Curbstone, a developer of credit card payment software for the IBM i server, is rolling out a new software as a service (SaaS) credit card payment solution, called Curbstone CorrectConnect (C3) that will shield customers from the most onerous requirements of the PCI DSS security standard. The new offering, which Curbstone customers are already using, features additional options for Web-based merchants, as well as organizations that take payment information over the phone.

We are still in the first decade of PCI DSS compliance, but it doesn’t seem to be getting any easier for merchants. Besides the upfront costs of

Infor last week unveiled the 10x release of Infor BI, a business intelligence suite that includes an in-memory OLAP database. The new release brings all of the apparatus associated with Infor 10x, including a shiny new SoHo user interface, mobile capabilities, and hooks into the Ming.le social platform. The company is also close to announcing integration of Infor BI into SkyVault.

Infor BI is based on the MIS product formerly sold by Systems Union, a German software company that Infor acquired in 2006 for about $200 million. Infor has about 3,000 customers for MIS (also called Decision Ware), mostly small

When it comes to security, there are few groups who take it quite as seriously as the Israelis. And when it came to protecting the systems that control the country’s electric grid, it’s notable that the Israel Electric Corp. (IEC) is using Valid Technologies IBM i-based VSSA technology to provide strong biometric authentication.

The principals were not willing to part with much information about the IEC implementation, which Valid Tech announced back in 2009. That’s not surprising, as secrecy is one of the primary tenants of security. “Loose lips sink ships,” after all. But what has been disclosed paints a

Spinnaker Support recently announced two new customers for its third-party support service for JD Edwards World, including D+M Group, a manufacturer of speakers and stereos, and an unnamed Las Vegas casino. The Denver, Colorado, company also announced the launch of a new support program for Siebel CRM customers.

Spinnaker continues to capitalize on the pushback against the expensive fees that Oracle and SAP charge for maintenance and technical support. Oracle charges customers an annual fee of about 22 percent to get support and upgrades, while SAP recently jacked its annual fee to 19 percent.

Oracle has given JD Edwards World

Townsend Security has achieved VMware Ready status for Alliance Key Manager, its encryption and key management product that works with all major operating systems, including IBM i. The certification should give Townsend customers the confidence to use hybrid deployment techniques for their key management software.

Alliance Key Manager is a FIPS 140-2 certified encryption key management solution that is used to create, manage, and distribute 128-bit, 192-bit, and 256-bit AES keys for any application or databases. Townsend provides sample code for implementing key retrieval routines into RPG, COBOL, .NET, C, and Java applications running across a range of operating systems,

Organizations that print files through the latest release of Brooks Internet Software‘s Remote Print Manager (RPM) will benefit from higher load tolerances, more detailed logging, better scheduling, and the capability to allow third-party apps to control RPM processing and configuration, the Idaho Falls, Idaho, company announced this month.

RPM is a Line Printer Daemon (LPD) print server that provides flexibility in the management and handling of the print output of IBM i, mainframe, HP3000, OpenVMS, Unix, and Linux servers. The Windows-based software is commonly used to convert print output from native formats, such as SCS or AFPDS, to more

Wayne Madden, the longtime publisher of Penton’s IBM i publications, will be working with inFORM Decisions to help it market and sell TEMBO Technology Lab‘s DDS-to-SQL database modernization tools for DB2/400, the Southern California company announced last week.

Madden left Penton earlier this year after 23 years with Penton and Duke Communications, the News/400 publisher that Penton bought in 2000. In March, he formed a consulting company, called Madden Business Development.

Madden will work with iFD through his consulting company to help sell TEMBO’s AO Foundation and other tools. TEMBO signed iFD as its master distributor for the

The era of the slow, apathetic ERP software vendor that peddles monolithic products that are difficult to upgrade may be coming to an end, according to a recent report from Nucleus Research, which finds ERP vendors are increasingly responding to user demands for more intuitive UIs and integrated mobile and analytic capabilities.

In its ERP Technology Value Matrix for the first half of 2013, Nucleus detected a change taking place in the ERP market. Driven by customer demands to “break the re-implementation cycle” and shift to a more “incremental, value-building upgrade cycle,” the Boston, Massachusetts, firm says that ERP

Informatica has entered into an OEM agreement with Zettaset to provide its PowerCenter software with Zettaset’s Hadoop cluster management software.

As part of the deal, Informatica’s PowerCenter Big Data Edition will be embedded into Zettaset’s Orchestrator Hadoop cluster management solution, which is designed to accelerate and simplify the Hadoop installation process, and provide on-going management and security capabilities.

Getting data into and out of the Zettaset-managed Hadoop implementations will be easier with PowerCenter Big Data Edition managing the movements. PowerCenter is Informatica’s flagship data integration tool, and it supports a range of data sources, including IBM i and DB2/400.

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Liaison Technologies helps organizations move and secure data with a range of tools and services. What you may not know is that Liaison has become the fourth largest provider of traditional EDI VAN services in the country. Liaison says that its partnership with NewEDI is responsible for much of the growth.

NewEDI is a VAN services consolidator that buys excess VAN capacity from tier-one service providers. It then resells the capacity to smaller enterprises with lower EDI volumes, thereby enabling them to get top-tier EDI service levels at a discount of up to 50 percent, the company says.

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