Companies that use Ricoh‘s automated document factory (ADF) offering will be able to do all kinds of new things with PDF files that were previously impossible to do without converting to a different format, the company claims.

Ricoh’s Production Print Solutions unit (formerly InfoPrint Solutions Company, formerly the printing division of IBM) claimed several industry firsts with last week’s update to InfoPrint ProcessDirector, its PDF solution used by high-volume print operations. From the sound of it, Ricoh is squeezing management benefits from PDF documents that previously were the domain of the high-end advanced function presentation (AFP) document format.

IBM this month issued two patches to fix a potentially dangerous denial of service (DOS) security vulnerability in HTTP Server for IBM i, which is based on the Apache Web server. The patch addresses the Apache HTTP Server ByteRange Filter Denial of Service Vulnerability, a security flaw dubbed the “Apache Killer” that was discovered in versions 1 and 2 in August, and which is currently being exploited in the wild. IBM patched the flaw for IBM i 6.1, and IBM i 7.1.

IBM issued two Authorized Program Analysis Reports (APARs), numbers SE49334 and SE49333, on September 1 to address the

SAP has big plans for HANA, the high-performance analytical appliance that will receive lots of attention and scrutiny at SAP’s TechEd 2011 show this week in Las Vegas. And the interesting thing is, not all of SAP’s plans have to do with business intelligence. Sure, the bulk of the focus today is on how quickly HANA’s in-memory design can rip analytical workloads. But SAP executives see a time when HANA–with its slim columnar structure–eventually replaces the relational database that underlies the ERP system.

The relational databases that are popular today were designed 20 years ago and were largely shaped by

While some IT segments look bleak, it is a good time to be in the business intelligence software market. The pace of acquisitions and IPOs might be off, but companies that write good BI software will command an increasingly bigger chunk of the $2 trillion worldwide IT market in the coming years. One software firm that hopes to be part of that equation is iQ for Business Software (formerly iQ4bis Software), which is in the process of re-energizing under a new CEO.

IT Jungle readers may remember iQ for Business as the BI company that puts the entire user manual

Infor and Salesforce.com announced a new partnership this month that will result in new products that integrate Infor’s back-office ERP applications with Salesforce.com’s front-office applications delivered via the Internet. The deal is aimed at giving the sales, marketing, and services department at Infor shops a quicker route to using cloud and social media capabilities that are integrated with their core ERP applications and data. Salesforce.com gets an ownership stake in Infor.

Infor has committed to building three solutions that integrate its applications with Salesforce.com and its Force.com program. Force.com, if you don’t already know, is a cloud-based framework for rapidly

Linoma Software has updated two of the managed file transfer (MFT) products that it sells under the GoAnywhere brand. GoAnywhere Gateway, a proxy MFT solution that protects internal networks, received a security enhancement with version 1.1, while GoAnywhere Services, a scaled-down version of its full MFT solution designed for connecting trading partners, gets support for AS2 messages, among other new features.

Linoma introduced two GoAnywhere products in 2009. GoAnywhere Director, which requires installation on all computers sharing files, was the most full-featured MFT offering, while GoAnywhere Services, which was developed to be a “data storefront” that eased file transfers among

Infor affiliate Lawson Software last week acquired Approva, a developer of continuous controls monitoring (CCM) software that helps customers “get clean and stay clean” when it comes to regulatory compliance.

Approva’s Windows-based CCM software is designed to help users find the areas of their enterprise applications where they not in compliance with specific components of regulations, such as the segregation of duty requirement in Sarbanes-Oxley, and then keep them in compliance. The software does this by analyzing actual ERP transactions downloaded from the production system into Approva’s SQL Server-based database, and then running a range of queries and algorithms

The thrust toward mobile computing has never been greater. Employees of all types are clamoring to do their tasks from smartphones and tablets. But bringing mobile devices into the enterprise poses a number of management and security issues. One company at the forefront of addressing these challenges is Wavelink, a vendor that may be familiar to many IBM i shops.

Utah-based Wavelink has been a staple provider of wireless management tools for American distributors, retailers, and manufacturers. The company’s flagship product, Avalanche, is a mobile device management tool that handles tasks such as provisioning new devices and making sure

Two VAI customers are in the news this week, including Berk Enterprises, a supplier of concession supplies that expanded its VAI implementation to include transportation management from Agile Network, and College Wordwork, a furniture manufacturer that recently went live on VAI’s S2K ERP system for the very first time.

College Woodwork is an Ontario, Canada-based company that makes and distributes furniture made of solid birch. The company, which was founded in the early 1900s, originally started as a woodworking class at Lornedale Academy, and today has a reputation for making high quality yet affordable furniture.

The company’s previous computer

JD Edwards shops that are considering ditching Oracle for a third-party maintenance provider may be interested to know that Rimini Street has become the only third-party maintenance provider to receive ISO:9001 certification.

ISO:9001:2008 certification ensures that a company has taken certain steps to ensure a level of quality in its products and services and responsiveness to customer needs. Companies must pass an external audit before receiving the certification from the ISO standards body.

Rimini Street says that its ISO:9001 certification covers several aspects of its business, including client onboarding, building of client environments, and the development and delivery of tax