payroll, and treasury management. MCIS is relied upon by Koochiching, Itasca, St. Louis, Lake, Cook, Cass, Crow Wing, Aitkin, Carlton, Sherburne, Lac Qui Parle, Chippewa, and Dodge counties, as well as a handful of other

IBM last week announced two new products aimed at helping organizations ensure that rules and policies regarding access to information are enforced. Both products, Optim Data Redaction and IBM InfoSphere Business Information Monitor, will become available in March. InfoSphere only will become available to a select group of customers. IBM also announced new services and a new Center of Excellence dedicated to information governance.

New regulations, such as the recently bolstered HIPAA and the Hi-Tech Act, are putting stronger restraints on how organizations–particularly companies in the healthcare business–manage sensitive data. IBM has moved aggressively to satisfy these new requirements through