What do you want out of your Web and mobile applications? The answer to that is different for each company and each individual. Some want basic information all the time and anywhere they travel, and some want interactive capability on par with the best user experience technology can offer. All these things were on the mind of developers at looksoftware as they created lookserver 10, which becomes generally available October 10.

The delivery of lookserver 10 will be the final piece that aligns all the looksoftware products on the version 10 plateau. It serves Web and mobile applications to any

VAI last week unveiled S2K Smart Center, a new HTML5 screen that’s designed to be the only interface users need to access all VAI applications. In addition to giving users a single, consistent way to get to their applications, S2K Smart Center also delivers social media capabilities, such as email, chat, and forums, by providing access to IBM’s Smart Cloud for Business.

There’s been a colossal amount of change to the enterprise IT landscape over the past few years. Not only are business users demanding the capability to access applications from mobile devices, but they’re becoming accustomed to communicating via

Integrated Custom Software has introduced two new IBM i-connected iPad apps designed to help companies get jobs and tasks done more quickly and more efficiently. The new apps include FormsTrack iDelivery, which is designed for delivery truck drivers, and a Signature Manager, which allows businesses to capture signatures at the point of sale.

When the iPad was launched 35 months ago, it single handedly created a new market for tablet computers. And while Android has some 80 percent of the global market for smartphones, Apple’s sleek iOS devices have maintained market share on the tablet. This is especially true among

Are you having trouble getting IBM i spool file output into the hands of your users, customers, or partners? If you are, then a new utility unveiled by ProData Computer Services last month may be just what you need. Called SPLF2EML, the $195 piece of software allows a user at a 5250 screen to convert IBM i spool files into PDFs and then distribute them via email.

The new Convert Spool File to Email (SPLF2EML) product is an interactive tool that allows a user to convert spool files to PDF files, and then automatically email those PDFs to a list

inFORM Decisions recently updated its suite of IBM i-based document management software with the introduction of iDocs version 6.6. New capabilities in the release will be of particular interest to customers working in Asia, those who use lots of barcodes, and those who need to drive complex workflows based on variables in their spool files.

Support for double-byte character sets (DBCS) is arguably the most important new features in iDocs 6.6. DBCS-enablement is an involved process that allows a software product to support the character-based alphabets used in some Asian languages, including Chinese and Japanese.

The capability to support double-byte

Silvon Software is in the process of rolling out new Web and mobile interfaces for the planning and forecasting components of its Stratum business intelligence suite. The new Web interfaces were delivered earlier this year, and this week the company is expected to announce a new iPad interface.

Stratum is a BI tool used primarily by manufacturers and distributors that rely on the IBM i server. The software is based on a relational online analytical processing (ROLAP) database–deployed either on DB2/400 or SQL Server–that gives customers the capability to store and summarize a granular level of detail. On top of

You probably know RJS Software as a provider of forms and content management systems, with established products like WebDocs, iForms, and SignHere. But did you know that RJS provides managed services, too?

RJS has a few other irons in the IT fire besides its shrink-wrapped forms and document management products for IBM i, Windows, and Linux servers. You might recall that the Burnsville, Minnesota, company made a series of acquisition over the past few years. In particular, the purchase of managed services firm EpicScience, completed just a year ago, did much to diversify RJS’ business.

EpicScience brought with it

One-man consultancies who have trouble balancing the demands of keeping up with technology and finding new customers may be interested in hearing about the launch of a new cloud consultant program launched last week by application development toolmaker mrc.

The new program from mrc will give consultants access to its m-Power application development tool running in the cloud. m-Power is designed to help developers create Web and mobile applications quickly by utilizing templates and wizards. The software generates Java code that can run on IBM i and other Java-supported platforms.

The idea of the new program is to give

It’s common knowledge that a good approach to implement IT security involves building multiple security layers around what you’re trying to protect. But how exactly does one go about doing that? Later this week, SkyView Partners president Carol Woodbury will provide some tips.

IT security professionals will often talk about implementing multiple levels of defense into security systems. Conceptually, this sounds like a great idea. If one layer of security is compromised, an intruder will still have to hack his way through one or more additional layers of defense to get to the customer master file, financial database, or whatever

A security software company called eConnect is gaining traction in the competitive casino industry with software that combines a casino’s video surveillance system with its computer systems, including those that manage gaming devices, retail point of sale (POS), and back-office financial systems. Because many of the world’s top gaming institutions rely on the IBM i server, eConnect finds itself working there.

eConnect describes its flagship Casino Connect system as a “visual and behavioral intelligence tool” that helps casino operators spot gaps in their security systems, and to detect theft, cheating, and collusion on the casino floor. It does this by