• IBM Touts i/OS as Ideal SaaS Platform in New White Paper

  May 18, 2010 Alex Woodie

  We’ve all known that the System i server is the ideal platform for running software as a service (SaaS) applications. What is heartening is that IBM is now touting this very idea to the broader IT world through a new 21-page white paper, called “IBM i and SaaS: Positioning IBM i as a software as a service platform.” Written by Jon Rush, who works in IBM Systems and Technology Group’s Lab Services, the new white paper makes a good case for the i/OS server providing a solid platform for running SaaS workloads. Several i operating system elements make it an

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• IBS Fights ‘iSeries Perception,’ Steps Closer to Microsoft

  May 18, 2010 Alex Woodie

  ERP software developer International Business Systems, which is battling the perception that it develops software that only runs on the IBM “iSeries” server, announced recently that it has been awarded a gold certified partnership by Microsoft. For the last two years, IBS has been working to transition its development organization from targeting the i/OS-RPG-DB2 stack that runs on IBM’s Power Systems hardware to targeting the Windows-Java-SQL Server stack that runs on cheap and powerful X64 hardware from any number of vendors. While the Swedish company is not abandoning its vast installed base of ERP applications across thousands of

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• Maximum Availability Unveils New HA Monitor

  May 11, 2010 Alex Woodie

  Knowing if a target System i server is ready to take over processing from a primary server is one of the biggest challenges to successfully operating an i/OS high availability (HA) environment. With its new browser-based MAXView console unveiled last week at the COMMON conference in Orlando, Florida, HA software vendor Maximum Availability intends to take the guesswork out of gauging system readiness. And since MAXView runs on the iPhone, IT managers can stay informed wherever they go. Like all i/OS HA vendors, Maxava has already invested in presenting failover readiness information on-screen for its *noMAX customers. All three versions

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• Profound Brings RPG:OA-Like Features to V5R3 and V5R4

  May 11, 2010 Alex Woodie

  Profound Logic extended its lead in the young field of Rational Open Access: RPG Edition enablement last week with several announcements at the COMMON conference in Orlando, Florida. One of the most promising is a new “preprocessor” tool that will allow users of i5/OS V5R3 and V5R4 to get started with RPG OA development via the Profound UI tool. The software vendor also unveiled a new DDS conversion tool designed to help with modernizing existing RPG code, as opposed to developing new applications with RPG:OA. RPG Open Access is easily the most popular component of IBM‘s recent i/OS 7.1

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• .NET App Modernization Tool Unveiled by looksoftware

  May 11, 2010 Dan Burger

  Before starting an IBM i application modernization planning process, it’s good advice to examine your application portfolio and understand where you want to make investments. Existing applications may not fit new business requirements or high maintenance may be strangling app dev progress. Either one makes you question their value. Some circumstances move companies in the direction of Microsoft .NET development, and if this occurs to you, then looksoftware should get your attention. Ask yourself: When business goals and IT infrastructure are horribly misaligned, who gets the black eye? Without a doubt, it’s the IT department, and chances are good that

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• NGS Makes OLAP Module Easier to Use

  May 11, 2010 Alex Woodie

  New Generation Software next month will deliver a new release of its SmartView OLAP software that will give users more power over how they analyze and manipulate data. Specifically, the addition of the new “calculated fields” function will allows users to perform their own calculations on SmartView data presented to them. In addition to eliminating the need for developers to anticipate to a high degree the data users need, it also opens up entirely new ways of deriving new information from existing data. Online analytical processing (OLAP) has a reputation for being a powerful yet difficult-to-use business intelligence function. While

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• Raz-Lee Gets the Twitter Bug

  May 11, 2010 Alex Woodie

  i/OS security software vendor Raz-Lee Security unveiled a slew of product enhancements during last week’s COMMON conference in Orlando, Florida. At the top of the list was iTweet, a new Raz-Lee app that leverages the Twitter Web service to enable bi-directional communication with System i servers. The vendor also unveiled other improvements to its iSecurity suite, including support for SYSLOG and multi-system environments. It also announced plans to give away free copies of Filescope, its file editor for DB2/400. The addictive power of Twitter was on full display last week in the Hilton Orlando, site of the fourth annual COMMON

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• Quadrant Eases ECM Deployments with IntelliChief 3.0

  May 11, 2010 Alex Woodie

  Quadrant Software is making it easier to perform initial roll-outs of its enterprise content management (ECM) system, as well as to make upgrades and changes, with a new release of its IntelliChief ECM software unveiled last week at the COMMON conference in Orlando, Florida. The creation of three separate environments for development, testing, and production with IntelliChief version 3 should bring some relief to programmers and administrators tasked with configuring and managing increasingly sophisticated ECM systems, especially those with complex workflow rules. IntelliChief is a suite of Windows software designed to help companies transition from paper-based documents and workflows to

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• RJS Unveils Signature Capture Software

  May 11, 2010 Alex Woodie

  One of the drawbacks of using electronic documents is the difficulty of dealing with signatures. Getting signatures often requires printing the document, signing it with a pen, then re-scanning the document into electronic form, which eliminates one of the key advantages of e-docs. With the new SignHere digital signature capture software unveiled last week by RJS Software Systems, organizations will be able to capture signatures and apply them to e-docs automatically. RJS developed SignHere to streamline the handling of signatures as it relates to common business forms, such as invoices, bills of lading, proof of delivery, and other documents

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• HiT Software Acquired by BackOffice Associates

  May 11, 2010 Alex Woodie

  HiT Software, a developer of database connectivity and replication software for i/OS and other platforms, has been acquired by BackOffice Associates, a provider of master data management (MDM) and data quality tools that provides expertise for data governance projects and ERP migrations. BackOffice was particularly interested in HiT’s change data capture (CDC)-based database replication software, called DBMoto, which fills a functional gap in BackOffice’s product suite. BackOffice Associates is not a household name in the IT business. Yet, the South Harwich, Massachusetts, company has been quietly building a solid reputation in the field of MDM, data quality, and

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