Jacada today introduced WinFuse, a new integration tool for exposing as Web services the data and processes housed in Windows-based client/server applications. The company, which spent three years developing the software, says WinFuse is the first product of its kind to provide message-level integration for a large swath of the sprawling collection of legacy Windows applications in use for which there are no clean APIs or other good integration points. WinFuse is similar in design and is complementary to Jacada’s integration software for OS/400 servers and mainframes.

The word “legacy” is rarely used to describe client/server Windows applications. After all,

Elite Document Solutions is shipping a new network attached storage (NAS) device that is intended to serve as an archive for documents created with the company’s electronic forms software for OS/400. With a starting price of $6,500, some OS/400 shops may find that the eFile Cabinet is a compelling alternative to traditional optical archives and retrieval software.

The eFile Cabinet is the latest in a series of archive solutions introduced by OS/400 document management software vendors, which are seeing an increased demand for low-cost, easy-to-use archives for storing a variety of computer-generated documents. While many of Elite’s competitors have introduced

Business Computer Design Int’l has completed the latest round of development on its triad of OS/400 Web products–the WebSmart application server, the Nexus portal, and the Catapult spool file distribution system–which it sells as the integrated Web Deployment Bundle. A new archive component, the Web Object Warehouse, or simply WOW, lets users search for and retrieve reports and other documents, while the new MyiSeriesGreenScreens portlet gives users secure Web-based access to third-party 5250 apps through Nexus.

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WOW combines elements of BCD’s Catapult spool file engine and its Nexus portal to provide access to documents through a Web browser. The

When something goes wrong in the middle of a backup, it can mean starting all over again, right from the top. With the new version of Help/Systems‘ automated backup and recovery software, Robot/SAVE 10.0, you can restart the backup right where it left off, saving you hours. Help/Systems also announced a new release of its Robot/CLIENT software that allows Windows servers to communicate with multiple OS/400 servers.

Robot/SAVE is an OS/400 utility that automates backups, recoveries, and tape management. Once the software is set up, very little human interaction is needed to perform recurring backups, the company says, and