Considering that the average lifespan of an ERP system is 12 to 15 years, a lot of ERP systems installed in the early days of the AS/400 now need replacing, says Carlos Caguado, president of iCAP International. “Several products are going down to the end of life,” he says, including J.D. Edwards World, BPCS, and others. The company iCAP hopes to attract these devotees of the OS/400 platform with Ximple, a new Web-based ERP system launched earlier this year.

After companies completed their Y2K remediation projects, and the Internet bubble burst in 2000, there wasn’t much consulting work to

Criminals, terrorists, and assorted ne’er-do-wells, take note: if you want to break the law in southern Mississippi, the county of Hancock, Harrison, or Jackson is probably not the best place to do it. Last week the government unveiled a new iSeries- and xSeries-based system that allows public safety personnel in those areas to share information much more easily than before. Paid for by the Department of Homeland Security, the system is being heralded as a model for public safety information systems in post-Sept.-11 America.

At a press conference last week in Long Beach, Mississippi, Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) unveiled the

When it comes to streamlining the formatting and delivery of business documents, much progress has been made in recent years in the document management field. One of the leading companies in this arena, Create!form, has a product suite that covers a range of business applications, including forms, e-mail, fax, and document distribution. Last week the iSeries-oriented company added integrated archive and retrieval capabilities to its product suite by introducing Create!archive 3.0.

With this upgrade from Create!archive 2.7, Create!form officials believe they have once again increased the cost-efficiency aspect of the suite and added an important self-service feature for businesses

This spring PeopleSoft made a commitment to support its EnterpriseOne ERP suite running on Linux by the end of the second quarter. On the last day of the quarter, last Wednesday, PeopleSoft followed through, when it announced the general availability of PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne Tools 8.93. In addition to supporting the popular open-source operating system, the EnterpriseOne suite now supports BEA Systems‘ WebLogic application server software, and will support Apple‘s Safari Web browser in the fourth quarter.

The EnterpriseOne ERP suite, which was called OneWorld before PeopleSoft’s acquisition of J.D. Edwards one year ago, has always been more open