Spinnaker Support, a growing provider of third-party maintenance and support for JD Edwards World and EnterpriseOne users, recently announced that it has expanded its partnership with ReportsNow, a provider of reporting tools for JD Edwards shops. As part of the partnership, the companies will send referrals to each other.

ReportsNow was founded by Christopher Bruce in 2003 with the goal of developing easier-to-use reporting tools for JD Edwards World and EnterpriseOne ERP systems. The company came up with a tool called Data Access Studio (DAS) that’s specifically designed to access JD Edwards data stores.

DAS enables users to

In the cat and mouse game between security experts and cyber criminals, there is rarely a spare moment to catch one’s breath. Just as the good guys think they have all their bases covered, the hoodlums find another way to slither past defenses and into corporate networks. Keeping a watchful eye on end-user devices is especially critical today, in light of new forms of malware, like the RAT (remote access Trojans) and polymorphic viruses.

The FBI recently warned about an increase in blended attacks against banks in the United States. Perhaps you have received one of the phishing emails that

Shield Advanced Solutions is rolling out a new release of its high availability software for IBM i, HA4i 7.1. The new version sports a brand spanking new journal apply process that Shield says gives its customers more flexibility in how they configure their high availability environments when compared to the traditional IBM apply process. The extensive testing phase of HA4i 7.1 also revealed a performance boost in some situations, the company says.

HA4i is a logical replication high availability solution that’s based on IBM’s remote journaling technology. When it started out in 2007 under the name Receiver Apply Program (RAP),

Quadrant Software last week unveiled a new connector that facilities bidirectional fax communication between SAP ERP systems and QuadraDocV, the new fax-over-IP (FoIP) document distribution solution it launched earlier this year. The company also announced its second release of QuadraDocV, which has become its flagship product and is clearly not just for FoIP anymore.

The launch of QuadraDocV this April was a milestone for Quadrant Software, a company that has become synonymous in the IBM i world with production fax solutions. While the company’s FastFax offering had been integrated into ERP systems and used successfully by thousands of IBM i

Want scalability for your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne ERP system? You could choose a “blue stack” configuration based on the latest IBM Power Systems servers. But if you’re talking with Oracle salespeople about a hardware upgrade, chances are good that you’ll be pointed toward the latest technology in Oracle’s “red stack,” namely the Exalogic Elastic Cloud X3-2, which can be outfitted with 480 Intel Xeon processors and 7.7 TB of memory.

Oracle unveiled the latest in its Exalogic brand last week at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. In case you missed it, OpenWorld this year was all about the

Rocket Software last week delivered a new version of BlueZone, its terminal emulator for accessing host servers from IBM and others. BlueZone version 6.1 delivers new features such as a compatibility that allows users to run older versions alongside the new release. It also brings support for Windows 8, as well as new printer, file transfer, and Web deployment capabilities.

BlueZone is a family of terminal emulators designed to run on a variety of clients, including PCs, Web browsers, and mobile clients. The software supports 5250, 3270, T27, UTS, VT, ANSI, SCO-ANSI, WYSE 60, and HP terminal emulation protocols. It

Hotels that use the IBM i-based Lodging Management System (LMS) from Agilysys will be able to check guests in and out of their properties with iPads when they upgrade to the latest release, version 7.2, which was unveiled last week at Global Gaming Expo 2012.

LMS is an ERP system designed to automate the business processes of large hotels and casinos. The core system streamlines common hotel operations, such as reservations, credit card processing, accounting, housekeeping, while add-on modules provide functionality in the areas of activities scheduling, attraction ticketing, food and beverage sales, online reservations, remote check-in, and spa scheduling.

Attachmate has given its customers better tools for fighting fraud. With last month’s update to Luminet, the company is hooking the user-monitoring and anti-fraud software to network security tools, specifically security information and event management (SIEM) software, thereby enabling better sharing of information and, hopefully, better detection of coordinated attacks on enterprise applications.

Luminet is an anti-fraud software solution that uses “sniffer” technology to capture all screen displays, keystrokes, and messages communicated between workstations and servers. The software, which is based on software Attachmate OEMs from Intellinx, has been deployed in the financial services industry, and is designed to

Rimini Street entered the dragon’s lair last week when it attended the annual Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. There, the Nevada company announced that it now intends to poach maintenance business from its host–that is, from Oracle–for the Hyperion business intelligence product line and the customers that use it. Rimini, which hopes to go public soon, also announced that it had another financially successful quarter.

Rimini says it will provide third-party maintenance and support services for the breadth of Oracle’s Hyperion products. This includes Hyperion Planning, Essbase, Financial Management, Financial Close Management, Strategic Finance, and Financial Management Analytics products.

Infinite Corporation last week announced Infinite Cloud, a new suite of software designed to repurpose IBM i applications for deployment from the cloud, and to transform 5250 green screens into Web interfaces along the way.

Infinite Cloud includes two components, including middleware that works with Web application servers and an on-the-fly GUI transformation component. The company claims that the software can take existing RPG and COBOL applications and deploy them to “the cloud” without doing any coding or buying new hardware.

Infinite Corporation (formerly California Software) says the middleware component works with standard Web application servers such as Apache Tomcat